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Your questions, answered: What's the "right" workout for you?, wearables revisited, low-hanging fruit for weight loss
June 2025 Q&A
Marcus Frick
July 02, 2025
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Good afternoon, 66.1ers.
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Welcome to the 66.1 June Q&A, answering your questions from June.
We’ve got 3 burning questions today—about weight loss, identifying the right training program for you, and revisiting my take on wearable health devices.
Where do the last two pounds come from?
This one’s from a client.
Back in March, she shared this.
Yesterday, she told me she’s lost 28 pounds since November (we started working together in January).
Her weight loss goal is 30 pounds, and she wants it done by next week.
When I asked what she thought she could do to lose the rest of the weight, she said, “Eat more vegetables?”
Not a terrible idea.
But her diet is already pretty dialed.
Whole foods.
Follows the 150-year rule.
I suggested she find lower-hanging fruit.
She averages 5k steps/day.
We can bump that up without too much pain.
Shooting for 7,500 for the next 2 weeks.
Some quick Googling says this comes out to an additional 1.25 miles walked every day.
That’s 125 calories extra burned.
Do that every day for the next month and we’ve knocked off the rest of the weight.
Not quite on her ideal timeline, but we’re darn close.
And I’ll take 2 weeks late over trending toward something unsustainable.
What workout should I do?
And I’ve paraphrased this question from a number of clients and prospective clients.
It’s a tough one.
People wanting a training program for injury rehab.
For weight loss.
For strength training.
And, while I know a fair amount about training for specific outcomes thanks to my own experimentation, I do my best to steer clear of prescribing programs.
I steer clear for 2 reasons:
I don’t know what you like
And if you don’t like it, you won’t keep doing it.
If I tell you to do ballet and you have a strong aversion to it, you might do it for a little while.
But you won’t keep doing it.
Which means…
We’ll have to run experiments
Try lifting weights for a few months.
Then try training martial arts.
Have you tried kettlebell training yet?
Don’t like any of those?
Go on a run.
At first, clients hate me for not telling them what to do. Don’t worry, I won’t leave you hanging. We’ll arrive at a set of experiments. If you say you want to try weight training but don’t know where to start, I’ll get you a program.
But the client from earlier?
The one who has lost 28 pounds?
She was doing weight training a few months ago.
Then yoga.
Now, because school’s out and she spends a lot of time at the pool with her kids, she’s doing water aerobics.
And she’s losing weight and feeling great.
Did I already say something about how it must be sustainable?
Why do you hate wearables, Marcus?
I don’t!
I promise.
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