I often hear people bash the idea of dieting, lifting heavy weights, or supplementations and it's super annoying...
It's always along the line of "I hate the word diet, I like to call it sensible/mindful eating", What that really means is I don't want to track my food intake or make too many dietary changes.
or "I don't want to get bulky, i'm gonna stick to the treadmill and yoga to get long lean muscles" which really means I don't want to lift heavy weights to give my muscle and joints the reason to get stronger, I rather lay down on this mat here and breathe hard and that's all I need.
or the "I want to do it the natural way, that's why I don't take whey or creatine"... which really means I'm too lazy to read nor care enough to maximize my workout recovery or correct deficiency from my bad diet.
It's always along the line of "I hate the word diet, I like to call it sensible/mindful eating", What that really means is I don't want to track my food intake or make too many dietary changes.
or "I don't want to get bulky, i'm gonna stick to the treadmill and yoga to get long lean muscles" which really means I don't want to lift heavy weights to give my muscle and joints the reason to get stronger, I rather lay down on this mat here and breathe hard and that's all I need.
or the "I want to do it the natural way, that's why I don't take whey or creatine"... which really means I'm too lazy to read nor care enough to maximize my workout recovery or correct deficiency from my bad diet.
The reason why these lines are being repeated over and over again is not because these people are actually concerned with the danger of supplementation, weightlifting, or making dietary changes. Well, maybe for some, due to lack or guidance or resources, but for most people out there, they're just flippin' lazy!
Too lazy to look up why including chin up in their program instead of curling pink dumbbells might give them more guns. Too lazy to make a conscious effort to track their intake consistenly instead, they just want to do weight watchers. Too lazy to join a gym or take advantage of the free resources online to improve their understanding of health, nutrition, and body composition.
What they want to hear from their doctors, trainers, dietitians and friends are the simple, shortcut stuff
Take this pill and your blood pressure will go down.
Drink this shake and your metabolism will be like when you were in your 20's!
circuit training is the best and only way to train and you can do it at my bootcamp!
use this cookie cutter menu that other bros did and get ripped in 3 weeks!
People wants the easier version of everything. They don't want to read about it or understand it. They rather just do it and hope for the best rather than being skeptical of what they're getting into and actually follow through with legit programs. They usually end up spinning their wheels and hand over their paycheck for years.
Lazy people don't want to hear the fact that most people who has achieved their fitness goals actually had to...
1. Read a book, attend a seminar, or ask around to find out what works best for them and be skeptical of the information they are exposed to. Ask questions and ask some more.
2. Sit down and plan ahead. This includes setting short term long term goals and steps it takes to get to each of them that leads to the final goal.
3. Work hard at it and follow through - true grit and actually do something different that's out of their daily routine.
4. Assess and Adapt: willing to change their plan if it's not working for them or discover something else that works better for them. Be willing to experiment and leave their ego at the door.
Julien Smith: Whatever you want is usually easier to get than you think, as long as you are willing to adapt and do what is necessary.
So, rather putting in the time and effort to do what it takes and have been done for decades, lazy people rather give their money away to something they heard on the radio (HCG diet), told by the salesman (GNC), presribed by their doctor (Liptor), or listen to their dumb and still fat girlfriends from zumba class to do this new diet they heard on the Dr.Oz's show.
Just do this and you'll get lean without sweating, eating less, or understand how the body works! hooray!
Too lazy to look up why including chin up in their program instead of curling pink dumbbells might give them more guns. Too lazy to make a conscious effort to track their intake consistenly instead, they just want to do weight watchers. Too lazy to join a gym or take advantage of the free resources online to improve their understanding of health, nutrition, and body composition.
What they want to hear from their doctors, trainers, dietitians and friends are the simple, shortcut stuff
Take this pill and your blood pressure will go down.
Drink this shake and your metabolism will be like when you were in your 20's!
circuit training is the best and only way to train and you can do it at my bootcamp!
use this cookie cutter menu that other bros did and get ripped in 3 weeks!
People wants the easier version of everything. They don't want to read about it or understand it. They rather just do it and hope for the best rather than being skeptical of what they're getting into and actually follow through with legit programs. They usually end up spinning their wheels and hand over their paycheck for years.
Lazy people don't want to hear the fact that most people who has achieved their fitness goals actually had to...
1. Read a book, attend a seminar, or ask around to find out what works best for them and be skeptical of the information they are exposed to. Ask questions and ask some more.
2. Sit down and plan ahead. This includes setting short term long term goals and steps it takes to get to each of them that leads to the final goal.
3. Work hard at it and follow through - true grit and actually do something different that's out of their daily routine.
4. Assess and Adapt: willing to change their plan if it's not working for them or discover something else that works better for them. Be willing to experiment and leave their ego at the door.
Julien Smith: Whatever you want is usually easier to get than you think, as long as you are willing to adapt and do what is necessary.
