Field Notes
2026 Field Notes
New writing from 2026. These are the ideas that feed the DadBody cohorts and the coaching work Dai does with men over forty.
September 2026
Why you're tired all the time
Most men over forty who feel exhausted are not sleep deprived. What is actually going on.
September 2026
What do you actually want?
A coach asked me what I wanted for my life and I had no answer.
September 2026
You do not need an hour
The least exercise that actually does something, and the part everyone leaves out.
September 2026
Eating fat does not make you fat
What held up from my 2016 column, and the part I oversold.
September 2026
Why starting over keeps failing
You have done it five times. It is not discipline, and the fix is unglamorous.
September 2026
The DadBody project: what it is, who it is for, and why it works
Seven years ago I went looking for four dads over 40 to test an idea. What it became, and what it refuses to promise.
Field notes
How long it really takes to get back in shape
The real timeline, and every number from a sixty-day cohort of twenty-three men.
Since 2016
The Whole Life Fitness Manifesto
Thirty minutes a day. Fifteen of movement, five of stillness, ten of reading. The framework everything here runs on.