I get asked it A LOT... so let me write you a 2 minute article on my nutrition and training beliefs.... This is only A SHORT ARTICLE. If you want to debate it, comment below.... and I would love to expand on the reasoning and anecdotes.
1. I fundamentally believe that we should be eating (and exercising) the way that nomads ate thousands of years ago.
2. This includes a notable lack of calorie counting, treadmills, protein powders and unnecessary prescription drugs.
3. You get more benefit from 20 minutes ballistic and sprint drills (done properly) than a 3 hour run or bike ride.
4. Marathons and triathlons put incredible and unsustainable stress on your vital organs and limbs. Most endurance athletes die before 60 (or have a stroke or heart attack) and look 100 at age 40.
5. We DON'T HAVE TO EAT 3-5 meals a day....
6. Sugar and grains make you fat.
7. Fat is good - macadamia oils, fish oils, avocado, full fat dairy, the gooey fat on the bottom of a roast chicken, butter - NOT MARGARINE. The more the better. It's the quality of the mouthful, not the calorie....
8. Need more good gut bacteria to stave off flu? cancer? thrush? Eat and play in the dirt and stop taking antibiotics every time you get a sniffle...
9. Take your shoes off and sprint on the grass and sand.
10. If your back or knees hurt it's because you have a strength deficiency. (Everyone has Scoliosis... don't use it as an excuse.)
11. If you have been eating sh!t for over a decade it will take more than 6 weeks to look and feel good again... stop hoping for a quick fix.
12. One day people will be suing meal replacement companies because they have bowel cancer and a colostomy bag.... oh yes, and they are fat again.
13. Take your shoes off when you do weighted squats.
14. Caveman Grok didn't do ab work - he did chin ups and had better obliques than a fitness instructor.
14. Caveman Grok didn't do ab work - he did chin ups and had better obliques than a fitness instructor.
15. Have you ever seen a really cut, fit Les Mills instructor (that didn't do Cross Fit or Sweat Depot on the side?)?
16. Get the f^@% out of florescent lights! It's why you can't sleep and you haven't ovulated properly in 7 years!
17. You CAN go out in the sun for short periods without sunscreen and without getting burnt... better still, train for short periods in the sun and you won't have to pay $40 for vitamin D tablets and a sore case of depression. Oh yeah.. it helps burn fat too....
18. Good fats BURN fat....
19. Rice cakes have less nutritional value than cardboard. At least cardboard has a bit of bacteria and cockroach poo on it...
20. mmmm this is going to be controversial... thyroid disease can be a terrible condition, yes... but did you see one poor sole walk out of those insidious WWII concentration camps fat? And I am sure there were more than a few of those poor, poor people that had hormone and thyroid conditions. Fat DOES NOT MATERIALIZE BY ITSELF....
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| Age 26 - soft, weak, sick, training 8 hours a week and consuming expensive protein powders & creatine to try and be competitive |
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| 11 years and one baby on. I squat and chin the same as the dudes, train only 4 hours a week, eat less and need less sleep. |
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