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I was in the park with my son Jagger and our dog, Kona, this weekend… when I thought about a frustrated client I spoke with recently. He is a high-performing dad who has been crushing it for months. He got his step count up, improved his water intake, and dialed in his workouts. But sleep has a lot of moving pieces, and it just wasn't quite there yet. He was getting frustrated. He jokingly pushed his stomach out, rubbed his belly, and said, “What about this, Tony? How do I get rid of this?” I smiled and pointed to my book, Get Me Skinny! I told him I spent the first 16 years of my career solving that exact problem.
I got it so dialed in that I hit 92% accuracy. But you know what happened? Those people who lost 50 or 100 lbs… they didn't keep it off. That reality stung. We essentially know the inputs for weight loss, but if we don't habituate and systematize, we default back. We used to tackle the dominos in the completely wrong order. We would go for exercise, then nutrition, then maybe water… and we completely ignored the breath. Now I know that without optimal breathing and maximizing oxygen flow, your body stays stuck in chronic low-grade stress. You are inadvertently suffocating yourself. It makes weight loss hard, sleep hard, and recovery impossible. In Phase 1 of our LivFit 365 program, we focus on the Breath Domino first to act as your Body Throttle. My client has done great work with his water and breath, and he is almost to that Promised Land. Sleep is the final puzzle. I told him that once we solve that Sleep Domino, I can rest assured that when he is 80, he won't have to worry about Alzheimer's or certain diseases. Because dialing in your sleep system is infinitely more important than just looking good this summer. But we'll do that too… Building this infrastructure is exactly what we do for the entire household. Right now, my coaching program is completely full, and I'm not taking new clients. But I want to give you a free test drive of the survival chain hierarchy today. Take a second to reflect on your past fitness attempts… Did you go after exercise and nutrition first and completely skip the first three dominos of breath, water, and sleep?. Reply and tell me your order of operations. It's Gametime!
PS: Kona successfully stole one of Jagger's toys again today… rats!. I guess I'll be spending my afternoon negotiating a trade with a Golden Retriever. |
