To make fat loss complex is a clichéd marketing ploy, as adding complexity to something better left simple gives it the artificial flavor of sophistication, and folks can’t help but think you’ve come up with something new. And when you can make someone believe you have a “new” way of doing things, you have no doubt learned to suit the bait for the catch.
People cannot resist “new”, because it feeds the most desirable of all delusions. The delusion that effort is not necessary, or that maybe they can get away with less of it. New and complex fat loss programs are always charming, intriguing, and wrong. If a fellow can’t tell you how to lose weight effectively, simply and concisely, then he is a yahoo and not to be taken seriously.
I do not have a “new” way of doing things for you today, only what I think is the right way. I’ve kept it simple for you, because I respect your time, and fat loss doesn’t need to be complicated. It’s better if it’s not.
Just remember, a formula (even the simplest) is only as useful as its application:
Heavy Strength Training (4-5 days per week) + Metabolic Conditioning (1-2 days per week) + Brisk Walking (As much as possible) = Strong, Hard, and Lean
The nutritional formula to accompany this:
Intermittent Fasting (Daily: 16 hour fast/8 hour eating window) + “Meats, leaves, and berries” = Healthy, Lean, and Vibrant Some clarifications…
Heavy Strength Training:
Low Pep + Heavy Load = Strength Training
Metabolic Conditioning:
Moderate strength efforts + elevated cardiovascular stress = Metabolic Conditioning
Brisk Walking:
Left Foot, Right Foot + Imagine Someone is Following You = Brisk Walking
Comments? Questions? Just leave a comment and we’ll chat.
And Happy Thanksgiving 🙂
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Srdjan says
Awesome post Pat! I couldn’t resist but put everything together into one big formula:
4-5 days/week of Heavy Strength Training (low rep + heavy load) + 1-2 days/week of Metabolic Conditioning (moderate strength efforts + elevated cardiovascular stress) + Brisk Walking (As much as possible) + Intermittent Fasting (Daily: 16 hour fast/8 hour eating window) + “Meats, leaves, and berries” = Strong, Hard, Healthy, Vibrant, and Lean Body
Pat Flynn says
Haha, damn. Most beautiful equation I’ve ever seen. Thanks for simplifying? 😉
Charles Palace says
Lol, Great article Pat. You put it in such a way that it is almost impossible to screw this one. However there will always be one that will find a way to add complexity for “varieties sake”. Keep ’em coming Pat. Happy holidays!
Pat Flynn says
Precisely. My goal is to make things as easily digestible as possible. If someone does not succeed on one of my programs, it’s never because things were too complicated…
Dan says
Great as always Pat, happy Thanksgiving!
Pat Flynn says
You, too. Thanks!
Gary says
Nice! What is the music?
Thanks!
Pat Flynn says
Nine Inch Nails, baby! Off the Ghosts album.
Otto says
Hey Pat, so maybe I’ve over complicated things. I been doing a full fast once a week plus mini-fasts. I may have to scale this back a notch. For the first time in a long time I felt horrible this past Monday. It all started Sunday when I under-ate. I walk up really hungry on Monday and had a really bad fasting day. I have not experienced that even when I did it for the first time a couple of years ago. Into Tuesday I was really going crazy.
So I ate a nice ‘compliant breakfast’ and that kind of fixed it. I either have to do the mini-fasts and avoid the one day fast or make sure I eat really well prior to my full fasting day. Any thoughts?
Pat Flynn says
Otto, remember, the goal is to do the least you need to do to be successful. That includes fasting as well. Don’t over do it. Fasting is instituted mostly to restore balance, but the pendulum can always swing the other way. Yin/Yang. If you need a compliant breakfast to bring things back to equilibrium, then by all means.
Brendan says
Pat,
I really believe in the KISS principle and, clearly, so do you! In my opinion, if you reduce things to their simplest elements, which are usually the most effective, the only way you can go wrong is to simply not do it. One of the best ways this has ever been expressed was by Bruce Lee, who said: “I do not fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks one time, but I do fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”