Welcome back to Get Fit Guy.

Coach Kevin Don here, and this week I'll be touching on one of my favorite topics again,

fallacious thinking and bias.

You have no idea how many comments or emails I get about me being wrong

or that I'm not deep diving enough into something.

And I'm very open in fact to being wrong and I love it when I'm challenged about a topic

because this drives adaptive thinking. But before you email me or leave a comment, a quick reminder, if you're a competitive triathlete,

iron man competitor, powerlifter, strong man or woman, competitive crossfit athlete, or any other

of the myriad of competitive sporting specialities, please remember, this podcast is not called

the High Performance Sporting Guy podcast. I've already defined the meaning of getting fit

as pushing the needle from a position of sickness to wellness, with wellness or fitness

being the absence of disease or injury in an organism.

Sport-specific outcomes and wellness outcomes are often mutually exclusive.

This is because playing sport is a performance.

Anytime you play a sport to perform, you're keeping score, keeping a time or keeping a total of work done, which is compared against past work done or against the scores or times of others.

In this scenario, you are ignoring signals from your body and pushing hard to failure.

You also develop a sport-specific physique and set of skills. Think about a

rower. They work solely in a single degree of freedom out of a potential of six. So their training is not

a driver to all-round health and wellness because it's limiting their natural human ability to fully interact with their environment.

I don't care about sporting excellence for wellness.

I admire sporting excellence.

I appreciate it and I play sports myself in which I seek

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