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The One-Sentence Luxury Test

Would this still look correct if found in a closet 30 years from now?

If yes → it’s luxury
If no → it’s fashion

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Lift heavy. Eat protein. Walk daily.
That’s the real cheat code.

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It is not by consuming that I am fulfilled, but creating.

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The moment on your journey towards your goal that you realize the person that you become on the journey is more important than actually achieving the goal itself.

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Carbohydrate has a lesser tendency towards adipose, fatty tissue storage compared to dietary fats.

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Muscle Hypertrophy rates are optimized in a sustained caloric surplus.

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“Whole grain foods” are only required to contain 30-50% whole grams for it to be labeled as a whole grain food.

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In the context of endurance exercise, women used less glycogen than men.

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Aim for at least three different types of vegetables in your meals each week to ensure a balanced nutrient intake.

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Variety within each food group enhances nutrient intake and benefits.

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Secret for longevity = diet to support exercise/physical activity, for the goal of maintaining musculoskeletal and respiratory fitness, healthy body composition targets, and psychological wellbeing

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THE MAN IN THE ARENA

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Periodization = Structuring of planned changes

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Brad Marchand in 2018: “I was never the best kid on my team — anyone will tell you that. My buddies were better players. As we got older, they were getting all the attention from the junior teams. I’ll never forget, when we were 12 years old our coach gave this speech in the locker room before a game, and he said, ‘There’s thousands of kids like you in Canada. There’s thousands more all over the world. You know what the statistics say? The statistics say that only 0.01% of you will make it to the NHL.’

I just always remembered that stat, and I would think to myself, ‘Man, if I’m not even the best kid on my pee-wee team … there’s no chance. How could I ever get noticed?’

That same pee-wee season, something else happened that took my mindset a step further. We were playing against our rivals, Cole Harbor, in some important game, and they had this monster forward on their team who always killed us.

During the game, the kid took a run at my brother, and he smoked him. For as much as we’d mess with one another at home, if you ever hurt my brother, it was like a red light went off inside me. I’d fight you.

So we went out, and every time the kid touched the puck, one of us took a run. He got so pissed off that he took a slashing penalty right at the end of his shift, and we got a power play. We ended up scoring the game-winning goal with him in the box, and I had this realization like, ‘OK … if I have a 0.01% chance, this might be one way of getting people to notice me.’

I have done things that have stepped over that line, and I’ve paid the price for it.... There’s a lot of people out there in the hockey world who love to say, ‘Winning is everything. It’s the only thing.’

Do they really mean it? How far are they willing to go? Maybe it was my size, or just the way I was born, but I’ve always felt like you have to be willing to do anything — literally anything — in order to win. Even if that means being hated. Even if it means carrying around some baggage.

If I played the game any other way, you absolutely would not know my name. You wouldn’t care enough to hate me, because I wouldn’t be in the NHL.” https://t.co/YaGuxkR03w

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Eccentric contractions generally cause more hypertrophy than concentric.
Why?
1. Greater Mechanical Tension
2. More Muscle Damage
3. Higher Force Production: more force per unit of activation, recruiting more high-threshold motor units
4. Longer Time Under Tension

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Weak things break.
- Louie Simmons

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In life, and in lifting…you don’t need to kick down the door. Just walk through it when it opens.