Build for Health with Srdjan Injac

ADHD in the Gym


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Here's something that should be obvious but apparently isn't: ADHD and the gym should be a natural fit. The gym produces dopamine. ADHD is a dopamine regulation disorder. That math seems like it should close cleanly. And yet if you have ADHD — or suspect you might — the gym is probably also the place where you've set personal records for giving up. You signed up with great intentions. You went for two weeks. You lost the routine, felt terrible about it, and quietly concluded you're just not a gym person. The problem is that's wrong, and the fitness industry is largely to blame.

Here's the thing: Pete Wright co-wrote Unapologetically ADHD. He has spent years deep in the research on how ADHD brains actually work. He knows the neuroscience, the behavioral patterns, the strategies that help and the ones that don't. And he still could not make himself go to the gym consistently for most of his adult life — until Srdjan. This episode is Pete and Srdjan reverse-engineering why that changed: why standard gym advice is essentially designed to fail neurodiverse brains, why Srdjan's approach at ELEV8 is accidentally one of the most ADHD-compatible training environments around, and what a fitness practice looks like when it's built for how your brain actually works rather than how everyone assumes it does. There's real science here (exercise produces the same neurological effect as a low-dose stimulant, which is a sentence that deserves a minute to sit with), and there are practical tools for anyone who has been told their entire lives t

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