Hey, everybody, Van Pekolsky here. This is the Muscle Intelligence Podcast. Thank you very much for joining me.

Today with a special episode around the concept of lean for life. A lot of people have come to me over the last 25 years

to help them get into great shape, get lean, healthy, and muscular. And what a lot of people

don't understand is that that word healthy is in their own purpose. I don't just make up those

three words and throw them together haphazardly. In order to become ultimately lean and

ultimately to become muscular, healthy has to be a prerequisite. And there's certain

physiological prerequisites that either make your body more apt to want to lose fat,

either at rest or when exercising, and make it not want to lose fat, either when exercising or at rest.

And understanding these things is an absolute necessity to get you in shape.

Some people just want to work harder and harder and harder and harder and get in shape.

And I think there's value in that.

There's merit in that.

But ultimately, if you want to work smart, you want to learn ultimately how to get in shape

and do it in a sustainable way. Stay in shape for the rest of

your life. Lean for life. There's a certain number of things that you want to prioritize,

a certain number of physiological prerequisites that have to happen in your body to ultimately

make this happen more effectively. There's six things that I like to say are lay the foundation

for the optimization of long-term

sustainable fitness. Now, sustainable fitness, sustainable fat loss in general is a very,

very challenging thing because there's a lot of factors playing into these homeostatic

mechanisms that exist in our body and in our mind. There's a lot of things that are ultimately pulling you as far as reward mechanisms,

pulling you to eating more foods, right?

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