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Folks in big bodies have different considerations when finding a strength and muscle building resistance program. The principles are fundamentally the same, but the application is very different for someone who weighs 350 vs 150, even at the same level of muscular fitness.

Many people who want to lose fifty pounds, lose a hundred pounds or more know that to do so with the best chance of long term success, they need to perform resistance training to preserve muscle mass and lean tissue while in a long-term caloric deficit.

However, less apparent are the specific ways that "heavyweights" can get started while
1) Avoiding injury
2) Avoiding burn out
3) Enjoying the process and
4) steadily making progress

In this video I coach a weight loss client through the best ways to get started with resistance training for overweight people. You will learn
* The importance of thinking about movement patterns rather than "exercises"
* The progressions that can allow you to perform basic movements at your level
* How to progress through these variations for maximal strength and muscle building
* How being overweight offers huge advantages when performing calisthenics
* How I got YOKED during quarantine because of the surprising benefit of calisthenics in a big body.
 
And more!

Examples mentioned in the video
Push-up progressions
https://youtu.be/zkU6Ok44_CI
Pull-up progressions
https://youtu.be/fO3dKSQayfg
Inverted Row Methods
https://youtu.be/rloXYB8M3vU
https://youtu.be/11F_O_sZ1Z4
Squat progressions
https://youtu.be/QVzdY5OM1Kw

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In this episode of the Easy Way Out, John Oakes takes you on a one-of-a-kind journey into the ways perfectionism is hamstringing you more that you know, and how to escape its false reality for good.

Perfectionism is controlling your life more than you even suspect. It poisons our perception of finances, career, relationships, and self, while heaping unbearable expectations on our performance.

Perfectionism keeps us striving for a constantly shifting goal line that we never seem to reach. When we DO manage to reach it, we find that its promises of love, acceptance and security were empty. This is why so many highly successful and driven people often feel most hopeless and empty just after their biggest wins.

This is why they so quickly have to dive into yet another thankless slog, to maintain a glimmer of hope that this time, the results will finally contain the love and worth and belonging we so desire.

Perfectionism never actually makes us perfect. More often than not, it acts to keep us from ever succeeding. It does this primarily by forbidding failure which is merely what your survival brain calls "learning."

If you aren't free to fail, you aren't free to learn. If you aren't free to learn, you aren''t free to grow.

Perfectionism isn't the path to your fullest potential, it is the greatest limiter to your future and potential.

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The role hypochondria plays in preventing weight loss is not talked about much, but it ought to be as it speaks to the many ways that anxiety shuts down our attempts at making a better life.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Why logic and reason fail in the emotional realm
• Why hypochondria's true aim is not to make you afraid, but to make you hopeless.
• Why living a better life can be seen as a threat to our survival.
• How trying to fix anxiety or rid ourselves of it actually deepens the delusions. 

If you can't think your way out of anxiety, what is a person to do?

• How to use reality as a grounding force even when anxiety and panic are part of your reality.
• Why emotions are actually more objectively real than our thoughts.
• How acceptance allows calm presence to the most "uncomfortable" emotions. 
• How presence and acceptance prevent us from getting psyched out and falling for anxiety's spells.
• How nighttime anxieties can result from very different stresses than the topics pm anxiety is focused on.
• How to  use non-engagement to "unplug" anxiety.
• How to giving attention to pain minimizes suffering.
• How to distinguish between site pain, resistance pain and embodied pain.

Why accepting hard things doesn't make them suck any more than they do without acceptance and how it actually lessens our suffering.

• How awareness and acceptance during hard times allow us to avoid more pain and notice more opportunities.
• How to take attention away from anxiety while focusing it on the underlying emotion.
• Why many of your anxious thoughts are actually the product of trying to "think" your way out of experiencing anxiety or an uncomfortable emotion,
• How seeking to remedy anxiety exhausts you and makes you more susceptible to anxiety.

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