here are some HIDDEN GYM MISTAKES you may be doing wrong - and how to avoid them in the future.
I know because I've made ALL these mistakes before...
If you want better health, and better results in the gym - listen!
- Eating garbage because of the 'macros' or artifically flavored 'BCAA drinks' or preworkout mixes. Same goes for most protein powders/bars.
bad for your gut, mental health + waste of money.
Just toxic bombs that should not replace REAL food nutrition or quality sleep.
- Using a plastic supp shaker/drink bottle.
They throw it in with your order of creatine at the local supp mart.
You don't need to dose yourself with endocrine disrupting chemicals from plastic. Use a glass bottle or stainless steel shaker if you want a wide mouth for supps.
- Working out for too long, or too often
Get in, stimulate the muscle and push it to new limits and then get out and recover. A solid workout can be done in 30 minutes. Once you push past this you're impeding your recovery time for reduced gains.
no need to lift 6/7 days a week
- Wearing polyester gym clothes.
Heating up and sweating in gear that is essentially plastic just because its stretchy and tight is no bueno.
wear natural fibres such as cotton only. This also allows breathability of the skin and sweating for removal of toxins and cooling.
- Going on your phone during your workout.
If you want to change a song, fine, but that shouldn't lead into scrolling.
Put your mental energy into your lift, you go your whole day with your phone, dedicate your exercise time without it.
- Lifting too heavy for your strength
There are ways to make a light weight 'feel' heavy
your muscles don't know the numbers on the bar... they only 'feel' the gravitational force applied by the weight
more sustainable to focus on lighter weight w/ form + mindmuscle connection
- Allowing 'Cheat' meals
Don't reward yourself with something that's bad for you.
put down the Chik Fil A. it's not anabolic just to look at the macros and think you're eating well.
Anything you want to 'cheat' with can be made in a healthy way with healthy ingredients.
- Thinking Rest Days = laying on the couch
For sure rest from lifting hard; take naps in the sun if you so feel called to.
However, laying indoors all day not moving is not helping your recovery.
Walk around, take a sauna, active recovery is the best recovery.
There are many things to avoid inside and outside of the gym, and these are just some of them.
If you want to learn more or ask me questions about your health + fitness, join Sol Club solclub.me
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Here are some things that I do that I Believe benefit my health (physical, mental and spiritual) that you will not read about in many places…
Sometimes we need to exit outside the box in order to glean those extra points of potential.
Open your mind to new experiences and your abilities will ascend to the same degree.
- Play the Skyrim soundtrack and go on a long, DEEP forest walk. Do not use your phone during. Allow the ambience to flow through you, encounter the woods as if you were a Druid seeking knowledge. You will Not learn this elite meditation technique at Harvard medschool.
IF you do these things, and internalise this knowledge - you WILL lose weight.
But we want to lose FAT, not just 'weight' of course.
this requires a more nuanced strategy than the simple: move more, eat less - though this will work to some degree.
Simply eating less and restricting your body of the nutrition it needs is not necessarily the best way to lose body fat and keep it off.
Firstly, your 'weight' i.e. the number on the scale is not the best metric to track your health or your aesthetic goals.
you can be 200lbs RIPPED and jacked
but be 190lbs tubby and schlubby.
going by the scale, 190lbs is 'better'
but we all know by looking in the mirror what we would prefer - so going by how you look in the mirror and how you FEEL is much more important.
I think if you’re more spiritually inclined then you have more nightmares than other people (actually fighting in the spiritual war)
I have always had a higher proportion / occurrence of nightmares compared to most other people - sleep paralysis and other such encounters
Those that have experience the same as me r always spiritually more developed
I think there’s threshold you must hit to be in that world
One thing that’s common is I’ll be going about the dream whatever it is, sometimes a scary setting sometimes not,
Then there is a moment where I ‘lock eyes’ with whatever demon thing is there, I get frozen in place + feelings of terror. The feeling is Very similar each time