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What If Your Health Insurance Premium Were Based on Your Fitness?

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What if we approached health insurance like an actuarial fitness test—where better health earned discounts? This thought experiment looks at measurable, modifiable markers like VO₂ max, waist-to-height ratio, blood pressure, insulin sensitivity, ApoB, strength, and HbA1c, and asks which ones deserve the most weight. The premise is simple: healthcare cost probably won’t improve until health does. Continue reading What If Your Health Insurance Premium Were Based on Your Fitness?

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Training Update: Two Goals That Usually Don’t Play Nice

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Two goals that usually don’t play nice: get stronger and get leaner. I’m doing both anyway, and here’s why. If you’ve been watching what we’ve been doing at Asgard Athletica lately, it probably looks like a mash-up of powerlifting prep, spreadsheets, and the occasional “why is this man voluntarily doing cardio” moment. So here’s the plan, in chronological order, because it all ties together. May 16: The Meet Is The Point Just before the start of the new year, I picked my next powerlifting meet. I didn’t compete in 2025 due to scheduling conflicts with the two meets I typically … Continue reading Training Update: Two Goals That Usually Don’t Play Nice

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Raising the Floor Instead of the Ceiling

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We live in a world obsessed with ceilings. Everyone wants to brag about their biggest squat, their fastest mile, or the day they cut down to their lowest bodyfat. Those are the highlight reels—the snapshots that get posted and shared. They’re fun to celebrate, and they matter in their own way. But the real story of change doesn’t come from chasing ceilings. It comes from raising the floor. Arnold talked about this on today’s Pump Club podcast, and it’s a concept that hit home for me. The floor is what you fall back to when life gets busy, messy, or … Continue reading Raising the Floor Instead of the Ceiling