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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The power of the scale. (1:25)
Why it’s irrelevant. (6:02)
Four reasons why you should THROW AWAY your scale!
#1 - It doesn’t measure body composition. (11:49)
#2 - It takes our focus off other metrics. (14:31)
#3 - It can mess with our heads. (21:46)
#4 - Weight can fluctuate from day to day. (26:48)
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0:54.0 | All right, here comes to show. Believe it or not, one of the things preventing you |
0:59.4 | from getting to your fitness goals may be the scale, that's right, what we found as trainers for |
1:05.3 | over two decades was that often telling our clients to stop weighing themselves got |
1:10.6 | them to move forward in the right direction. |
1:13.6 | And in the contrary, people that weighed themselves often, |
1:16.6 | often didn't get great results. |
1:18.8 | So what we're going to tell you today in this episode is to throw your scale away. Get rid of it. So great we were talking about |
1:26.0 | this episode and doing this and I was like simultaneously going through my |
1:29.4 | d.ms and literally just received a d.m. from somebody who has had finally taken that advice from us |
1:36.1 | and throw away the scale. Yeah, it was great. What did they say? I'll read to you guys. |
1:39.7 | It was like that way I don't screwed up. Which I tend to do when I try and regurgitate what someone says. |
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