31/08/2026
STOP LOOKING FOR THE OPTIMAL ANSWER
I recently caught up on a Hintsa Performance webinar recording, a conversation between Annastiina Hintsa, Riina Komonen and Dr Tommy Wood on health span. One point Tommy made has stuck with me since.
It sounds almost too simple, but I think it's exactly what a lot of you need to hear: it doesn't actually matter what the "best" thing to change is, if you're not going to actually do it.
Guys like you, former athletes, high performers, used to chasing marginal gains at work and once chasing them in sport too, tend to gravitate straight toward optimization.
🏃 What's the ideal training split?
🥗 The perfect macros?
💊 The single best supplement?
You want the answer that maximizes the outcome, because that's how you've operated your whole career.
But here's the catch. The "optimal" plan that you never actually follow is worth exactly nothing. A "good enough" habit that you do consistently for the next two years will beat it every single time.
So the real question isn't what's the best thing you could be doing. It's what's the one thing you're actually motivated to do, and can realistically keep doing, for the long haul. Then just do that, properly, before you even think about optimizing anything else.
For some guys that's a short walk after lunch. For others it's one strength session a week they never skip, or a fixed bedtime they actually stick to. It doesn't need to be impressive. It needs to be sustainable.
Fundamentals done consistently beat perfect plans done occasionally, every time.
If you've been stuck chasing the "optimal" answer instead of just starting with something real, that's exactly the kind of thing I help clients work through. Go take a look at kinseido.fit.