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The Myth of 6 Meals A Day

Monday, January 26th, 2009
by Caleb Lee

Do you certainly have to eat 6-8 small meals to keep your metabolic rate rise so you melt fat all day and keep a constant stream of nutrients flowing to sculpt lean muscle?

If you’ve been around the fitness scene for any amount of time, or have read some diet books or articles, you would think the solution to this one is a simple yes ” but the reality is

The 6-8 meals a day Advice Is A Cock-and-Bull Story!

The advice is based on studies made around the thermic effect of food (TEF). You see, every time you eat, your body uses approximately 10% of those calories (total) to supply strength just to digest the food…

When this was realized, people misunderstood the research by saying the more you eat (frequency) the more calories you’ll burn all day but then again this was an error for the reason that the math doesn’t work out.

* Six small meals of 300 calories (6-300) = 1800 calories total.

* Every single meal you burn 10% of calories = 30 calories burned with every 300 cal meal

* Total cals burned because of TEF = 180

So compare that to a normal diet of 3 big meals:

* 3 Heavy Meals of 600 calories (3-600) = 1800 calories total.

* Every single meal you burn 10% of calories = 60 calories burned with every 600 cal meal

* Total cals burned due to TEF = 180

So you see, if the calories are the same, it doesn’t matter how you break them up ” you’re still burning the same amount of calories and affecting your metabolism the exact same way no matter how often you eat.

Will Eating More On A Regular Basis Result In More Lean Muscle Gain?

The quick answer is not at all. Eating protein continuously in reality triggers your body not to produce it as much. Eating more total calories WILL result in building extra muscle but the meal frequency has not much to do with it.

More important for lean muscle gain is the timing of your meals, specifically the post workout meal needs to be high quality to make sure you’re getting good nutrients into your body when it needs them the most.

Will Eating Less Meals Produce Muscle Loss?

A lot of guys who lift weights consider (and I used to) that not eating 6-8 meals per day will put your body into a catabolic state. Which means because you’re not eating loads of food and keeping the levels of amino acids in your blood elevated your body will utilize your muscle tissue as fat.

This is not true either at least not to the extent that you’ve heard. Because even if you just eat one big meal per day, it can take up to 12 hours to digest” steadily releasing amino acids into your bloodstream the whole time.

When Should You Eat 6-8 Meals

In order to gain a LOT of weight ” you need to increase your calorie consumption to gain weight and put on muscle, so if you’re a big guy and you have to eat 5,000 calories a day to put on mass it might be easier on your stomach and digestive system to consume 5,000 calories broken up into a bunch of smaller meals.

If youre utilizing a lot of energy ” If you’re an advanced athlete who burns a ton of energy like Michael Phelps who eats up to 12,000 calories per DAY and eats like an elephant. Similarly guys in the military in boot camp regularly eat as much as possible when they get the chance but still result in losing weight

If you love it – A number of people may possibly feel more satisfied 6-8 eating lesser meals each day grazing for their food intake. I’m not one of those people but more power to you if you are.

I think knowing this will certainly help you feel better in your quest for better fitness, I know I believed this myth for a LONG time because almost everyone recommends it.

What Do I Do Personally?

I execute infrequent fasting. And I ENJOY it. I vary between a warrior diet style eating schedule (when I’m keeping my weight) and the lean gains eating style when I’m concentrating on gaining muscle mass.

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Do you know what to do when you don’t feel like exercising?

Monday, January 12th, 2009
by Caleb Lee

One day in the course of your fitness journey you’ll feel like skipping over your strength training session.

There could be many ins and outs. You may be pushed for time, you may be lazy, you may feel fatigued or burning from your last session no matter what the case is, you don’t feel like getting your head down and going to the gym.

It’s times like this when you get the opportunity to build your resolve, strength of mind, and “never say die” attitude.

Now is actually is one of those days for me…

My quads are still really sore from the high intensity tabata protocol I did yesterday on my rest day, plus I didn’t get enough protein to help recover.

And I must of ate something bad last night because I puke when I woke up at 4am this morning…

So at this point I have two choices: 1.) miss out my strength training session today or 2.) Execute the session as planned, but adjust as needed.

What am I going to decide on?

