By Seiji Ishii Self-monitoring tools can help you train better—or they can stall you out. The difference is how you react to what they tell you. The Device Isn’t the Problem It seems like everyone is running something now—Whoop, Garmin, HRV, sleep scores, diet tracking. None of that is the issue. If anything, it’s useful. You’ve got…

By: Seiji Ishii I’m dealing with this right now. I pushed through the weekend because I wanted to feel like I gave everything I had, and now I’m sitting here sick. That wasn’t bad luck. That was the cost. If you use the day as your scoreboard, you’ll make bad decisions. You’ll take a session that was supposed…

Stacking more plates every week only builds one lane of performance — and motocross doesn’t live in one lane. By Seiji Ishii Just lifting weights and trying to lift more all the time isn’t the whole picture. That’s just force development. The other lanes are tissue tolerance, power (speed of force development), and durability (submaximal contractions over…

Written By: Seiji Ishii Why “easy motos” when you’re 70% isn’t discipline — it’s delayed progress. In the past, I attended every round of SX. Between Anaheim 1 and Round 2, it seemed like half of the pit crews and riders were coughing. At home, it’s the same pattern: you catch something, you feel 70%, and you…