my current morning routine

Hi {NAME}, My morning routine is super easy to follow. It’s not any of this ridiculous stuff that some of these biohackers have us thinking we need to do. BTW- nothing wrong with those things, they are there to optimize. But I am more about MAXIMIZING vs optimizing. Here’s what my usual morning looks lke: Get up about 5:15am Upon waking usually at least ½ Liter of water with some salt and sometimes 2 Tbsp of ACV depending on how hard my workout is going to be (harder workouts the ACV hits my stomach weird) 5:15 to 5:30: Quiet time before the family gets up. Collect my thoughts, maybe meditate, but usually just make some notes of things that are on my mind. Always get things off your mind for the day before working out. ALWAYS. 5:45am Green Tea if my workout is going to be under 75% intensity, if it’s going to be a harder, I will go with Yerba Mate as effects on higher intensity seem to be good. 6:00am Head to Workout or Head out on Ruck from the house (current training has me rucking a lot more) 6:30am: During my workout, this is where I will now bring Essential Amino Acids on board. I like to get at least 30 minutes with no insulin spike whatsoever, and since EAAs do mildly spike insulin, I bring them in later. But the muscle sparing effect is noticeable. Many times during my workout I will use my red light therapy device as well, sometimes will during cardio. Especially if it is dark out or cold and I want to emulate sunlight. 7-7:30 finish workout, sometimes add Taurine in the way of 3-6g if workout was harder intensity. 7:30 Back Home, spend time with the kids, play with the dogs, feed the dogs. BTW - we feed our dogs Sunday’s brand because it is human grade (means a human could eat it too) and we feel that we owe it to our pups to feed them well. Here is a 35% off discount code and link for Sundays. Your dogs will thank you: [( 8:00am: If I am fasting, I might take some of this time to journal before heading too the office, or I will pack up my meals for the day after I break my fast. This might look like the following: - Ground Beef - 1-2 Apples or 1.3 Cups Berries - Epic Bars, Apex Protein Snacks - Seaweed Snacks - Greek Yogurt - Single Serve Cottage Cheeses - Macadamia Nuts 8:00am if NOT Fasting, cook breakfast, which is usually: - 4-5 eggs - 2-3oz Ground Beef or Smoked Salmon - 1oz Feta or Goat Cheese - Splash of Kefir - 1 Tbsp Flax Seeds - Handful of Berries Sometimes I will delay breakfast if my schedule is more flexible. I will eat breakfast closer to 10am, but around 8:00am will have a scoop of whey protein powder with raw milk/diluted with water. If Time permits, I will spend 10 minutes sitting down using my PEMF mat to try to center a bit. This is probably one of the most "biohacky" things that I do, but I notice such a difference with it, it makes the cut, generally. The rest of the day is up for debate on what I will do. Largely depends on my body composition goals or my performance goals, etc. I will also interchange the PEMF time sometimes for a quick sauna session or if I didn't workout, I might do 3-4x rotations of 2 mins cold plunge and 10 minutes sauna. The bottom line with all of this is that you do not need to do the same optimization protocol daily. Do things that are hard, but not too hard. Do things that maximize, not just optimize, and do the things that get you a desired outcome, not just because you’re told to by someone on the internet. See you tomorrow, Thomas Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( Thomas DeLauer, PO Box 1120, Stateline, NV 89449, United States