This isn't about pushing harder
It's about raising your floor.
Building structure and habits that hold steady —
especially on the days nothing goes the way you planned.
Most programs ask too much.
They demand:
Living in the gym
Rearranging your entire schedule
Following complicated routines
Choosing between fitness and everything else
A program should fit your life, not run it.
Less, done right, beats more, done wrong.
How I coach
3 things every program I write is built on:
LESS, DONE BETTER
Most programs add. I subtract. What's left is what matters. And when you only do what matters, every session moves you forward. That's the whole idea. More of what matters. Less of what doesn't.
Every set is intentional. Each one earns its place in the program.
Precision over volume. More attention per set, fewer sets needed.
Less, done right, beats more, done wrong. This is the rule I program by.
EVIDENCE OVER OPINION
The fitness industry runs on trends. I don't. Every method in your program has been tried and tested long enough to know it holds up.
Methods that hold up. Tested long enough to trust.
Progressions that make sense. Built on your training history, not a template.
Evolves with evidence. When the science updates, so does my programming.
BUILT TO LAST
The best program is the one you can run for ten years. Which means it has to survive real life: work, kids, travel, hectic weeks, all of it. Every program I write starts with this in mind.
Built around your schedule. Not the other way around.
Adjustable when life moves. Travel, sickness, busy seasons. The program flexes.
Simple enough to follow when decisions are the last thing you want to make. The plan does the thinking.
A minimum effective dose for a maximally lived life
Choose your dose
Pick the one that fits where you are.
Peter Tangel
MED came from two things.
The first was a back injury I trained myself into. In 2022 I ran my only marathon at 215 pounds. Limited hip mobility, poor running mechanics, and too many miles at that weight caught up with me. I was diagnosed with an L4-L5 disc herniation later that year.
The four years that followed forced me to train with a fraction of what I used to do. And I learned something I didn't expect:
Less work, applied right, was producing more results than the volume ever did.
The second was becoming a dad. My daughter was born at the end of 2023 and changed how I thought about time. I wanted to keep training hard without trading away the hours I had with her and my fiancée Heather.
So I rebuilt how I coached around one question:
What's the smallest dose that still produces the adaptations I want?
That's the question I answer for every person I work with.
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