A fitness talk challenging gym culture and blaming cortisol for belly fat. The speaker suggests yoga and meditation work better than traditional workouts to manage stress hormones and lose weight.
You see a lot of people going to the gym between about, oh, 18 and 35, like, yeah, this works so well. Like, look at me, you know, I took my shirt off on Instagram. Great. And then after that, like, well, I'm working out even more, but it's not there. And a couple guys over for dinner two weeks ago and they're both, you know, big shoulders guys have been lifting weights for 25 years. You know, total gym rats. And they both have these pot bellies and they're just looking at each other going, I've never worked out this hard to be this fat. Like, I work out every day. Guys do it every other day, the other day, go to yoga class or just chill, like meditate and get your cortisol down. Because the cortisol around your stomach, like the pregnant belly sort of thing, is a cortisol issue. It's different than, say, an estrogen issue which gives you subcutaneous fat everywhere.
