🔎 In This Fit Tip Friday 

 Inside you'll have a:

• Tip: Pareto’s principle with exercise

• Story: Teddy Roosevelt & the bully

• Find: Add this song to your workout playlist

• Quote: What Teddy said

• Announcement: Kettlebells Giveaway

⏱️ Pareto’s Principle With Exercise

Try applying Pareto’s principle with exercise. This is going to save you a lot of time.

Pareto famously proved that about 20% of inputs yield 80% of outputs.

This works for exercise.

What are the handful of movements that you can focus on to get you results?

If I were to synthesize the inputs for my workouts, here are the movements I’d focus on for kettlebells and bodyweight:

• Kettlebells: Swings, Get-Ups, Snatches & Farmer’s Walk

• Bodyweight: Push-Ups, Pull-Ups, Body Squats, Hanging Knee Raises

📖 Teddy Roosevelt & The Bully

Teddy Roosevelt walks into a bar, and sees a bartender with a fake smile, an armed thug, and a clock face with holes in it.

Sounds like the start of a bad joke. But this is a true story of what happened when a 26-year old Teddy Roosevelt walked into a hotel bar in Mingusville, Montana and meets a raucous and malicious cowboy.

I’ll let Teddy tell it in his own words.

“It was late in the evening when I reached the place. I heard one or two shots in the bar-room as I came up, and I disliked going in. But there was nowhere else to go, and it was a cold night. Inside the room were several men, who, including the bartender, were wearing the kind of smile worn by men who are making believe to like what they don’t like.

A shabby individual in a broad hat with a cocked gun in each hand was walking up and down the floor talking with strident profanity. He had evidently been shooting at the clock, which had two or three holes in its face.

…As soon as he saw me he hailed me as ‘Four Eyes,’ in reference to my spectacles, and said, ‘Four Eyes is going to treat.’ I joined in the laugh and got behind the stove and sat down, thinking to escape notice.

He followed me, however, and though I tried to pass it off as a jest this merely made him more offensive, and he stood leaning over me, a gun in each hand, using very foul language… In response to his reiterated command that I should set up the drinks, I said, ‘Well, if I’ve got to, I’ve got to,’ and rose, looking past him.

As I rose, I struck quick and hard with my right just to one side of the point of his jaw, hitting with my left as I straightened out, and then again with my right. He fired the guns, but I do not know whether this was merely a convulsive action of his hands, or whether he was trying to shoot at me.

When he went down he struck the corner of the bar with his head… if he had moved I was about to drop on my knees; but he was senseless. I took away his guns, and the other people in the room, who were now loud in their denunciation of him, hustled him out and put him in the shed.”

🎧 Add This Song to Your Workout Playlist

➡️ I Am Better Than You - Psallos/Shai Linne

Shai Linne raps the story and lyrics behind Philippians 3:2-11.

And it’s so well done. Gave me chills the first time I heard it… especially the hymn integration at the end.

If you have the time, read the lyrics while you listen to it.

One of my friends (who doesn’t even particularly like rap) sent it over to me. So even if you don’t like rap… just give this one a listen.

🚨 Kettlebells Giveaway 

This week, you can participate in the kettlebells giveaway to win 3 Rogue powder coat kettlebells: one 35LB (16KG), one 53LB (24KG), and one 70LB (32KG).

Here are the rules:

1. Complete the 3-minute survey, and you will be entered into a drawing. The winner will be selected randomly.

2. If you refer someone who signs up for the Fit Tip Friday newsletter, your chances of winning increases by the amount of people you refer.

   • I.e., if you refer 10 people, and all 10 sign-up for the Fit Tip Friday newsletter, your name will be entered into the drawing 10x.

3. The giveaway ends on May 15th, 2024 at 11:59pm EST, and the winner will be announced on the May 17th, 2024 Fit Tip Friday newsletter.

4. Unfortunately, due to shipping costs, only U.S. residents in the lower 48 will be eligible for the giveaway.

Let’s go!

➡️ Click here for the survey link.

⬇️ Refer your friends below to the Fit Tip Friday newsletter using your unique referral link.

• Oh, and just one referral will still get you that free 10 snack substitute guide to satisfy your sweet, salty, and savory cravings. #1 might surprise you.

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I’ll see you next Friday.

Be strong,

Don