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Today’s write-up we’re talking diets and confirming once and for all THE BEST DIET for everyone.
That said, let’s not waste any time and get straight to answering the question of ‘What is the best diet?”
The answer being – The one you can stick to the longest, consistently, with the highest percentage of adherence to.
What a mundane conclusion huh? Something so trivial like ‘Follow the diet properly’ is the advice this guy’s giving out as THE BEST DIET and he hasn’t even told me what the diet even looks like!
Well guys, before you move onto the next guru who DOES have a 12-week plan to sell you, please just hear me out.
The main factor any athlete, competitor, professional or average Joe wants when they enter any endeavor is to see progress. In the beginning we can see progress very quickly and usually without applying much effort, knowledge, or time to whatever task we’ve selected.
However, over time we get more and more advanced unto the point that we can no longer get away with the above, but NEED to apply effort, knowledge, and time to make ANY progress. There in lies the trap of progression, that much like a steep ramp the application of these factors becomes greater to the output.
Now when it comes to diet this is where rubber meets the road more than any other aspect of training for performance athletes. The fuel we put in our body, how its processed and then turned into outputs, directly impacts the results we want.
Drawing a comparison to a vehicle, if we go ahead and put Diesel in an Unleaded Petrol engine car – we’re going to find out pretty quickly the damage that will have on our journey. Yet if we use Unleaded 91 instead of Unleaded 95 for instance, we may hardly notice the difference.
So just use the right fuel and it’s good to go, correct? – Yes! And no…
As we spoke on before, getting results in the beginning is easy, but the more advanced we get the more we need to do to get even smaller results. Coming back to vehicles, let’s say our car is now a high-performance vehicle and we’re running it on 91 Unleaded.
Will it run? Yeah probably. But will it run optimally? No.
If it’s designed to run 98 Unleaded and we run it on 91 Unleaded, we’re going to be leaving all this performance on the cutting room floor. The same applies to our diet – If we run it on a basic level of hitting our Macro’s (Protein/Carbs/Fats) then we’re doing well BUT, if we’re unable to adhere to the diet due to any number of issues (i.e.: Food volume, Digestion issues, Time constraints, Dislike of the foods, Life in general, Stress, etc.) then we are putting fuel in our ‘vehicle’ which isn’t optimizing output.
So, what sounded simple really becomes quite complicated and not at all like the starting statement.
Adherence to a diet is more than just repeating it again and again, it’s applying knowledge and experience regularly about your own body (or client’s body) in surmounting fashion to fit the specification of their changing status.
The trap people (and coaches) fall into is assuming that we’re all driving the same vehicle and never making any upgrades overtime. Same goes for training too, what works for you in the beginning may change in the next 6 months and become insufficient to get the results we need.
Complacency is the killer of progress – when we become complacent, we are accepting what we have as good enough. We MUST constantly assess what works and what doesn’t but keep adherence at front of mind – as once we are at an advance/elite level – every percent counts and not optimizing it can be the difference between NO progress or very little progress overtime.
To conclude - Adherence & compliance to your diet (and training) is the key factor in making tangible progress & results.
Falling into a trap of complacency in any aspect is a risk that should be considered (not obsessed about) throughout your journey.
A diet which you enjoy following is more likely to be adhered to, cheated on less, skipped less – however, if that diet is made up of French fries & donuts that might not be an optimal food source depending on your level and other factors. Using the right tools make a job much easier.
Progress not perfection.
-YeahBuddy
That said, let’s not waste any time and get straight to answering the question of ‘What is the best diet?”
The answer being – The one you can stick to the longest, consistently, with the highest percentage of adherence to.
What a mundane conclusion huh? Something so trivial like ‘Follow the diet properly’ is the advice this guy’s giving out as THE BEST DIET and he hasn’t even told me what the diet even looks like!
Well guys, before you move onto the next guru who DOES have a 12-week plan to sell you, please just hear me out.
The main factor any athlete, competitor, professional or average Joe wants when they enter any endeavor is to see progress. In the beginning we can see progress very quickly and usually without applying much effort, knowledge, or time to whatever task we’ve selected.
However, over time we get more and more advanced unto the point that we can no longer get away with the above, but NEED to apply effort, knowledge, and time to make ANY progress. There in lies the trap of progression, that much like a steep ramp the application of these factors becomes greater to the output.
Now when it comes to diet this is where rubber meets the road more than any other aspect of training for performance athletes. The fuel we put in our body, how its processed and then turned into outputs, directly impacts the results we want.
Drawing a comparison to a vehicle, if we go ahead and put Diesel in an Unleaded Petrol engine car – we’re going to find out pretty quickly the damage that will have on our journey. Yet if we use Unleaded 91 instead of Unleaded 95 for instance, we may hardly notice the difference.
So just use the right fuel and it’s good to go, correct? – Yes! And no…
As we spoke on before, getting results in the beginning is easy, but the more advanced we get the more we need to do to get even smaller results. Coming back to vehicles, let’s say our car is now a high-performance vehicle and we’re running it on 91 Unleaded.
Will it run? Yeah probably. But will it run optimally? No.
If it’s designed to run 98 Unleaded and we run it on 91 Unleaded, we’re going to be leaving all this performance on the cutting room floor. The same applies to our diet – If we run it on a basic level of hitting our Macro’s (Protein/Carbs/Fats) then we’re doing well BUT, if we’re unable to adhere to the diet due to any number of issues (i.e.: Food volume, Digestion issues, Time constraints, Dislike of the foods, Life in general, Stress, etc.) then we are putting fuel in our ‘vehicle’ which isn’t optimizing output.
So, what sounded simple really becomes quite complicated and not at all like the starting statement.
Adherence to a diet is more than just repeating it again and again, it’s applying knowledge and experience regularly about your own body (or client’s body) in surmounting fashion to fit the specification of their changing status.
The trap people (and coaches) fall into is assuming that we’re all driving the same vehicle and never making any upgrades overtime. Same goes for training too, what works for you in the beginning may change in the next 6 months and become insufficient to get the results we need.
Complacency is the killer of progress – when we become complacent, we are accepting what we have as good enough. We MUST constantly assess what works and what doesn’t but keep adherence at front of mind – as once we are at an advance/elite level – every percent counts and not optimizing it can be the difference between NO progress or very little progress overtime.
To conclude - Adherence & compliance to your diet (and training) is the key factor in making tangible progress & results.
Falling into a trap of complacency in any aspect is a risk that should be considered (not obsessed about) throughout your journey.
A diet which you enjoy following is more likely to be adhered to, cheated on less, skipped less – however, if that diet is made up of French fries & donuts that might not be an optimal food source depending on your level and other factors. Using the right tools make a job much easier.
Progress not perfection.
-YeahBuddy
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