I’m going to complete my session as planned and get a feel for it as needed!

So How Can You Make Progress When You Don’t Feel Like It?

When I get in the weight room today, I might discover my warm up sets are feeling extra hard. Maybe the weights aren’t moving as easily as I would like.

I’ll probably still do my first set at the suggested poundage, however I may have to move away slightly on the next two sets in any case.

Consistency Is The Solution

The key is I’m going to get in there and do my strength training session just like I had planned. Why? Because I know it’ll be better for me in the long run.

Even if I can’t perform at maximum it’s ok. I’m still getting a TON of other benefits just by exercising.

Plus, I’m building the not quitting habit.

What’s more – you’ll never continually make steady progress – you will have awesome days, not so awesome days, and downright crappy training days it’s all just a part of the game.

The secret is to complete what you established and bring in the rewards for being consistent.

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Quick Fat Loss and Conditioning Through Rowing Exercise

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
by Caleb Lee

If you aim to count the calories and lose fat in no time while improving your anaerobic, aerobics and whole staying power but then you’re sick to the back teeth of running the whole time therefore you’re going to have a thing about this article in relation to rowing.

Yesterday I did another one of my rowing workouts on the rowing machine at the gym and boy did it kick my ass ” AGAIN! This article will teach you all about rowing for exercise, why you should do it, and the most effective way to do rowing exercises to burn fat fast

What’s Rowing?

Rowing is a physical exercise where you get on a machine with a handle affixed to a cable of some type and you put your feet in loops. You later row by pulling the cable backwards towards your chest as you shove with through your heels (resembling squat movement). The seat you sit on moves rearwards in that case you can push yourself away.

Why Do You Have To Row?

When most people think of cardio training they only think of running. Running is great and all, but I get sick of it after a short while. I absolutely cant stand long slow steady state cardio anyways, and any time I run I do sprint interval training.

But rowing is an awesome workout because it is more upper body dominant, and will give you a rest from usual cardio exercises like running, bicycling, and the like.

Its also one of the few cardio exercises that hits all the major muscle groups, including quads, biceps, triceps, lats, glutes and abdominal muscles.

Its awesome for your cardiovascular training, and you can perform interval training on it without difficulty for the reason that you can adjust both the resistance level of the row, and you can adjust your speed with no trouble (like on a bicycle).

In What Manner Do You Have To Row For Extreme Fat Loss?

Here’s the workout I did yesterday and the one you should try if youre in good shape and want to torch some body fat off quickly. It only takes FIVE to SIX minutes, but I promise you you’ll know you had a great workout!

Here’s how to execute it:

* Row at a continuous pace for 1-2 minutes to loosen up

* Work Interval: At the minute mark Row as hard and fast as you can for 20 seconds

* Rest Interval: Row at your warm up time for 10 seconds

* Repeat your work/rest interval 8 more times

* You’re finished!

Now’s the time to get up, tell your heart its NOT going to break through your chest and if necessary, you may have to puke. By round 6, 7 and 8 you’re going to REALLY be winded and think you cant keep going (this is if you’re really rowing as hard and fast as you can during your work intervals)

But keep it up ” you wont be going that fast in your last couple rounds but the important part is Intensity of effort meaning you are TRYING to row as fast and as hard as you can (even if you can only manage a medium speed).

Whats So Great About This Workout?

This is the well-known tabata procedure. Researchers discovered that people who took pleasure in the routine five days a week for six weeks developed their full aerobic capacity by 14% GOOD THING, they also increased anaerobic capacity by 28%.

Whats more, scientists noticed the people following the tabata protocol burned 9 TIMES MORE FAT than a group that exercised for an hour a day (doing steady-state aerobics). And your metabolism stays revved up and burns more fat for up to 48 hours after the Tabata protocol.

When Do You Have To Execute This Workout?

Give it a go on your rest days. You can substitute a cardio workout of sprints and a cardio workout in this manner with rowing to keep your body from adapting and for variety in your cardio routines. If youre going along with the DoubleYourGains 3-5 program you’ll have 2-3 rest days for every week. You could do this rowing routine on one rest day and a different cardio routine on the other to keep it new or just do this routine on both days, its your preference.

