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Norway is very rich, but it does not show the way it does in say rich gulf states. There are several reasons for this:Norwegian culture frowns upon flaunting wealth. Thus rich people avoid driving Bentleys and Rolls Royce like in Gulf states. The government is also not concerned with building large prestigious buildings. Thus there is no obvious sign of opulence in the centre of Norwegian cities. Norwegian politicians are not racing to build the tallest high rise with gold plated ornamentations.A lot of Norwegian wealth is simply saved. E.g. Norway has a higher GDP per capita than the US, but Norway is saving a large chunk of generated wealth each year. The US in contrast borrows heavily. When you save rather than spend it doesn’t leave visible trace in the forms of grand buildings, fancy cars and clothes.The rich simply are not as rich in Norway as in other comparably rich countries because the wealth is more evenly distributed. Norway spends a lot more money on people at the bottom of society. A tourist to Norway is not going to notice that Norwegian prisons are of very high standard and offer a lot of education and activities to inmates.Norway spend a lot of money on maintaining a spread population and maintaining its own agriculture. This is costly, but also means e.g. that food is very safe in Norway. Animals are kept in small units which reduce disease and need for antibiotics. Again self sustainability in food and safe food is not something you can see. And it doesn’t really make the food taste any better either. Probably the opposite ;-)So in short, yes Norway is very rich, but it does not necessarily LOOK richer to a visitor than most other European countries, Australia, Canada or the US.Also remember wealth is also tied to accumulated wealth. Many European countries such as Britain, France and the Netherlands have a longer history of being rich which has thus left lots of grand buildings and palaces. Norway has none of that because Norwegian affluence is more recent.

Let me tell you about my country. Italy had the record number of cases for a time, but now we are very much flat, at around 200 daily cases, most of which are very mild. How did we do it? Basically not sticking our collective head in the sand and hoping it all goes away.The empty streets of Palermo during the lockdownDuring the months of March and April Italy was in a severe lockdown. This allowed us to de-escalate the infection rate very rapidly. The infection peaked with over 6000 daily cases two weeks into the lockdown, as expected. It remained at peak levels for a week, then started to fall. By the end of the lockdown in early May it was down to around 1400 cases per day.As lockdown ended, people went back outside observing distancing and wearing masks (which are mandatory in the whole country in public enclosed spaces)Reopening didn’t occur in a rush. The government opted for a four-stage reopening. Each stage lasted two weeks, the next stage took place only if the decrease in new cases continued. Only in this case were more and more activities allowed to reopen. The whole process has been monitored, and the rules were changed and adapted to make activities viable and, at the same time, safe.Personnel in cafes and restaurants wear protections, and the way the clients are served is changed to ensure safety and distancingSubways, trains, busses, and essentially all of the transit system has reduced the places available on each carWorkers are required to wear masks, anyone who can telecommutes and works from home for most of the timeThese measures allowed us to return to live normally, just with a little extra care. Most Italians see these rules and the masks not as an unbearable obligation but rather as the tools to our freedom.

Never!Joe Stockinger deadlifted 184kg at 67kg bodyweight, at 89 years old.He did it for a double, and he was disappointed, because he wanted three reps.Most people are wormfood nearing their tenth decade, and he’s kicking ass.If you can kill it in the weight room, basic tasks like walking, getting up from a chair and getting out of bed are just a joke.It improves the years in your life, and the life in your years.“people with low muscle strength are 50 per cent more likely to die earlier than their stronger peers.”FIFTY percent? Hold my beer, pass me a barbell.“A study of nearly 13,000 adults over a 10 year period and found that strength training or weightlifting for less than an hour a week results in a 40 to 70 percent reduced risk of heart attack and stroke.”SEVENTY percent? Hold my daiquiri, pass me a dumbbell.It’s great for your bones.It’s great for your brain.It’s great for your nervous system.And everything in between.The only exception MIGHT be the joints, but those who lift weights don’t really show greater rates of joint degradation than the general population, contrary to popular belief. In many cases, they hold up much BETTER than non-lifters.With careful, thoughtful and intelligent programming and mindful technique, lifting weights is very, very safe compared to almost every conceivable activity.If there are 22 kids on a football pitch, and they play for an hour, that means there’s a good chance SOMEONE is getting injured. If you’ve ever seen kids play team sports…you know this is true.It’s never too early to start.“If there’s one physical activity that you should pick to do for the rest of your life, it’s weight training……and it should be fairly heavy”-Dr. Peter Attia (46 years “old”)Ponce de Leon died searching for the fountain of youth centuries ago……but maybe we’d already found it: weight training.Follow me on Instagram or YouTube for diet and training tips!