#1111 Alex Feinberg Debunks The Fitness Lies

Figure out how to get paid for the thing that makes you weird ... Rather than try to be somebody you're not to separate yourself from the pack, look yourself in the mirror and figure out why do all my friends think I'm a total fucking weirdo? And figure out how to get paid on that—because nobody's going to be able to replicate your weirdness.

I've found that as long as I'm eating protein-dominant real food with real, clean ingredients, I don't have to count calories; I don't have to go hungry. I can eat, literally, pizza 10 times per month, as many times as I want, burgers, tacos, fried chicken—as long as I'm eating when I'm hungry. I'm not eating around mealtimes; I'm eating when my body tells me, 'Hey, Alex, I need food. Put it in me.'

Most people will ascertain the efficacy of a workout by how hard it felt, how sore they got, and how much they sweat ... Unfortunately, those three metrics are not the metrics that, ultimately, are highly, highly correlated with... fat loss and muscle gain.

There are a lot easier ways to achieve fitness results than what mainstream fitness tells you. Namely, how you approach training and how you approach eating allows you to eat in a way that doesn't require you to count calories, doesn't require you to avoid these forbidden foods, doesn't require you to live in the gym, and just so happens to result in muscle gain and fat loss, which is what everybody's going for.

If you just rely on third parties to create your menu for you, you're going to end up having a carb-dominant diet, you're going to end up overeating because carbs tend to make you hungrier, and your natural appetite's going to become dysregulated to where you think you need to count calories in order to eat the right amount.

I got to 4%, 5% body fat just taking a multivitamin and fish oil. And my only pre-workout was coffee.

I tell people that the optimal amount of coffee or caffeine to consume is the amount right up until it starts affecting your hydration or sleep.

A lot of American carbs are made with glyphosate, and we know glyphosate... is a carcinogen. And so, a lot of people, when they come to the US, they end up having gut issues, and I think a lot of it has to do with the pesticides.

When you end up aligning your food consumption with when your body tells you to eat—if you don't have underlying metabolic issues that are really distorting your hunger signals and you're living life in accordance with a way that will help you produce viable hunger signals—most people tend to consume less food.

If I'm doing a working set of squats, I'm doing 4 minutes in between sets. So, it might take me 10 minutes to warm-up for squats, and then it might take me 16 minutes to do 4 sets of squats. And so, it's taken me 26 minutes, essentially, to perform 4 sets.

I realized that sugar is like a drug in the sense that you will love the amount you eat. Whether that amount is a half-pound a day or an ounce a day, that's the amount that your body likes.

I actually have a hypothesis for why people are fat ... What does stress do to your hunger levels? And my hypothesis is skinny people become less hungry when they're stressed out, and fat people become more hungry when they're stressed.

The data that I've read suggests that the average American eats like 3,500 calories a day.

By neglecting training your lower body, you're missing out on a majority of the metabolic benefit from lifting.

I have found, for me personally, that artificial sweeteners actually make me crave sugar.