an ongoing record

The Archive

A running log of a series of topics — lifting, neuroscience, biomechanics, and psychology.

09pieces written
03lines of enquiry
2018photo record begins
trailer
01

Lifting

Where the training actually happens — and why the thing limiting your progress is usually sitting above your neck rather than inside the muscle.

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02

Mind

Neuroscience and psychology. Why some people love training and others dread it, what actually keeps people going, and what a feed full of other people's bodies does to yours.

3 pieces →
03

Biomechanics

The mechanical side of the same argument. Tension, leverage, range of motion, and the widening gap between what a rep feels like and what it does.

3 pieces →
04

Transformation

A photographic record from 2018 to now. Three poses, scrubbed year by year — the slow version of a change that usually gets shown as two frames.

timeline →
the through-line

Almost everything here circles the same idea: what you perceive is not what is happening.

Effort feels maximal well before it is. A muscle burning is not a muscle growing. Form degrades before failure announces itself. Three sections, three lenses, one persistent gap between sensation and reality — and the training decisions that gap quietly ruins.