As I approach 60, the MAIN thing I've learnt which separates the long-term fit & healthy from the rest is their complete life is fit & healthy lifestyle; i.e they don't have fitness windows in an obesogenic lifestyle.
They aren't slobs who go to the gym. They aren't sedentary people who go for a jog 3 x a week. They don't lose weight for a beach holiday or wedding. They don't eat badly then 'fast' to lose weight. They don't drink smoothies for breakfast because they were told it's healthy.
Over 4 decades I've seen the one's who 'try' but fail longterm in staying fit, lean and healthy. They are always the individuals who insert fitness windows into their obesogenic/sedentary lives rather than a total change to a fit and healthy lifestyle.
Do not have 'fitness windows' - make your life fit, turn your environment into a lean environment, make physical activity your default, make healthy eating your default - the irony is if you live like this you can have 'UNHEALTHY WINDOWS' - without losing your health.
For long-term health & fitness:
1 Drop an unhealthy life with 'fitness windows'
2 Have a default healthy life and add in 'unhealthy windows' (if you like).
Nothing you do will work long-term if you don't fundamentally change your health landscape.
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COMPETITIVE ANXIETY - (The solution is the problem)
I learnt something VERY important (in my competitive career) about nerves. Sports psychologists advise solutions to control nerves, ALL have misdiagnosed the problem - nerves are not the problem! The problem is..
viewing pre-competitive nervousness as disempowering. I found out that top performers suffer form nerves, but they view nerves as empowering - a sort of psychological rocket fuel for top performance.
The pseudo sports psychologists at my university taught all the various....
...BS ways to control nerves, mostly useless. They didn't realise that competitive nerves are not a problem; how the nerves are perceived by the athlete IS the problem. By teaching that nerves are a problem they were making the problem worse.
"...the number of swings at bat, poems attempted, paintings painted, etc. determine the success rate. The more you try, the more you learn, the faster you iterate, the better you get...
The human ecosystem (our internal environment) has the same processes as the environmental ecosystem. Destruction & Reconstruction is a universal process. This is how we stay young.
We should take our cue from the senolytic processes of nature. A coppiced Hazel tree is near immortal.
Too much destruction (chronic calorie restriction) and too much growth (hyperfunction/ constant eating) are both bad and lead to derangement.
If you have zero money and zero contacts, take advice from the person who turned $0 into $100 not the one who turned who turned $5M into $200M.
The person who came from comfortably secure, good school, good contacts, wealthy parents...
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...has no concept of how to make money from nothing. They say they do, but they don't. They spend money in the way you breathe - they do it w/out thinking. they don't realise. All the opportunities they suggest involve having money, even if it's only $100.
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They have never experienced how a $10 find on the pavement changes how their next two days will be spent. They aren't aware that you eat cheap shitty carbs because you only have $3 to last five days.
When you have no money, you borrow and can't pay back, you make promises...
1/ Depending on your mindset what you normally like can become disgusting, and the reverse, what you hate can become something you like. The person you most love can become the person you most hate. Finding a dead mouse in your favourite food can put you off that food forever
2/ If you are starving to death you will eat food from bins, the pavement, or half eaten by strangers – you may even eat someone’s vomit. It’s not that you would like eating someone’s vomit, just that you would do it to survive.
3/ REVELATION: Hours before my Mum died she vomited on her jacket; the jacket was my least concern I put it in the garden, hung over a chair. For weeks after she died I kept the jacket with her dried vomit, it was the only remaining organic part of her.
A few years ago (when i lived there) much of the Somerset Levels was flooded. I wrote about it in Gang Fit 2 -'Expendable in Emergencies'. The roads became rivers, people were stuck in Island villages, and the Moles got very soggy..
Acres and acres of land was flooded to 5 or 6 feet; the water remained for weeks. Deer were made homeless.
When the waters receded, millions of frog spawn was left, lying on the wet fields. [Frog spawn is in clumps, Toad spawn in strings].
After this money was given to the area to build a couple lakes where excess water could be pumped to (not sure this happened tho) + plus farmers and the local authority cleared the banks 9and dredged) of water channels and rivers so the water would run faster & drain quicker