Episode 43 of The Muscle Engineer Podcast is a meditation on this past year and a compilation of the top 19 things I learned – or rather, re-learned – about training, dieting and life in general.
The lessons:
- Discipline equals freedom – everything you want is on the far side of hard work
- Extreme ownership – your circumstances are YOUR responsibility
- What you most want is to be found where you least want to look
- The fool is the precursor to the savior
- Tell the truth; or at least don’t lie
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not who someone else is today
- You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped
- The loads you’re using are irrelevant if your execution is off
- Progressive overload (getting stronger in moderate rep ranges) is still key – use a logbook!
- There’s only so much volume you can do in any given session
- Find exercises that fit YOU and that can be progressed for a long time
- People should be much more afraid of undertraining than overtraining
- Genetics are still key, and no amount of hard work will overcome them
- Drugs don’t just “only help a little”
- The key to long term weight loss / maintenance is a dietary approach (and a meal frequency) that YOU can actually enjoy
- The more extreme your goals, the more extreme the sacrifices you have to make in return
- How many calories someone else eats is IRRELEVANT – move more if you want to eat more
- Train to get stronger / build muscle; diet to lose fat
- Sleep is still the most potent ANABOLIC (legal) tool you have at your disposal; the more, the better
“How do you help someone who’s lost? “ video (MUST WATCH! ) :
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