Ep.27 – Rice and Smarter Exercise – A New and More Effective Way to Think About Exercise

Summary: - How to deal with people who say “What about cultures who eat a lot of rice?” - How to base your life on science instead of stereotypes - How there are essentially three types of exercise and how two of the three are great for us - How the one type of exercise that is the least useful is the one we’re told to do - How the higher the quality of an exercise the less of it we can do - How we need to redefine how we think of exercise as we’ve redefined the way our body works (aka set-point = true, calorie counting = false) - How smarter exercise is all about hormones, *not* calories - How doing aerobic exercise to lower your set-point is a bit like walking to make yourself taller - How extreme at home exercise programs is like brushing your teeth with a steak knife - How smarter exercise is like using a Sonicare toothbrush - How smarter exercise is done infrequently and for a short period of time - How smarter resistance training will not make women look “bulky” - How to think of muscular size like muscular speed - How you should not do more reps with less weight - How muscle does not weight more than fat