A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (2/27): Could social media be worse than cigarettes? 🚬
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Mano Minute (2/27): Could social media be worse than cigarettes? 🚬 This might annoy some people. But it needs to be said. Hear me out. The biggest negatives I see:
I say this and I use social media every day. Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook. But I have worked hard to build a healthier relationship with it. Now I use it for business. I post. I respond to DMs. I close the app. I make it quick. I am still guilty of catching myself scrolling or checking analytics. But when I notice it, I close it right away. That awareness is the difference. Social media is not going away. But how we use it matters. Are we using it or is it using us? TIP: On your iPhone, go to: Settings > scroll down > Screen Time. This will be gut punching when we realize how much time we're wasting on these apps. |
Mano Minute
A 1-minute, Monday-Friday email, to help busy professionals move more, eat better, and think clearer.
Mano Minute (3/12): Why you get sore after a workout (and what it actually means) 💪 Soreness gets a bad reputation. People either chase it like a trophy or fear it like an injury. Most of the time, neither response is quite right. Here is what is happening. When you lift weights, you create tiny tears in your muscle fibers. These are called microtears. That feeling of soreness you get 24 to 48 hours after a workout? That is your body reacting to those tears. But here is the important part....
Mano Minute (3/11): Free weights vs. machines. Here is my honest take 🏋️ There is a gym snobbery I want to address. A lot of people treat machines like they are for beginners. Like real lifters only use free weights. Planet Fitness gets mocked constantly because it is mostly machines. I disagree with this entirely. Machines are excellent. Not just for beginners, but for everyone. Here is why. Machines protect your form. They guide your movement through a fixed range of motion, which means you...
Mano Minute (3/10): Eating carbs without the guilt 🍞 Carbs have had a rough decade. Low carb diets. No carb diets. Keto. Everyone treating bread like it is poison. Here is my take. Carbs are not the problem. The type of carbs is the problem. There are carbs that leave you feeling guilty, foggy, and hungry an hour later. Ultra processed snacks, white bread, sugary drinks, fast food. These spike your blood sugar fast and crash it just as fast. Your body does not get much from them. And you are...