Vishen Lakhiani and Ronan debunk fitness myths: spot reduction doesn't work, diet drives 80-90% of body composition, and carbs aren't the enemy. They explain why both men and women should lift heavy, why recovery matters more than training seven days a week, and how the mind affects physical results.
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You're saying that these biceps are mostly.
Chicken and sweet potato. Chicken and sweet potato.
Alright, next question. My social media team asked me to do this. I really just wanted to Netflix and chill. But we have this big event coming up called Holobody with this dude. What's your name again?
Ronan. As the last time I remember.
Ronan. Yes. So Ronan and I are teaching a seminar called Hollow Body and it is on holistic health. It is the weekend of the 29th and 30th May. It is completely free to all Mindvalley members. If you're not a member, you might really consider rethinking your life choices and becoming one. But what we want to do over here is answer a couple of questions that people have about health, the body.
Let's do it.
Let's do this. I can reduce fat in one area of my body. Example, my butt or belly. Right?
You can't. Your body has a sequence of where it puts fat and has a sequence of where it draws fat from. If you want to draw to burn fat from the belly, you need to burn fat for long enough until your body reach there. But you know, there are people, if you go on YouTube with like, how I burn belly fat, then there's like Vik vaporub hack, like people rubbing stuff in their belly or like that ginger tea.
So what you're saying is all those YouTube videos that say you can burn belly fat are all bullshit?
If the video is promising that it can do a hack to make you prioritize burning fat from the belly.
Yeah. Not true right now, but stand up and show them your butt. Because there's something genetically different about Brazilians.
Like, I think that kind of goes off the topic.
Like, are Brazilians just genetically gifted with like, like cushy posteriors? I don't know why I made people do that. Okay, now let's look at. Women should lift lower weights and do higher repetitions than men.
The reality is that there's no fundamental difference between the training for men and women when it comes to the weight. Because all of them are working with the same molecular structure of muscle mass in response to the same stimulus. So for muscle to be developed, strength to grow, you need to lift something that is challenging. Heavy for women and heavy for men is heavy still.
Can exercise erase my bad eating habits?
Of course not. You can try it. Eat, you know, a lot of junk food for a month, exercise like crazy. You're gonna see that, you're gonna take a step back.
One thing I think is really worth noticing is that Most doctors I've asked this to various medical professionals say that your body is 80 to 90% what you eat. Dr. Mark Hyman says it's 80%. There was a famous Vox article that suggests it is 90%. And, and so exercise alone will do very, very, very little for your body shape. It is primarily how you eat. Is that right, Ronan? That's totally right. You're saying that these biceps are mostly.
Chicken and sweet potato. Chicken and sweet potato.
Alright, next question. You need to work out seven days a week to get really fit.
Working out seven days a week gives you the opposite because you get stronger. Now when you work out, you get stronger when you work over from your workout.
So I think you guys have heard about 10x the program co developed by Ronan. This is the founder of 10x Lorenzo. And check out his body. Lorenzo works out 30 minutes a week. In fact, it was Lorenzo's scientifically optimized workout regimen that led to me funding and getting Lorenzo and Ronan to come together and put out the 10x program. Lorenzo will be a speaker at Holo Body and you're gonna learn some really fascinating science on how to get better results for every minute you work out. Carbs are bad for you.
Super bad.
Okay. You can't eat after 10pm.
Yes, you can. I think the police is not gonna come in and arrest you. And it's also not turning into fat. I think that's what made people believe so.
Exactly. But you can drink wine after 10pm, right? Totally.
Totally. It's all about balance.
You're saying I can drink wine after.
10Pm it's totally true. It's all about the flexibility. Right. It's not something that you're gonna do every single night, but it's something that you can. If you build a strong body, you build a body that can allow you to have that experience.
So basically, the more you do 10x, the more wine you can drink, the.
More metabolic flexible you are, the more you can do that too.
The more metabolic. I like that.
Right.
Okay. The best way to change your habit is to set a realistic goal.
I don't, I don't think it's about goal. I think it's about a sense of self identity. It's about the vision that you have for your body, the way that you see yourself experiencing your body. And these goals will come to you.
Now you can ask me a couple about the mind myths. You want me the best.
So here's a myth. So I am an athletic person. My transformation comes from manipulating my nutrition and my Training only.
Exactly. So that's a really interesting myth. So many doctors talk about this thing called the placebo effect, mind over body. And we know the placebo effect is so solid right now. It's so solid that scientists experimenting with placebos have found that the mind can even heal injuries that typically require surgery. For example, there was the famous J.B. moseley study, published in the New York Times, of how a placebo surgery for the knee caused. Veterans who went for a fake study, a sham study, their knees actually healed from arthritis because they believed that they went through a real surgery, but it was their mind that was doing it. So can we activate this healing property of the mind without having to be fooled into thinking we've gone through surgery? Can we activate this healing property of the mind to do everything from regrow hair to improve skin, to slow down aging, to improve muscular growth, to cause your body to regenerate and heal itself? And I just dropped my phone.
Maybe that you cannot avoid with the mind.
Maybe. So I get really excited when we talk about the mind. So that's going to be what I'm going to be sharing at Hollow Body. I'm going to be bringing in a ton of practices from the Silva Method, from my own work at mindvalley to teach you how to create mind over body resonance so that you can be in the best shape, going beyond just diet and exercise and everything out there that you see in infomercials. We hear about exercise because you can sell someone an endless amount of exercise equipment, you hear about supplements, you can sell someone an endless amount of supplements. You. You hear about food, you can sell someone an endless amount of, like, what? Diets. Diets and so on. But you never hear about the mind because once you teach someone to use the mind, they don't need to buy your stuff anymore. But that's what we're bringing into Hollow Body. We're teaching you how to use your mind over your body. And that's the part I'm so excited about.
Yeah. Transformation is not only happening in the body. It's not only happening. The mind is the bridge between the two things.
Exactly.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we're bringing to you.
So the whole seminar agenda is on mindvalley.com seminar seminars. Just go to forward slash seminars and you will see the entire agenda there. Ronan's going to be the main speaker. I'm going to be speaking as well. There's going to be a string of amazing guest speakers and can't wait to see you guys there. If you guys want to join? Become a Ninevalley member. You get hollow body, completely free. And you're more likely to go to.
