Do you know these 5 reasons why you are skinny and not muscular?
I’ve been working out since I was 5 years old through martial arts. Plus I started doing hard-core strength and conditioning routines since I was 12. Thus, keeping in shape wasn’t really a problem.
On the other hand, I come across individuals who don’t look the way they want, and each time they speak their mind, it’s like hearing stories that is the same as before. 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…
Then I can guarantee you are this way because of one of these 5 things:
Reason No. 1: You Don’t Have Particular Understanding
* You don’t know how to build 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 always the initial step. The primary thing you need to understand is how your body works, how good nutrition and exercise changes the animal – then you realize 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.
Reason No. 2: You Are Lazy
* You know how to build muscle yet you don’t want to get going.
* You know how to build strength, but you think it’s “too much work”.
* 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 nutritious, but then it’s easier to eat convenience food and food in a packaged form
I’m a big fan of being what I call unrealistically lazy. That is to say, I look for the very best ways (specialized knowledge) to achieve the extreme results in the minimum time. Thus, I get in, get it done, and stop. You should be WORTHY of 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 No. 3: You Recognize 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 much that you’re this way anymore
* If you really cared enough, if it bothered 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 thin and not beefy or laughed at for being flabby. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself but don’t just say “this is just the way I am”. You can turn out to be whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve if you’re fed up of your present situation and want to change bad enough.
Reason #4: You Think Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is hard
* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and apply them to you
* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, hence you stop
* You follow books and magazines that touch on “battling the bulge” like it’s hard
Building muscle isn’t all that difficult. If you’ve always been lean, try to get strong. Your body HAVE TO adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.
Losing fat isn’t hard either. You eat clean and you stay active. Anyone who says they can’t find 12 minutes a day 3x per week to lose fat is lying to themselves.
Reason No. 5: You Are Not Persistent Enough
* You haven’t said “come rain or shine”
* You haven’t said to yourself “failure is not an option”
* You haven’t made a decision 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:
1. Come to a decision that you’re going to make a start and
1. Do it ANYWAY
I used to train with methods I wouldn’t make use right away. They’re not “proper” but it WORKED because I turned down in taking failure as an option. If you too develop the “do or die” attitude, you can attain whatever.
I will give you the understanding – or you can see it wherever. I like to think that I know the most immediate, coolest, very competent methods to make it – though you can acquire the knowledge you need from anybody. Besides you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thoughts. Just come to a decision to go for it as well as look for means to get it through.