If that’s not a clickbaity title I’m not sure what is. Full disclosure, I do not know what will work for you to consistently lose weight. But I do know what worked for me.
In the show today I discuss these different methods that I have applied in order to become healthier. Some of my methods include yoga, stretching, keto-type diets, sauna, and new shoes.
Dough-Boy Dad
In order to be successful in anything in life, there must be a tangible motivation. This for me was becoming a parent for the first time. I absolutely hate the idea of a “dad bod” or as I refer to it, dough-boy dad.
I was well on my way to being one. During my wife’s pregnancy, I stepped on the scale and realized that I was fatter than I had ever been in my life. Even though I went to the gym rather routinely, there seemed to be a bunch of other variables that needed adjustment.
The main one was for sure diet and nutrition. Based on influential podcasts that I had stumbled across at the time (a poor attempt to not say Joe Rogan), I discovered the keto diet and other factors that lead to a more productive diet. If you don’t know what keto is, it is basically the banishment of sugar from your diet and treating carbs as a necessary evil by limiting your intake to 50g a day. This, as I discuss, was a great factor in my overall loss of 39lbs in about 7 months.
Inflammation
Another problem that I had run into based on a poor diet and lack of mitigating action, was inflammation in my joints after exercise. This was especially the case for my knees, which severely cut into my cardio. I was also developing more shoulder pain which was starting to cut into my lifting routines as well. I was able to make a huge dent in this pain by changing my diet and using the sauna at my gym. The knee pain is pretty much non-existent now and the shoulder pain has decreased substantially.
Another thing that I discovered for shoulder pain and other discomfort was stretching. This included adding some yoga to all of my routines and hanging at the end. Hanging from a pull-up bar has cut down on shoulder pain quite a bit. The yoga has contributed to less pain as well and has helped increase strength.
New Shoes
I also started running in barefoot shoes, which are the weird-looking shoes that separate your toes. I have always had a similar opinion on these shoes as I did about yoga, but now I will swear by both of them for increasing strength and agility. I was having problems running on trails with regular shoes, as I had almost broken my ankle by coming down wrong of my foot. After a period of getting used to the barefoot shoes and building up the foot strength to really run in them, I now use these shoes exclusively for running.
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