Episode 474: Zarina Del Mar: Why Walking is the Best Exercise You're Ignoring

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1:52I think there's a lot of misconceptions. Give me a couple other myths in the fitness business. In a fitness business? In the fitness world. In the fitness world. Okay, so calories in, calories out. I realized that it doesn't work at all. Because first of all, it's not suitable for me, for my lifestyle. I don't want to count calories even if I have these beautiful apps where I need to put the photos or describe my meal. And our body is constructed more complex than just calories in, calories out. Because you may not even move. You consume food and you spend, let's say, it depends, but 1 ,200 or 1 ,500 depends on your parameters, calories per day, without moving at all.

2:42I don't think that you need to count calories. And heavy lifting and sprints. You need to practice. You need to find the best way, the best types of movement for yourself. Just your appropriate time, your appropriate way of movement. You don't need to listen. So you're saying a myth is heavy weights and sprints? Yeah, that is the only way to stay healthy, to get toned and sculpted body. Maybe they are selling something. Maybe they really believe. But many, many people, they are praying for researches like, oh, that's recent research telling we need this and we need that. I am making a research now understand the subject of the research.

3:26Who are these people? I was going to say, you know what? Men or women or, so you cannot rely just on research without practicing. I think most people, unfortunately, are selling something. And so when they're selling their own programs, they're going to like gear that whatever their reel is to the program that they're sending is selling, right? So if it's a supplement, they're going to say you need the best, you know, calcium. If it's a, you know, strength training, you need heavy weight. I think that to be totally honest, I think the best, best, best, best exercise on the planet is just plain walking.

4:02It's free. You don't need much. You just need your legs. it's the best mood enhancer. It's the best way to, you know, just get the circulation going. And like, because it's not sexy or fun, people think it's not enough. And it's free. So it's free. And it's like, it's the easiest thing in the world. Like, but you need to make some mobility because we have these bad patterns, bad walking patterns, movement patterns. Like even me, I feel... Like flexibility and mobility is super important. To support yourself. Before walking and after, just intuitively, what do you feel? Where do you feel tension?

4:38Work on this part of your body. Just move in the way you can move. Well, I think over, I think flexibility and mobility are extremely important, right? Because, but I'm saying to get someone from going from zero to something, just go for a walk, right? And I think like that to me is a gateway drug to all the other fitness modalities out there, right? If you're not even able to go for a walk around your block, then we have a problem, right? To me, if you can shift the way you think, how you feel and how your mood is, go for a walk and that will lead you as a ripple effect. Once you feel a little bit better about that, then you can work on your flexibility.

5:18Then you can work on maybe getting a little stronger by doing this weight or doing gentle movement. But people have to, you've got to meet them where they are. And the problem is with all the attention and money and popularity around wellness trends and fitness trends and longevity hacks, we are a society and a nation that's fatter than ever, more unhealthy than ever, more miserable and lonely than ever. What is that telling us, right? Like all this noise is just noise. Nobody's actually doing the thing that they should be doing, which is really kind of a problem in itself. So like to undercomplicate, not overcomplicate it, just tell people to go for a walk.

6:04And then from there, you know, maybe just drink some more water. Like, but people are looking for magic pills. And then it's a sad, I just think that like so much time and energy is being spent on something that really doesn't require any of these fans. You know, for people like you and I, like we're already at a certain place and level and we love it and we're doing everything. So then you can like supplement with like all the other accoutrements. But for people who are doing nothing, like walk. And these people who are doing nothing, they usually send me messages like, prove me. Is it safe? Show me that it is absolutely safe and it will bring...

6:44What safe? You're walking? Like any of my advice or any of my movements in respect of movements. So the one who doesn't do anything, they prefer to sit and to criticize. Those people, by the way, to me are a lost cause. If I were you, I would just delete that comment because there are people out there who just want to complain and be a naysayer. If people want to do something, they're going to figure out a way to do something, right? There are those people who are overwhelmed and have no idea where to start. And that's where I say, just go for a walk. But there's also, there's a bunch of assholes out there who just like, just want to complain and want to be a victim and don't want to do anything and will find fault in everything.

