the ultimate changes that you make in your life are going
to be created by the small steps you take daily
what's up everybody schuyler diehm here men's fitness coach and in today's video
we are going to be going over some extremely extremely impactful books when it comes to
health fitness weight loss everything taking care of your body now i have been studying
fitness i've been studying health nutrition for over 12 years now about probably about 14 years
so over that period i've had the pleasure of reading a lot of different books of consuming
a lot of different videos podcasts like anything i could get my hands on and i wanted to basically
break down what i believe have been the most impactful books when it comes to understanding
health understanding nutrition and then also actually implementing it that's why i feel like
this should be separated into two categories so the first being information right helping you
learn more what's healthy what's not healthy what should i include in my diet what should i avoid
what should i do to go to the gym what exercises should i do and then there's also the psychology
side right like i know this information but how do i get myself to do it how do i
link pain to staying where i am to consuming unhealthy foods to being lazy and how do i link
more pleasure to exercising to eating the right foods right because on a psychological level like
we as humans are hardwired to run away from pain and to move towards pleasure and so if
we can associate more pain with staying where we are and more pleasure with being healthier
then we're basically going to be hardwired to actually go out and do it and so with that being
said i wanted to just break down these books right we've got three books in the information side and
then we've got another two in the psychology side so book number one we're going to talk about is
eat smarter by shawn stevenson now this is by far the most informationally dense book that i have
had the pleasure of reading but when i say that i feel like a lot of people's heads go towards oh
it must be boring it must be a lot of science and studies and yes it's a lot of science and studies
but what i love about shawn's writing and he actually wrote the sleep smarter book right here
but what i love about shawn's writing is that he is really really good at integrating humor
and enjoyment into his writing style so i'll be reading this and he'll be talking about a study
and then he'll throw in just something like really interesting or something just hilarious
like a good comparison or a story or something that makes you want to keep reading right it's
an enjoyable writing style it's not just science dense that's just like overwhelming and boring
and so kind of the overview of this book honestly shawn breaks down in the first few chapters why
calories in calories out isn't the best method of losing weight um he also dives into basically
just how to eat right like what nutritional properties do certain foods have how can you eat
to lose fat how can you eat to improve your mental performance how can you eat to improve your sleep
and he breaks it down into a really simple process to help you understand more about what to avoid
and what to eat and so as far as information this book is going to be my number one choice book
number two we have is super life and this is by a guy named darin olien and as you can see super
life is the five simple fixes that will make you healthy fit and eternally awesome who doesn't want
to be that and so in this book darin basically breaks fitness and breaks nutrition specifically
down into five very simple principles he's got nutrition hydration oxygenation alkalization
and detoxification right and so what's cool about this is it's done in a very simple way
the information is very very easy to digest and he has a lot of studies in
there that break a lot of myths and show you kind of what is more healthy versus what's not
you know i'm a firm believer on any road to transformation simplicity is absolutely key
and so the fact that darin breaks this down into five simple categories is super super useful
and what's cool about these categories is they overlap right like if you take care of
the nutrition side of things most likely two to three other categories are going to be improved
and so it's a very simple way to break down okay what does it take to actually be healthy how can i
feed my body what it needs and how can i do it in a way that's not super overwhelming or
is going to take a ton of time or remembering a bunch of these useless scientific facts so
that would be number two book number three is less of a book and more of a textbook
and it is strong medicine it's written by two guys chris hardy and marty gallagher
and basically this book is how to conquer chronic disease and achieve your full genetic potential
now i am a massive fan of this book it is very dense as you can tell there's a lot of different
pages in here a lot of information but the cool part about this is that number one it's really
really simplified so there are a lot of super cool stories analogies to help you really get what you
read but then also it's very engaging right like it's not just you're reading text all day every
day there's pictures there's graphics there's stories like there's a lot of stuff here to
keep you engaged and then of course because it is textbook style you have a glossary and you
can just go to specific areas like if you want to learn how to exercise what is the best type
of weight lifting if you want to learn okay what about cardio if you want to learn certain
form like you can get to that spot in the textbook and it covers everything of how to reduce chronic
disease so talks about diabetes talks about obesity talks about heart disease and basically