You’ll get a better feel for how regularly you can do this routine and still get well once you’ve done it a few times. So get out there and try it these days!

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How To Get Strong, Build Muscle and Lose Fat With Only A Barbell

Monday, January 5th, 2009
by Caleb Lee

I had a subscriber who inquired:

“Is it possible to build strength, put on muscle and burn off fat if I don’t have a power rack and I only have access to a barbell? Not even an Olympic barbell, but one of those old crappy cement filled barbell sets”

I know exactly the weights this guy is talking about. I think most of us grew up with them right? They were basically cement weights covered in plastic, and over time the plastic busted up and the cement started to get busted underneath remember?

I believe I’m showing my age :)

To cut a long story short…

Of course! Why not?! You can absolutely build strength and power with an outdated equipment!

You just need someone to show you how. Luckily you met me. And luckily I just read most of Dan John’s awesome “From the Ground Up”.

In this brilliant little ebook Dan John defines the “Rapid Ascent Program”, which made up of three exercises:

1. Power Clean

2. Military Press

3. Squat Move

And here’s how you did the program (from his book):

“The program was very simple. First, groups of four boys were given a bar. The bars were weighted from very lightmaybe 25 poundsup to perhaps close to 100 pounds. Each cohort of boys would lift one at a time, put the bar down, then the next boy would lift. The four would constantly move from lifter to watcherthe bar never stopped. The three sets (explained in just a moment) would not take very longin fact, sometimes it was hard to catch your breath in time for your next set.

The repetitions were very easy

* First set: 8 repetitions

* Set #2: 6 reps

* Set #3: 4 reps

The goal was simple: once you got all 18 reps (8+6+4), you added weight. If you started with a bar that was excessively light, the succeeding workout, you would be bumped up to the next weight and a stronger group. (Needless to say, actual variations could include making a whole new group with more weight, tooor whatever necessary to make the group work together).”

Seems easy doesn’t it?

That’s the advantage of this program!

You don’t need lots of equipment to build a hard body with muscles of steel… all while increasing your cardiovascular fitness and knocking out fat.

What you DO need is a little “do or die” point of view. You should make a decision you certainly WANT to attain your fitness goals, then you’ll find a way to make use of whatever equipment you have available to make it happen.

I love program in view of the fact that it follows the DoubleYourGains’ philosophy of training movement patterns rather than a bunch of exercises. The Rapid Ascent program has a press move (military press), a pull move (power clean), a squat move (front squat) and an explosive/hamstring move (power clean).

How to carry out the “Rapid Ascent” program for cardio and fat loss:

Coach Dan highlights that you could also acquire a great cardio workout and nuke some fat:

“To “hurry up” the trainingas if it was required, there were times when Mr. Freeman advised bringing together the Power Clean and Military Pressesone clean and one press, repeated for a total of eight reps. This was completed with a lighter weight. One could also execute the Front Squats after the clean and presses, too. I have only done this onceand it was an incredible cardiovascular exercise.”

So if you think you don’t have enough equipment to get into great shape and achieve your fitness goals you are wrong. You are wrong. You are wrong.

In fact, you don’t even need a barbell. You can get underway with the DoubleYourGains’ bodyweight program. You can do pullups on your door frame (for extra strong fingers) or just grab the top of a door and go to town (or a tree limb, anything you can hang from, etc) Have faith in me, if THAT workout gets easy for you – you will be a certified STUD.

And, the minute you gain access to a good Olympic barbell set you can start the DoubleYourGains’ 3-5 Program.

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Why Building Strength Should Be Your Number One Goal

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
by Caleb Lee

If you are wondering why I deal with strength training seriously and think you should too therefore this article will tell you why.

Read this article right away to find a number of good reasons why I think building strength should be your most important goal (although you just want to build mega-muscles and nuke lots of fat)…

1. Strength Training Is More Functional:

Ever needed to lift somewhat heavy? Move fixtures? Lift your girlfriend up and pin her against the wall for a sizzling make out session? All those things required strength, not necessarily muscle size.

