Cruz Buchanan

Cruz Buchanan is the creator of The Superset, a weekly newsletter on fitness, mindset, and reading. Drawing from leadership, performance, and health principles, he helps high performers build strength, focus, and consistency without chasing trends or extremes.

Jun 1, 2026

The Superset Vol 121

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

May 25, 2026

The Superset Vol 120

"We don't know them all, but we owe them all."

May 18, 2026

The Superset Vol 119

“The quality of your life is mostly determined by the quality of your everyday habits and relationships, not your peak moments.”

May 11, 2026

The Superset Vol 118

“The hardest goals to walk away from are the ones tied to the person you told the world you wanted to become.”

May 4, 2026

The Superset Vol 117

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things” - Rainer Rilke

Apr 27, 2026

The Superset Vol 116

“You can read every book about swimming and still not know how to swim. At some point the information stops being the thing you need. What you need is water. Most people stay on shore collecting more information. The learning you actually need is in the pool.” - Scott Clary

Apr 20, 2026

The Superset Vol 115

“All confidence is is evidence. You’ve done it before. You don’t need to scream affirmations in the mirror. Do the thing, and your actions become your evidence, and your evidence becomes your confidence.” - Mark Dowdle

Apr 13, 2026

The Superset Vol 114

If you listen to one podcast this week, my vote is for this one here"

Apr 6, 2026

The Superset Vol 113

"Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. Develop from the negatives. And if things don’t work out, take another shot.”

Mar 30, 2026

The Superset Vol 112

“A negative mind will never give you a positive life”

Mar 23, 2026

The Superset Vol 111

“The desire for more positive experiences is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”

Mar 16, 2026

The Superset Vol 110

“If someone watched back the last 48 hours of your life, what conclusions would they come to about who you are, what you stand for, and where you’re headed?”

Mar 9, 2026

The Superset Vol 109

“The price of anything in life is the amount of time you exchange for it”

Mar 2, 2026

The Superset Vol 108

"Everything in life is a win, if your goal is to gain experience"

Feb 23, 2026

The Superset Vol 107

“Not every lion that chased a deer caught it, but every lion that caught a deer, chased it”

Feb 16, 2026

The Superset Vol 106

"Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose" -Bob Proctor

Feb 9, 2026

The Superset Vol 105

“Your brain is a piece of software. You update it by reading books, crushing challenges, meditation, learning skills, and your network. Your body is a piece of hardware. You update it through lifting, cardio, nutrition, and stretching” - Dan Go

Feb 2, 2026

The Superset Vol 104

“There are only two people whose pride should truly matter to you - not your parents, not your friends, not even your mentors. Just two: The 8-year old version of you, full of dreams, and the 80-year-old you, full of memories” - Vironika Tugavela

Jan 26, 2026

The Superset Vol 103

“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.” - Charlie Munger

Jan 19, 2026

The Superset Vol 102

“How much longer are you going to avoid what you’re capable of doing in order to continue with what you’re comfortable doing?”

Jan 12, 2026

The Superset Vol 101

“What a privilege to be tired from work you once prayed for. What a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. What a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose.”

Jan 5, 2026

The Superset Vol 100

“In the end, hard work is really the accumulation of easy things you didn’t do when you should have. It’s like diet and exercise. Everyone wants to be thin, but no one wants to make the right choices to get there. It’s hard work when you’ve neither eaten right now nor exercised day after day. However, if you make small right choices each day, day after day, you see results.” - John Maxwell

Dec 29, 2025

The Superset Vol 099

“The real failure isn’t falling down - it’s failing to learn the lesson that the fall was meant to teach.” - Sahil Bloom

Dec 22, 2025

The Superset Vol 098

“The path forward appears under the foot that is moving"

Dec 15, 2025

The Superset Vol 097

“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.” - Cal Newport