Jan 12
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Stop Lifting, Eating and Breathing
This is a random blog post by Grant Lofthouse
I was at friend’s house the other day who invited a few people over. Some I’ve never met before. During the barbeque some people started to come out of their shells a bit and conversations were starting left right and centre.
I met this new guy. Let’s call him Jimmy for the sake of this article.
Jimmy asked me my favourite question in the world…
So what do you do?
I pause. Hoping that he can’t see me if I don’t move.
But Jimmy keeps continuing to stare at me with a ‘well I’m waiting’ kinda look.
I take a big deep breath and mumble “I’m a trainer.”
“What?” Jimmy replies.
“I’m a trainer and run my own private training facility.”
(The reason why I don’t like telling people I’m a trainer is because I get bombarded by the same questions over and over again… ‘how do I lose this? what do you think of that? Can you write me a program for free? Eat the whole egg?’. And even when I do give them advice they don’t take it on board. Most of the time I just lie and tell them I’m a pornstar and I call my self ‘Buck Naked’ to keep my sanity.)
“Oh really? I train too. I train down at such and such with Bobby B. He owns the gym and was ranked 97 in Australia’s So You Think You Can Bodybuild competition.”
“Awesome” I reply and also try to get off the topic.
At the time I decided to continue eating my lunch. I go to eat some broccoli. And Jimmy puts his hands up and says “no no stop! Don’t eat that!”
The way he carried on I thought there was a bee on the piece of broccoli or something.
Don’t eat broccoli, it lowers your thyroid levels.
“Oh ok.” I replied, and took a massive bite.
“What are you doing?” Jimmy says. “Didn’t you know that?”
“Yeah” I reply. “I just don’t care.”
I went on to explain to Jimmy that there is a fine line between anal and insane. The example I used was eating organic is anal, and avoiding broccoli because it may lower your thyroid levels is insane.
If you stop eating broccoli because you’re worried about a little thyroid damage. Then you might as well stop strength training, eating and breathing and living the life like the bubble boy off Seinfeld.
The body is one, tough, mother fucker.
I unfortunately knew some people who drank and smoked like it’s going out of fashion for 50+ years. And lived until they were 85.
I’m not saying you should opt in for that kinda lifestyle. But I’m saying that the body can tolerate some pretty harsh things. But I am pretty sure that if you eat some broccoli, you will still wake up tomorrow.
Don’t get me wrong, I firmly believe in living a heatlhy life. But notice how I said living. If have to worry about a piece of brocolli, then I ain’t living.
I absolutely cannot stand people that over analyse every little thing. A perfect example was the other day on Facebook. This trainer stated that you shouldn’t eat banana’s before training because they contain serotonin, which calms us down and helps us sleep.
C’mon really? I know a guy that goes by the name of John Hinds who eats 12 bananas a day. And trains like a badass.
People are still eating bacon and egg mcmuffins for breakfast. Do you think it’s really going to matter if we get them to eat broccoli and bananas instead?
There is so much confusion already about diet and training. Let’s not make it worse and confuse more people.
I’m not saying that you can use this post as an excuse to skip training and eat cheese burgers.
I am saying there is a fine line between anal and insane. By all means be anal when it comes to your diet and training. Always strive for perfection.
But don’t become insane. And If you do, then I encourage you to stop living, lifting, eating and breathing.
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