You don't need to do more HIIT.
You don't need to starve yourself.
You don't need to do 24 hour fasts.
You don't need to eat only meat.
You do need to be more consistent with hydrating, sleeping well, eating real food, getting your protein in, walking more, and lifting weights.
If they made a peptide that:
Muscle mass ↑
Bone density ↑
Strength ↑
Power ↑
Fall risk ↓
Blood pressure ↓
Lipids ↓
Insulin sensitivity ↑
Body fat ↓
Premature death risk ↓
Anxiety ↓
Depression ↓
Osteoporosis ↓
RMR ↑
Physical function ↑
Sleep quantity ↑
Sleep quantity ↑
Antioxidant capacity ↑
Bladder and kidney cancer ↓
Ability to eat hella sushi without getting fat ↑
It'd sell like crazy.
Oh wait, that's consistently progressing the overload.
@Emmachuuks As a natty in my experience I think there are 3 factors:
-Genetics
-Years of training experience (lifting, building lean mass through bulk/cut cycles)
-Consistency with nutrition plan
@CoachFHM Love this. I specifically like doing this with chest supported rows like in the video but when you say certain movements, what other ones do you find it helpful?
Millenial dads are by far the greatest generation of dads.
We spend more time without kids than any other generation.
More fit than any other generation.
Work the hardest and reap the least rewards.
Lived through:
2 gulf wars
dot com boom
9/11
2008 recession
covid bullshit with vax mandate.
We have had the rug pulled out from under us by the boomers.
Yet here we are. Still showing up to the gym at 5am. Still making time to coach our kids, still taking our health seriously.
So we can leave this world a better place for our kids.
Stressing over optimizations will get you nowhere. Lock in on the basics and most of those ‘problems’ solve themselves. Constant worry over seed oils and the like without tracking macro/calorie intake is crazy AF. Cotton underwear is great long as it isn’t glued to your couch.
I eat seed oils.
I drink energy drinks.
I eat heavily processed protein ice cream.
2-4 diet cokes per day.
They’re freaking delicious.
My average step count is only 5500/ day.
I don’t eat liver.
I drink alcohol maybe 2x/ month.
I wear polyester underwear because it’s 100x more comfortable than the sweaty musty cotton underwear the health bros are wearing.
Point is - you don’t need to be some health freak in order to be healthy.
I don’t have the bandwidth or quite frankly the care to over optimize every little detail based on every passing health trend.
Especially when literally 100% of the potential benefits of any of these optimizations is achieved by simply:
1. Not being fat
2. Lifting heavy
3. Not being overly stressed
I allocate my health bandwidth with to the only two rules that actually matter:
1. Not over eating (gluttony)
2. Training hard (disciplining the body)
There are very few details required to optimize those two outcomes.
However, there is an immense amount of work that God needs to do on your heart and in your mind in order for you to adhere to them consistently.
Most people’s problem is not that they haven’t optimized their health enough.
It’s that they can’t adhere to the basics consistently.
If you’re turning to food for comfort - there is no amount of red light therapy that’s going to un inflame you.
If you don’t consistently train your body, there is no peptide that’s going to make you look fit.
Stop worrying about the over optimizations.
1. Don’t turn to food for comfort
2. Discipline your body