Hello and welcome to the ESG Fitness podcast.

I have a very exciting episode for you, I hope.

I hope I'm not the only one that finds it exciting, although it might be quite niche, but we'll see.

Generally, okay, there's a little bit of a story as to how this podcast evolved.

Let me tell you.

Okay, so yesterday I was writing a program for a new one-to-one client,

and she was really open and self-aware about the fact that she struggles with quite an on-off mentality and perfectionism

mindset, which, let's be real, a lot of us have or do struggle with, and that she wants to start

embracing imperfect action. And it got me thinking that one of the biggest problems I see in the fitness industry

is false dichotomies, i.e. thinking it's either one thing or the other and there's no middle ground.

So you're either on a diet or you're off a diet or, you know, like what's better? Cardio or weights?

Should I do low carb or low fat am I a bodybuilder

or do I do crossfit should I stick to all natural foods or unnatural foods and categorize things like

that like am I a vegan like totally vegan or a carnivore like the exact exact opposite way. Labeling foods good or bad.

Am I, oh, this is the one I see all the time as well. Are you in fat loss? Are you in

hypertrophy? You have to be cutting or you have to be bulking. And a lot of the time that just

turns into glorified yo-yo dieting under the guise of fat loss

and hypertrophy, cutting or bulking. And I just think this is so unhelpful because the answer is

usually in the middle. But by their very nature, extremes are not healthy.

And most things have pros and cons.

So if you go for the extreme of one, i.e., like, for example, just doing cardio and no weights,

then you're not going to get the benefit of resistance training.

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