Wall Street, Exercise and Dementia

Tip of the Day: Exercise is not just for Meatheads any more!  Recent research has shown that physical exercise of 150 minutes or more a week has a GREATER protective effect against the onset of dementia than doing Sudoko, Brain Exercises, Crosswords Puzzles etc. 

The point to take home here is that working out is no longer only an effective option just for people who want a six pack.  Staying fit is as important to enjoying ones retirement as your stock portfolio is.  

Due yourself a favor and every time you go Gordon Gekko style and put on your suspenders to check the NYSE Ticker ask yourself “Did I get my 150 in this week?”.  Remember, having money and lots of free time is great only if you are actually able to enjoy it.  

Is greed good?   How the hell should I know.  After seeing a couple close friends watch their parents slip into the horror of dementia I can tell you that it is one thing I would want to put off for a very long time.  For my sake and for theirs

Good Looking Women and Cheese Sandwiches

Tip of the Week: If you want to guarantee yourself a lifetime of poor self esteem and image issues just go up to someone with a different body type than yours and tell them "You are the goal". This happened today at the gym during a conversation between two women. 


The sad thing is the woman who said it was just as HOT as the woman she said it to, she was just built a little different. But because the other woman was "skinnier" all that got thrown out the window. 




One of the foundational keys to staying motivated to work out is to focus on consistent behaviors and feeling good. You start going around telling somebody else you want to be them and not just a better 
version of yourself is pretty much like buying a fast track ticket to nowhere.

If you want to know how HOT these women were understand they could have melted a cheese sandwich from across the room (Naked Gun). For you technical types out there we are talking about a minimum of 225 degrees. That’s boiling baby!

A special thanks goes out to someone who was instrumental in the writing of this post. However due to hotness confidentiality reasons that person must remain nameless.

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The Reality of the Lean Lifestyle

Tip of the day: If you want to be ripped and promote fitness this doesn't mean chug a bottle of Johnny Walker Red and then smash your local Dunkin Doughnuts in an cheap alcohol enduced rage.
I once asked a successful bodybuilder what was his key to being lean almost year round. His answer, "I plan my day around my meals and not my meals around my day". I then asked him "What if you work full time?". His response "I work 16 hours a day running my own business, if you want your body to look a certain way then you will make the time to do it, no excuses".

Is the above lifestyle necessarily normal, natural, or easy? Probably not but it is the reality of what it takes to be in the kind of shape you think you want to be. Sometimes the principles behind being really lean are as simple (note I did not say easy) as the picture above.

Tony Robbins, Pancakes, and Self Honesty

Tip of the day: Super Guru Tony Robbins once said “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels”. He must never of had my Sunday morning Pancakes. The reality is that there are a hell of lot things that taste better than thin feels. They key isn’t to brainwash yourself into believing mistruths but instead to come to the honest realization... that while certain foods do taste great, due to their caloric density they simply cannot become part of your everyday diet if your goal is to lose weight. Hence why I call them Sunday morning pancakes and not “Pancakes for the three dozen times a week I don’t feel good about myself".

 

Please note: That is indeed a stock photo and not an actual photo of my Sunday morning pancakes. The reason why is that my Sunday morning pancakes never last long enough to actually be photographed. You would more likely see a photo of the Yetti before you glimpse an image of my floury goodness.

Bananas, Ice Cream and Getting Jacked Up!

Tip of the Day: Bananas do not make you fat. I had someone tell me (who happened to be 40 pounds overweight go figure) that because of their enzymes bananas will make you fat. The only way bananas will make you fat is if you eat them too often in a banana split sundae, pulverize your liver with too many banana daiquiris, or give yourself diabetes by using too much peanut butter and jelly while eating an entire loaf of banana bread. That people believe fruit is getting them jacked up just makes me want to laugh.

(Throw some bananas and cherries in there and eat your fruit the fat guy way!)

Water, Hydration and the California Raisins!

Tip of the day: Water Consumption. Start with 1/2 your bodyweight in pounds in ounces per day then base your long term behavior on your biofeedback. Going to the toilet all day? Cut back. Do you look like one of the California Raisins minus the singing and dancing? Then you need a little more. Try not to got bogged down with hard and fast rules. Have a solid starting point and then work from there.

(The dude in the picture above really needs to hydrate!  Honey yeah, yeah, yeah!)