Seems to contain some good links but also blatant marketing just carelessly regurgitating claims from product producers of unproven medical benefits. So calling this even just “mostly marketing free” is extremely dishonest.
Movies that have strategic product placement isn’t “mostly product placement free” it’s just plain marketing, and should own up to it.
I don’t understand why it’s even there, it doesn’t seem to tie into anything and is a sharp contrast to the rest of the content which actually references studies and actual results, and then it just switches to “Oh, and there’s this product the owner claims works” seems very odd unless it’s a paid add, but it seems unlikely to be a paid add due to placement and context.
I don’t know about all that. Here’s a simpler guide:
Diet: 90% of you are consuming complete junk and making excuses for yourself or pretending you don’t know better. Cut it out. Here’s stuff you already know: Drink a gallon of pure water every day. Make all your own food. No sugar. No added fat. Mostly vegetables, legumes, lean meat. Eat when you’re hungry. Stop eating when you’re not hungry.
Time: Budget three hours a day for the rest of your life. Yes; three. Get over it. This is required human maintenance. Cut out useless reading and scrolling on your phone/internet (guilty). Remember how easy this was before you had a smart phone and a laptop?
Start by stretching. Stretch everything in every way until you don’t have any more pain and tightness. Yes, three hours a day, probably for about a month, and nothing else. When your body is ready, you will feel it, and then you will end stretching early and start cardio.
Next, move to cardio. Get a heart rate monitor and do whatever you feel like to get it around 170 minus your age. As you get more fit, it will stay higher for longer. When you can hold that for the whole workout, you’re in great shape, even if you’re still weighed down and covered up by fat.
At which point you move on to high-rep fast-paced calisthenic strength, and your heart rate should stay high during this as well. And when you get stronger and move to bigger weights, guess what, your heart rate never actually drops even when you are doing 5x5 at 500lb deadlift.
But if you start with heavy weights, and your flexibility sucks, and your cardiovascular system sucks, you’re going to get hurt, and not burn calories, and not see progress, and drown your sorrows in Dunkachino. This is, by the way, basic fitness for most people. Elite-level performance is a little bit different, starting from the end and going somewhat backward through the steps.
To summarize and emphasize:
1. Your diet habits suck and you know it. Stop reading fad BS and do what you already know you should.
2. Start from the beginning. Eliminate pain and tightness, then get your heart working, then your muscles.
I agree with everything you post, besides the gallon of water part. We should drink when we're thirsty, there's no need to force down a full gallon every day. Keep in mind that we usually wake up a bit dehydrated, so plenty of water in the morning is important
You can maintain decent fitness on less time, or even slowly improve, but most unfit people cannot physically achieve the level of intensity required to see significant improvement with minimal time commitment. I say three hours firstly because the actual workout gets packed in with a lot of things that you will be doing to take care of your body, and that’s what it usually comes out to, but mostly because I’m tired of people asking me for shortcuts. Sorry, no, you’re not going to make it without sacrifices. It needs to be a priority.
If you want efficiency, here’s that list in order: Stop smoking, stop drinking, stop caffeine, stop snacking, stop social eating, prepare your own food, standing desk, commute by bike.
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I don’t understand why it’s even there, it doesn’t seem to tie into anything and is a sharp contrast to the rest of the content which actually references studies and actual results, and then it just switches to “Oh, and there’s this product the owner claims works” seems very odd unless it’s a paid add, but it seems unlikely to be a paid add due to placement and context.
Diet: 90% of you are consuming complete junk and making excuses for yourself or pretending you don’t know better. Cut it out. Here’s stuff you already know: Drink a gallon of pure water every day. Make all your own food. No sugar. No added fat. Mostly vegetables, legumes, lean meat. Eat when you’re hungry. Stop eating when you’re not hungry.
Time: Budget three hours a day for the rest of your life. Yes; three. Get over it. This is required human maintenance. Cut out useless reading and scrolling on your phone/internet (guilty). Remember how easy this was before you had a smart phone and a laptop?
Start by stretching. Stretch everything in every way until you don’t have any more pain and tightness. Yes, three hours a day, probably for about a month, and nothing else. When your body is ready, you will feel it, and then you will end stretching early and start cardio.
Next, move to cardio. Get a heart rate monitor and do whatever you feel like to get it around 170 minus your age. As you get more fit, it will stay higher for longer. When you can hold that for the whole workout, you’re in great shape, even if you’re still weighed down and covered up by fat.
At which point you move on to high-rep fast-paced calisthenic strength, and your heart rate should stay high during this as well. And when you get stronger and move to bigger weights, guess what, your heart rate never actually drops even when you are doing 5x5 at 500lb deadlift.
But if you start with heavy weights, and your flexibility sucks, and your cardiovascular system sucks, you’re going to get hurt, and not burn calories, and not see progress, and drown your sorrows in Dunkachino. This is, by the way, basic fitness for most people. Elite-level performance is a little bit different, starting from the end and going somewhat backward through the steps.
To summarize and emphasize:
1. Your diet habits suck and you know it. Stop reading fad BS and do what you already know you should.
2. Start from the beginning. Eliminate pain and tightness, then get your heart working, then your muscles.
This is silly and gets sillier from there.
If you want efficiency, here’s that list in order: Stop smoking, stop drinking, stop caffeine, stop snacking, stop social eating, prepare your own food, standing desk, commute by bike.
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