Today, I saw Denise doing a lot of stomach crunches to try to make her tummy slimmer. Hmmm… is that really the way to do it? Will it really help? Recently, I have been listening to Snowball – an autobiography about Warren Buffet. There was a section of the book in which he was talking about how Berkshire Hathaway (which was rich in cash) and National Indemnities (an insurance company) was a good fit, because the insurance companies need to be backed by an asset rich companies so that more capital can be put to work.
By working together, the capital at BH can be worked a lot harder, thus NI can generate a lot of revenue for BH. Likewise, should unexpected things happen, i.e. when a lion tamer gets eaten by the lion, BH can divert its funds to NI to pay for it. The funds flow freely to where it is needed.
I think Fats are just a storage of energy, just like assets is a storage of money. And money flows freely. In the event of consuming more calories than we are expanding, our body will store such fats at our tummy. However as long as we exercise more than we eat, the fats at our tummy will also be converted to energy (just like how funds from BH can be used to pay for unexpected risks in NI). Energy like money will flow freely. So as long as we just keep expanding more energy than we consume… surely… those stomache fats will go away… without any sit-ups.
So, what the heck am i trying to say?
Well, i think the most effective way to lose fats is to just focus on exercises that expands the most energy. If we have strong legs and lungs and these have a capacity to work extra hard and consume the most energy we should just run. If we have strong stomachs and these have the capacity to consume the most energy, we should just do sit-ups. It is all about choosing the vehicle with the highest engine capacity.. so that the most fuel can be burnt in the least amount of time.
Since fuel flow freely.. and the only thing that matters… is how much it is burnt.
So work with your biggest, most fuel hungry engines!
Great analogy!