So, rather putting in the time and effort to do what it takes and have been done for decades, lazy people rather give their money away to something they heard on the radio (HCG diet), told by the salesman (GNC), presribed by their doctor (Liptor), or listen to their dumb and still fat girlfriends from zumba class to do this new diet they heard on the Dr.Oz's show.
Just do this and you'll get lean without sweating, eating less, or understand how the body works! hooray!
I hate shortcuts and false-promises. This post is about why we must do what it takes to get what we want out of life. Today I will focus mainly on the diet side of things. To understand why and how to train hard, read this and this.Why We Diet
Being on a diet simply means changing your dietary intake for a specific goal you have in mind. Weight loss? muscle gain? recovery? allergies? photoshoots? performance?
The word "diet" has been overly used in the media for the past 2 decades and has become somewhat of a dirty word (same for calorie-counting). A lot of fad diets out there will run headlines like "say no to dieting by doing these 3 easy steps for a healthier you!" or "never count calories again using these 10 grocery shopping tips!" or "eat like jennifer aniston and never have to train hard again!"
The truth is, if you stop drinking regular soda and switched to diet soda or water, you've just made a dietary change to take in less calorie. Therefore, you dieted and that's ok.
If you start supplementing caffeine during workouts which in term boosts performance, eating more fish or fish oil capsules to get a good omega 3:6 balance, fast longer to increase thermogenesis, or switching from regular milk to lactaid milk due to inability to process lactose, you've made a change in your diet to improve your current condition.
All of these modifications basically put you in a diet mode long enough to reach your goal (or become part of your lifestyle for food tolerances or weight maintenance reasons).
I agree that dieting shouldn't be a forever thing but it is something you must do to reach your goal RIGHT EFFIN' NOW. The idea of dieting, training hard, and supplemenations doesn't have to be a horrible, miserable, or dirty thing.
Caloric Deficits In Disguised
Don't be fooled by these commercial diets you see on tv or in the magazines. What they do is trick you into cutting calories without you knowing it. You still end up showing up to the gym and put in the time to do the program and get hungry from time to time. Whatever whacky ideas, supplements, fitness products, magazines tips, and commercials they are trying to sell you, you still have to do things differently because let's face it, what you're doing now is obviously not working.
The problem is, are those things really worth the money? did you really think you needed that fancy heart rate monitor to make sure you're in the fat burning zone when you haven't even tried eat less? Do you really need that post workout shake within the 30min window when you could have gone home and cook a meal? did you need to pay someone $120/hr to show you how to run on the treadmell or balance yourself on a bosu ball?
The problem with these cookie-cutter programs that promise quick fix and easy to do steps is that they are only external motivators that only works in the shortrun. Same for hiring someone or installing a treadmill in your living room.
The drive to improve your current condition through hard work isn't really coming from you. You had to use visual cues, constant texts from your workout buddies, pictures of models on your fridge, and your doctor visits to constantly put you back in your dieting mode. Not that they aren't good motivators but, they usually aren't sustainable.
Nothing wrong with having a little accountability from your friends, coaches, or a professional but if you really want to change something about yourself, you have to want it bad enough that you can do it yourself when nobody is there to help you. others can only help you so much along the way.
The best and lasting motivations has to come from within.
You got to embrace the idea that you have to diet and train hard ( or accept change) if you ever want to look like Tyler Durden or Ryan Reynolds. Realize that it's hard work that gets successful people where they at today. Put down the Shape magazines and pick up a real training book. Do the grunt work of learning more about nutrition, reading food labels, supplements, so you have some basic knowledge of the human body which will enable you to master it.
The problem is, are those things really worth the money? did you really think you needed that fancy heart rate monitor to make sure you're in the fat burning zone when you haven't even tried eat less? Do you really need that post workout shake within the 30min window when you could have gone home and cook a meal? did you need to pay someone $120/hr to show you how to run on the treadmell or balance yourself on a bosu ball?
The problem with these cookie-cutter programs that promise quick fix and easy to do steps is that they are only external motivators that only works in the shortrun. Same for hiring someone or installing a treadmill in your living room.
The drive to improve your current condition through hard work isn't really coming from you. You had to use visual cues, constant texts from your workout buddies, pictures of models on your fridge, and your doctor visits to constantly put you back in your dieting mode. Not that they aren't good motivators but, they usually aren't sustainable.
Nothing wrong with having a little accountability from your friends, coaches, or a professional but if you really want to change something about yourself, you have to want it bad enough that you can do it yourself when nobody is there to help you. others can only help you so much along the way.
The best and lasting motivations has to come from within.
You got to embrace the idea that you have to diet and train hard ( or accept change) if you ever want to look like Tyler Durden or Ryan Reynolds. Realize that it's hard work that gets successful people where they at today. Put down the Shape magazines and pick up a real training book. Do the grunt work of learning more about nutrition, reading food labels, supplements, so you have some basic knowledge of the human body which will enable you to master it.
Stop looking for shortcuts! Anything that promises weight loss of 20lb/month is not all fat (Master Cleanse, anyone?). Anything that promises mass gain of 20lb/month is not all muscle (Tim Ferris?).
