Have you ever noticed that when you follow every rule in fitness, follow the diet, follow the macros, you hit the perfect workout. It most of the time it still doesn't work out the way that it's supposed to on paper. Maybe it's that you lose way, but you feel terrible, you have no energy. Maybe you build muscle, but you can't sleep and you don't have any friends anymore. Or maybe you get super bored after doing the same thing over and over and over again, even though it's optimal. But what I've found is that it's not like you're broken or you're doing something wrong. You're just not having fun with this. You're not experimenting. I think that's why people stay stuck in like copy paste fitness land, is they keep trying to follow somebody else's formula when personally my opinion

the real magic happens when you start treating your body like a living experiment like just make

yourself your own personal lap that's fun so we're going to break down on this episode by the end

you're going to understand how to test some new habits manage some results without obsessing

and then turn your fitness plan to something fun personal personal personable and personal, and sustainable. Welcome to get leaner and live longer with Nate Palmer, the show for busy people who want to maximize their energy, burn fat, and build a body that feels as good as it looks. I'm your host, Nate Palmer. I've been to coach since 2008, and I believe that looking great and feeling unstoppable, don't require hours in the gym, or giving up all the foods that you love. This show is where I share real strategies that help you get leaner, live longer, and unlock your million-dollar body.

So if you're ready to cut the noise, take control of your health and feel like a high performer again, let's do this.

So most of the time when I'm when I'm talking to people about fitness, they've followed keto, they've done whole 30. They did 531. They're doing German volume training. They hit CrossFit. They've done something with a label on it. And that's great. It's important to do a bunch of different things to see what you like, to see what works best for your body. But it becomes this like follow the, follow the formula, check the boxes,

do the thing. It's like we're in school again. But that sort of thing, I don't know about you

guys. This could be the contrarian in me, but I don't know about you, but that sort of thing

being told what to do over and over again gets a little bit irksome. And especially if it's like

you're,

we know that doing workout programs for 12 weeks of the same program can be actually extremely effective for building muscle and improving your strength.

But being told to do the same thing over and over again can feel really,

really boring and you feel like you're just slogging through it at some point.

And I think that's why a lot of plans

fail and experiments can actually be the solution here. Because our body's not like a static

machine. It's adaptive. It's super alive, hopefully, and it responds differently for everybody. So

the supplement stack that works for me might not be the one that's best for you. And what worked for your

aunt to lose that 50 pounds, it's not going to be the same thing as it is for you. And maybe you're going to find something that's totally unique that you love doing and maybe you just want to play pickleball all the time. That's great. And also, like, this isn't, this isn't the same thing all throughout your life. You know, what works for you in your 20s and you're 24 and you're just,

you know, your cardio consists of like walking home from parties at 2.30 in the morning, you know, fueled by Coors lights is not the same thing that's going to work for you at 44 when you got kids at home and you're getting to bed at 830, you know, so it's going to be different. It's going to get more challenging, and we need to continue to like to mix things up, not because of muscle

confusion, which is fake, but because it's important to just keep it fresh. I really think that's

the most important thing is not necessarily from our body perspective, from our brain perspective.

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