Master Your Machine
Alex Hormozi once hit a guy with a zinger: “Bro, once you start looking like you work out, then worry about overtraining.” Half-snark, half-truth… and the dude bulked up after. People freak out about burnout, but here’s the deal: work’s not wasted. Push harder, and you can handle more – unless you break, but people are more resilient than you might think (yes, including you!). Hammurabi got it, carving laws into stone to wrangle chaos. We turned wolves into dogs, elephants into haulers, fire into heat – adaptation is our ace. Now, it is time to tame the machine we are born with.
Our body is wired for it. Stress a muscle – squats, sprints – and it fights back: bones thicken, tissues toughen, vessels spread. IronMan patients, twice my age, dust kids because they’ve built capacity, not collapse. The nervous system’s a beast – neuroplasticity rewires it with every challenge. Your heart syncs to the grind, pumping VO2 max like a metronome; your immune system logs every germ it smashes, crafting antibodies like a cellular super soldier; your hormones dance to what’s on your plate – steak, black garlic, honey, fruit salad. We’ve owned the elements and the wild – why not ourselves?
The secret’s in the push. Hormozi is onto something: grind more, and you get better at grinding – capacity isn't capped; it’s carved. Overtraining is a boogeyman for most. You don’t die – you tweak something or toughen up. Dodge the tweak with recovery, and you’re golden. Tibetan monks ditch cravings, chilling in frozen caves demonstrating incredible ANS (Autonomic Nervous System) control. Athletes swim around Manhattan, free-solo El Cap, run barefoot through snow for kicks, and take polar plunges; our limits are a myth. The win is in the work, not the trophy; experts live for the sweat, not the shine.
David Goggins, US Navy Seal (retired): the master of pushing the body’s limits, and the only member of the U.S. Armed Forces to complete SEAL training, Army Ranger School, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training.
Transhumanism is at the door. AI’s razor-sharp, robots are slick – the singularity is a “when,” not an “if.” Some push merging man and machine “for our own good.” Why plug in when we’re already rigged to rule? Master your ANS – the maestro of fight-or-flight and rest-and-digest – and you’ve got the controls. Stress it, ease it, repeat. I see it daily: cervicogenic dizziness fades with a needle to the suboccipitals, concussion fog lifts with cranial needling, osteoarthritis quiets with joint work, sacrum tweaks kill low back pain; ANS resets, and it’s game on.
This relentless drive to master our machine echoes a deeper call to stewardship and endurance. 1 Corinthians 9:26-27 states, “So I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air. Instead, I discipline my body and bring it under strict control, so that after preaching to others, I myself will not be disqualified.” Like athletes grinding through snow or monks taming their impulses in icy caves, this biblical charge aligns with pushing the body to its potential—not for vanity, but for purpose. It’s about owning the grind with intention, forging a vessel tough enough to carry you through chaos, from civilization’s dawn to the singularity’s edge.
Here’s your playbook:
Push Smart: Lift, run, spar – forge muscle, bone, brain. Effort builds capacity.
Recover Right: Sleep and sunlight set your internal clocks; dry needling and joint manipulation dial the ANS, and the vagus nerve’s your reset button.
Fuel Clean: Protein stacks muscle, black garlic (amino acids, antioxidants) mends, honey (steady sugars) sustains – drizzle it on fruit or steak.
Own the Grind: Judge what you do, not what you think – patience grows when work’s the prize.
We’ve tamed fire, seas, skies, predators – mastering ourselves is next. The singularity is us, adapting since Hammurabi, stronger with every rep. Grab a barbell, book a dry needling session, eat a steak or some honey – your machine’s primed. Work hard, win harder.
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