Robotic exoskeletons, underwater training, smart chips in my feet and contact lenses that give me a HUD are just a few of the many ways I biohack my fitness to optimize training.

HAH! Just kidding. Wouldn’t that be wild though? Although those contact lenses do sound cool. Reminds me of Dragon Ball Z.

I’m not even close to that level when it comes to biohacking my fitness. But I do have some tricks up my sleeve that I’ve been doing to get better muscle gains and to create an overall more fit body, which I’ll share with you in this article.

First, we look at what biohacking is.

 

Biohacking Defined

It’s an open-ended word, “biohacking,” that generally means a set of actions are being taken to enhance one’s health and fitness. Through the use of supplements, technology, lifestyle, nutrition, environmental changes and noise.

For example, many people will take nootropics to enhance cognitive function. This means they take supplements, in the form of powder or pills, to improve focus, memory and overall brain power.

The term “biohacking” started getting more popular around 2009, according to Google Trends.

Its roots go back to Silicon Valley with people like Tim Ferriss when he wrote the Four Hour Body and Dave Asprey.

Biohackers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars doing labs, implanting micro-chips, buying technology, purchasing supplements and more to improve their body.

The goal is to optimize their health and fitness to live with more vitality, look better and some even want to conquer death by becoming more of a cyborg in the future.

 

My Top Biohacks To Optimize My Fitness

Let’s first define what I’m trying to optimize, my fitness.

My fitness is how effective I am in my workouts, how strong I am, how efficient my cardiovascular system is, how much muscle I have and the way my body looks.

I haven’t spent $250,000 biohacking my fitness, although if I had the money I probably would. But I have invested a lot of time and money (relative to what I earn) in improving my fitness.

I’m still in the process of finding what works best for me and will continue to be searching for better solutions.

Okay, let’s get into this!

 

1. Whoop Strap Fitness Tracker

The Whoop strap is a fitness tracker that’s worn on the wrist or other parts of the body such as the upper arm.

It tracks 4 key metrics that give you a total recovery score. They are:

  1. Heart rate variability (HRV)
  2. Resting heart rate (RHR)
  3. Respiratory rate
  4. Sleep

In Whoop 4.0 they’ve also added pulse oximetry and skin temperature.

 

This is by far the #1 biohack I do to track and improve my fitness.

If I get a red recovery that means I’m not well recovered. This could be from a night of alcohol and/or poor sleep.

If I have that red recovery then I know I shouldn’t push myself to the extreme that day.

But if I have a green recovery, for example, I have a 96% recovery today, that means my body is primed for exercise.

When I see that I’ll push myself throughout the day to go on more walks, do more mini-workouts throughout the day and go as hard as I can to hit personal bests on my strength lifts.

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All that helps me to optimize my training so I’m aligning my recovery score with my training intensity. When I align those two I can make the most out of my effort. Therefore biohacking my fitness to get stronger and look better.

 

2. Creatine

Creatine is naturally found in the body and stored in muscle cells. It helps produce and use a molecule called ATP.

ATP is used throughout the body as an energy source. So if you’re using this energy source more effectively and at a higher quantity then that will help you build muscle and have more effective workouts. Given the workouts last under a minute. If over that amount the body uses a different metabolic system but it’ll still benefit from creatine.

To get the Creatine I Use CLICK HERE

 

Creatine isn’t going to magically help you to be more fit or gain muscle. However, it can help you get a little more out of your workouts.

For example, I notice that when I take creatine regularly I can hit my personal bests on strength lifts more frequently.

And that’s what I’m looking for. If I get help from creatine to do 5 or 10 more pounds that workout then it’s done its job. I’ve made that tiny bit of improvement that will create big changes in the long run.

 

3. Virtual Reality Headset

Ready Player One. Metaverse anyone?

Virtual reality is becoming more and more popular. Most virtual reality sets have headsets and controllers you hold to navigate the virtual environment.

One of the most popular virtual reality products, and the one I use, is called Oculus Quest 2.

How I use this for biohacking my fitness is mainly by playing a game called Beat Saber.

In Beat Saber, you have to slice 3d boxes, with your lightsabers, that come at you to the beat of the song being played. Each level played lasts as long as the song. So typically 3 to 6 minutes. Then you can play more songs.

The reason this is a biohack to optimize my fitness is because I burn a LOT of calories when playing. I’m moving, I’m grooving and I’m blasting fat because of the intensity required to keep up with those slices.

I know I burn a lot of calories because the Whoop strap gives me data showing so.

There’s an institution that’s dedicated to virtual reality fitness. It’s called the Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise and is located in San Francisco. They take virtual reality biohacking to a new level and show how effective virtual reality is for exercise.

 

I’ll do a couple of levels of Beat Saber lasting about 20 minutes and will burn around 150 calories. Not only am I losing fat but I’m also increasing my cardiovascular system to become more fit.

 

4. Weighted Vest Exercise

A weighted vest is what it sounds like. It’s a vest that has weight on it to give more of a challenge for running, walking or working out.

There’s a study that looked at the effects of weighted vests on obesity. They had 69 people wear weighted vests. The people who wore heavier weighted vests lost 1.6 kg in weight, while those wearing the light vests had lost 0.3 kg. They found that heavier weighted vests increased the amount of fat loss from the subjects.

I’ll wear a weighted vest when doing a workout or going on a walk. It helps strengthen me by providing more resistance that I have to work through when performing the task. And the fat loss element is nice.

 

Those are my top biohacks for optimizing my fitness. The biggest one I use is by far the Whoop strap. For you, just start with one and feel free to use the videos I provide for help doing so.

 

 

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