Intervention by Dan John, (27) The Quadrants of Diet and Exercise, Notes

Post date: Jan 24, 2016 12:23:09 PM

Dan John - On Target Publishing

The Quadrants of Diet and Exercise

• 1. reasonable is repeatable, doable and believable

     1. tough is going to wake you up in the middle of the night worrying about diet and exercise

     2. periods of tough diets and reasonable workouts --after a holiday or vacation-- work well.

        1. sometimes, these experiments get us back on path, but this is not a lifestyle and should be built into a yearly cycle.

     3. reasonable diets and tough workouts are the the basic templates for an athlete.

• • • 1. There are times when we need to ramp it up--the ‘big push.’

         1. It’s nice to be in reasonable shape when this happens.

            1. Being in reasonable shape most of the time trumps being on the razor’s edge of perfection.

• 1. 4. Mark Reifkind “The first step down after a peak is a cliff.”

• • • 1. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

• 2. Think about training and diet in a reasonably, appropriate way.

• • 1. Think about and address relationships, community involvement and living life in much the same way

       1. Reasonable doesn’t mean easy. John Powell, “I said it was simple, not easy.”

       2. On paper, reasonable looks easy but is often the hardest thing we can do.