You Can’t Optimize What You Don’t Understand

You Can’t Optimize What You Don’t Understand

Everyone’s obsessed with optimization. I honestly hate using the word at this point since it is used so much by "Bio-Bros" when marketing their new thing. The perfect program. The perfect meal plan. The perfect recovery routine. The perfect new gadget. But here’s the thing, you can’t optimize what you don’t understand.

Too many people want to skip the “learn” part and jump straight to the “hack” part. They want results without understanding what creates them. That’s like trying to drive faster when you don’t even know how to use the gears.

At Bishop Arts Fitness, we don’t hand out mindless instructions. We don’t want robots who just follow orders and mimic what they see others doing. We want people who think, who pay attention, who learn. Because if you don’t understand why or how you’re doing something, you’ll never get the full benefit from it.

Every workout has a purpose, a specific stimulus we’re chasing. It might be power, strength, capacity, or endurance. If you treat them all the same, you’ll miss the point and stall your progress. Same goes for nutrition and recovery. You can’t aimlessly eat or sleep your way to better results if you don’t understand what your body actually needs and why.

That’s why we push people to take ownership. We ask questions. We make you choose weights, adjust pacing, and notice how things feel. That’s not us being hands-off, that’s us making you to think. When something doesn’t go as planned, we don’t just shrug and move on. We talk about where it went wrong and how to fix it. That’s how you get better.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth: that process requires you to let go of what you think you know. Most people have to unlearn just as much, if not more than, they learn. Bad habits, old ideas, and false confidence are what keep people stuck.

If you really want to "optimize", start by understanding. Be curious. Be willing to be wrong. Pay attention and feel what's going on. Learn what’s actually happening in your training, your recovery, and your mind. Once you understand that, optimizing stops being a mystery, it just becomes the next logical step.

If you're tired of playing the guessing game, or what to stop mimicking what you see online, schedule a No Sweat Intro Here and we can talk about what you're wanting to achieve and walk you through our Group Class and Personal Training options.

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