Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

The wellness industry is built around comparisons.

It doesn't matter if it's before and after pictures

or showing how one product is better than the other.

Everyone is trying to prove they have the best approach

and it's starting to go too far.

We've ended the age of optimization

where we are obsessed with trying to be perfect about everything.

Even on this episode we'll discuss better ways to warm up hydrate, drink protein shakes,

and there's even a new study about the most powerful types of love.

It's all fascinating and I love reading and learning and sharing it all with you.

But I do have one concern. It's one thing to want to get better, make sure you're doing

what's best for your body, and focus on progress.

It's another to become so obsessed with optimizing everything that you stress,

every little behavior and overthink every last detail.

I see this in the app when I chat with the village.

People worry about every last gram of protein the perfect time

to exercise and how many meals they need to eat per day. The most important

part of health is figuring out the healthy stuff and then creating a routine and habits so you do those behaviors consistently

It doesn't matter if you eat three or six meals or if you only select the very best exercises.

What matters is that you eat well and exercise frequently, that you don't sleep too little,

that you connect with people socially and find ways to distress.

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