If You Can Read Literature You Can Work Out Consistently

About this episode

Chris Davidson discusses the unexpected parallels between reading literature and maintaining workout consistency after 40.

That Dostoevsky has taught me anything, let alone about workout consistency is not something I expected to be saying as a health and fitness coach! But finishing Crime and Punishment on holiday turned out to have more in common with getting in shape after 40 than I could have imagined. 👉 Fill out the free Get Unstuck form for personalised advice: https://ovr40.co/unstuck 👉 Bulletproof Week System — simple weekly structure for training, nutrition and habits: https://ovr40.co/bws I'm Chri...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Davidson

Topics covered

• workout consistency
• literature and fitness
• self-improvement
• health coaching
• men over 40

Keywords

• workout consistency
• Crime and Punishment
• Dostoevsky
• health coach
• men over 40
• fitness
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Crime and Punishment

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