Tired of the way you look? Embarrassed to take off
your shirt in public? Good! Did I just say something
mean? Not at all.
If you are embarrassed then you might
just be motivated enough to change your mind, which will
in turn change your body and give you the pounds of muscle
that you are looking for.
Between the skinny guy and the ripped guy, there's a
small physical divide. But a large mental chasm.
Don't let your mind hold you back from achieving the
body you want.
Are You Training Perfectly, Or Are You Just Training?
The difference between the two is the key between looking
okay, and reaching your fitness goals as fast as possible.
It's easy to fool yourself into thinking you are doing
everything right. Hey, at least you are working out, right?
That's more than most people can say.
If you are like most people (including me), when you first
started working out you saw some positive changes in your body -
less body fat, some added muscle, more strength, more energy.
But if you stuck with it, you may have noticed something else,
too.
After a while, the gains stopped coming. And you may have
fooled yourself into not really noticing that your program
wasn't bringing any more results.
There are numerous reasons why this could be so, but two major
reasons:
- You aren't training perfectly - What I mean is, your program
is not designed well, you could be overtraining, under training,
not using exercises that are appropriate, etc.
- You aren't training perfectly (I know, it looks like number one above) - What I mean here is that you've fallen into a rut
or routine whereby you aren't making the most of what you are doing.
You are putting in the time, but not the work. Or, not the work
the way you used to. As the old saying goes, you are just going
through the motions.
You may not be challenging yourself to do more reps or use more
weight as often as possible.
Maybe you are now eating only 5 meals a day instead of 6.
You are drinking 6 glasses of water a day instead of 8 or 10.
Your protein intake has dropped significantly and been replaced
by more cheat meals or snacks. Before, you were eating one cheat
meal a week, now you are having a bowl of ice cream at night, 5
or 6 nights a week.
It's easy to fool ourselves into thinking each of these little
things don't matter, but they slowly increase and add up over time
to get us exactly where we don't want to be - NO PROGRESS!
It's important to constantly monitor where you are and where you
are going. Review your short and long term goals daily. Go through
your training and nutrition journals and see if you are really
doing all you need to be doing to achieve those goals.
You may have heard the time worn saying, "Practice makes perfect."
Well, I believe much more in the newer version of that saying,
"Perfect practice makes perfect."
Constantly review your progress, your goals, and why you want to
achieve them to make sure you are getting the most out of your program.
Building your body and adding the muscle you want is more
than just a physical process. It is a mental one as well,
and if you don't develop the necessary mental tools and
processes you will fail to achieve the body you want.
Thanks,
GGillies9@aol.com
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