# Doing More Is Killing Your Performance With Chris Jillard

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Podcast: [The Built For Pressure Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-built-for-pressure-podcast-7108833)
Published: 2026-03-24T10:20:45+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5a0c9aff
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## Resource

Most professionals are training harder, working longer, and wondering why they feel worse. This episode is the honest answer. I sat down with Chris Jillard, coach of nearly a decade and someone who has built his practice through the same bottlenecks I see every day working with executives, founders, and high-performing professionals. We covered the real problems. Not the ones people talk about on social media but the actual bottlenecks that high performers are facing right now. We get into why the attack mentality that works in business is quietly destroying your physical performance. Why your training programme is not the problem but everything outside of it is. Why hybrid training has become the most misused term in the industry. And why most professionals are running on no fuel, too much caffeine, and calling it discipline. In this episode: Why your body is asking a different question every day and never getting a consistent answer. The minimum effective dose principle and why doing less is often the performance lever you have been ignoring. How to book-end your training sessions with nutrition to actually earn an adaptation. The Amazon Prime effect in performance and why people are finally waking up to the long game. What self-awareness actually looks like in practice when your ego says send it and your body is running on empty. How to use data to make better decisions about your training before a coach has to make them for you. Why the consistency of your daily anchors matters more than the intensity of any single session. The hard truth this episode keeps coming back to is this. You are not a machine running on willpower. You are a biological system that responds to what you give it and the environment you put it in. Most people optimise everything around them an…

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