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Adam Schafer

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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Yeah.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

And wads were words that I had never heard anyone say just 20 years ago.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Yeah, but let's talk about,

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

In what case โ€“ are there certain cases where you are going to teach somebody to track macros versus just calories?

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Yes.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

And I โ€“ so this is where I want to go with this conversation because I have found โ€“

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

to be far more successful teaching people about macros than teaching people how to have a calorie budget.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Having a calorie budget, to me, is very entry-level to understanding if you're eating too much or not enough for your body to gain weight or lose weight, which is bare, bare minimum entry of understanding weight loss or weight gain.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

But understanding your macros makes a huge difference, I think, in your success to body composition.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

There's a term for exactly that because of how common that was because you think that you're โ€“

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Eating enough.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

This is really popular on the show alone that I always talk about when I talk about where these guys get dropped off on a random island or place out in the middle of nowhere.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Alaska, it's a big thing.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Yeah.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Alaska was actually one of the last places they were at.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

And they don't have a hard time a lot of times catching rabbits with traps, but they're still freaked out because they're like, I can only survive so long on just eating rabbit meat because it's so lean.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Yeah, not enough fat.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

I also find getting a client to understand macros so important for just the individual variants, too, and how people feel.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Yes.

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
2842: How to Calculate Your Macros ; The Complete Beginner to Advanced Guide

Right.