If you don't know where to start, look it up. Allot spare time to learn what you need to do to reach your goal. Allot resources you need to hire a professional that can help you. Allot your energy to practice the things that needs to be practiced to get good at it. You have to have a real desire for greatness, be self-motivatedm, commited, and not afraid of pain. You have to start from step 1 to get to step 2 and all the way to the end goal.
How Do We Commit?
To make ourselves fully committed to a certain goal, first of all we have to see the goal as something that we really want for ourselves and ourselves only. This alone will require some self-meditation.Second, is the goal something obtainable? Can you see yourself lifting that much weight? or sporting a six-pack in 6 month? or making the basketball team next season? If you have doubts, talk to others who's been there and done that. People who are at the top of their game usually love to share their journey and achievements. If you don't have any role models, watch videos or read articles about others' experiences. Then you evaluate whether your goal is fitting for you.
Third, How do you get there? Educate yourself on the realistic steps needed to get from point A to point B. Try working backwards if that helps. If you want to master the clean and jerk, you have to be strong enough to hold the bar above your head first before considering jerking it off your shoulder or pulling it off the floor. So you do plenty push press or overhead squat to get your shoulder strong enough. Same for the catch, if you can't front squat and hang clean properly, you can't expect to be good at a power clean.
Cut Out Crap
If you want to get stronger, save your energy for strength trianing, optimize your recovery by eating more protein and stop running for no good reason. If you need to eat out less and cook more often, manage your time by cutting out tv/facebook time to do so. If you need to save money to hire a trainer, maybe you don't need that big ass tv for christmas or the ridiculous $120/month phone plan you're on.
Stop F**king Around like this guy
and start doing things that will get you closer to where you want to be!
Here are more examples of 'do what it takes' that should be common sense to people yet they rather stay in their current situation and bi*ch about it all day long... excuses like not having enough time, inferior genetics, embarrass to workout at the gym, or claiming they're plain o' ignorant about everything.
If you want a 250lb bench press, you lift heavier every time consistently until your muscle adapt to that poundage.
If your husband beats you, leave him or stop complaining about it!
If you want your dream job, you study, pass tests, write papers, do internship, and cultivate your interview/people skills.
If you want a better vertical jump, you do more vertical jumps.
If you want a girlfriend, you have to leave the house first and meet people!
If you're a struggling single parent with kids to feed, shop at the dollar store, stop buying sh*t, pick up extra hours, and consider getting more education and stop making babies.
If your husband beats you, leave him or stop complaining about it!
If you want your dream job, you study, pass tests, write papers, do internship, and cultivate your interview/people skills.
If you want a better vertical jump, you do more vertical jumps.
If you want a girlfriend, you have to leave the house first and meet people!
If you're a struggling single parent with kids to feed, shop at the dollar store, stop buying sh*t, pick up extra hours, and consider getting more education and stop making babies.
It's that simple!
Simple Does Not Mean Easy
If you have done the things I mentioned above, why can't you do the same for weight loss? Why can't you train more or push yourself harder? Why didn't you get that job or read that book you know it's good for you? Why do you keep making excuses?
If you have done the things I mentioned above, why can't you do the same for weight loss? Why can't you train more or push yourself harder? Why didn't you get that job or read that book you know it's good for you? Why do you keep making excuses?
Dieting for weight loss is not that different. You track your food intake and make sure it's less than your body needs. Eat things that are more satiating (fiber, water, protein, bigger meals) to prevent hunger. Then you repeat it long enough to see results. It's simple but simplicity does not always means it's easy. Dont fall for shortcuts!
If you are afraid of the idea of dieting, afraid to train hard, afraid to count calories, afraid to lose your leisure time, afraid to put your ego aside and seek help and ask questions, you need to get your priorities straight or else you don't deserve greatness.
"Regardless of genetics, gender or age, each of us has tremendous power to improve physique, fitness and health; but very few people fully exploit this power because so few people train in a way that is truly appropriate to them. Circiumstance of life make some decision more likely than others, each person is responsible for his or her own exercise program's results. You decide which exercises you use, how you perform them, and how often you train. You decide when you quit a set, when you go to sleep, how well you eat. You alone are responsible for your porgress in the gym, accept responsiblity for having created the current state of your physique and fitness. Then assume the responbility for changing what you do no like." - Stuart McRobert
"Regardless of genetics, gender or age, each of us has tremendous power to improve physique, fitness and health; but very few people fully exploit this power because so few people train in a way that is truly appropriate to them. Circiumstance of life make some decision more likely than others, each person is responsible for his or her own exercise program's results. You decide which exercises you use, how you perform them, and how often you train. You decide when you quit a set, when you go to sleep, how well you eat. You alone are responsible for your porgress in the gym, accept responsiblity for having created the current state of your physique and fitness. Then assume the responbility for changing what you do no like." - Stuart McRobert
Now Get To Work!
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