Roadhouse. Point Break. Shawshank Redemption. Indiana Jones – the Last Crusade.
What do all of those movies have in common?
Whenever I’m flipping around, they all stop me in my tracks.
If I have the time, I will watch them until the end (that I already know:).
When I see that I’m within last 15 mins of Indiana Jones – the Last Crusade where he “chose wisely” when deciding which cup was the holy grail, I’ll be late for dinner.
So, when it comes to your fitness and golf, what are you choosing as your holy grail?
Cardio?
Keto?
Weights?
Now, I get push-back from the cardio and keto people, but I will ALWAYS, ALWAYS choose strength training.
It is the undisputed champion for body transformation – a toned, athletic-looking, muscular physique.
To those naysayers, I have two words for you:
Muscle Rebuilding
Unlike other forms of exercise like cardio, our muscles are broken down when we lift heavy things.
Then, our body needs to spend calories to do the work to fix them.
Makes sense, right?
But it gets so much better.
When we dial in our nutrition and consume fewer calories than we’re burning each day, our bodies do something only a wiley veteran on tour could pull off.
Let’s assume this is how your week went…
- You lifted weights (body/bands/actual weights) a few times this week.
- Your muscles broke down and needed to be rebuilt.
- You consumed less calories than what your body requires to both rebuild muscle and fuel itself for the daily functions that keep us alive.
So, with a fuel deficiency, your body is out of gas and just shuts down, right?
Wrong!
Instead, your body taps into the reserves of energy it has stored as fat.
In most cases, there are a lot of reserves around our mid sections.
Your body is so savvy that it knows it needs to get the work done, so it opens the pipeline and takes the energy it needs to rebuild the muscles you broke down as well as the fuel for daily functions.
Simply put, we keep the muscle we have (or build more) and burn through the fat (aka our reserves) we’re trying to get rid of.
The end result is a toned, athletic-looking, muscular physique.
Strength Training?
Still retains the title.
STAY STRONG,
Jeff
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