How Your Spaces Are Sabotaging Your Fat Loss (The 6S Method) | Ep 207

08/21/24 • 13 min

Wits & Weights | Fat Loss, Nutrition, & Strength Training for Lifters

Are your personal spaces getting in the way of consistency with your nutrition or training?
Learn about how the 6S method from engineering can make it much easier to achieve your goals. You can transform your kitchen and gym into powerful allies by reducing friction. It's about making small yet impactful changes.
What is 6S?

Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardize
Sustain
Safety

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Main Takeaways:

Your environment plays a crucial role in your fat loss success, often more than willpower alone.
The 6S method (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, Safety) can be applied to optimize your spaces for fat loss, making healthy choices easier and more consistent.
Small, strategic changes to your environment can lead to big improvements in consistency and results by reducing decision fatigue.

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Sort
Set in order
Shine
Standardize
Sustain
Safety

Listen to the episode for a definition and some examples for each!

Your environment plays a crucial role in your fat loss success, often more than willpower alone.
The 6S method (Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain, Safety) can be applied to optimize your spaces for fat loss, making healthy choices easier and more consistent.
Small, strategic changes to your environment can lead to big improvements in consistency and results by reducing decision fatigue.

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23:24 The evolving nature of fitness
26:34 Final thoughts on sustainable fitness approaches
27:19 Outro
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Wits & Weights | Fat Loss, Nutrition, & Strength Training for Lifters - How Your Spaces Are Sabotaging Your Fat Loss (The 6S Method) | Ep 207

Transcript

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It might be that your lack of progress isn't due to a lack of knowledge or effort . It's your spaces that are sabotaging you . What do I mean ? In today's episode , we are diving into a concept straight from engineering that could help you discover how your environment might be quietly undermining your efforts . You'll learn a systematic approach to transform your spaces into power