Every fitness lesson I’ve learned after a decade in the gym:
1. Eggs are a superfood. Not a food to avoid.
2. Progressive overload is king. If you’re not constantly improving, you’re not going to grow, and you’re not going to get any closer to your goals.
3. Drink 1-2 cups of black coffee per day. You’ll suppress your appetite, burn more fat, and will optimize your mental and physical performance.
4. Hitting 10,000 steps a day is the most under-utilized yet effective fat-loss habit.
5. Eat protein first at every meal. It’s highly satiating, which means you’re less likely to overeat.
6. Minimize alcohol consumption. It wrecks your sleep, sabotages your weight loss efforts, and leads to many other unhealthy habits.
7. The quantity of food you eat affects how much you weigh. The quality of the food you eat affects your body composition.
8. Avoid liquid calories. They add up quickly. Stick to water, black coffee, and unsweetened tea.
9. Stop snacking. Eat enough high-quality food at each meal, and you won’t be hungry between meals.
10. Eat within a 12-hour window. For example, eat breakfast at 8 am and stop eating at 8 pm.
11. Do your workouts in the morning. Your willpower is high, and nothing can get in the way.
12. You don’t need to eat healthfully 100% of the time. Aim for 80%, and you’ll be fine.
13. Don’t worry about cardio. Get your steps in and lift weights.
14. Remove junk food from your house. If it's not in the house, you can't eat it.
15. Less is more. You don’t need to work out every day for hours at a time. Work out with intention and focus on recovery. That’s how you see the best progress.
16. The two-day rule is your friend. Don’t miss twice. If you didn’t get your workout done yesterday, you must get it done today.
17. You don’t need a pre-workout. They’re full of crap. Salted water, honey, and coffee are the greatest pre-workout.
18. A workout doesn’t need to be perfect to be worthwhile.
19. You need to eat more protein. Aim for 1g per pound of body weight each day.
20. Don’t wing it. You need to find a structured plan for your goal and commit to it.
21. Lifting weights is the best way to start changing your body. Whether your goal is fat loss or muscle gain, lift weights every week.
22. Avoid domino foods. These are foods that are hard to stop eating once you start.
23. Your identity directly impacts your actions. Decide who you want to become and determine what that person would do. Act accordingly.
24. Don’t drink coffee or energy drinks after lunch. You’ll wreck your sleep.
25. Inadequate sleep messes with your hunger hormones and makes you more likely to eat junk food. You need to sleep 8+ hours each night.
26. Increase the weights you’re lifting in the gym. Don’t stick with the same weight forever.
27. Manage your stress levels. Stress impacts insulin, testosterone, and many other hormones in the body. It blunts your ability to lose fat and put on muscle.
28. Track your workouts and body weight. Seeing progress will keep you motivated and will ensure you’re on the right track.
29. Great results come from consistency. Find a plan and stick to it.
30. Get into the habit of meal prepping. You’re way less likely to eat junk food when you have healthy meals ready to go.
31. Don’t cut out your favorite foods. Minimize them instead. It won’t be sustainable to cut out your favorite foods because you won’t stick with it.
32. Limit sugar. A little bit is okay, but too much will lead to inflammation and fat gain.
33. Drink more water. Aim for 2-3 liters every day.
34. Eat slowly. It takes about 20 minutes for the message that we’re full to get to our brains. Most people have already finished their whole plate by this point.
35. Go for a quick walk after every meal. This will help you get your steps in and will significantly decrease blood sugar spikes.
36. Progress won’t be linear. Don’t get discouraged if you sometimes go backward. Trust the process.
--
Thank you for reading.
If you learned something and enjoyed this post:
1) Follow me @_AshleyRichmond for more
2) Repost this to help someone else improve their fitness, too
A father is fighting for her 1 year old daughter's life
Really sad that insurers are denying genuine claims
IRDAI should take cognizance, otherwise the whole point of paying premiums gets defeated
If the facts are true, "Care Insurance" needs to be taken care of by regulators
5 ways that can help you manage your sugar spikes through the day and keep you energised/focussed.
1. Don't have sweet breakfasts - Cereal, pancakes, bananas, shrikhand/sheera and the likes. Savoury breakfasts always. Follow last with a low fructose fruit, if at all.
2. Don't ever have naked carbs. Veggies, protein+fat then carbs. In that order. Pair simple/complex carbs with protein+fat. Modify the traditional Indian BF, it will help. Roti + egg > Aloo Paratha.
3. ACV half hour before meals. Reduces BG spike by 30%. Very easy to do.
4. A 10 to 15 minute stroll after every meal. Or atleast post lunch around the office block and post dinner.
5. A minimum of 4 hours between meals during the day. Don't snack. Limit carbs - grain based sources to a max of 120g in a day.
3.25 cr Viewers, ~50000 Cr of media rights, 14 Editions, and an 11 billion $ Valuation!
Let’s look at some mind-Boggling numbers associated with the Indian Premier League (IPL)
A thread, Do retweet :)
Trading isn't gambling. It's an art. You have to understand the probabilities and probabilities only tell part of the story. It's also about controlling your emotions and having the faith that the odds will play out in your favor.
Here is a new expiry day for traders.
This time BSE is introducing SENSEX Options from 15th May, contracts Expiring every Friday.
The Lot Size will be 10.
In case if it gets good liquidity over time, it will be quite interesting as the movement will be like nifty.
How you think is more important than what you think. The right psychology will help you take maximum advantage of the right market conditions.
But no psychology in the world can help you take advantage of the wrong market conditions.
@niki_poojary@AdityaTodmal What an amazing 2 days I had at @niki_poojary@AdityaTodmal workshop…This workshop is a must for anyone who wants to learn the most practical rule based positional trading setups …Great job and keep it up…
What an amazing 2 days I had at @niki_poojary@AdityaTodmal workshop…This workshop is a must for anyone who wants to learn the most practical rule based positional trading setups …Great job and keep it up…
Trainers should not oppose verification process by Sensibull.
It is a great opportunity for them to expand their training and paid service business.
If someone is opposing then he/she himself is proving fraud activities by themselves.
Fake P&L screenshot sharing is one of the biggest scams in markets in India. True to our vision of making retail investors profitable, and as a market participant committed to making this a better place, Sensibull is introducing "Verified by Sensibull" Screenshots
Continued...
People need to calculate "cost per use" and the number of times you will use an item when evaluating if something is cheap or expensive
A "cheap" item that you will barely use is far more expensive than an "expensive" item that you'll use daily