3171: [Part 2] Become A Jedi: How the Force Can Help You Get in Shape by Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness on Fitness and Motivation

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3171: Steve Kamb draws powerful parallels between the Jedi path and lasting fitness transformation, warning against shortcuts like diet fads and gimmicks that lure people to the "Dark Side." With humor and tough love, he lays out a Jedi-worthy mindset: lifelong commitment, consistent effort, and meaningful daily habits over temporary fixes. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/become-a-jedi-how-the-force-can-help-you-get-in-shape/ Quotes to ponder: "You don’t need supplements, you don’t need pills, you don’t need training aids. You need hard work and dedication." "Being a Jedi isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. Getting in shape is no different." "You can’t half-ass being a Jedi, you can’t half-ass being in shape." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:01.0	This is Optimal Health Daily.
0:03.0	Become a Jedi, How the Force can help you get in shape.
0:06.5	Part 2 by Steve Cam of nerdfitness.com.
0:10.3	And I'm your narrator, Dr. Neal.
0:12.3	Hey there, happy Thursday and welcome back to Optimal Health Daily, where I simply read to you
0:17.3	from the best health and fitness blogs for free.
0:19.7	I cover fitness, nutrition,
0:22.0	stress management, weight management, and lots more, kind of like an audiobook, but from a bunch of
0:27.8	different authors, and always with permission from the sites, and always with a bit of my commentary
0:32.4	at the end. Now, today's post is part two from yesterday, so if you're new or skipping around, I'd recommend listening to yesterday's episode first.
0:43.3	But if you're all caught up, let's jump right in and hear part two and continue optimizing
0:48.5	your life.
0:53.5	Become a Jedi. How the Force can help you get in shape. Part 2 by Steve Cam of nerdfitness.com
1:00.8	Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.
1:08.8	The dark side sucks. Okay, it's actually pretty awesome, which is why people always want to play as the Sith in any
1:15.2	Star Wars game.
1:16.3	But for today's lesson, we'll assume that it's bad.
1:19.7	When it comes to getting in shape, you can either choose to take the path of the Jedi,
1:24.0	hard work, common sense, awareness, dedication, and a strong balance, or you can choose the
1:29.1	seemingly faster, easier path of the dark side, diet pills, useless ab machines, friendly diets,
1:36.4	the next miracle weight loss cure. These are products and plans that somebody would try to use
1:42.0	only if they wanted to cheat the system and get results
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