Recap

Here is a recap of the topics I have written about since 2022:

1. New equipment and why I think it is valuable from a biomechanical and user perspective.
2. Calorie deficits or surpluses. Why energy balance matters and how it can be harder for some to sustain or achieve a calorie deficit.
3. Hunger. Satiety vs satiation. Why hunger is not a reliable signal that you need to eat. How certain foods are better than others at helping you achieve satiety. Others at satiation.
4. Pain and the myth of perfect posture. Building tolerance for positions is much more crucial than working on some mythical position that you can magically tolerate for hours.
5. Protein intake. Quality and adequacy. Why we need better tools to measure our protein intake. The Indicator amino acid method trumps DIASS that trumped PDCASS.
6. Sleep adequacy and sleep quality. It matters for fat loss, optimal health and nutrition partioning.
7. Healthy fat intake. Omega 3’s are what we don’t get enough of. And most of us need to be supplementing for it.
8. Micronutrient intake. Why a supplement while useful isn’t enough or reliable.
9. Training goals. Why viewing training only through the lens of bodybuilding is too narrow a view for most. We need think of adaptations and outcomes. And what the most useful ones for us are.
10. How our coaching service works and how it can help you. Why is our service different. And how there is a coaching sensibility and you need to find a voice that you enjoy and can adhere to.
11. The need for independent thought and capacity to judge why something makes sense and might work for you.
12. Stress. Managing it is crucial in how you manage your time and your capacity to direct your attention to nutrition, training and sleep.
13. Why supplements are no substitute for whole foods especially for fiber and micronutrient intake.
14. Why childhood nutrition is crucial. And how your activity diet as a child sets up your body and habits for life.
15. The capacity to judge the value of a food (economics and nutrition). From a qualitative and quantitative perspective. Are you getting value for money? How do you judge? Or are you overpaying for a fringe benefit?
16. Training outcomes and adaptations. What might be the most useful way to spend your time on activity. Why consistency, frequency, volume and intensity are not interchangeable.
17. Why no exercise is sacrosanct. If adaptation and outcome is what matters, any exercise can be subbed out or switched out.
18. Body composition trumps BMI. How much muscle you carry is underrated. ‘Right’ bodyweight is overrated.
19. Will power and environment makes or breaks habits.
20. With increasing lifespans, training and proper nutrition feels optional, it is not if you value quality of lifespan.
21. Golden era fallacy. We overestimate how good our ancestors had it.
22. Move more. Not just exercise. But in life.
23. Think decades of moving and eating. Not weeks.