Food or exercise, if you had to choose?
Nutrition definitely, you can’t outrun a bad diet, you are what you eat!
Actually exercise, then you can eat all you want and burn it off, right?!
Nutrition and exercise are an unbeatable duo. Like steak and eggs, they're amazing individually, but together, they create a synergy that transcends our binary thinking. I’m often asked, so if you could do one thing only, would it be training or nutrition? To which I always reply, why do I have to choose? Can’t I do both, cos eating to move to eat to move: they’re in it together!
YOU NEED TO BE NUTRIENT DENSE
By feeding your body homemade, delicious, nutrient-dense foods, you're providing yourself adequate fuel for the daily grind. Simply cooking with your fat of choice, whether it's grass-fed butter/ghee/tallow or maybe some good quality extra virgin olive oil means all your hormones will have the best advantage when they’re renewed. Buttery joints or franken fat joints? The ability to cook nourishing food isn't just a great life skill - it gives you control over your ingredients. Being able to choose what we eat to the level of the ingredients is one of the most impactful and convenient ways we can lead a healthy life.
YOU NEED TO BE FEELING GOOD MOVING
The human body was designed to move. When we are active, we thrive. However today, it's no secret that many people struggle to properly maintain their health. Sedentary lifestyles, chronic disease/ pain, and consumption of ultra-processed foods are all too common in today's society. Recently, the mainstream news cycle is even trying to claim that ultra-processed foods "aren't that bad". The ability to move your body, to first see how it’s moving that day and meeting it in its current state, in all its glory, then just starting, and feeling good! It’s also one of the most impactful and convenient ways we can lead a healthy life.
So, nutrition or exercise? Both! And quite simply If you look after the quality the quantity takes care of itself. Yes, both are great on their own. But they complement each other, so incorporating both into your life will give you greater benefits compared to focusing on just one. And there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. What works well for one person may not work for another. Find your best ways to keep healthy, with functional workout sessions that naturally combine strength with conditioning, while also teaching some of the most valuable skills one can learn, and thru new recipes and get togethers that naturally incorporate new flavours, cultures and connections. If you wanted to learn to cook and you just read books, and watched videos but never got in the kitchen, and tried tried stuff out, it’s just theory. If you want to learn to move better, don’t just read what you think you need and have to ‘know it all’ before starting, try it out! You need to put the theory into practice - try, experience, see what you create and what your body likes, and continuously search for your improvement.
Nutrition is practice is nutrition. Movement is practice is movement.
