After years as a trainer, Mike O’Donnell com­piles and shares an exten­sive list of health and fit­ness tips.

As Jason said, there’s “a lot of good (and ques­tion­able) stuff in this list”. Here are my favourites:

  • Diet is 85% of where results come from… for mus­cle and fat loss. Many don’t focus here enough.
  • If you eat whole foods that have been around for 1000s of years, you prob­a­bly don’t have to worry about count­ing calories.
  • The eat low-fat advice was the biggest health dis­as­ter in the last 30 years.
  • The smartest trainer I know does not have a web­site or best sell­ing ebook… as he is too busy train­ing real clients. (Related.)
  • If you want to get bet­ter at run­ning… you run… at bik­ing… you bike… at a sport… you play that sport.
  • There is no one right way for any­thing… as 20 dif­fer­ent ways can get you results.
  • Results are just the sim­ple yet impor­tant things done on a con­sis­tent basis.
  • All diets fail over the long run….but lifestyle changes last.
  • The best thing any­one can do for their health/results is to just try new things… see how their body adapts and responds… and learn how to take total con­trol no mat­ter life may throw at them in the future.

via Kot­tke