Taylor Swift's workout routine, the importance of effort, and the benefits of personal training
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What I’m Thinking
1️⃣ Time spent exercising is always time well spent.
2️⃣ Exercise principles I live by:
- Some is better than none
- More is almost always better
- The best exercise is the one that gets done
- Do it regularly for your mind and body
- Strength AND conditioning
What I’m Reading
📖 Physical Therapist Cameron Tudor on the importance of effort:
“All success happens the same way: a gradual compounding of small steps that add up to a big outcome, action by action.
The same applies to health. Of course, there are various diseases that are attributable to bad luck, but beyond those, to be healthy is to choose to be. Our well-being is realized when we take small actions to improve our health each day. When we make decisions that will endure. It isn’t a temporary diet or health retreat, nor is it the fitness boot camp that is unsustainable in the long term.
No, our well-being comes from making incremental improvements over time, by acting with intent, and by making an effort. Do something each day that fortifies your well-being: take a walk outdoors, lift some weights, talk with friends, or read a book. We all have limited time; make sure some of it is spent improving yourself.
That’s how success happens: slowly, sustainably. It’s not romantic; it’s just work. Get working.”
📖 The benefit of a personal trainer:
“The supervised group saw larger increases in muscle size as measured by ultrasound, and also did better in some of the strength tests. They increased the maximum weight they could squat by 13.5 percent, for example, compared with 7.7 percent in the unsupervised group…
..the results support two of the claimed benefits of [supervised exercise]: that it encourages you to keep showing up to workouts, and that it spurs you to work harder – or better yet, smarter – when you’re there.”
What I’m Liking
Check out how Taylor Swift prepped for The Eras Tour.
The set list is 3 hours 🤯
As always, thanks for reading.
Let’s close out 2023 strong 🤝