Meat And Veggies

It is better to eat meals with only vegetables than it is to eat a meal with only meat. Not to say you can never just only eat meat, but more of your diet should be made up of vegetables.

Food And Edible Products

Just because something is edible doesn't necessarily mean it's food. Edible things may be entertaining but it's not always food. It's high on convenience and fun factor, low on nutrition. Most of the modern diet is now made up of edible products/inventions and very little of it is real food.

Modern Fruits

Ever notice how big and how much sweeter fruits are becoming? Something unnatural is going on here...

Marathon Runners

Have low testosterone if they are male. In women endurance training lowers estrogen. Think again before you think a cardio class or running are the best ways to get in shape.

The Importance Of Strength

The stronger you are, the longer you will typically live.

Food As Entertainment

Over the years, the idea of food has changed. From something we need, from being fuel, a necessity for survival, like it is with every wild animal, it has become entertainment for us. Food has to be fun. Look a certain way. Be categorized by meal times. Snack foods, breakfast foods, lunch foods, etc. It has to be interesting, it has to have pictures of it taken, talked about, written about, has websites, TV shows, TV channels, magazines, a whole social media, movies, and huge blocks of conversation dedicated around it.

It has moved away from what food is, which is...food. That's why we actually eat so little of it, and eat so much edible entertaining items. Potato chips. Yes it's edible, so is chapstick and edible underwear. Doesn't mean it's food.

We think of food the same way we think about movies, about a book, music, or a night out on the town. You can go to a concert of you can go to this restaurant. One is for fun, the other was for survival now we made it fun. Now it offers so little of the things that keep us alive and healthy and more of the things that we think are entertaining.

It's not a healthy relationship and we have to respect food again for what it is, which is fuel, and a necessity of life. Like water. People have tried to jazz up water and its becoming more and more entertaining, but I think all in all we still consider water as water, and the way we think about water is different from the way we think about food even though in a survival sense both are the same, two things we need to feed on to live.

Food is all some people talk about or care about or hold value in. Some think without entertaining food, what is the value in life? Well yes in a shallow life that would be valuable. I enjoy food, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have to be fun for me. I enjoy it for what it will do to me. Like in a way drugs, doing it isn't so entertaining or enjoyable, but how it feels after and what it does for you is. For me food helps me perform better, be more alert, and helps me be in a good mood. What's that drug you take to feel good and have energy? Oh, it used to be called food.

Fat Is Not Your Enemy

People try to avoid fat, eating low fat or nonfat. Fat is not your enemy. Eating fat will not convert into more fat into your body. Fat isn't even made of fat, fat is filled with water and sugar.

In nature, as a general rule, animals who only eat nonfat (meaning vegetation) are grazers because they have to constantly feed. They have small brains and an advanced digestive system. There are exceptions of course.

Meat eating animals tend to be leaner and smarter. Humans are the most efficient and advanced, we can eat both. A lot of cultures survived for long periods eating only animal fat.

Now eating saturated fats and transfats and animal fats is not all that healthy either. But avoiding it is just as bad, in its place will be sugar. Remember your brain is also made of fat.

Eating Competition

Why does the simple act of eating with people (or drinking for that matter) turn into a contest or competitive? Or somehow you are competing with yourself how much or how fast you can eat or drink? As if you will get some reward or recognition for killing yourself. 

Cleanse And Puking

Doing a cleanse reminds me of throwing up. Whenever you get sick and throw up, it's always hard to digest the next day because you lost a lot of your healthy stomach and digestive culture. Same thing happens when you do a cleanse or even any other type of purges that are popular now. Without a healthy stomach culture, you will not be able to digest food properly. That is not a good thing.