Actually, at times having extra muscle is not beneficial – it weighs more as a result if you have to run or walk long distances takes additional calories to sustain, in short you have to eat further…

2. Building Strength Takes a Lesser Amount Of Time:

Majority of expert weightlifters spend up to 6 days in the gym and some even do twice a day workouts. If you’re like me (or most people) therefore lifting weights isn’t your permanent job.

You can turn into super strong training 3-4 days a week, and spend not greater than 20-30 minutes in the gym each time – DoubleYourGains’ 3-5 Program takes 30mins/3x week. That means you could be consuming 2 hours in the gym vs. 12. It doesn’t take long to improve strength.

3. Building Strength Is Inspiring:

Most people don’t have any goals when they go to the gym, they think “I want to look better” but that’s vague and undefined. Knowing you want to add 5lbs to your deadlift every time you go into the gym though is VERY motivating.

What’s more, observing the weights build and seeing how far you’ve developed over the course of time is very motivating and makes you want to keep coming back to the gym.

4. Strength Makes It Easier To Build Size:

Most bodybuilders today don’t understand that guys like Arnold and bodybuilders from his day all did powerlifting routines early in their careers to build high starting levels of strength and power.

They had a exceptional “dense” look to their physiques from all this heavy weight training. And were able to make use of heavier weights when it came to doing outdated bodybuilding style set/rep schemes – so it was much easier for these strong lifters to build muscle.

5. Better For Health:

There’s been many contemporary research that shows strength training helps to avoid age related diseases and deteriorating diseases.

To sum up: Losing muscle mass is an expected upshot of aging, but strength training in particular will tell your body to “hold on” to muscle mass as it needs it to continue lifting weighty stuff.

Besides, your bones will grow stronger too to support your framework of muscle mass.

6. Improves Self-Confidence

There’s nothing better than KNOWING you can lift a heavy weight off the floor or press a heavy weight up on top of your head. Or knowing that you have the strength to pull yourself up and over a wall up and over the edge of a cliff and things like that.

Knowing you are as strong as you look is a major confidence booster.

7. Strength Training Is Better For Sports

Strength is the basis for all other physical qualities. Increasing your strength increases your power, explosiveness, speed, agility, endurance, etc

What’s more, several sports – mainly martial arts – require athletes to have high relative strength. They need to be immensely strong for their size for they have to stay within a specific weight class.

There’s nothing worse than acquiring 20 MORE pounds of muscle you have to carry down the field, or move around the ring to avoid getting knocked out – and that 20 pounds of muscle is not doing you any good.

8. Strength Training Is Great For Women

The majority of women don’t want to seem like the hulk. They don’t want to acquire 20 pounds of muscle. They just want to get “toned”. As I mentioned in the past, strength training is the ultimate way to get the toned look.

So if you’re a girl you can get strong very quickly and improve your health and quality of life without taking away from your femininity in the least.

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No Pain While You Exercise to Build Muscle

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
by Caleb Lee

Everyone wonders how to exercise to build muscle, but eliminate the pain they get after the workout for a day or two after.

Here is how you can build muscle faster, while also taking out the pain in working out and rebuilding muscle.

Most of these concepts are related to basic knowledge of working out, however they must be incorporated in to your work out, or you will still feel the burn.

You really need to keep your workouts short. The first hour of your workout is the best to build muscle as you have fresh energy and oxygen in your blood. This means, try to get your workouts done within the first hour. Your workouts don’t have to be long to be significant. After an hour, your body will start to develop lactic acid, which can be harmful to your muscle building and is known to produce the pain and soreness you feel later on.

With this in mind, you must be able to get more done, and faster, than usual. You need to make whatever you do, worth your time. Lifting 80-85% of your one rep max is crucial. This is a good weight for high resistance, which will cut back your exercise’s total time.

Compound exercises, as you can tell from reading my other articles, are the best for building muscle and also losing weight. They work many muscles at once, giving you better flexibility and comfort with movements involving many muscles. They are highly recommended to exercise to build muscle, because compound exercises will benefit you the most when you are out of the weight room, doing daily activities like lifting objects, moving furniture, and any type of sport.

If you would like to do compound exercises, but you are nervous about going to the weight room, well you shouldn’t be. However, if you still just don’t want to go, you can do exercises to build muscle at home. Pull ups, pushups, and chin ups are some examples of compound exercises you can use at home, with little or no equipment.

