📣 Defeating Health Anxiety, Nutrition for Teen Athletes, & More - with EC Synkowski
📣 Defeating Health Anxiety, Nutrition for Teen Athletes, & More - with EC Synkowski
Hello, friends!
This week, we dive into how to avoid health anxiety and obsession with EC Synkowski. We explore the challenges of balancing health guidelines and principles without letting them consume our lives. With questions from listeners Jeremiah and Jeremy, we discuss the fine line between being mindful of our health and becoming overly fixated on every detail.
✨ Warmup Questions:
🍎 EAT: Andrew asked us about how to help his teenage son put on muscle to enhance his basketball performance. We discussed the importance of a balanced diet, the role of protein, and the need for sufficient caloric intake for growing teenagers.
💤 RECOVER: Kristina wondered about the role of technology in tracking recovery and its impact on our body awareness. We debated the benefits and drawbacks of using apps like Whoop, the importance of being in tune with our bodies, and the complex relationship between recovery metrics and performance.
🏋🏾♂️ Workout Topic:
We’re answering two very similar questions this week - one from Jeremy, the other from Jeremiah.
Jeremiah asks:
With the popularity of CGM's and all the rhetoric about "sitting is the new smoking" and taking walks after meals, how do you avoid becoming obsessed with avoidance of sitting and moving after meals?
Jeremy asks:
How do you not let health guidelines and overall principles become compulsive/create health anxiety when you don't have super urgent reasons to bring them to that level?
🎧 Tune in to the full episode:
A big thanks to EC for joining us this week. Make sure you check out what she’s doing in the nutrition space - she’s one of the best. Here’s her website, and here she is on Instagram.
👊 Ben & Patrick