Three Tips for Health and Performance

I think one thing is that to not put all your eggs in one basket like don't don't be married to a method or an idea and don't don't you know don't be married to your passion either because passion can really mess you up. And there's a book I highly recommend people, if you, you know, if you, if you like to read, and if you like to read, especially fantasy, I'm a big fantasy and sci-fi fans like Dune and other books. And I tend to read, what I find is a lot of sci-fi and fantasy it tells a story, but there's also lessons that you could learn from the characters and things. And so there's a book called Wizards First Rule. And in it, there's 13 wizards rules that every wizard kind of lives by. And one of them is the rule is passion rules reason. So if I get in the whole, the whole concept of the book is that reason should always be the cornerstone of all your decisions. Like it either makes sense or it doesn't and don't allow your passion to override your sense of reason That way you don't do dumb shit. So, you know, I love the lift heavy. I love

squat but right now I've got lower lumbar herniations I can't squat I have to do step ups and split squats I have to work around it as much as I want to doing too much squatting and and ignoring the niggles is what got me to a point where now I can't squat so or I'm having to like relearn how to squat so never tip number one is never let your passion destroy your performance and health. Point number two is make sure that you're getting information from multiple places. Like don't just sit in an echo chamber and get your information from just the people who you think are the experts. Don't appeal to authority. You see that a lot, especially in the evidence based crowd is just because somebody's name is on a bunch of research articles, it doesn't mean they have a good grasp on reality because what happens in a lab is usually very, very different than what happens in real life. Um, especially when you put like when you put humans brains and what they're going to do and what, you know, how they're going to, um, act outside of a lab. So making sure that you're learning and getting information from as many places as you can on how to control your health and making sure that the shit makes sense, right? It's just, it's like we say with the NHS, you know, God bless the NHS, but you know, sometimes doctors, doctors don't do what we do and we don't do what doctors do. So sometimes they're not the best people to get advice on nutrition and lifting and conditioning and training on because they're not taught that stuff, right? So you don't want to, just because a doctor says something doesn't mean that that's the way it needs to be. And you got to put everything else in context, just like if I've got an overweight diabetic, losing weight, losing that first 10 and then every 10 they lose is going to massively increase their health But what do I tell the guy who not at that level yet He just got type two diabetes and he really skinny because he lost all his muscle mass Like I can tell him to lose weight. So I want to make sure I've got multiple inputs of where I'm getting my information from so that I can, I can give both of those people their, their independent prescription that's going to be based for them specifically. Um, the third one is just, just fucking move more, man. Jesus, like, if you come in and you train with a trainer three days a week, that is not your only exercise. Like, don't, don't go train with your trainer for three sessions a week and give yourself a good pat on the back and be like, okay, I'm done for the week. or there's another 165 hours a week right you need to be getting a good quality sleep you need to make sure you're moving more if you sit at a desk like i do all day get up get up every hour and a half two hours and go for a 20 minute walk like and think about doing taking care of the simple shit before you think about taking care of the complex shit you know if you don't know how to eat you're you're you don't know how to diet then stick to what we know works eat a lot of veggies garnish it with meat, you know, make sure you drink a lot of fluids. That's pretty much as basic as it gets, right? So don't get confused and razzle dazzle. Take care of the fundamental things before you decide to get crazy and do the hoodoo voodoo complex things. Great advice. Yeah, brilliant advice. You know, you can't beat that really, isn't it? It's just taking them back to basics for people, you know, so that they're not trying to like go down that wormhole of finding a specific nutrient that's going to cure all my ills and it's like well let's just do what you need to do first you know hit those basic like kind of things that we need to be hitting and then we can think about those more kind of in-depth aspects of kind of health and nutrition everyone wants to know what the secret is and i i i can tell you i know what the secret is i can tell you exactly what the secret is be very consistent patient and do it for a long fucking time consistency is the secret being very compliant staying on track and doing that for a very long time is always the best long solution