Boundless Life Q&A 454: What To Do If Mediterranean Diet Hurts Your Gut, The Benefits Of Isometric Training, 9 Ways You’re Sabotaging Your Social Life & More!
Discover why the Mediterranean diet may not suit everyone, especially for gut health. Learn about the surprising benefits of isometric training for sprint performance without movement. Explore nine mental blocks that could be sabotaging your social life, alongside practical strategies to enhance your interactions. Hear personal stories and insights on the importance of maintaining relationships through simple check-ins and the revolutionary impact of keeping active even while sitting. Plus, hints on adopting healthier lifestyles post-alcohol.
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Movement Breaks
- Break up sedentary time with movement for metabolic benefits like fat burning and glucose management.
- Standing is good, but not enough; short activity breaks are key, even 2-3 minutes every 30 minutes.
Mediterranean Diet & Gut Health
- Modify the Mediterranean diet for gut issues by pureeing, blending, or mashing fruits and vegetables.
- Avoid whole grains, use ground nuts and seeds, and choose easily digestible fats and proteins like fish and poached eggs.
Isometric Training Benefits
- Incorporate isometric training to improve dynamic performance, like sprinting.
- Try isometric exercises, even without specialized equipment, or explore tools like the IsoChain or the Active5 device.
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Intro
00:00 • 6min
Exploring Parenting Insights Through a Unique Lifestyle
05:41 • 2min
Nutrition and Family Wellness
07:56 • 3min
Exploring Unique Preparations of Organ Meats
11:10 • 2min
Movement, Metabolism, and the Mediterranean Diet
13:16 • 18min
Energizing Connections
30:54 • 8min
The Art of Connection While Traveling
38:39 • 10min
The Power of Simple Check-Ins in Strengthening Connections
49:04 • 4min
The Power of Gratitude and Isometric Training
52:40 • 8min
Portable Fitness and Health Challenges
01:00:41 • 9min
Managing Stress and the Impact of Alcohol Withdrawal
01:09:40 • 2min
Invitation to Exclusive Biohacking Event in London
01:11:50 • 3min
Deskbound
Kelly Starrett
In 'Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World', Dr. Kelly Starrett provides strategies to reduce sitting time and transform your workspace into an active environment. The book offers solutions to eradicate back, neck, and shoulder pain, mitigate carpal tunnel syndrome, and improve overall mobility through 14 mobility templates. It is designed to help individuals maximize performance, lose weight, or simply live pain-free.
Boundless Parenting
Tools, Tactics & Habits of Great Parents
Ben Greenfield
Boundless Parenting is a unique book that compiles stories, anecdotes, and advice from 37 parents, including entrepreneurs, celebrities, and educators. It provides practical tools and habits for raising self-actualized and flourishing children, covering topics like education, discipline, and family routines. The book emphasizes real-life experiences and unconventional approaches to parenting.
Rethink Your Position
Katy Bowman
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
In 'Deep Work', Cal Newport argues that the ability to perform deep work—professional activities in a state of distraction-free concentration—is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. The book is divided into two parts: the first part explains why deep work is valuable, rare, and meaningful, while the second part presents four rules to transform your mind and habits to support this skill. These rules include 'Work Deeply', 'Embrace Boredom', 'Quit Social Media', and 'Drain the Shallows'. Newport provides actionable advice and examples from various successful individuals to help readers master the skill of deep work and achieve groundbreaking results.
Influence
The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
In this highly acclaimed book, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini explains the psychology behind why people say yes and how to apply these insights ethically. The book outlines six universal principles of influence: Reciprocation, Commitment and Consistency, Social Proof, Liking, Authority, and Scarcity. The new and expanded edition includes a seventh principle, Unity, along with new research, insights, and examples. Cialdini uses memorable stories and relatable examples to make the subject accessible and easy to understand, helping readers become more skilled persuaders and defend themselves against unethical influence attempts.
Life Force
How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love
Robert Hariri
Peter H. Diamandis
Tony Robbins
This book, resulting from Tony Robbins' own life-changing journey, brings together more than 100 of the world's top medical minds and the latest research in precision medicine. It provides inspiring comeback stories and advancements that can help extend the length and quality of life. The book is designed for everyone, from peak performance athletes to those seeking healing, and offers strategies to increase energy, strengthen the immune system, and turn back the biological clock.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
First published in 1936, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' by Dale Carnegie is a timeless guide to improving interpersonal skills. The book is divided into four main sections: Six Ways to Make People Like You, Twelve Ways to Win People to Your Way of Thinking, and Nine Ways to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment. Carnegie's principles emphasize the importance of genuine interest in others, active listening, and avoiding criticism and argument. The book offers practical advice on how to build strong relationships, communicate effectively, and influence others by aligning their self-interest with yours. It has been a cornerstone of personal development and business success for generations[2][3][5].
Neuro-Mass
Marty Gallagher
Jon Bruney
Neuro-Mass by Jon Bruney introduces a revolutionary training protocol that combines grinds, dynamic power drills, and isometrics to maximize muscle recruitment and strength. This system promises significant improvements in strength and physique with just three hours of training per week.
The Ultimate Isometrics Manual
Building Maximum Strength and Conditioning with Static Training
Paul "Coach" Wade
The Ultimate Isometrics Manual provides a detailed exploration of isometric exercises, including their science, history, and practical applications. It covers both equipment-based and bodyweight isometrics, offering a wide range of exercises and training programs suitable for all levels of fitness enthusiasts. The book emphasizes the benefits of isometrics, such as rapid strength gains and reduced injury risk.
News Flashes – Follow Ben on Twitter for more…
- In this study, breaking prolonged sitting with short bouts of light walking, but not standing, resulted in clinically meaningful improvements in markers of metabolic health in older adults: Metabolic Effects of Breaking Prolonged Sitting With Standing or Light Walking in Older South Asians and White Europeans: A Randomized Acute Study, and in this randomized controlled crossover study, average blood glucose was higher during 7 hours of uninterrupted sitting compared to during sitting interrupted with physical activity every 30 minutes.: Breaking-Up Sedentary Behavior and Detraining Effects on Glycemic Control: A Randomized Crossover Trial in Trained Older Adults.
- That "longevity enhancing" Mediterranean diet not working out so well for your gut? Try doing it, but just get rid of the grains, or at least make sure they are fermented, soaked, sprouted, etc. if you do include them: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.1088693/full
- Pretty cool that isometric training (e.g., a squat position hold) can actually improve things like sprint performance, even though you aren't actually moving during the isometric hold https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2023/02000/Comparing_the_Effects_of_Long_Term_vs__Periodic.7.aspx
- 9 Mental distortions that are sabotaging you social life
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