Between Sets: Where Sustainable High Performance Is Built
Between Sets is a performance lab podcast for leaders, teams, athletes, and high-performing creatives who want to sustain elite output.
Presented by Michael Schwartz, each episode breaks down recovery-first systems that increase capacity, reduce breakdown cycles, and protect long-term performance. From nervous system regulation and sleep architecture to load management and identity design, this show focuses on the infrastructure behind sustainable high performance.
Because more is more. Better is better.
Performance is tested under pressure.
It’s built between sets.
Podcasting since 2026 • 3 episodes
Between Sets: Where Sustainable High Performance Is Built
Latest Episodes
E3 | Strength Is More Than Working Out, It's How You Come Back
On today's episode, we share how grinding for output without recovery drains capacity and dulls presence. We reframe strength as resilience, explore “working in” vs “working out,” and show how belief systems shape stress, recovery, and sustaina...
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E2 | Sound Sets the Tone
Ever notice how one song can tilt your whole day? We trace that feeling back to the body, showing how sound acts like a weather report for your nervous system, signaling safety, urgency, or ease before you’ve had time to think. From heartbreak ...
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E1 | From Barbells To Backline: Where Progress Hides... The Magic Between Sets
What if the real breakthrough is less about the rep or the riff, and more about the breath you take before the next one? We open the door to a different way of building strength and craft: by treating the pause as training. After twent...
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