August 28, 2026
The Championship Program: Nutrition
Third of six, after Mindset and Movement.
Champions fuel like champions. That's the pillar in one line, and it's the one people most want to skip.
Exercise is king, diet is queen
Together you have a kingdom. Apart you have neither.
I've written the long version of this before — the whole shopping list, the treat-the-grocery-store-like-a-sport approach, the ranch dressing I refuse to apologise for. This is the shorter, adult version of why it's a pillar rather than a diet.
It matters more with hardware in you
If you're preparing for a replacement or recovering from one, what you eat stops being about how you look. It's about how well you heal, how much inflammation you're carrying, and how much weight the joint is being asked to move for the next twenty years.
None of that is glamorous and all of it compounds.
There are no secrets to food
Eat the good stuff. Avoid the marketing and the bright colours. Mostly fruit and vegetables, some lean meat, lean towards fish. Stick to the outside of the store.
It isn't hard. It takes discipline and consistency, which is a different problem from being hard — and it's the same problem as every other pillar here.
What I actually do
Sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, asparagus, kale, spinach — those six make up most of what I eat, and at least one of them shows up every single day. Fruit as dessert. Fish more often than meat.
A green drink every morning. That one's a genuine habit rather than a phase: I drank Amazing Grass for years before switching to Peak Performance, and I'll write up the comparison properly rather than pretending I have no opinion.
You shouldn't have sugar sitting in your cupboard. If you want to bake, buy what you need that day. It isn't a staple.
The part that actually works
The energy that goes into eating what you know you should eat radiates through everything else. That's not a feeling — it's the same mechanism as the streak in Movement. You do the thing, the doing changes who you think you are, and the next decision gets easier.
Do it because it feels good. That's a more durable reason than discipline, and it's the one that survives a bad week.
Next: Relationships. How you treat people is a habit, and it's trainable like any other.
Use it as a reason. Not as an excuse.