Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes! ❤️ Here’s the promised announcement: NOVEMBER 1ST I WILL BE RELEASING THE LIFE OF ELVIS PODCAST!
It will be available on both Youtube and Rumble (Elvis Health & Fitness), aiming for 2-4 episodes a month, mostly including an, interesting guest.
Some of the topics we will talk about are:
Personal development, overcoming adversity and childhood trauma, spirituality
Training and healthy lifestyle
Music and other arts; futurism, space travel, astronomy and physics; masculinity and femininity; disruptive technologies; meaning of life, finding purpose…
More info coming soon! Looking forward to it and I love you all! ☯️
You don’t. 5 to 6 compound movements are more than enough. Especially when it comes to training for strength and skills.
In fact, strength is a skill too. A lot of it comes down to building strong neuromuscular connections (between the brain and muscles). And how do you get better at skills? You practice them. A LOT. And OFTEN.
If you train too many exercises, you won’t be able to practice them enough, and you won’t get good in them. A quote from the master himself, Bruce Lee, comes to mind:
“I fear not a man who practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man who practiced one kick 10000 times.”
Same principal here.
I know what you’re thinking – isn’t it BORING to train only 5 fundamental movements?
It is, if you ARE NOT MAKING PROGRESS! As long as you see yourself getting stronger, leaner, faster, improving your technique… you will be engaged and excited about your workouts. You will come for more.
At the end of the day, that’s the main reason why we train – to make progress and reach our goals.
If you are not making progress, and masking it with a large variety of exercises, it is time to reconsider your workout and your priorities in training.
Feel free to watch the corresponding video below, and subscribe to my YouTube channel!
Way too many people in order to achieve their goals, like losing weight or improving their health, chose to get on a drastic diet for a few weeks, maybe months at best. They go from a standard western diet, which is one of the leading contributors to all of the major illnesses our society suffers from, to a raw vegan diet, paleo, or keto diet, if not something way more dodgy. A juice cleanse or some kind of fasting.
And what’s the result?
Perhaps one manages to lose some weight, but it’s not sustainable and one ends up eating the same way they did before. More often then not, the weight starts piling back on, and in the worst cases one ends up doing damage to their metabolism, stuck in the yoyo effect, losing non-adipose tissue, or with an eating disorder.
What’s the solution?
A change of lifestyle. Not a temporary diet. Make smaller improvements you can manage as opposed to drastic interventions. I know that you might be eager to get rid of the excess weight, trust me I’ve been there. I had a time where I barely recognised myself, and wanted to change it as quickly as possible. I was desperate.
Back in 2015 I felt depressed and lonely, and somehow I ended up eating away my emotions. I gained around 20kg in a few months. I could barely recognise myself, and I wanted to get rid of the excess body fat FAST.
That’s where I messed up my eating habits even more, and only made things worse.
What got me through that challenging time of my life, was, you guessed it, making sustainable changes. Eating healthy, mainly unprocessed foods. No crazy fasting or 1 meal a day. 3 regular meals a day. Less than 12 hour window for eating.
Since then (roughly 2015 to early 2017) I haven’t had ANY problems whatsoever with my weight or eating habits.
And the changes I have implemented – I stick to them to this day. Why? Because it improves the quality of my life, I have the energy to go after my goals, and I know that I am lowering the risk of getting cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, even depression!
As I said in my previous video, start small. Do your research or speak to a professional. And most importantly, do it out of love for yourself and others. Because you deserve it!
Do you want to make positive changes in your life, but don’t know where to start?
Don’t become a victim to paralysis-analysis and START SMALL!
In the vast majority of cases, change takes time and it has to be gradual. Yes, some individuals can turn their lives around in an instance, and there is a time and place for radical changes, but that’s only a small percentage.
You want to gradually adjust to the change, stick to it over time, and not become overwhelmed by it. It’s about sustainable change as opposed radical and short-lived interventions and inevitably failing. Way too often we can see people get on a highly restrictive diet, to which they cannot adhere for longer than a few weeks or months. After New Year’s Day the gyms get filled up with new-years-resolutioners, only to return to normal a months later. There is no point to that whatsoever.
Add some more fruit and veg into your diet. Go for a walk in the morning. Do a few sets of squats. Learn about how to start a business for 5 minutes. Practice your instrument for ten minutes a day.
Turn these activities into habits. This will take a few weeks (or 21 days as the saying goes). Then expand them and build upon them.
Instead of learning about Bitcoin for 5 minutes a day, do 10 or 15 minutes now, and perhaps download the Binance app. For the past 3 weeks you have been consistently training pull ups twice a week, for two sets. Make it 3 sets this week. And add a third training session to your schedule. You get the point.
I can guarantee you that after a few months the small changes you have implemented will have snowballed and you’ll look back at what you have achieved with pride. And that’s what it’s about!
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