My Father's Health

A couple years ago, my sister was diagnosed with cancer and she passed away. My family did what the doctors told them to do, had whatever surgery that needed to be done, and hoped for the best. She went very quickly. My father was diagnosed last year. This time I personally didn't want to just do or not do what the doctors said but be pro-active. We of course did the modern medicine, and went on treatment. He was already at Stage 4 colon and liver cancer. We also did a lot to change his eating habits and diet, I was very obsessed about that. Then exercise and stress management were other factors. There is no magic cure-all. It's all a game of inches and I wanted to be as greedy with the inches as I could be. My dad is also in his 80s, lifetime smoker, and alcoholic. He stopped smoking maybe 20 years ago, and stopped drinking once he was diagnosed.

I've seen most of my dad's friends and siblings pass away. He had one friend, a lot younger than him. Would visit all the time once my dad was diagnosed. A couple months ago he also was diagnosed with cancer. He recently passed away. Both went to the doctors and did all the medical stuff, both are religious men, but I think the true difference was that my dad made all those changes to his diet. And diet was one conversation the doctors never had with us... When I engage in them about it, I can tell right away their lack of knowledge in the subject. My dad is pretty healthy for the most part, active, walks, talks, drives, etc. Only when on chemo is he weak, but not weak from cancer but from the medicine.

Truly diet isn't just about weight or appearance, but is about overall health and longevity.

Even Though You Don't Gain Weight

Doesn't mean every time you eat crap you are not creating metabolic damage.

Every Day

Every day you wake up just a little bit better than yesterday. A little bit smarter. A little bit stronger. A little bit leaner. A little bit healthier.

With Good Form All Things Are Possible

Too often accomplishing something becomes a mental exercise. It becomes an ego thing, an anxiety thing, a motivation thing. We have to make it about none of those things, and make it about the form, and execution of good form which will lead to that desired result. Not the want of that result getting you that result. It doesn't matter if you are in a good mood or hyped or in a bad mood and pressured, bad form is bad form and you will not succeed. Even if someone lies to you because you are so hyped that you did something, even though it was the worst form possible and would never count as a real rep.

Your body is ready to do it, it's your mind who becomes the backseat driver and messes you up. Just focus on form, do lots of reps, create body memory. In the dark you know where to stick the car keys into the ignition on the first attempt. It's a small hole and a smaller metal object you are sliding into the hole. So easy to miss yet you have repped it so many times its easy and you are not thinking about it. Once you think about it you will mess up. If you are doing something really well, and I tell you wow you are doing something really well, do it again. You may fail at it because you are trying to repeat what you first did without thought.

Whether you succeed or fail, do it with good form. Even if you are in a good mood, bad mood, nervous, excited, whatever, just do it with good form. Because eventually if you ever do want to be able to lift that thing, move that weight, jump that box, you can't do it without good form. So the advice just do it, is meaningless to me. As if it's some mental hurdle stopping me. Just get the form right, and the form will take care of the rest.

This Man Is Scary

Chugging Alcohol.

You can consume the same amount of alcohol over time, or chug it really fast. Which one will make you drunker faster? So eating quickly and eating foods that absorb quickly into your blood as opposed to slow absorbing food. Which one will make you fat faster?

White Rice

White rice is common in many people's diets. How is it for nutrition though? Well let me answer it with this. Know what else is made of white rice? Paper. Also glue and paste. Sounds really nutritious.

Forced Recovery

I had an experiment I had a client do. I already knew the outcome but had him try it anyway. I had him do a circuit of multiple exercies. He was seeing how many rounds of those circuits he could do in 20 minutes. I gave him the stop watch, told him he paces himself and he decides how many rounds he will do. First day of doing it he did around 2. The next day we tried it again. I told him this time, whenever a round ends, to force himself to take exactly 60 seconds to rest before he starts the next round. He did. And he did 3 and 1/2 rounds this time. Even though he took longer rests in between.

People think it's harder and you get in better shape if you mindlessly do one exercise after another. Actually a superior athlete isn't someone who can go from one thing to another thing nonstop and do it at a slow or medium pace. A superior athlete can go at a very high pace with just a little time for recovery.