7:29You can't like worry about those people. You got to worry about all the other people in the middle. That's what I think anyway. Absolutely. And about walking, you're telling them this is the state of balance in your body. When you feel that you're supporting your body and your nervous system with your brain are doing their job and you don't need more. Like if you don't want to become super big, you don't want to become a bodybuilder, it is more than enough to just move all day around and to keep this level of physical activity. Like your brain will do everything. You don't need much. But we are all all or nothing.

8:12Nothing or the best shape in my life. But you can be in the middle. By the way, I'm a victim of that. I sit here and I should practice what I preach sometimes because I'm an all or nothing too, right? I'm the kind of person, if I'm eating and I've had a thing of French fries, I'm like, forget it. I'm going to have another order of French fries and I'm going to have the pizza. You know what I mean? I have to practice. That's my thing. That's my Achilles heel. It's really hard. I'm not really great with moderation in that way. But you're right. I think we are a culture of like, we're going to go extreme or we're going to like do nothing, right?

8:50And it is so much better if we can find a place where we can like be more in the middle and be more, you know, in moderation. What's your take on supplements? Do you take anything? I take vitamin D, omega-3, and some supplements for my digestion, because now I'm curious about gut health, about gut microbiome. And I'm exploring. I'm just trying to find the best way to feel myself good. And it is just, you take notes, you take any supplements for, let's say, for a month, and then just sit down and write down what's happening with you, what's happening with your digestion, what's happening with your, let's say, movement.

9:33Maybe what I've noticed, when I'm doing my mobility before breakfast, I'm feeling better than after. But now many, many OBGYNs and professors telling that all women should have their breakfast within 30 minutes after they woke up because this is the cortisol level, et cetera, et cetera. But what I feel it is comfortable for me to do my mobility. Like I feel that the range of motion is better when I'm doing it before breakfast without eating anything during the night. So this is like my body. I feel it. That's why I'm doing it. So the same with the supplements. Maybe you feel that you have gained like huge range of motion when you're taking your supplements or your mood become more stable.

10:19So rely on yourself, not on what... And of course, blood work, like every... I think you have to take blood work because how do you know if you're... People are just taking supplements willy-nilly. They don't know if they even are deficient or not. And they can be taking them for like years on end and they can overdo it. Like I did on vitamin D. I was initially told, oh yeah, you need to take vitamin D. Okay. So I take vitamin D like everybody else. And then lo and behold, I get my blood work and I'm way over in vitamin D. So that happens all the time. People need to be like, people are just taking whatever because they're looking on social media and they're like, oh, that person is talking about that.

10:55I'll do it. Like, you don't know, Like your body might, everyone's different. What you are might be deficient in or is very different than what I am versus him. And so I think we need to take control of that stuff. And don't just take supplements because someone on social media told you. And then if you take something, you should be tested every, I think, every four months. Yeah, I'm low in vitamin D. That's why I'm taking it. But I know that it will. But maybe it won't be in a year from now, right? Or people start a vitamin or they take a supplement and they just keep on taking it. That's what happened with me and the vitamin D.

11:25they can start taking something and then five years later they're still taking the same thing where they're now like over the limit so you got to be super careful but well thank you for being on the show thank you thank you jen uh just what i can say you need to move guys in a way you were you were born you were structured uh to move uh find your your joyful uh movement sequences anything maybe intuitive movement uh because many many of my subscribers are telling me oh wow I didn't know that this is right, the right way of movement, because I thought it was just my intuition telling me. And I didn't, I didn't.

12:05So many people underestimate what they are doing. But your body knows everything. I believe that it's like the main source of information, your body. Thank you. Where do people find you? I'm on Instagram, Zarina Delmar. I'm on YouTube. I'm on TikTok. talk. I'm on former Twitter. So Lingodine, I'm everywhere. Everywhere. Where can't we find you, I should say, right? Yeah. Well, thank you for being on the show. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye.