Every few months a new hack promises to fix everything. A morning routine, a supplement, a five minute trick. I have been a competitive athlete for thirty years, and I can tell you that almost none of it matters compared to the boring thing nobody sells, which is a habit you actually keep.
Why hacks fail
A hack is a withdrawal. It borrows energy from your future self and promises to pay it back later. A habit is a deposit. It is small, it is repeatable, and it compounds while you are not watching.
You do not rise to the level of your motivation. You fall to the level of your habits, and then you keep going.
The athletes I know who are still healthy and competing in their fourth or fifth decade are not the ones who trained hardest in any single week. They are the ones who trained sustainably across hundreds of ordinary ones.
A simpler test
Before you adopt anything new, ask one question. Can I still do this on a bad day? If the answer is no, it is a hack. If the answer is yes, you might have found a habit. Build your life out of the second kind.