Fitness Trends Experts Hate
Article Round-Up: 1.12.24
Enjoy this week’s curated round-up of articles, videos, and more from the web to help you live a healthier, happier life.
Featured Thoughts:
Overcoming The Fear of Change
Takeaway: Most don’t need motivation to start a fitness plan. Starting a new plan is easy, but staying motivated to make lasting change is tough.
Because change is tough.
Who you are right now has led you to the unhappy place that warrants change. So in order to live differently, on some level you have to be different.
Published This Week:
The Five Hidden Obstacles Between You and The Life of Your Dreams
Takeaway: Five barriers keeping you trapped in your comfort zone:
Identity
Social Pressure
Fear of Failure
Resentment
Morality
Read this article to learn strategies to overcome all of these hidden forces.
Fitness Trends That Experts Hate
Takeaway: Trends we wish would die.
Skip the 75hard challenge. 75 days of arbitrary rules to needlessly make your life difficult.
In the last decade, due to a rise in popularity with internet personalities like David Goggins, many have flocked to this challenge as a means ot build “intense discipline.”
For the vast majority, it doesn’t do that at all. Don’t waste your time.
Four-Day Guide To Building Better Friendships
Takeaway: An important question posed in the article was, “Do you think that you're a good, supportive friend to others?”
To have good friends we have to first become a good friend.
P.S. I stumbled upon the YouTube series “Last Meal” by Mythical Kitchen. The host prepares a celebrity’s chosen “death row meal” and then interviews them while consuming the multi-course feast.
It’s a great interview show if you’re looking for something different!
P.P.S. Lately I’ve been streaming youtube videos to my television to help consume more educational content. I think of it as leveraging the TV time to be more beneficial for me in the long run.