Escapist Corner

Everyone knows they should eat better, move more, and sleep longer. That advice has been on every magazine cover for 30 years — and Germany is still getting sicker every year. So this episode is not about that. Five...

Why does the medical system tell people to stop moving — when movement is often the only thing that would actually fix the problem? What happens when a doctor says stop sport and the patient decides not to listen? And...

If you wanted to drive from Berlin to Rome, the first question is not "how do I get there?" It is "where are you right now?" Health and fitness work the same way. And almost nobody starts with the right question. This...

I meet people at offices, co-working spaces, birthday parties. The moment fitness comes up, someone says "I have Urban Sports Club" or "we give our staff Wellhub." And I ask the same question every time: when did you...

I was at the Freibad with my kids this week. And something stopped me. The number of seriously overweight children — children who will carry that weight for the rest of their lives unless something changes. And the...

The President of Finland secretly showed up at an amateur triathlon last week under a fake name. He swam, cycled, ran. Finished second. Nobody knew who he was until it was over. That story is the opening of this episode...

AI can write you a perfect training programme in thirty seconds. It will not make you fit. This episode is about why most people are using AI to delay getting started — and the three moves that actually work instead...

Everyone has 168 hours a week. The billionaire, the lawyer, the parent of three, the business owner — same budget, different allocation. The average person spends nine times more time on screens than moving their body...

Silver medalists are measurably less happy than bronze medalists. Third place, happier than second. The Cornell research on this is uncomfortable and completely clarifying — and it is the starting point for this week's...

There is the fitness that looks good on Instagram. And then there is the other version — the one nobody sees. The 6am session when you are tired. The hotel gym at 40% energy. The decision made alone with nobody...

Running a business is lonely in a way that is hard to explain to people who haven’t done it. Not obviously lonely. Quietly lonely. You carry things because you don’t want to bring them home every time something goes...

A 2025 European meta-analysis of 270,000 children across 17 countries found that fitness levels have still not recovered from the pandemic. In Germany specifically, children are moving 25% less than before. Even kids at...

A 2025 European meta-analysis of 270,000 children across 17 countries found that fitness levels have still not recovered from the pandemic. In Germany specifically, children are moving 25% less than before. Even kids at...

Does your life hand you some curve balls? Never right?! Honestly, it happens all the time and some of us get emotionally exhausted, but others seems to be just fine. Why? It comes down to expectations. And that is in...

Does your life hand you some curve balls? Never right?! Honestly, it happens all the time and some of us get emotionally exhausted, but others seems to be just fine. Why? It comes down to expectations. And that is in...