021: How Your Productivity is Affected by Your Fitness and Nutrition

The importance of health is nothing new. However, as individuals keep chasing time and try to get things done in a fast-paced world - health becomes a much lower priority. It's mostly something to set aside until our body says otherwise. Although this is mostly true for most people, many still want to balance nutrition and productivity. Nate Palmer, coach and the best selling author of the book Million Dollar Body Method – talks about these areas. Specifically, he joins the podcast to talk about how you can embrace efficiency with the right focus, training, and nutrition. And essentially taking your fitness to the next level. Nutrition, Fitness, and ProductivityOften, people think of nutrition in one of two different ways. It's either, "What do I want to eat right now? Or how do I lose weight?" However, these things are disparate entities, and it would be better to have them combined like, "What should I eat, feel the way I want and execute on the things that need to get done?" Because changing that question can change how you view nutrition and just kind of the world around you. For example, macronutrients proteins, fats, and carbs are all different levers. They're all different ways of communicating with your body. And once you know, what each of them does, it will help you with the mental acuity of sitting down and doing that deep work that needs to be done.  Scarcity and MaintenanceWhen we focus on energy, health and weight loss come, but if we focus on weight loss, we lose the energy and put ourselves in this stagnant place. We deprive ourselves, and then we inevitably backslide. There's a reason that there's a 95% recidivism rate in weight loss, which means that 95% of people who lose weight gain it back, and then someone has gained more for good measure. It is because when you're in scarcity, when you're always deprived, it becomes a mental roadblock, and you're never going to escape that. Like maintenance is sustaining stuff, and it's the most important because if you can't sustain it, then why ev