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[@deannwalton8120]

Great episode. Facts are truth. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@jeffreyscott1909]

Spot on episode guys. If your coach is not telling you the truth, they are not earning their pay, and they are not helping you improve/progress.

[@deannwalton8120]

Nice shirt Boz. Wow. I used to be a member of team soul in Miami Fla. And switched to CrossFit linchpin ❤️

[@williamhull20]

Sunk Cost Fallacy is what happens when someone doesn’t give up on something because of how much they have invested in it 👍

[@MrMaunukka]

Finnish dude here, so I have quite a lot of exposure to saunas. Have not heard of those details Boz mentioned someone bring up. 30+ years of experience tells me this is all there is to it: Step one: warm up sauna, preferably with wood but electricity is fine too Step two: strip yourself butt naked. You bathe naked regardless of who you are with. If you can't be naked around someone then you probably shouldn't go to the sauna with that person in the first place Step three: enter sauna. Step four: leave the sauna. Repeat steps three and four as many times as you like in one session. If there is a lake/other water nearby plunge in it or roll in snow. Feel free to have a beer every once in a while. Works in all shapes of saunas, a barrel one too.

[@jessicadellaquila5128]

Preach!!! I am also a PA in an ER and yes, we have to kind of "cater" to our patients but the truth will set you free. Just because our culture is "real truth" averse these days, sleep better for telling it. In all aspects of health and fitness.

[@ericadecapitani9642]

"Lean chicken breast and death by thrusters" is my new favourite Pat quote. 😂 This episode made me think about our motivation to eat well and exercise. It's hard and it's voluntary pain, in some ways. The "good" kind of pain your quads feel when you're pushing for the 30th rep of a front squat. But I think there is a difference between people in that some people feel this as just pure pain and it's useless suffering, while others feel it as a pain that will make them better and it gives their brain some kind of reward. Not just in the longterm, but an immediate, short term reward. For people who like engaging in exercise, it still hurts but the pain becomes a joy and a necessity. What do you two think? Why do you think this is? I feel like for those of us who like it, it's hard to fathom how difficult it actually is for someone who doesn't. Not an excuse, but perhaps they just have a much bigger mental block to overcome. I would be interested to hear a discussion on this. Thanks 😊

[@tiony2]

Greg says to clean the mud off your car before you paint it. So go for those low hanging fruit of eating right and exercise first then layer on the next steps

[@samuele.marcora]

I have an idea for an upcoming show. Ask Dr Stephane Guyenet or Dr Spencer Nadolsky to discuss with you about the neurobiology and treatment of obesity

[@samuele.marcora]

The hard truth for exercise professionals is that exercise is not an effective (I use the term EFFECTIVE on purpose) intervention to induce sustained weight loss. The same is true for low-carb diets (or any other kind of restrictive diet). Telling people otherwise is a lie. That does not mean that they are useless interventions; quite the contrary. Exercise has a billion benefits other than weight loss, and low-carb diets can be useful to manage type 2 diabetes. But improving physical fitness (at any age or weight) should be the focus of exercise professionals, not weight loss. Now that effective drugs are available, obesity treatment sits squarely with medical doctors in collaboration with nutritionists (for the diet education) and exercise professionals (to prevent muscle loss). Fighting medical progress and thinking that telling people that they are fat is a solution will not help many obese people. P:S: Obesity management guidelines include diet and exercise as first option: people who go on these new drugs are people who have tried diet and exercise (often many times) before. Using these drugs is not "the easy option". They simply help sustaining a low calorie diet by reducing appetite and "food noise" in people's brain. They still have to eat properly to lose weight

[@MrMaunukka]

Weight loss is, or should be, a byproduct of a successful increase of physical fitness. If you say exercise and diet are not effective for sustainable weight loss, what are you comparing it to? What is a better way to lower body fat/ weight than addressing the two components of the equation, calories in and calories out? I would say taking some pills that mess with your brain to make you crave less food is definetly the less sustainable option the two. I wonder how people managed to stay lean without this great leap of medical progress before we got into this health crisis.

[@samuele.marcora]

​@@MrMaunukkaWeight loss is not a byproduct of fitness. Specifically, weight loss is driven primarily by reduced energy intake, and it's possible to get fitter without losing weight.

[@samuele.marcora]

​@@MrMaunukkathe poor effectiveness of diet and exercise in producing sustained weight loss in obese people is not my opinion, it's a fact demonstrated by an overwhelming number of studies. It's important not to confuse efficacy and effectiveness here. Diet and, to a much lesser extent, exercise have efficacy but because most people cannot sustain them over time, they are not very effective. More here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5764193/

[@samuele.marcora]

​@@MrMaunukkaat an individual level, obesity is basically a brain condition, that's why drugs that target the brain are effective. At population level, obesity has increased because of changes in the food environment. Until we change the latter, the only solution is to help those who are particularly sensitive to the food environment in which we live

[@MrMaunukka]

​@samuele.marcora Yes, apologies. I see my choice of words was quite not on point. I did not mean to claim that physiologically weight loss occurs only somehow by increasing fitness capabilities. What I meant to say was that typically one could assume that if one increases their physical fitness that it usually goes hand-in-hand with reducing body fat. Yes, I know that is not the case always. One can gain physical fitness and increase body weight or even fat. Body weight is a challenging metric here since muscle weighs more than fat. One can also loose weight without becoming any fitter. But if we are talking about the majority on overweight people, if they start to exercise regularly with sufficient intensity and a thought out program it is fair to assume that that would lead to loss of excessive body fat, wouldn't you agree? Body fat percentage also correlates to various health and performance markers. Therefore, I find the notion a bit odd that trainers should only focus on increasing physical fitness and overlook the diet aspect completely and leave it to MD's and nutritionists. Also bear in mind the anecdote about the doctor suggesting "less pressure to the knees" and similar ones out there. Also, still curious about the better alternative to sustainable weight loss compared to exercise and diet. Apologies if I missed it from the first post.