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A former fashion model built a morning routine so extreme it needed its own documentary crew.
Sky Cowans, who runs the wellness-focused YouTube channel ‘Sky Life,’ spent a day in early 2020 trailing Troy Casey — the Venice Beach-based coach better known online as “The Certified Health Nut.” Casey left modeling behind to build a holistic-health brand around biohacking, ancient healing practices, and a morning routine most people would need a nap to recover from. Cowans’ camera followed him from sunrise breathwork straight through to an afternoon session most viewers had never heard of before.
- Casey’s morning stack includes breathwork, supplements, and herbal elixirs before he even leaves the house to drop his kids at school.
- His fitness routine combines Qigong with a weight-room session at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach, followed by ice baths alongside a group he calls the “man tribe.”
- The day includes a visit to Dr. Har Hari for Paida, an ancient Chinese medicine tapping technique, and a segment on Shivambu — urine therapy.
A Morning Built Around Ritual
Casey’s day doesn’t start with coffee — it starts with breath. Cowans films him running through a breathwork sequence before touching a single supplement bottle, treating the practice as the foundation for everything that follows rather than an afterthought squeezed in before work. From there it’s a rotation of herbal elixirs and supplements he credits with keeping his energy steady through a schedule that would exhaust most people by 10 a.m.
Even the school run gets folded into the routine. Casey drives his kids to school as part of the morning block, treating the ordinary parenting task as just another checkpoint in a day that’s structured almost like a training plan. It’s the kind of detail that separates Casey’s brand of wellness from the generic self-help template — everything, down to the drive across town, gets accounted for.
Gold’s Gym and the Ice Bath Ritual
The physical side of Casey’s day pairs Qigong — the slow, breath-driven movement practice rooted in Chinese medicine — with a straightforward strength session at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach, the same gym that built its name on bodybuilding legends. Casey bridges the old and the new: meditative movement followed by iron.
After the workout, Casey heads into an ice bath with a group of men he refers to as his “man tribe.” Cold exposure has become a staple of the biohacking scene his channel targets, and this readers curious about the pool-based side of that world can find a parallel in Laird Hamilton’s revolutionary pool workout, another example of extreme athletes using water as a training tool rather than just recovery.
Paida and Shivambu: The Unconventional Afternoon
After lunch, Cowans’ camera follows Casey to a session with Dr. Har Hari for Paida — an ancient Chinese medicine technique involving rhythmic tapping meant to stimulate circulation and release tension along the body’s meridians. It’s a practice most Western viewers have never seen up close, let alone tried.
The day’s most talked-about segment: Casey walking Cowans through Shivambu, the practice of urine therapy, as part of his regular wellness regimen.
It’s the moment in the video that draws the most reaction — supporters call it proof of Casey’s total commitment to unconventional healing, skeptics call it the line where biohacking tips into fringe territory. Either way, Cowans didn’t cut around it; the segment plays out in full, consistent with the channel’s promise to show Casey’s routine exactly as he lives it. For viewers building out their own less extreme version of a wellness day, the Healthy Lifestyle category is a lower-stakes starting point than Paida or Shivambu.
The Persona Behind the Routine
Casey’s entire brand rests on transparency about practices most coaches keep off-camera, and that’s exactly what made him a compelling subject for Cowans’ channel. He’s not selling a 10-minute morning routine — he’s showing a full day, warts and all, breathwork to urine therapy, and daring viewers to judge it. Fans drawn to that same all-in approach to manifestation and self-discipline have gravitated toward related content like the semen retention manifestation practice covered elsewhere in the wellness-creator space — a sign this corner of YouTube has an appetite for practices far outside the mainstream fitness playlist.
Cowans wrapped the shoot thanking Casey for being “so honest with us about his journey,” and that honesty — tapping sessions, ice baths, and all — is the entire reason the video found an audience beyond the usual wellness crowd. Whatever viewers made of Shivambu, nobody walked away wondering whether Troy Casey actually lives the routine he preaches.
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