Exercise....NOT a metaphor for life!

Stop making exercise into a metaphor for life. Exercise should be a logical process of stimulating a positive physical adaptation, not a way to show how much suffering you can endure.

[@lukeskywalker7461]

Good stuff from McGuff...as always.

[@aleksandramurphy]

I absolutely agree with you and try to educate my clients as the dynamic of today's fitness trends are simply against the optimal health. Thanks for your book !

[@IanButterworthyyc]

It would be very cool to hear you have a conversation with Dr. Peter Attia! @PeterAttiaMD

[@Janisurai]

as much as I love Goggins, this is something I've thought for a while too, there are other ways outside of exercise to work on Life and meaning

[@zippydoo9533]

In other words stay in your lane, work hard enough to get fit to maximize health and don't destroy your body in the process. Sound advice that I should have realized early in life but the reminder still helps me apply logic while working out.

[@pbennett13]

so why THAT can’t be a metaphor for life.. or applied to orher aspects of life

[@harishujic3502]

I agree..Thank you for talking about this 👍

[@brandonclancy2875]

I love the motivation Goggins provides but doing what he does will get you hurt.

[@HighIntensityBusiness]

Yes! Great point Doug. Now thinking back to all my podcasts.... don't think I made this mistake!

[@MyMEDFITNESS]

Great point Dr. McGuff!

[@rogerkarsten9545]

100% spot on

[@David-nk7pv]

I think I saw Lex Fridman doing the David Goggins thing, it was a bit of a disappointment. It's not rational

[@babel1980adam]

Well said Sir

[@velwell492]

A worthwhile and timely message.

[@ChrisGraeme]

Thanks Doug. Wise words

[@ianarn]

Well said!

[@jayjam9106]

Thanks for this. Profound and important analysis.

[@urosjaki]

How do we get you to rogan circus to teach them all. Great work, it all makes sense! Thank you

[@BRM101]

Amen Doc 👍, why would anyone want to injure their body via exercise 🤯

[@Coach____Cam]

100% agree!!

[@andrewshortt4338]

The issue isn’t defining exercise as much as it is separating exercise from sport. The line has not been drawn and thus the confusion.

[@erickminor]

As you've said before, "Exercise is a drug." Too much is bad.

[@GeorgeMakrides]

Such an important point! Thanks Doug

[@yacou9]

Pull-ups challenges aren't about producing muscle growth, having an healthy body, or anything else like that. It's a philosophy, it's not for people who want to be healthy, but for dreamers, poets, romantics and whatnot. Good reminder though, to not get ingrained by ideas that aren't what we actually seek in exercise.

[@PaleojayBowers]

Great points!

[@murrayknox3321]

I’ve always liked Fred Hahn’s distinction between actual exercise and recreation

[@lukeskywalker7461]

Well, that wasn't Fred Hahn's creation (I trace it back to Ken Hutchins, and he may have gotten it from someone else), but it's still good.

[@paulthomas5901]

@@lukeskywalker7461, it came from Arthur Jones through the Nautilus books written by Ellington Darden. The Exercise vs. Recreation argument is not in the 1980 edition of "The Nautilus Book" but it appears as the 2nd chapter in the 1984 edition and is retained through all other editions up through the last version of the book printed in 1990. Ken Hutchins further refined the argument in his Superslow "technical manual" (now available as The Renaissance of Exercise: Vol.1).

[@lukeskywalker7461]

@@paulthomas5901 I thought it might go back to Jones but wasn't sure. Thanks for the info.

[@pauldavies9360]

"Grease the groove training" next please.

[@adligtvoet7185]

Life shouldn't be about suffering as the goal of it.................Put life first and decide what to do to enhance it................never let it be regulated by others(government included). 1000 push ups pale as suffering compared to what is done to mankind by rulers. Yup, the world has some problems..........

[@domarcotte]

does a athlete training for weight lifting snatch clean and jerk can incorporate your méthodes or any explosif sport

[@sculptedmarble6600]

If they use the "stimulus - organism - response" concept as a metaphor for life it might work. If you want to grow and improve in an area of your life such as relationships, business ventures, moving toward mastery in a given manual skill, your capacity for courage etc you must expose yourself to a stimuli. If you introduce a new stimuli needed to promote one these improvements, in a controlled environment yet still in line with natural law, to the organism then it will likely experience some stress. Then the organism will adapt to the given stimuli. The way it is being used by e-celebs is as terrible of an analogy as it is inaccurate exercise protocol.

[@pbennett13]

I’m neutral on this.. yes I think the pullup and pushup challenges are wasteful and and potentially harmful, but even in your definition of exercise - which I agree with, there are many principles that can and perhaps should be applied to life.. living and doing things more efficiently, not haphazardly discipline and consistency pushing to your limits - but safely taking time to recovery.. not just mentally, but physically I think we’d all be better off if we applied ourselves in other areas of life the way those here promote exercise.

[@CheckYourPremises]

Doug, you cannot fix "stupid"

[@jackburns3251]

Big fan of Goggins' attitude, but this is solid advice for the normal person. Shredded Sports Science has a good video on this where I think he agrees with Doug. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGaYhWSud5qAocU

[@johntibaldi9496]

You should definitely reach out to Dr. Peter Attia! @PeterAttiaMD

[@TheOlzee]

This made me chuckle because it just reminds me of how stupid the world is right now. “Woke” lol

[@vc8160]

Here I was thinking that exercise was for instagram likes🤷🏼‍♂️