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Making the wrong or right decisions can change your life forever! This is all too true when dealing with your nutrition and can make your efforts counterproductive. Learn new ways to maximize your accountability here...
We understand all too well that many people simply cannot train without the parental guidance of a Personal Trainer.
Having someone to be accountable to when you miss a meal, cheat on the weekend or slacken' on your training schedule can be the difference between living in your age old residence in the suburb of fat-ville or building a brand new home in the town of fit-ville. Making the wrong or right decisions can change your life forever!
Formerly, I was a professional trainer who specialized in 12 and 18 week transformations. I would recommend the 18 week challenge for potential clients whom were morbidly obese that I predicted would take more time to reach their desired goals.
During my time training my clients I had created a formula that not only managed to attain an extremely high success rate (I trained two clients whom became Body for Life Champions), regardless of the client's physical, mental, and social background but also one which made them feel accountable for their own actions once they had finished the challenge and began training themselves.
Body For Life
Body For Life is a 12-week diet and exercise program, and also an annual physique transformation competition. It was created by Bill Phillips, a former competitive bodybuilder and the founder of EAS, a manufacturer of nutritional supplements. It has been popularised by a bestselling book of the same name.
Not everyone is in a position to have their own personal trainer to be accountable to, so I would like to offer you the next best thing, the accounta-buddy.
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Start By Creating A Conscience
Below, I outline some of the systems that have been through the trenches and were most successful in helping people reach their desired transformation goal.
WHAT'S YOUR GOAL?
What Is Your Goal?
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Purchase a pocket sized note pad to write down every single meal that you eat throughout the day. This note pad MUST be pocket sized so you cannot provide yourself with the excuse that it wasn't filled in on a particular day because you couldn't carry it due to its size or inconvenience.
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Nutrition & Exercise Journal.
Anyone use a good nutrition & exercise journal? Something small-ish & portable. Preferrably spill-proof, spiral bound, with a small pen/pencil attached. Where you could track your meals (calories, fat, carbs, etc) on one page and then your fitness routine on the other. Then, maybe each section (week/month?) starts off with goals and ends with body part measurements (and weight, bodyfat, feeling, etc). - cra2.
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Write down every single meal that you eat, especially if it was something that isn't granted on your nutritional program. By writing this down you are being more accountable for your actions. When people cheat, the guilt normally follows.
Click Image To Enlarge. When People Cheat, The Guilt Normally Follows.
When you put that pen to paper and then read over you mistakes, you are blessed with a little more guilt and concern for you actions, and the likelihood of you wanting to go through this again is reduced.
If you ever have to write down a mistake on your program, whether it was going over your 3 hour meal intervals, forgetting to add protein to your food, or missing a meal or blatant cheating, be sure to highlight this with a neon pen.
"Every Time That Neon Pen Makes Its Way Into Your Pad, You Have To Complete Another Cardio Session."
With every mistake you highlight I want you to penalize yourself a day from your challenge. This is a day in your 12 week transformation that you cannot get back; you lost it and have to be accountable. Every time that neon pen makes its way into your pad, you have to complete another cardio session for your sins. This will be known as your damage control. You damaged it, no matter your excuse, you have to fix it.
The 4 Methods Of Personal Punishment
1. Cardio For Counter-Productive Behavior:
God forbid, cardio can be as entertaining as waiting to watch a pen write for itself, so when you are doomed to do damage control cardio, I want you to remind yourself of these 8 words as you are doing it - "it's not helping you attain your prior goals".
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For instance, if you set about your 12 week challenge only to hit a road bump and cheat, you have now sacrificed yourself to the sordid depths of damage control cardio. Whist you are doing this cardio, you are only burning off the bagel or the sweet etc that you cheated on in the first place.
Click Image To Enlarge. What Do You Want To Burn Off, Your Fat Or Your Food?
Your goal of shredding fat has now been put on the back burner because you decided to put a slab of butter at the front of the pecking order. Ask yourself, what do you want to burn off, your fat or your food?
2. The Coin Flip:
We really hope you don't have to punish yourself due to slacking on your transformation challenge, but if you do tend to loosen the reigns, so be it. Take a coin to the gym and flip it after every single set that you do in the gym. Heads will be your friend and will allow you to have your normal rest interval; tails will be your evil which indicates another set immediately with no rest.
Click Image To Enlarge. Tails Will Be Your Evil.
Some of my clients have had as many as 10 tails in a row, so you may have to strip the weight in order for you to complete your sets. This agonizing pain will remind you of your sins and will make you ponder on how to rectify this fault in the future as you bath in Epson salts trying to ease your aches.
3. Lunging For Lax Behavior:
Another great way to hold yourself accountable for you transformation hiccups is by completing a set of lunges during your supposed rest intervals. At the end of your workout, the thought of crawling out of the gym by your lips will seem more appealing than getting your legs to do the same.
Take a deck of cards on your next business trip or vacation when you know you might be in a position where you won't have access to a gym. If you want to maintain that physique you work hard for day after day then you will need to find a way to get a quick work out in while your in your hotel room.
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These routines can produce excellent results because one can do them at home, thereby reducing travel and post-workout nutrition time. [ Click here to learn more. ]
You can easily turn you deck of cards in to a personal trainer that is calling out strict orders to do another set. Here is the method. Shuffle the cards well then lay them face down on the floor. Get ready to sweat as your firing off push-ups and sit-ups with every turn of the cards. For red cards do push-ups and for black cards do sit-ups.
Click Image To Enlarge. Red Cards: Push-Ups Black Cards: Sit-Ups.
The amount of reps for each exercise will be equal to the number on each card and all face card (kings, queens and jacks) will count as 10. If you think this sounds easy then wait till you get 3-4 cards in a row that are the same color. The goal is to get through the deck without stopping and transitioning quickly between exercises with no rest.
Time yourself and try to shave off seconds or even minutes every time you perform this routine. This will keep your metabolism burning fast and make-up for some of those bad eating habits on vacations or business trips.
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