From fat to lean, the startup of me. You can’t buy your way out of fat & depressed.
A chat with fitness expert Alexander Cortes / @AJA_Cortes
Browsing Category Fitness
Chat with Alex Feinberg
🍿🥤 Watch this chat with @alexfeinberg1 about 💪 Fitness 📚 Machiavelli and our world living in a Dark City 🏙️
Nina Rao, kirtan and the Hanuman Chalisa
🎼🙏❤️ Flashback to the Investor Series 7.5.
🗓️ It was November 9, 2020 and it was all about investing in ourselves.
@NinaLinaRao discusses kirtan and the Hanuman Chalisa 🧘
You ever try breathing hard?
You ever try breathing hard for 3 hours?
I am used to exertion and then my breath catching up. But, when your breathing hard by itself, without the physical demand, it’s a whole dif ball of wax.
This isn’t something I would suggest doing frequently. It’s exhausting ‘lung-wise’, on the muscles and all the body stuff around the stomach, and also emotionally cos your mind wanders off its breath and you have to stay alert to pull your mind back in.
Losing weight, the startup of my sister and you
You can do it, it can be done. Losing weight will inspire others. And so on, and so on…
Validated learning. Product of me
I have written before about the startup of me, this is a postscript. I’ve been lean and I’ve been fat. Lean is better. Here’s what I learned
Operational excellence of me
It is not easy to change inside out. You have to step away from yourself to get a better view. You have to chisel a block of stone.
The startup of me. Fat v. Lean. Pivoting
Fat to lean. It’s hard for adults to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. We get lazy. We become that person that we warned ourselves about
Oprah Winfrey: “let them eat Weight Watchers cake”
Time has not stood still for Oprah, she has reinvented herself to be the frenemy of the fat.
She bought 10% of Weight Watchers, took a seat on their board of directors and is active in their marketing and as a spokesperson. What she gives to Weight Watchers she takes away from her fans.
Startup of you. What are habits and how to change them
Eskimos have a descriptive vocabulary for ice and snow. All I have for habits is good and bad. How do you change you?
Athletes. Performance enhancing drugs and accessories
To go from good to great would you take performance enhancing drugs? Has the country has been softened for a pharma takeover?