45 Quotes by Mark Sisson

When blood insulin levels are high, those same fat cells store not only the excess glucose but the fat you ate at your last meal. Moreover, high insulin signals the fat cells to hold on to the fat and not release it for energy. If the pattern of high insulin-generating meals continues, fat cells swell up and you gain weight.

Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

That means to push very heavy weight, repeatedly, and to constantly strive to elevate both your baseline numbers and the total weight lifted at the workout – until you start to reach a natural limit relative to your competitive goals. This will deliver improvements in strength and subsequent improvements in endurance performance, and also maximize the hormonal, anti-aging benefits of the workout.

Primal Essential Movements – four of the most simple and effective exercises ever known to humankind: pushups, pullups, squats, and planks.

The Primal Essential Movements offer a simple, entry-level way to include strength training in your lifestyle. They entail conducting pushups, pullups, squats, and planks on a regular basis, with more attention to paid to formal workouts during the intensity training phases.

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

Lift something heavy most every day, even if it’s just your weary body up to the pullup bar a few times.

What’s 30 or 60 or 90 days in the scope of your life?’ Experimenting with a potentially healthier approach can’t hurt, and it might just change your life!

Calm, quiet, dark evenings, and consistent bed and wake times are critical factors for high quality sleep.