The Unspoken Truth About Training
Ease sells.
If someone can coerce you into thinking you can get great results without doing a whole lot of hard work, why WOULDN’T you take their advice or buy what they’re selling if they pose their theory in a reasonable, intelligent manner?
We all want ease. We all want something for nothing. It’s just the way we are, but that doesn’t mean that’s a good thing.
The “it’s human nature” argument is a load of crap. If you get cut off is it not human nature to want to clock the bastard who cut you off? Of course. Is it right? Okay that one’s debatable.
Marketers pray on this very natural human desire to want something for nothing by twisting studies and theories to fit a narrative you want to hear (and I want to hear). Here’s the thing:
You CAN’T, under any circumstances, get something without first giving something of equal or greater value in return, and this is never more apparent than the health and fitness market.
You need to give MORE to get MORE. Simple. No “marketer” would ever want to tell you this because it’s not something you want to hear and telling you things you don’t want to hear isn’t exactly selling 101.
But it’s the truth.
To get awesome results, to build an optimal body, to be at your best, you have to do the following 3 things, and you have to do them consistently.
Ask yourself: Am I MAN enough to rise to this challenge, or is it just not for me?
I say man enough because a man, at some point in his life, has to come to grips with the fact that ease isn’t good for him, nor his family, nor his society, and especially not his body. A man comes to that realization and answers it with hard work.
Again, ask yourself the question above after you read these 3 points. From here-on out, everything we cover will be in the name of giving you the best possible practices so as to ensure you waste NOTHING, no work in the gym or time or discipline. I’ll give you the facts, the best methods, the dietary tricks that have helped me over the years, but only if you’re willing to do the following…
1. Experience a considerable amount of pain.
Do you know what REAL pain feels like in a workout? I mean that pain when you have to hunch over after a set just to ensure you don’t fall flat on your ass. The shaking, the massive voice in your head that tells you to quit but you somehow ward off, fight off, and defeat.
With the workouts I give you and those I recommend, there is one stipulation: you’re going to have to feel pain.
You’re going to get uncomfortable. You’re going to have to push yourself harder than every before. But I’m not going to lead you astray.
I WILL NOT waste your time or send you into the gym to do something that isn’t going to give you the best body you can possibly have if you accompany it with hard work.
But you HAVE TO WORK HARD. You need to push and feel pain to finally find your place in the sun.
Are you up for the challenge?
2. Build your body with your mind.
Focus, something that most guys fail to talk about, but something that needs to be discussed.
When you’re training, your mind is as important as your body.
a. You need to fight that voice that wants to quit prematurely or lift a lighter weight because there’s just too much pain in the muscle. The voice that wants ease is the same voice that wants to keep you small.
b. You need to focus on the muscle you’re training and the contraction in the muscle you’re creating. You need to make this painful. You need to put your mind in your muscle and make it burn.
You don’t simply build your body with weights and through pain and sweat and discipline, you have to use your mind to maximize not only the effort you put in, but the efficiency of the training you’re doing.
Don’t be lazy, focus only on what you’re doing, not only in the gym, but in life as well. Don’t let that brain of yours wander, its completely useless.
3. Create as much pain as early as possible (especially you muscle guys).
When it comes to both fat loss and building muscle, pain really is king. It doesn’t matter the weight you’re lifting, the contraction matters more. You want to create as much pain in the muscle as fast as possible, and that comes from the quality of the contraction and the effort and focus of the set.
For strength, it’s all about form and speed.
You need to focus on pressing as fast as possible or lifting as fast as possible, using your mind in a different fashion.
The key, though, to every goal, is to work your butt off within the framing and the context of a good program.
A bad program simply has you working hard with no real rhyme or reason, no progression, to Regression (we’ll talk about this later), and no real logic. In doing a bad program you’ll get results, for a time, you’ll feel good, for a time, but you’ll quit because the results aren’t constant.
That’s where I come in. I’ll test and prod and find out what will work best for YOU.
Again, as long as you’re working hard.
So.
Are you man enough to bust your ass in the gym. I mean REALLY work hard. This doesn’t mean DO MORE, it just means do what your program requires with as much focus and intensity as possible.
If you ARE man enough. I’m here to help and can’t wait to guide you to whatever vision of your transformation you want.
Here’s my personal email address: [email protected]
Email me any time.
I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
Chad