Ted Ryce

Fitness tips I know approaching 50 that I wish I'd known when I was 20: (Bookmark for 30 years of fitness knowledge in 1 post) 1. People underestimate how much fat they have to lose.

@davidledoux Appreciate that 🤝

@ted_ryce Your tweets are 🔥

"I don't really like to exercise. Is there a substitute?" Yes, for sure. • Walkers • Wheelchairs • Chronic pain • Heart surgery • Low back surgery • Assisted living facilities • Insulin injections for diabetes And my absolute favorite: knee replacement surgery.

@josiahfitness I’ll give you two Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Shogun James clavell

Best fiction book or novel you’ve ever read ? Give me your top 3 must read books 👇🏻

@brew_that Love that

@ted_ryce It feels more difficult, and that feels good. Plus it's fun to include my daughter in with something she's familiar with

One of the best ways to prevent injuries after 40? Jumping. This simple pogo jump drill improves: • Coordination • Ankle stiffness • Tendon elasticity • Reactive strength 1-2 sets of 60 seconds before your workout. Train muscles but warm up like a pro athlete.

@MAKELUCAS @PGC1a_RB Não entendi porque só falo brasileiro Não falo português não tá bom

@ted_ryce @PGC1a_RB The Portuguese have not a single Cod dish. They have hundreds of dishes for Bacalhau. Not at all the same thing. The English eat Cod the Portuguese only eat Bacalhau. E não discuta comigo está bem!

Anyone here enjoy cod as a lean protein source of the fish group

@davidledoux Good analogy

@ted_ryce I don't really like to work a job. Is there a substitute? dumpster diving is a terrible plan.

@CoachDanGo @pigeonrhythm I will never not think of the show Kung Fu when I hear the word grasshopper

@pigeonrhythm @ted_ryce More like a grasshopper.

@brew_that Nice. They’re a good warm up for sure. And varying the jumps is a great idea if it feels good

@ted_ryce Started doing those plate jumps after I saw your video. Was showing my 9 y/o and she told me they do something similar in gymnastics, but they do 20 front/back then 20 on each side (no backwards jump). I tried that and found adding the variety helped mentally.

Yeah you’re right too A problem with social media is that if You don’t present info in a certain way, no one pays attention I do my best but I’m also guilty of framing things in a way that stretches the truth so it gets more attention…while getting into nuance in longer form posts or videos

And I appreciate this sentiment. What I am trying to inject back into the discourse (for all my snark and glibness and Debbie Downerism at times) is humility in extrapolating or presenting as fact single studies or small bodies of literature with huge variance. Sometimes one or a couple of papers can be definitive and revolutionary. Those don’t tend to be the ones that get extrapolated on by scicomm influencers (both good and bad).

It’s interesting how many of the health-fluencers have run with this study as gospel despite its obvious flaws, starting with the fact that the reported effect is like swinging from 1.5 SDs above average intelligence to 1.5 SDs below standard intelligence— an effect size that is entirely and completely absurd and should lead you to question anyone who would present it as an honest estimate. And yet, it’s a parade of the influencer sphere. I almost hope it’s more that they didn’t even read the study— reading it and still going with it is almost worse.

@dylan_hester1 Thanks man 👊🏼

@ted_ryce That’s a great way to do it. Shows in the results you get for them. Amazing work 💪

Meet Jeff. A 44-year-old financial advisor grinding through extreme workouts and Keto (left photo)—but still stuck. In just 4 months, he: ✔️ Dropped 30 lbs of fat ✔️ Got his confidence back ✔️ Trained less than 2 hours per week ✔️ Enjoyed vacations and social life—guilt-free Results like this don’t have to be hard—just smart.

@dylan_hester1 Well I get my clients fast results in the first month. The goal is to help them lose 10lbs in 4 weeks But gotta transition to a more sustainable approach after that or they gain the weight back

@ted_ryce Amazing how smart training gets you the results that extreme programs promise in a shorter amount of time.

No, it didn’t come across that way. I think the issue is guys like Max and myself are trying to do the right thing by sharing studies to combat the sci-nonsense being shared by grifters But reading (and understanding) research is a skill. Been doing it for years and still not great at it because my time is spent working directly with clients and running my biz So maybe help us do a better job understanding the context, study design, or results we missed Well, at least I’m open to it

That’s fair, and I’m not suggesting here that @maxlugavere was trying to profit here or anything like that (sorry if it came across that way). I’m even fine saying that I should have put up a big, flashing divider between grifters selling stuff (Brecka, Mercola, etc) and people who are doing scicomm (whether it be well or poorly). I don’t think my original response suggests a valence either way, but I understand things get interpreted in such a way on the internet. What I will stand by is the need for better epistemic standards on these types of psych/social/behavioral neuroscience papers. How much more evidence to we need of poor design, over-extrapolation, and zero reproducibility in these fields to realize that when the effect size is preposterous and not even consistent within the study, all kinds of red flags need to go up and need to be mentioned in the tweet promotion of some giant social effect. Clearly this is not a priority given the number of health influencers (note, not even the outright grifters) that jumped all over it.

@Gabepluguez Well said 👏 Getting into shape (less fat more muscle) will def change your energy and satisfaction with what you see in the mirror But it’s not going to solve unhappiness or deeper insecurities

Getting fit won’t make you finally feel good about yourself

@PGC1a_RB @WongEXE___ Lord give me the confidence of a tech bro who lost 10lbs with intermittent fasting and thinks it’s the answer for everyone

You know how the term 'tourist' is used in a derogatory sense, with the intent of conjuring the image of stereotypes of being loud, culturally ignorant, or disruptive That's exactly what describes most of the people who have chosen to migrate over to the 'health and fitness' space over the past year or so Crypto, tech bros, etc. Course I only came on TwitX in spring 2023, and there are plenty pros and people in the health and fitness game years before me on here, but this 'space' was where I started

@CoachDanGo If you’re stretching, you better be doing the couch stretch

This stretch changed my life: It's called the Couch Stretch and it should be mandatory for people who sit at desks. Here's how you do it: 1. Get on all fours and put one foot up on a couch or chair and another 90 degrees in front to support. 2. Bring one arm up and lean back until you feel tension. 3. Hold this stretch and breathe deeply. When you sit for long periods, your legs are stuck at bent angles for up to 8 hours a day. This causes your hip flexors to shorten by limiting their range of motion. This can create pain in the low back and hips while causing you to become weaker. The couch stretch counteracts this by mobilizing your hip flexors back to their natural range of motion. Do this every day for 30-60 seconds and watch your body feel better.

@CoachDanGo Gotta get the jumping in 💪🏼

@ted_ryce Underrated exercise for longevity

@Brady_H @HolmerNoah Your 14 y/o son is looking lean! Oh…that’s you nm

So @HolmerNoah told me I need to work on my back. Trying to add this one to the rotation. Roast me.