3 simple changes I made to lose 7% body fat in 3 months
At the start of 2022 I was 216 lbs and 16% body fat. These were both personal highs. The kind of record you don’t want to set. My pants were fitting snug. Last week I measured 204 and 9%. I changed 3 habits to lose 7% body fat.
Losing weight is hard. This habit makes it easier
Q: What’s the #1 habit most thin people share?
A: Fidgeting: Burning calories while not exercising. Forget Netflix and Chill. Let’s Netflix and fidget.
Take the long way or the Short cut?
The longest way round is the shortest way home.
Intervals teach what can’t be taught
We say ‘I’m not flexible’, ‘I’m not strong’, or even, gasp, ‘I’m slow’, like we can’t do something about it. There are things that can’t be taught, like luck, or being 7 feet, 300 lbs, but every athletic skill can, in fact, be taught. Take, for example, speed. Speed can be taught.
What exercises should I do on my own?
Top questions Trainers hear (complete w quick answers):
Fuhgettaboutit: Sensory Motor Amnesia
We all start off as great movers in childhood, but lose much of our mobility and flexibility as we age. The brain, sensing no need/given no opportunity, conveniently forgets movement maps. It’s called Sensory motor amnesia.
4 ways to Increase Confidence (in the gym)
In the beginning… every time I stepped in the gym I hit some new milestone. The weights went up, and up, and up; and my confidence went up, and up. Kinda like when I started running pretty seriously: the times came down, confidence went up. Or like when I immersed myself in yoga: I hit new poses; my confidence soared. That confidence is a drug. If only I could maintain that ascendant feeling: to perennially increase confidence in the gym.
Weight of a name
This is a powerful story about Depression, gratitude, speaking things into existence and how Allison Men take care of one another.
How to safely increase workout volume
If exercise were a drug it would be the most widely prescribed one in existence; and It’s not even close. Like drugs, exercise should be enjoyed in moderation. There are rules regarding how to safely increase workout volume.
Deeper stretching hacks
Fitness is chalk full of hacks: simple things anyone can do to instantly improve their workouts. Today we’re going to hack stretching.