Big Wave Surfing is Hard. Kai Lenny Works Harder.

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Life of Kai, Season Two. Like most surfing stories, this docuseries about Kai Lenny is part travelogue and part tribute to the power and majesty of the ocean. Over five episodes, Kai glides across waves in Indonesia, and charges down massive walls of water in Nazare, Portugal and Peahi, Maui. In California, he surfs Mavericks for 12 hours.

The series follows his training in and out of the water and he speaks directly to the camera. Rarely does he stray from single-minded determination, whether he’s describing his dreams for his big wave career, practicing aerials or attempting to rewrite a 2019 loss at Jaws.

Fitness is a central theme of the show, depicted as both hard physical work and committed mental work. It’s a mind body approach that is common in sport but Kai’s version plays a supporting role to the sea. The series is as much about the universality of breaking waves as it is about riding waves of a monstrous size. The ocean, he says, is for everyone, “We can all be watermen and waterwomen.” Season two of Life of Kai is streaming on Red Bull TV.

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The Doctor’s Farmacy. In this podcast, Dr. Mark Hyman offers practical solutions on how to improve your wellbeing. Most episodes are interviews with experts and recent topics include what to eat for health and longevity, making your body an unwelcome place for cancer to grow, and addressing the root cause of heart disease.

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Motivation is Overrated: Here’s What Works Instead. Is positive thinking the key to living a good and productive life? Not entirely, says Brad Stulberg. In this piece he suggests that “you don’t need to feel good to get going — you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.”