Physical Freedom through Nutrition

Barbell Logic

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health, Diet, Fitness, Weightlifting, Barbelltraining, Strengthtraining

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Gain physical freedom through nutrition. Sustainable nutrition builds a foundation for health and physical freedom.

What is Physical Freedom?

Let's first consider financial freedom, a term often discussed. We define financial freedom as the ability to do what you want with your time. You achieve this because you have earned enough time (in the form of money) to be able to do what you want with your time.

Physical freedom is the ability to be able to do what you want with your body. You earn this through the discipline of healthy training and nutrition habits over time.

You can gain physical freedom through nutrition and exercise habits.

You build habits that support your goals. These habits become joyful. You have agency and the ability to influence your life. Things do not just happen to you. Sometimes things are outside your control (injuries and illnesses). Either way, you roll with the punches and control what you can.

Physical Freedom Through Nutrition: Body Image & Bad Goals

Many of us spend all or most of our lives walking around comparing ourselves to some image or celebrity. For many, that is Bradd Pitt in Fight Club.

Andrew actually experience 6-pack abs and extreme leanness in an environment he would never want to recreate, where he was training like crazy, had little freedom and was undereating.

Later, Andrew learned how to build sustainable habits that did not require extreme diets. He actually was able to enjoy the process and sustain that level of leanness. He had built habits that supported his goals. The Brad Pitt goal was a false idol.

Physical Freedom Through Nutrition: Love the Process

Learning to love the process really matters. Both Andrew and Niki have found themselves able to enjoy periods such as the holidays, where they kick back a bit, enjoy more alcohol, more desserts, but do not eat to physical discomfort.

Ironically, when Andrew had less healthy habits, he was more anxious about holiday periods, felt he could not enjoy them, but regularly ate until he was physically sick.

Approaching these periods with the long-term in mind, no anxiety, and knowing you can enjoy them but that includes enjoying yourself after the meal (not feeling sick) is sustainable and healthy.

Achieve physical freedom through nutrition.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Beast Overburden, powered by Barbell Logic.
0:06.2	We're Nikki and Andrew, your personal, professional coaches.
0:09.0	We help you take control of your fitness through hard but doable training and nutrition practices that fit your busy life.
0:17.0	Build a stronger, healthier version of yourself with lifelong habits.
0:24.9	Hello, Beast Overburden listeners. This is the Beast Overburden podcast powered by Barbell Logic.
0:30.4	I'm your host, Nikki Sims. I am the chief experience officer at Barbell Logic. I am also a strength coach and a nutrition coach.
0:37.1	With me is Andrew Jackson.
0:39.0	Good afternoon. Andrew is the chief operations officer. He is the product manager for our software
0:44.9	turnkey coach. He like me is a strength coach and a nutrition coach. Happy 2025, everybody. It's good to
0:51.8	have you here. We're excited about this new thing that we're working on with the podcast that this kicks us off today.
0:58.7	Taking us off in a very special year, 2025 is a perfect square year, which is rare.
1:05.5	It'll probably be the last time in my lifetime that we get there.
1:09.8	That makes me so happy.
1:11.9	45 squared 2025. Just wanted to tee that out. last time in my lifetime that we get there. That makes me so happy. Forty-five squared,
1:19.7	2020-5. Just wanted to tee that up. Well, I was excited about it. I just love multiples of five.
1:26.3	Maybe that's why I am where I am at in my professional life right now. But five's make me happy. I'm turning 40 this year.
1:32.6	25 is a great number. So it's a big one. And what we're going to do, a little change.
1:36.7	We've dabbled in this before with the podcast, but for Beast Over Burden, we're going to get into some series where we talk about a more focused topic over a couple to a few episodes where we get to dig in to a more concentrated
1:48.3	discussion around things that are very related. And I'm excited about the topics we're going to come
1:55.1	up with this year. We have been chatting about this one for a while, Andrew and I just in our everyday life because it's so
2:01.7	important. And Andrew has coined this phrase that I love called physical freedom. You heard us
2:08.3	talk about it a bit in our previous podcasts. And what we're going to start with on this first series
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