how you can make simple tweaks again with your health to honestly just improve your health right
to overcome any issues that you may be facing so i've read this thing about twice through again
it's hefty it is a longer read but there's a lot of great content in here that's gonna help you
understand health a lot more so those would be the three books when it comes to information now let's
talk psychology right let's talk about like what can we do to understand the food industry to link
more pain to eating unhealthy and more pleasure to eating healthier and so the first book that comes
up on this list is the omnivores dilemma now i have to say as far as enjoyment of reading a book
this would probably be my number one i'm very very interested in how certain food is produced
how it impacts our body and this book does a really good job at breaking down how certain
industries operate so the book specifically talks about the conventional food production industry
the conventional organic right like bigger brands such as nature's promise or seventh generation or
any of these other brands that are organic but also very widely known and then it also breaks
it down to small local farms and then finally foraging right going out and finding your own food
and so what's crazy about this book is it really shows the dark side of the conventional food
industry and even the conventional organic industry and so reading this there's so many
different things that you're going to see that are just going to disgust you they're
going to surprise you like all these different things that at the end of the day are going to
help you link more pain to eating unhealthy from as far as the animals being tortured
to you know the food they're given how cows are fed skittles how pigs are fed plastic like
all these really really unnecessary and gross facts that basically just help you not want
to eat in a certain way and it also really just helps with your mindfulness right understanding
where the food that you're putting into your body came from when you eat that piece of chicken what
did that chicken have to go through how did it get from you know being a chicken in the farm
all the way to you and in the process again it really helps you associate more pain with eating
unhealthy that's book number four book number five is going to be feeding you lies by vani hari now
vani is known as the food babe on all social media platforms and this is really less about
the production of the food and more about what marketers are doing to trick you more about what
ingredients they're putting in our food that are causing us harm and so what vanity does is a very
very good job at showing all the deception that's going on the the funding that's creating these
altered studies basically how things that are marketed as as healthy could actually be damaging
us potentially sometimes even more right and so this book you're reading it and you're just
again getting angry you're linking pain to eating unhealthy because why would you want to support
a food company that's cutting a few cents so its owner can make a million more dollars but in the
process hurting you in the process hurting your health and so again this is a really good thing
to just be more aware of what you're putting in your body more aware of certain ingredients more
aware of things like how plastic tupperware can be causing cancer and can be causing hormone issues
and metabolism issues right so all these things that are just like there there's something you
wouldn't normally realize but there's something that have a massive impact on how you feel and
how you operate at the end of the day and so that is going to be book number five now i
said five books but i do want to do an honorable mention so this book is less about health and
more about changing your habits this was one of the first personal development books i ever read
it's called the slight edge it's by a guy named jeff olson and this book is all about how
rather than trying to do everything at once right starting a diet going to the gym for an hour and
a half a day and trying to make this massive life change the ultimate changes that you make in your
life are going to be created by the small steps you take daily right it's not about changing the
world in the day it's not about changing your body in a day but if you want to start eating healthier
start by eliminating one thing start by including one more healthy option with your daily meals
because over time those results compound i think this would be the most important psychological
change out there is understanding that you know the reasons you failed in the past have probably
been because you've been doing too many things at once or potentially you've just been doing
the wrong things but most likely doing too many things at once cutting out all your favorite foods
trying to make this massive change when reality at the end of the day it's all about the small
changes that you make daily right you build momentum in the process it's like a car if you're
cold starting a car and you're slamming on the gas and within the first 10 feet you hit a brick wall
that car is going to come to a complete stop but if you slowly build the momentum if you have a
couple miles to just really get the speed of the car going and then you crash into a brick wall
you're probably going to make some damage to that wall and potentially even move through it
and so that's what we want to do we want to build momentum we want to have those small steps daily
and this book does an incredible job at painting exactly how to do that so those are my books i am
curious out of all the books you've read on health what one is your favorite and then also
if you haven't read a book just let me know in the comments what one of these are you interested in
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