3/21/20
“Between them I prefer the pumpkin seeds, I just stomach them better”.
He replies about hearing about some chemical (I was comparing sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds, he was still talking about pistachio), and I reply “Yeah, whatever research says, it doesn’t really matter, what matters is how you respond to it, how it affects you, your body.”
What was a brief conversation with a trader joes staff member shines a big ass light on what consideration literature, studies deserve in regards to both your training and eating.
If it works it works.
If it doesn’t it doesn’t.
If your body rejects a food don’t eat it.
Some foods your body craves, and utilizes better than the nutritional label info. Science wouldn’t back this, yet it is so.
(The only person I’ve ever found to agree with me on this was a 20yo laborer that didn’t finish high school. In the work truck nearly a year ago :
“I eat basically anything, right now it’s a lot of kielbasa and twix. I drink a lot of grape juice, like five of the ½ gallons a week of grape juice. It’s basically all by craving.”
“Well, aren’t there a bunch of vitamins in grape juice? You’re working here, and exercise outside of work, your body probably needs something in the grape juice. Hence you crave it, that makes sense to me.”
He ate by similar principle, a gas station tuna sandwich the day I was wicked dehydrated where we had two jobs, one customer being the chinese sorority chick, I cracked up half asking half exclaiming “you eat clean”…”I was craving it”.
He picked my brains a bunch on eating and stretching, and (obviously) once to start the shift had me bust out laughing with a hilariously unexpected lead in to asking me how much I bench. Something like “oh shit man! back at the shop yesterday I forget!…To ask what you bench. 300? More?”)
Basically train however you want,
If it works…it’s working! Go with it. 100%, I know, if your heart is into the method, and you’re putting in honest effort, then good results are guaranteed. The method matters near to zero, the effort matters the large majority.
Train hard. Eat well. That’s it.
(Eating well can be all in the mind. Practice gratefulness. Bless your meals. Enjoy every bite. The quality/quantity can matter, but there’s other factors at play as well. Smile)
The gym ain’t a complicated endeavour. Ignore the fitness industry, go be a happy, strong, healthy you.
Persistence & Tenacity