Why can't triathletes take a rest day without feeling like they're losing their identity? This episode exposes the Performance Identity Trap the psychological patterns that make rest feel impossible, the research proving your head matters more than your training volume, and the identity shift that changes everything. Abraham breaks down the addiction pattern you can't see, why "just take a day off" doesn't work, and the R.A.C.E. framework application for building sustainable performance.

Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performance
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This episode is about building a training week that doesn't collapse when life gets heavy.

Most triathletes aren't undertrained they're over-scheduled. They try to force the "perfect" training plan into real life, and when disruption hits (kids get sick, work explodes, sleep suffers), the whole thing shatters. Then comes the guilt, the restart, the cycle.

In this episode, I walk you through the R.A.C.E. framework a recovery-led system for time-constrained athletes who can't afford stop-start training.

You'll learn: • Why your week should be designed for disruption, not perfection • How to identify your reliable training windows (the times that hold even when life is messy) • The minimum weekly structure that keeps you consistent: 2 key sessions, 2 low-friction sessions, 1 recovery day • Why most triathletes periodise backwards (and how to fix it) • How to build a "minimum week" that works when you're tired, busy, and stressed

If you're carrying weight kids, a business, a demanding job and still trying to train consistently, this episode gives you the structure to make it sustainable.

Stop trying to fit triathlon into your life. Build a life-week that can hold triathlon.

Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performance
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You can build a huge engine in triathlon and still keep breaking down.

This episode is a recovery-led breakdown of Strength & Conditioning for Triathletes why “doing some gym” isn’t the same as real S&C, and why most online programs fail the moment your season ramps up.

I start with the moment I learned this the hard way: returning to football and feeling a clear physical bottleneck then meeting a world-class S&C coach who tested me, identified exactly where I was leaking force, and reshaped how I coach forever.

From there, we apply the R.A.C.E. Protocol to triathlon:
Recover (state + adaptation), Align (season + bottlenecks), Condition (robustness + tissue tolerance), Execute(minimum effective dose in-season).

You’ll understand how to build a chassis that can handle volume, intensity, and years in the sport without living in the gym.

Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performance
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You’re Not Lazy - Your Brain Was Hijacked

In this episode, Abraham exposes the hidden pattern reshaping modern behaviour how sugar, ultra-processed food, gaming, pornography, and short-form content silently rewire the brain's dopamine pathways and lock us into cycles of craving, distraction, and self-blame.

This isn't an attack on ADHD, and it's not another discipline sermon. It's an exposure of the environments we're embedded in systems engineered to extract attention, fragment focus, and keep people chasing rewards that never land.

Drawing from lived experience and pattern recognition, Abraham connects the dots most people refuse to see: why motivation evaporates, why intensity replaces consistency, why we gaslight ourselves into believing we're "not doing enough," and why attention disorders are proliferating in a world designed to exploit them.

This episode is about reclaiming agency. About metacognition, self-awareness, and architecting a life that actually serves your nervous system not one that fights it.

The Matrix wasn't built for you to win. So this episode is about building something that is.

Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performance
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We’ve been treating ADHD like a character flaw instead of what it really is: a system that needs design.

In this episode, Abraham Spring breaks down why ADHD isn’t a focus problem, why willpower keeps failing, and why habits like caffeine dependence, tracking obsession, and social media addiction aren’t random flaws but survival strategies for a dopamine-starved nervous system.

You’ll learn how ADHD actually works: executive dysfunction, time blindness, emotional intensity, hyperfocus, and rejection sensitivity and how the modern world exploits these traits through apps, metrics, and constant stimulation.

This isn’t about fixing ADHD or becoming “neurotypical.”
It’s about building external systems that work: movement instead of stillness, interest-based planning, micro-steps, and environmental design.

ADHD isn’t broken.
Your systems are.

This episode is about redesigning them.

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You finish a solid workout, feel good, then open Instagram. Suddenly you're not good enough anymore.

Here's what's actually happening: social media is hijacking your survival mechanisms. Every scroll triggers fight-or-flight. Every follower count registers as lost territory. Every like comparison activates your threat response.

You've stopped seeing humans. You're seeing metrics.

In this episode, I expose the dark psychology:

• How platforms weaponise your threat detection system
• Why you've turned people into numbers instead of humans
• The hyper-competitive hellscape disconnecting you from your own experience
• How to break free with Context Check, Humanity Check, and Comparison Curfew

The question that changes everything: Am I more numbers-driven or feeling-driven?

If you can't celebrate your wins without comparing them to others, if other people's success feels like your loss, if you see metrics instead of humans—you've been caught by the matrix game.

Stop performing for algorithms. Start being human again.

Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performance
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The Biggest Mistake I've Made: Treating Caffeine Like Recovery Instead of Debt

Do you need caffeine just to feel normal? Can't train without pre-workout? Doing everything "right" for sleep but still waking up exhausted?

You're not broken. You're borrowing energy you can't afford to pay back.

In this episode, I expose the caffeine trap:

• Why your 4pm coffee is destroying your deep sleep (even if you fall asleep fine)
• How pre-workout culture creates the same addiction cycle as social media
• The half-life reality no one talks about (it can stay in your system for 9.5 hours)
• Why "I can sleep after coffee" isn't the flex you think it is

I'll share my breaking point – lying in bed with my heart racing, recovery tanking, wondering why I felt wired and exhausted at the same time.

And I'll give you the simple framework to take back control: Budget, Ceiling, and Curfew.

The question: Are you using caffeine to amplify your system... or replace it?

If you're tired of feeling tired, this changes everything.

Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performance
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Do you check your sleep score before you check how you actually feel?

If your fitness tracker dies mid-workout, does it feel like the session didn't count? Do you find yourself exercising just to close those rings, even when your body needs rest?

You've outsourced your self-awareness to a device. Those "wellness" apps use the same psychological tricks as social media – streaks that punish rest, scores that turn health into homework, kudos that make you perform for algorithms instead of listening to your body.

I know because I lived it. I got a Whoop to optimize performance but became obsessed with HRV and recovery scores. If the app said I was recovered, I'd feel good. If not, I'd drag all day. The data dictated how I felt.

In this episode, I expose the dark psychology behind health tracking and show you how to break free.

Your wellness isn't a spreadsheet. Trust yourself again.

Unbroken Triathlon Club - Recovery-Led Performance
www.unbrokenclub.com | @unbrokentriathlonclub