The exercise hoax and why it happens

The world believes exercise is one of the keys to health... I completely disagree

The world believes that exercise is key to health. I completely disagree.

When I say this… people often like to write off what i’m saying.. because they think to themselves.. “Of course exercise works. I’ve seen it on my own body. The whole world has proven that this works.”

But what they are misunderstanding about my answer is several things:

• I’m using a longer frame of reference

• I’m referring to the actual shape of your body (ie. the spine) and not just whether you lose fat

I am sure that exercise does NOT change your spine positively at all. I’ve observed this for about a decade.

What it does is temporarily reduce the amount of fat & body weight you have. Which typically comes back later. Because the structure never changed to begin with.

Now let’s dig in further to these 2 misunderstandings:

Longer frame of reference

How many obese people do you know for a long time? I know a fair few.

In part because I grew up in America. LOL

And so I have at least 6 different direct family members/close friends who i have known my entire life that I can refer to.

All six of them were on various diets and exercise programs for decades.

All 6 of them are either very obese or dead today.

And yet whenever I saw them… they typically ate far less than I did (or any other skinnier members of my family).

Was it that they were secretly pigging out whenever i didn’t see them?

No… with two of the cases I know best.. I can pretty confidently say that that was not the case.

And what you will notice when you think of examples like mine… is that it is the rule and not the exception. People that have very wide, obese bodies almost always end up wide and obese in the end. Despite years of efforts.

And it is because their entire spine & structure have changed permanently. More on this later.

The Shape of Your Body

What never changes when people lose fat is the actual proportions of their body.

A lot of people like to point to Roseanne Barr as a successful case in weight loss. So let’s look at her when she was her absolute skinniest.

Do you think at any point, despite her best efforts, if she whipped up her shirt that she would have a perfect waist-to-hip ratio?

No…. her pelvis is distorted and much wider than it should be. This is exactly what a osteopath will tell you.

And there is absolutely nothing that Roseanne can do about that.

It is why many models will tell you stories about how they can eat anything they want and regardless it is nearly impossible for them to put on weight.

People that did liposuck are also a great example of this.

Try to find before and after photos of people that did liposuction. Did all of a sudden their bodies assume the correct proportions?

I’ve paid special attention to folks that have liposuck’d for ~8 years.. and I can tell you definitively that the general shapes of their bodies do not change. Just the fat reduces. And they often look a bit weird/unhealthy afterwards.

What do I look at when I judge the quality of someone’s spine?

I am generally looking at the proportions of their body and especially the profile view.

For example the guy above. Imagine he did the world’s best exercise and diet program. Do you think all of a sudden his jawline would reappear?

I can tell you after having paid attention to this for about a decade that that will NEVER happen.

This guy will never have a proper jaw line even if he fasted for 2 months and only drank water to the point that he was just skin & bones.

Rather he’d wither up but still have no jaw line. Because his cervical spine has changed massively and this does not reverse with dieting.

Pay attention to the profile view of people for ten years and how it correlates with the shape of their body (particularly the proportions). You will conclude the exact same things as I did:

• The structure of your cervical spine (ie. quality of your profile) barely changes when you lose weight.

• If you have no profile… your waist-to-hip ratio will always be quite off.

Please try to prove me wrong

Now.. go ahead and try to prove me wrong. Find the dude who has a profile like this dude above but a body like Brad Pitt.

Search among the billions of people on this planet.

I will wager all the money that you are willing to put down that you will never find this person. Because your profile represents your structure.

Then go find people that have really good profiles. Like this guy.

A jawline that slants downwards from the neck will generally mean that have a very healthy spine. Whereas the opposite would be true of someone that has a contorted spine.

Try to find someone with a profile like this guy here who is anyway obese. Please scour the billions of people on the planet.

You will not find one.

Trust me.. i’ve been paying attention for close to a decade.

And if they have a profile like this you will almost always find that their body proportions are very good and they will typically have a story of “it is hard for me to put on weight.”

Are the patterns starting to emerge to you?

You are a function of your structure and exercise/diet do not change structure.

So what does change structure?

I’ll get into this in a future post. And explain why it is ‘biomechanics’ and not ‘genetics’. In fact i will aim to prove this to you beyond all reasonable doubt.