Life under 10% body-fat - My experience after 2 months
Jun 5, 2021
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This podcast explores the speaker's experience of maintaining a 10% body fat percentage and evaluates various aspects of life, including appetite management, sleep, energy levels, libido, mood, training performance, and life flexibility. They discuss the challenges and trade-offs of staying lean and offer a verdict on its sustainability. The podcast also touches on the parallels between driving difficulty and maintaining low body fat percentage. Overall, it provides insights into the speaker's personal journey and offers coaching and mentoring services for those interested in achieving sustainable self-development.
Managing appetite at a low body fat percentage requires structuring one's life properly and eating high-volume foods with sufficient fiber and fruits/veggies.
Maintaining a low body fat percentage requires more attention to sleep management and can lead to lower resilience for sleep disturbances due to the need for regular meal times, caffeine control, exposure to daylight, and strict blue light avoidance.
Deep dives
Evaluation of Appetite Management
The speaker evaluates the ease of keeping hunger at bay at his current low body fat percentage of approximately 10%. He rates appetite management as a 10 out of 10 when everything is in order, but a 5 out of 10 in terms of ease of managing his appetite. This requires structuring his life properly, eating high-volume foods with sufficient fiber and fruits/veggies, regular meal times, and avoiding missed meals to prevent hunger and lethargy. Overall, he rates the aggregate of appetite management at 7.5 out of 10.
Effect of Lean Body Fat on Sleep
The speaker discusses the impact of maintaining a low body fat percentage on sleep quality. He rates his sleep as a 10 out of 10 when everything is well-managed but highlights the lower resilience for sleep disturbances due to the need for regular meal times, caffeine control, exposure to daylight, and strict blue light avoidance. He mentions that being lean requires more attention to sleep management and rates his overall sleep at 7 out of 10.
Energy Levels and Lean Body Fat
The speaker shares that his energy levels are unaffected by his low body fat percentage and rates it as a 10 out of 10. He notes that being extremely lean can lead to a lack of sufficient fuel for daily activities, but clarifies that his energy levels are fine due to experience with fluctuating energy levels even at higher body fat percentages. He emphasizes that energy levels depend on individual experiences and rates his energy as satisfactory.
In today's video we'll take an objective look at how well I managed to settle at a low body-fat percentage after doing pretty much everything "right" in terms of what I preach about settling at a leaner physique.
I won't be vague here, we'll rate all the various aspects of life that can change in response to being leaner or fatter, and then we'll come up with a verdict.
0:00 - intro
1:32 - How I evaluate if this body-fat is sustainable
2:24 - Appetite management
4:21 - Sleep
7:12 - Energy levels
9:25 - Libido
11:26 - Mood
14:00 - Training performance
16:39 - Life flexibility
20:21 - Final verdict and conclusion
25:25 - Plans going forward
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