An example of Ken's first principles thinking
Going for a jog to use up energy is the equivalent of saying.. "if you've still got a half tank of gas then just drive around the block 100x." LOL
So today I had an interaction that cracked me up. Basically I was on a call with a couple of friends and they were talking about going to the gym.
Then they asked me my experience.
To which I honestly answered while laughing… “I have no idea.. I haven’t been to the gym in over four years. I am philosophically against it!” lol
And then one friend chimed in… “But Ken.. didn’t you say you have lots of energy to work late in the evening everyday?”
And I was like yeah, that’s true.
So he made the point that “Well you could use all of that excess energy at the gym then. Right?”
And I laughed again and said something like “Why would I wanna do that?”
What sounded so logical to him sounded so illogical to me at this point.
Today i’m gonna explain how my brain is wired at this point and the underlying logic.
To me, the gym is a complete and utter waste of time
I know for a fact from this release process that when you do not have a perfect body (ideal waist-to-hip ratio, etc.) that it is because there are lots of compensations throughout your body.
I explain this here:
And so if lots of muscles throughout your body are in constant spasm and the skeleton is twisted, why would you want to exercise with this?
It makes no logical sense to me.
Would you take a twisted inanimate object and then apply force to it in the hopes that it untwists? No, that would be stupid.
But even though I say it here, you won’t actually ‘get’ this point until you start unwinding with this process yourself. You’ll feel muscles that felt like they were in spasm for years start to let go.
And you’ll realize that your body was a tangled mess. Which logically means that exercising in that state probably does more harm then good.
I am very confident that this will be proven in the future
So in my view the snowball is already rolling downhill on this stuff. I’m not the only one questioning the current exercise and diet paradigm. But i will add fuel to that fire in the coming years.
And one day I think society will just start to shift its thinking and begin to accept these things i’m saying. Because more and more people will be living examples of it.
I don’t even think its a question of ‘if’ this is gonna happen. It will. Period.
All you need is a critical mass of people doing this biomechanical stuff and they will be impossible to ignore.
Imagine hundreds of people like me showing concrete evidence across every metric that they are rocking it.
The tide will turn. It is only a question of ‘when’.
My metaphor using a car and gasoline
So the metaphor I was thinking after the call with my friends was that going to the gym to use my excess energy is kind of like owning a car and pulling into the driveway and thinking …
“oh wait… why am I parking already? I still have a half a tank left. Why don’t I just drive around the block 100x till I use up this extra gas?”
Would this be very stupid and illogical? Yes.
But once the world understands what I said above, then is going to the gym and running on a treadmill any different?
No! It is the exact same stupid logic!
I’d much prefer to sit on my ass in front of my computer till 10 or 11pm and work on my projects and do something that is useful.
Meanwhile all these gym-lovers can keep wasting all that time exercising. And then still watch me kick their ass on every functional metric.
I will work longer than them and focus better then them.
They will get sick a shitload more than me (I haven’t been sick in over 4 yrs).
I will even be happier then them.
And then one day when they figure out I was right the whole time they will think to themselves… that motherfucker Ken. Now I know why his motto was “Play for that motherfuckin end!”