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 #26 Lots of people want to be the noun without doing the verb. - Austin Kleon Fit Tip: Chase Health, Aesthetics Will Follow A lot, if not most people are motivated to start working out and eating better in an effort to look better. It is fine if part of your goal is to achieve a certain look, but be careful focusing on only this goal. The best way to achieve a good-looking body is to create a healthy body . If someone is highly motivated to lean out with little consideration to their overall health, they might run themselves into ground with exercise and eat too little to recover. They might regularly sacrifice sleep to get more workouts in thinking this is the grind that will get them the look they want. They will burn out and get set back repeatedly. Or they may even find 'the look' but end up screwing up their body in other ways. If health was the main goal, exercise and diet would still be considered, but they would fit into a healthy lifestyle. The exercise would support ...

 #25 It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth Fit Tip: Good Enough is Sometimes Best You can follow a mediocre meal plan rather than a great one if it works better for you . You can quickly do some subpar workouts if you don't have time or energy for an optimal training session. If you try to follow all the fitness "rules" at once, it might seem impossible. A mostly healthy diet and some level of consistency in exercise will get you a long ways. Consistency is more important than perfection . Consistently working out twice a week all year long is better than every day for a week followed by a 2 week break. Easing back on your meal plan may even keep you from binging when you do fall off. Be OK with good enough and make your changes small and realistic . New Study: Cellphones Rewire the Brain Similar to Drugs https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563225000573 What this study seemed to show was that a short phone detox can reset your b...

 #24 "What a blessing it is to be tired in the pursuit of a challenge of your own choosing" Fit Tip: There is No Specific Exercise You NEED Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned lifter, there is no one exercise that you MUST include. There are certainly exercises that are fantastic and may provide a lot more benefit than other moves. If these are intimidating and keeping you from lifting weights at all, then relax and forget about them. I also bring this up as a popular social media tactic is to post a short video with this kind of message: "The ONE exercise you need to be doing!" These kind of taglines can make you feel like you are far from optimal and maybe even wasting your time training. Remember, they are just fishing for clicks . If you simply have goals of getting stronger and healthier (aesthetics naturally follow) then no one specific exercise is going to keep you from that. Do what you are comfortable with for a while and progress to other moves as you...

 #23 "If you want something different, you have to do something different." Welcome back to another Friday newsletter. The theme this week is breaking away from the "norm." Normal is often a standard measured against everyone else, or defining what is typical rather than what is good. Is it exciting to hear you are normal when most, yes, most of the population is unhealthy? Now consider your behaviors. You may want to prevent becoming obese like over 40% of Americans, but are your actions different from the majority? If the majority is fat, weak, and poor, wouldn't you want to steer clear of what the majority is doing? America has become so unhealthy that you can be considered weird just for being healthy. For the sake of the following segment, normal will refer to a true normal or good standard. Let us consider what is common versus what is truly normal (a good standard.)  Common vs. Normal Common is eating from the cafeteria or grabbing fast food everyday whil...