I tend to have rather strong opinions when it comes to advice on diet, exercise and building muscle. If I seem direct and confident on any advice it is only because I have been exposed to the scientific proof and veracity of these ideas. I am only a humble messenger. If I seem virulent, it is only because there is so much relative bad information out there in the worlds of diet and fitness.
For most of my life, up until about the age of 26 I was always the “chubby” guy. The best I could do with a lot of hard work was move up to “bulky” status. This was really disheartening. I worked so hard, I followed diets, did hours of “cardio” exercises and spent 2 hours a day in the gym bodybuilding. I even starved myself on a few occasions in my compulsion to become one of those buff and “in-shape” people. It was not until I discovered the true facts regarding human diet and physiology that I permanently found my way out of this mess. Science and enlightenment replaced marketing, hype, hard work and nonsense. Failure was replaced with permanent success.
For me, this wasn’t just a short term remedy. It was literally a cure. I’ve never looked back. This is easy. It is now my mission to help out other people who are in the same predicament I was all those years ago.
Diet and fitness is not religion or politics. It’s science. So I tend to be a little harsh and acerbic in cutting through much of the nonsense I find out there. I caution people to not waste time on treadmills, doing “boot-camps” or other boring, difficult and repetitive forms of training that are proven to be inferior relative to more intelligent and effective athletic methodologies. Using science, it is really easy to disarm folks when they defend some common forms of fitness. One of the most common ones I here is “my friend is a spinning (or circuit training or boot camp or aerobics class or cardio kickboxing, etc) instructor and you should see her, she looks amazing.” “She teaches classes and does this stuff six times a week and she has a body to die for”.
Now for folks who really hate this stuff but do it anyways to get into shape I have really good news. There is a much more scientific, proven, and easier way to succeed. I tell them that doing this type of exercise and following the advice of most dieticians and many fitness industry trainers can indeed get some folks into shape. The problem is that state is rarely if ever permanent because of all the difficult, unrealistic work that needs to be done. It’s sort of like driving from NY City to Miami, via Seattle, Washington. For some folks though, I will never win this argument.
Indeed, there will always be one thing that trumps my argument completely. That is the love of any one of these common fitness activities. Although this phenomenon is certainly not common, it does exist. When a person actually loves their spinning class, boot-camp workout, or treadmill running, (like we love our rock climbing, martial arts, Salsa dancing, or playing Frisbee with our dog in the park) then, God bless them. Do it! This is the one situation where I really have no argument and what for most of us is a long, difficult, boring, and repetitive means indeed justifies the end.
If this post makes sense, feel free to check out our diet plan. It’s called the eco-diet and it’s based on the natural, healthy eating habits our ancestors followed for centuries. There are no excuses now.