Are you still fighting with tanks? Well i've moved onto drones.

For me the healthy diet and exercise paradigm is the equivalent of tanks. And biomechanics are the drones that are going to make them obsolete.

My wife is Ukrainian and so as you can imagine the war that is happening is a big topic in our household.

She takes part in many fundraisers and the war comes up a fair bit in conversations. Particularly when we are with her friends.

I have many friends in both Russia and Ukraine as I lived in each of them for ~4 years. So it’s very weird to see all of this happen.

In any case… all of that is to say that I really enjoy watching Youtube videos about the war. Particularly about how drone warfare has really been taken to a completely new level in this war.

These small, “FPV drones”, which can be purchased quite cheaply are carrying small bombs and taking out tanks and all kinds of things. The Ukrainians have particularly used them extremely effectively to counteract the massive advantage that Russia had in tanks at the beginning of the war.

Most of those tanks are now sitting ruined on the battlefield now. Having often fell victim to an FPV drone.

Anyway, I love the parallel of these FPV drones to this health stuff. And today i’m going to explain why.

Many of my friends are investing a ton into their health

I’m 47 years old and have accumulated a fair number of friends around my age from all over the world over the years. As i’ve lived in about 12 countries and traveled to over 90.

I stay in touch with a decent number of them in a passive way and I’m always hearing how much effort they are investing into their health.

We’ve hit that age where most people are paying very serious attention to it and it is no longer cool to be partying a lot and working too much.

Rather everyone my age knows at least someone that is our age and has already passed away from some type of health issue. I probably know at least 5 for example.

So they of course do not want to fall victim as they know that we are now in a higher risk bracket than a decade or two back.

The problem is I consider that they are fighting with tanks

Trying to stay healthy using the current exercise & healthy diet paradigm is to me a good metaphor for using tanks in this Ukraine war.

They were highly effective in World War II but technology has improved and the game has changed.

They’re being wiped out by FPV drones that cost something like $500 a pop.

A tank is a $5m+ piece of equipment that is very hard to move and even get to the battlefield. And then it gets taken out by a drone that costs 1/10,000 the price.

This is a very ineffective way of doing battle. But this is the game that was played for decades before. You built bigger and better tanks with thicker armor.

To me it’s like when my friends say they are spending more time at the gym or investing more effort into eating healthy.

You’re playing an antiquated strategy that will end up like the thousands of burnt out Russian tanks littering the battlefield.

I, on the otherhand, have moved on to all out drone warfare

I chucked my tanks away at the scrapyard long time ago. Meaning I stopped bothering with exercise and trying to eat healthy over four years ago.

My mantra now is I eat what my body wants whenever it wants. And usually this means tasty stuff that is high in calories, carbs and sugar.

But hey.. that’s what it wants. And I consider my body smarter than me.

And interestingly, my body is completely content with not trying to do pretty much any exercise. Which to me says something interesting about how we are designed.

If the body truly needed lots of exercise, i think i would feel the urge to go out and run or something. But I don’t.

And these past four years I only get healthier and healthier. I feel more energy, I don’t get sick, I work from 8am till about 11pm daily. Like a machine.

In my mind, i’m just using better, more advance technology. I’m using the metaphorical equivalent of FPV drones against their tanks.

I put very little effort/investment into my health and yet i’m doing circles around my peers with far better results in terms of performance. ie. I don’t know a single friend in the vicinity of my age that can work as much or as hard as i can.

I literally think i’ve worked at least 4 hours a day for something like 300 days straight. And I don’t even get stressed or tired.

They’re going to see that I will win this war

Some friends that I had this discussion with think that I’m ruining my insides and eventually i’m going to have a disease or something.

They think that eventually their disciplined exercise regime is going to pay off. And that I am being short sighted.

But i am pretty sure that that is not going to happen. For logical reasons.

Many of them are getting sick a couple times a year and having other health ailments. These are all signals of collapse.

I am showing none of these signals. My shit gets tighter by the day.

So unless they adopt my drone technology (and use my biomechanics)… they’re going to see their tanks littering the battlefield as my drones wiz by. And they’ll be thinking “damn… my tank is disabled and that motherfucker is dancing around out there like he’s 25”.

That’s right baby… because that’s how this shit works.

Closing thoughts

A lot of people read posts that I have made like this and start to vehemently disagree with me.

They say things like.. “Ken how can you say that diet is not important”. Or “It is obvious that exercise is important and there is a ton of evidence out there to support it.”

But they miss a criticial component of my logic.

I completely agree that those things are important when your biomechanics are getting worse. Hell.. i felt it myself for years and it was why I was a nut about exercise and eating healthy all through my twenties and early thirties.

I get it.

But when your biomechanics are improving the way it is with me for over three years now… it changes the rules. I’ve found consistently found that you don’t need the healthy diet and exercise and you improve quickly anyway.

So for me it’s not philosophical… it is like a science experiment.

If i can achieve perfection (health + aesthetics) while ignoring the current exercise and healthy diet paradigm than it says something very powerful in my view.

It says that humans don’t need that stuff to be healthy.

Rather we can be more like the lion who sits his lazy ass in the shade for the majority of the day.

Which from an evolutionary standpoint… makes a hell of a lot more sense to me.

That we were designed to be like this lion. And I don’t see lions running around for the hell of it ;)