Catty in the afternoon

Hi there 🌤️

Here's your daily dose of Andrew's Apples, a small white bag of four fresh *fruits* to nourish your soul and make you smile. Let's go picking. 

1. ⛆ In hot water. So 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. Blunt dad advice: drink more water. I know, it sucks. Drinking water is the world's most boring activity. A ceremonial-grade snoozefest. Try a twist of lemon, a pinch of pink salt, or an electrolyte mix to give it life. Forgive me here, but you should be downing close to a gallon per day. You will pee a lot (faint yellow in color is what you want). You will not like me at first. You may never come back here. You may even ask what is going on? But this is how we get closer to god. Just this once, don't think. Drink.

2. 🥤 Burpees for burps. Soft drinks are doing just fine: a $300 billion market in the US and still growing like a weed. You wouldn't know that from watching bicoastal media outlets vilify sugar-water for the past twenty years. But it's unsurprising if you were to watch the security cam footage for one full day inside any gas station in America... people slug this stuff back. Two liters are for a party of one. All else held equal, we could dramatically slow metabolic disease if folks traded soda for burpees. Even 10 straight minutes of burpees, daily, does the trick. Yes, you'll look like a militant maniac. But being hot has a cost.

3. 🥱 Be catty in the afternoon. Look, ideally you get 7-9 hours of sleep night-after-night and require no afternoon power nap. But Americans have forgotten how to handle stress, eat well, and manage phone addiction, which all negatively affect sleep. And bad sleep is a recipe for disaster. I'm ever bullish on American resilience but equally bearish on our ability to take care of ourselves ('self-care' being a $450 billion market should say it all). Click airplane mode and shut your eyes for 20-30 minutes. Find a closet at work, I don't care. It will increase training drive and muscle-building systems. We might be the only animal left that doesn't practice the nap and we need it the most. Channel your cat.

4. 🤝 Don't make friends. At the gym, that is. My old Poliquin-certified strength coach used to tell me that if I spend more than 60 minutes at the gym, I'm not making progress - I'm making friends. Excluding warm-up time, training longer than 40-60 minutes is counterproductive, as your body needs to remodel and rebound. You know the meatstick at the gym: no eye contact, bulging artery on his forehead, huge over-ear headphones, no words just grunts, and absolutely on steroids. Hate to break it to you, but he's got the point. Save the chat for the steam. The gym is not a networking event.

How do you like them Apples? Any bad ones? Suggestions? If you ever need anything, bang my line. 

Your friend, 

Andrew 🍎 

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