The TB12 Method

The body’s metabolic burn rate starts slowing down at night, and sleep is when our bodies should be recovering from the day’s activities. That’s why eating late at night isn’t a great idea. Your body can’t prepare for recovery when it’s digesting the food you’ve just eaten.

I don’t treat practice like a game, there’s no way the coaches will let me play in an actual game. So I’m always going to treat practice like a game. It’s a rule I still live by today. My second year at Michigan, Scott Dreisbach was

There’s not a lot of money to be made from healthy athletes, or, for that matter, from healthy people.

also subscribe to the philosophy and principle of eating 80 percent alkaline-forming and 20 percent acid-causing foods. What that means in practical terms is that, while I’m not a vegetarian by any means, I do subscribe to a commonsensical, mostly plant-based/plant-heavy and seasonal nutritional regimen.

want you to do one hundred jumping jacks, twenty-five push-ups, and twenty-five sit-ups every morning.

One of the goals of the TB12 Method is to combine our physical peak with our mental peak, while extending both of them for as long as possible. Ultimately, our stated purpose at TB12 is sustained peak performance, which is something I want as many

when things don’t go your way—or, rather, what you don’t think of as your way—there can be a variety of opportunities that may not be obvious in the moment but that through hard work, preparation, and persistence can present themselves over time and make you better.

I said earlier, along with daily doses of electrolytes and trace mineral drops, I also take a daily multivitamin, vitamin D, vitamin B complex, an antioxidant, essential fish oils, protein powder, and a probiotic.

My dad would get up early to train alongside her at the local athletic club, and I tagged along with them every morning at 6:00