If you’ve ever not wanted to exercise, or forgo the nice food you want to eat, then I have news for you.
You’re a sane human being.
We often think that getting
I stumbled on a big lesson recently that underpins much of the success I've had with strength and fitness:
You need goals that are achievable.
By that I don’t mean modest and
Strength is a skill.
You get really good at it, and the byproduct is muscle tissue.
To get really good at strength, you don’t actually need to do heaps of work every
The beauty of this is that strength goals are purely functional goals, but they guarantee aesthetic results. In fact, they’re the only way to do so.
The challenge is to find a model for training towards those goals that’s simple enough so you can execute it every week, and know with absolute clarity that you’re getting stronger over time. If you can do that...
Here’s what no one seems to be able to wrap their head around: You can’t speed the process up. You can only make the process happen. Stick to it. And let years pass. Once you’ve accepted that, then the goal posts move from “How can I blitz my training and nutrition, give it everything, and do as much as possible...
Many people get thrown off the idea of strength training because they don’t really desire huge muscles. (This is common among girls especially, but plenty of guys for the same
Your emotional and motivational system is your ally, not your enemy. It wants what’s best for you, even when you don’t agree rationally with it on what that is. Your intuition is telling you something about those jogs, or those classes, or whatever screwed up program you’ve been spinning your wheels at lately.
One of the biggest lies in the fitness industry is the idea that we need loads of volume in order to build strength and muscle—numerous workouts per week, heaps of