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I saw something great on Facebook the other day.
From a fellow FitPro I kinda used to know when I lived in Sheffield.
———– Not the first job I mentioned in yesterday’s blog, but after a move into management three years later at the Hillsborough Fitness First – now a ‘Better Gym’ according to Google ————–
It was an image of some vegetables with the accompanying text;
“Your greens are good for your eyes. When was the last time you saw a rabbit wearing glasses?”
No I’d like to think this was, in part at least, a joke.
But judging by a lot of his other posts, I’m not so sure.
Now he is correct in that you never see a rabbit wearing glasses.
He’s got me there.
But is that just down to their veg consumption?
Or, perhaps, more down to the fact that rabbits don’t wear glasses?
Rabbits don’t wear glasses and rabbits eat veg.
Not rabbits don’t wear glasses because they eat veg.
Correlation rather causation.
Classic FitPro mistake that is.
Telling people that something has happened because of something else.
When it’s just happened at the same time.
Sometimes happened in spite of the other thing.
Losing weight when doing paleo, intermittent fasting, keto, etc?
The research continues to show each way only works when a calorie deficit exists and doesn’t when it doesn’t.
So that person has lost weight (because of a calorie deficit) AND done paleo, intermittent fasting, keto, etc.
Not lost weight BECUASE of paleo, intermittent fasting, keto, etc.
Or they’ll be in great shape and put it down to their custom training methodology.
Forgetting the fact that they are 23, live with their mum who cooks for them and they spend half their live in the gym.
Nothing wrong with that, but would they be in better or worse shape with a different training methodology?
Is that way of training really the entirety of the reason for them having a six pack?
Do any of these or other methods if they work for you.
For whatever reason – convenience, personal preference, enthusiasm for it, cost, logistics, hormonal or anything else.
But don’t forget what’s actually causing the result.
Why the rabbit isn’t actually wearing glasses.
Much love,
Jon ‘Roger’ Hall and Matt ‘Rebecca’ Nicholson
P.S. Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you want to try a fun, enjoyable approach, but one that’s based of what large scale, controlled studies show rather than what we’ve been doing or we read on Facebook.
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