Interview with Aadam Ali of Physiqonomics
Anytime I find a fellow nerd, video game lover, and weight lifter I get really happy. This week’s podcast guest is one of those guys. Aadam Ali of Physiqonomics is a writer and fitness coach. He has been featured on sites like BroBible, Strength Theory, Health Living, Heavy Lifting, JMax Fitness and more. Like myself, Adam finds inspiration for his content from all the geeky and nerdy things he grew up on like Super Mario, Dragonball, and video games.
In this episode we discuss:
- Strength Theory article
- Plethora and using a thesaurus
- Where he got the name for Physiqonomics
- Freakonomics
- Growing up a fat kid and when it all changed for him
- Getting kicked out of boarding school
- Training MMA style with his cousin
- Training in his bedroom because he was not old enough to join a gym
- The fitness magazine cover that inspired him to get ripped
- “I thought the only way to be cool was to be bad”
- Mario Kart, Smash Brothers & Diddy Kong Racing
- Spending his break time at work playing video games at Toys R’ Us
- The Blue Shell of his diet
- Healthy Lifting, Heavy Lifting
- His Ketogenic Experiment
- Staying under 50g of carbs for 3+ months
- Overcoming Biases
- Mistakes Were Made but Not By Me
- Meno Hennselman; Lyle MacDonald
- The Alchemist
- Turning off his brain while reading
- The one experiment that has impacted his philosophy the most
- The Bruce Lee approach
- The cycle of fitness and philopsophy
- Meditations
- The new MacBeth
- His guilty pleasure track
- Time machine
- Hippos
- What he worries about
- The struggles of writing and creating content
- Pocket App
- Reductionism & Chaos theory
- Going Through the Suck; Embracing the Suck
- Dead Marshes of Motivation
- How his goals of changed
- The Fuck Up and how you respond to it
- Who from history would he have dinner with
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