Lucas Hedenbäck argues training and diet account for only 20% of fitness results. The other 80% comes from gut health, nervous system balance, stress, and sleep. Optimize those internal systems and you get better results with fewer gym sessions.
If you think getting in fantastic shape comes down to how hard you're training or how hard you're dieting, you've been massively misled because that's only the surface level inputs. That's maybe 20% of the equation. The other 80% is gut, nervous system, stress management, sleep. That is the things that actually bring you leverage. I like to think of this in marketing terms. If we have an ad, it doesn't matter how much money we're putting towards that ad, budget or that ad budget if the creative is absolute shit. It doesn't matter because it's not gonna convert. And this is exactly what you're doing if you're training super hard, you're dieting super, super hard, but your system is shit, right? It doesn't work. Instead, what you should be doing is you should be optimizing the creative. And in this case, that comes down to gut health, that comes down to stress management, that comes down to sleep and overall health, because then you don't need to put as much money behind the creative and it will still bring you return. Because at the end of the day, it comes down to ROTs, return on time spent. Do you want to be in the gym 6 days a week and barely get any results, or be in the gym 1, 2 times per week, spend barely any time towards it, but you maximize the amount of leverage you get in those things, or the amount of return you can get from those things? For me, it's not like— it's crystal clear. It's, um, It's not even an argument. Of course I want to put as little in and get as much out, right? It's super, super clear. So if that's you and you're focusing too much on the surface level— Gut, nervous system, stress, sleep. Boom. That's where the leverage is.