To prevent pain and aching, reduce your rep and set count, while increasing your weight.

A shorter time while you exercise to build muscle will still be beneficial, as long as you are lifting a good amount of weight and performing exercises that work many muscles at once.

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7 Reasons Why You Should Front Squat

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
by Caleb Lee

I can practically assure you’re not front squatting enough or in any way. For some reason, you don’t see a lot of gym goers (particularly bodybuilders) making use of this time-tested workout.

Crossfit has gone miles and miles towards bringing it back, but if you’re not doing crossfit – it’s most likely not even on your radar.

This is a shame because if you want to achieve maximum strength and power build awesome quads sculpt a killer six-pack and save your “tweaked” lower back then you’re going to appreciate the front squat.

Here’s 2 reasons why you should front squat for a better body:

1. Get Better Quads – The front squat is an EXCELLENT movement to get bigger, stronger quads-probably the best exercise there is. Because you’re position is more upright, it emphasizes the quads more.

2. Get Rock-Solid Abs (Core) – Since you’re holding the weight facing your body, and you have to stay upright your whole core gets a great exercise trying to even out the weight and keep you vertical. If you find you’re leaning forward a lot when you back squat, you’ll quickly get stronger and fix this problem if you change over to front squats for a moment.

Front squats aren’t just good for building a better looking body either! They’re also really good at just making you more fit and keeping you more healthy. What good is looking strong if you have to sacrifice your health in the process?

Here’s the five more reasons why you have to Front Squat for better well-being:

1. Makes Your Other Lifts Better – Because the bar is placed in front of you, on your shoulders, the front squat is a lot like other exercises and strengthens the “base” of those lifts/presses. Power Cleans, Overhead Presses, Overhead Squats, etc all share the same “starting” position as the front squat. Getting stronger and more comfortable with Front Squats will help you in those exercises too.

2. Bad Form Gets Self-Corrected – If you’re back squatting with bad form you can complete the exercise at the expense of causing injury to yourself. The good thing about front squats is the form is self correcting: If you’re not straight enough you’ll drop the bar if you’re not holding the bar right you’ll drop it if you don’t keep your elbows up you’ll drop it. It’s an exercise that pretty much forces your form to be good.

3. Less Weight – When all is said and done, if you can defy your body with less weight (because you’re doing a harder training) then it is safer. Because the Front Squat is harder than Back Squats you won’t be able to lift as much weight. Which means a reduced amount of spinal compression.

4. More Natural Spine Position – You’re more upright with the front squat your spine is in a more neutral “straight” position. This combined with the fact you’re lifting less weight is healthier for your spine in the long run.

5. Lower Back Approved – Most people have lower back problems and back squats aggravate these conditions. But because your upper body is mostly upright (instead of leaning forward like in a back squat) there’s less force on your lower back. I started front squatting after I hurt my lower back.

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Exercises Build Muscle In Pools

Sunday, December 7th, 2008
by Caleb Lee

On a hot summer day, I’m sure you would rather do those exercises build muscle in a pool, than in a gym.

Well, truth is, you won’t build much muscle fast, however, you will improve your ability to build muscle by strengthening your joints, a slight body workout, and also great flexibility.

Your joints are crucial for lifting weights, cardio, or any kind of exercise. Swimming will be beneficial in providing your body the chance to build its joint strength for once, instead of only your muscles. This will in turn provide more strength, room for muscle building improvements, and less room for injuries.

Swimming provides you the opportunity to get a small full body workout, with low stress, but this should not be used as your only workout. The cool water will change your body temperature, causing your fat to be distributed to your skin, causing an overall loss in muscle tone. Doing this once or twice a week in your workout is best for results and to prevent loss in muscle tone.

Usually, you cannot directly work on your flexibility unless you are stretching or maybe a little in your workouts. While you are in a pool, your flexibility will be put to the test and it will also grow. Having good flexibility will help you to complete harder and heavier lifts and exercises.

Finally, your inner self will improve. Your lungs and heart will be put to the test under calm, low stress conditions. Holding your breath and swimming helps expand your lungs and pump the heart, giving you a boost in health. It would be normal to get out of the pool breathing easier and feeling better because of this.

