 | | In today's edition, Joe shares: - Tips to Change Your Diet
- The Perfect Lower Body Workout
- Business Advice Everyone Can Use
| | | | Spartans,
In 2024 approximately 32% of Americans included improving their diet as a New Year's resolution, according to Forbes. I hear from so many of you that diet is the hardest change to make in your lives.
You know the hard way ethos: Choose the more difficult path. This mindset should extend to your diet, too.
I recently spoke with my buddy Doug Evans, co-founder of The Sprouting Company about how getting his diet in check saved his life. If you find yourself falling victim to fast food, sugar, or other dietary vices, take a page out of Doug's book.
Doug remembers his last fast food meal like it was yesterday. In actuality, it's been 21 years.
On a dark, rainy night in New York City, he was walking the streets on his way to a nightclub with his buddies. They decided to stop for Chinese food, when Doug spotted an enormous duck hanging in a restaurant window. Without a second thought, he pointed and said, "That one, and don't even bother cutting it up."
When Doug was finished, there was nothing left but a foil container and the grease pooled at the bottom. He felt awful.
Later at the club, Doug began chatting with a woman who happened to be committed to a vegan diet. This conversation changed his life.
After learning more about how much our diet impacts our health, and realizing his addiction to fat, sugar, and salt was eventually going to kill him, Doug turned his life around. He became a vegetarian within two weeks, then a vegan, and eventually a raw vegan.
As his journey progressed, Doug moved to Wonder Valley Hot Springs in the Mojave Desert. With the closest grocery store—a small one at that—a half-hour away, and no health food stores in sight, Doug decided to grow his own food.
Enter sprouts: The ultimate genius superfood that grow right on your countertop without soil, sunshine, or fertilizer in just days. It's hard to believe, but these tiny, stringy veggies pack a wild punch.
Sprouts can be 20 to 100 times more nutrient-dense than mature vegetables, contain high levels of vitamins like Vitamin C, Vitamin K, and certain B vitamins, and can help aid digestion better than their grown counterparts. Out of his passion for sprouts, Doug founded The Sprouting Company to help people grow their own.
In a world obsessed with cooked and processed food, going raw—especially with sprouts—is a radical choice. But Doug, ever the trailblazer, embraces it fully.
Sometimes, you have to make a radical transformation. Ready to start? Here's some motivation:
1. Face Your Vice Head-On: Sometimes, you need a wake-up call. Recognizing a vice is step one. Sugar, junk, comfort foods—they're chains you can break.
2. Choose the Hard Path: Doug could've kept eating trash. Instead, he embraced a new diet and made the harder choice to grow his own damn food in the Mojave Desert. Talk about no excuses.
3. Sprout Your Potential: Sprouts became his metaphor for life. These tiny, nutrient-packed powerhouses symbolize growth and simplicity. You know my one food rule: eat more salad.
4. Go Real: Processed junk doesn't build warriors. Doug embraced unprocessed food because it aligns with health and discipline.
Want to try sprouting for yourself? Doug sent us an exclusive Hard Way code for 10% off at checkout: Spartan10.
Here's to the hard way,
Joe | | | QUICK HOLIDAY WORKOUT | The holidays are your window to build a strong physical foundation for the upcoming 2025 season. This lower body foundational workout is a fast mix of functional strength and conditioning to keep you race-ready and injury-free on a limited time frame. Now you can spend time with family and friends without deconditioning during the holidays.
The Workout:
Circuit 1: Perform the following exercises for 45 seconds. Rest 45 seconds. Repeat for 3 rounds.
1A. Lunge Complex (Forward, Lateral, Reverse, Transverse)
1B. Eccentric Squat
Circuit 2: Perform the following exercises for 45 seconds. Rest 45 seconds. Repeat for 3 rounds.
2A. Front Squat
2B. Jump Squat
Straight Set 1: Perform the following exercise for 5 repetitions. Rest 30 seconds. Repeat 3 rounds.
1A. Sumo Squat to Pop Up
Circuit 3: Perform the following exercises for 45 seconds. Rest 45 seconds. Repeat for 3 rounds.
3A. Kickstand Deadlift
3B. Dynamic Split Squats | | | You Ask, Joe Answers | Q: Hey Joe, I'm building a startup, but I feel overwhelmed by everything on my plate. How do I manage my time more effectively?
- Lila A.
A: Hey Lila, I always say "fire, ready, aim." It's a phrase that keeps me moving, instead of letting tasks build up or seeking perfection in a project. 80% done is better than 0% perfect. Start by prioritizing ruthlessly. Ask yourself: What's the ONE thing today that will move the needle most? And do that.
Aroo!
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