I’ve been working out since I was 5 years old through martial arts. Plus I started doing hard-core strength and conditioning routines since I was 12. Thus, keeping in shape wasn’t really a problem.
But then again, I meet folks who don’t look the way they want, and whenever they bare their soul, it’s like hearing the same thing again and again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are:
* Skinny and think you can’t put on muscle
* Overweight and think you can’t go on a diet…
* “skinny fat” where you have no beefiness, but you’re just lean…
Then I can guarantee you are this way because of one of these 5 things:
First Reason: You Lack Specialized Knowledge
* You don’t have any idea on how to build up strength.
* You don’t have any idea on how to lose weight.
* You don’t know how to eat clean
* You don’t know how to cook, as a result, you barely eat fast food as well as food in a packaged form.
* You don’t know which training program is the finest.
Knowledge is always the initial step. The primary thing you need to understand is how your body works, how good nutrition and exercise changes the animal - then you realize how to make it do what you want it to do. In your case: change your physique for the better-build muscle and lose fat.
That’s why you’re here. I will give you the knowledge you need. But it’s up to you to apply it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.
Reason #2: You Are Lazy
* You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to take steps.
* You know how to build strength, yet you think it’s “tiring”.
* You know how to burn fat, but you make excuses like “I don’t have the time!”
* You know how to eat nutritious, but then it’s easier to eat convenience food and food in a packaged form
I’m a big fan of being what I call ambitiously lazy. That is, I find the very best ways (specialized knowledge) to get the maximum results I want in the minimum time. So I get in, get it done, and get out. You have to EARN the right to be lazy.
You can read every book on the planet about building muscle and losing fat, but if you never start exercising and eating clean then you’ll never get ANY results. You have to take action. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their entire life is one big mistake!
Reason No. 3: You Recognize Yourself As “Skinny” or “Fat” or “Not Muscular”
* You think of yourself as “skinny, fat or not muscular” rather than as what you want to be
* It doesn’t bother you a lot that you’re this way at all
* if you actually cared enough, if it concerned you enough, you’d change
* You’re HAPPY with the way you look
Being fat or out of shape is considered normal these days. It wasn’t always like this. We used to be hunters and if you weren’t in shape-you were dead-end of story. During the industrial age everyone survived on hard physical labor, everyone was in shape and athletic.
You were considered “sickly” if you were lean and not brawny or teased for being overweight. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself but don’t just say “this is just the way I am”. You can turn into whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve if you’re sick to death of your current situation and want to change bad enough.
Fourth Reason: You Believe Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is difficult
* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and pertain them to you
* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, so you quit
* You read books and magazines that talk about “battling the bulge” like it’s hard
Building muscle isn’t all that tough. If you’ve always been thin, try to get strong. Your body SHOULD adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.
Losing fat isn’t hard either. You eat clean and you stay active. Anyone who says they can’t find 12 minutes a day 3x per week to lose fat is lying to themselves.
Fifth Reason: You Are Not Persevering Enough
* You haven’t said “hell or high water”
* You haven’t said to yourself “failure is not an option”
* You haven’t made up your mind yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”
To tell the truth, you can build muscle, burn fat, and reshape your body using practically ANY training routine and dietary program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) amounts to 2 things:
1. Come to a decision that you’re going to make a start and
1. Do it ANYWAY
I used to train with methods I wouldn’t use now. They’re not “proper” but it WORKED because I refused to take failure as an option. If you too develop the “do or die” attitude, you can achieve anything.
I will give you the knowledge - or you can get it elsewhere. I like to think I know the fastest, smartest, most efficient ways to do it - but you can get the knowledge you need from anyone. And you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thinking. Just make up your mind to do something and find a way to get it done.
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