Pool exercises build muscle; however, you will see better improvements in your flexibility, joint strength, and your health.

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4 Tips To Build Muscle Fast

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
by Caleb Lee

Want to know a way to build a better looking body… burn more calories… and more fat — even when you’re not spending time working out?

Whether your goal is to bulk up and get really big or to just get that “ripped” look — you need to know how to build muscle. It’s the easiest way to get the look you want. Here’s some tips to build muscle fast.

Contrary to popular belief, building muscle is not that hard. Here are a few great tips to help you build muscle fast so you can reshape your body and even burn more calories when you’re not exercising.

Tip Number 1 — Eat Tons of Food

If you’re exercising intensely, it’s VERY important to eat a lot. You are damaging your muscles when you exercise and they need good food to repair themselves and grow back bigger and stronger. (the bigger you want to get the more food you should eat!)

If you follow the correct diet you can build muscle while not gaining that much fat… even though you’re eating a lot. The important thing is to feed your muscles because they need lots of nutrients to repair themselves and grow.

Tip #2 – Do Plenty of Reps

It’s important to increase your volume if you want to build muscle. But don’t go crazy. You only need about 10 reps or so for each muscle group. If you stick to this general rule then your workouts won’t be too long either.

Tip #3 – Increase Protein Intake

Protein is very important for the regrowth and repair of your muscles. You have to make sure you give your muscles plenty of protein if you’re going to build muscle.

You don’t want TOO much protein though — some people go over board and some people just don’t get enough. Here’s a good guideline: about 1 gram of protein for each pound of your bodyweight.

Tip Number 4 – Don’t do too much cardio

Cardio is great for burning fat, but it can also keep you from building muscle if you do too much of it. So don’t do as much cardio when your goal is to build muscle.

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5 Reasons Why You Are Skinny And Not Muscular

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
by Caleb Lee

Since back in the day, I no longer have any trouble with regard to my external appearance. For the reason that I’m already into martial arts ever since I was 5 years old. And when I was 12, I already get down to hard-core strength and conditioning routines.

But I meet people who don’t look the way they want, and every time they open their mouth, it’s like hearing the same stories over and over again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are

* Skinny and think you can’t put on muscle

* Fat and think you can’t lose the weight

* “skinny fat” where you have no brawniness, but you’re just thin…

Therefore, I can verify that you are this way because of one of these 5 things:

Reason No. 1: You Don’t Have Particular Understanding

* You don’t have any idea on how to build up strength.

* You don’t know how to lose fat.

* You have no idea how to eat healthy

* You just eat take-out food and food out of a box since you don’t know how to cook.

* You don’t know which training program is best.

Knowledge is the primary step at all times. The first thing you need to understand is how your body works, how right nutrition and work out transforms the animal – then you learn 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 understanding you need. Yet it’s up to you to utilize it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.

Second Reason: You Are Lazy

* You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to put in the work.

* You know how to build strength, but then you think it’s “strenuous”.

* You know how to count the calories, but you create reasons in the same way as “I don’t have the time!”

* You know how to eat clean, but it’s easier to eat junk food and microwave box food

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 nutritious then you’ll never get ANY results. You have to go for it. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their entire life is one big mistake!

Reason #3: You Accept 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 weighty and unfit in this day and age is considered usual. 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 each and everyone survived on hard physical labor, everybody was in shape and on top form.

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.

Reason #4: You Think Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is hard

* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and pertain them to you

* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, hence you stop

* You read books and magazines that talk about “battling the bulge” like it’s hard

Building muscle isn’t all that hard. If you’ve always been skinny, try to get strong. Your body MUST adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.

Losing fat isn’t tough either. You eat healthy and you stay active. Anyone who says they can’t find 12 minutes a day 3x per week to count the calories is untruthful to themselves.

Reason #5: You Aren’t Determined Enough

* You haven’t said “come rain or shine”

* You haven’t said to yourself “failure is not an option”

* You haven’t decided yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”

The truth is: You can build muscle, burn fat, and reshape your body using just about ANY exercise routine and nutritional program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) boils down to 2 things:

2. Make a decision that you’re going to go for it and

2. Carry it out WHATEVER HAPPENS

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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