The 12 - Week Fitness Project - Rujuta Diwekar

The 12 - Week Fitness Project - Rujuta Diwekar - lost the count as it has been some time since I posted book summary, but based on the post 25th of 2022.

 For implementation in daily life, one need to 

1. Follow the guidelines
2. Customize the advice
3. Comply weekly
4. Measure progress - Before starting, and then monthly

The three rules of sustainable health are:

1. Metabolic health parameters vs. weight loss
2. All-round vs one-dimensional approach to fitness
3. Long-term vs. short-term solutions

With 12 guidelines divided into the following three categories:

1. Food and eating - Local and culturally compliant foods and follow time - tested eating practice. Follow 3S's - Sit, silence and senses. 
2. Physical activity and exercise
3. Daily habits - Including harmful effect of gadgets, and reduce plastic. 

12 learnings or steps that allow you to make the journey from now to forever is:

1. Food is nourishment, security and opportunity to grow
2. Grow and patronize local food
3. Local food is climate - resilient
4. Resilience is much more important than weight loss
5. Loss of energy and enthusiasm is a big price to pay for being skinny
6. Skinny is not a sure-shot way to success
7. Success comes at every sixe
8. Size doesn't matter to people who matter the most
9. Most of the people spend a lifetime chasing things that they never even wanted in the first place
10. Place strength, stamina, stretching and stability at the core of your workout routine, not calories
11. Calories are dead, declared the Economist
12. Economists, ecologists and agriculturalists and of course farmers, tribals, dadis and nanis know more about food and well-being than most dietitians, doctors and trainers. 

Weekly Calendar for the 12-week fitness project guidelines. 

Health is true wealth. Have local variety of banana daily.