Do you know these 5 reasons why you are skinny and not muscular?
Posted by Caleb Lee Web Hosting Friday 28 November 2008 10:15 am
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.
But I meet people who don’t look the way they want, and every time they open their mouth, it’s like hearing the same stories over and over again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are
* A lean guy who has trouble building muscle mass…
* Overweight and think you can’t go on a diet…
* “skinny fat” where you have no brawniness, but you’re just thin…
Therefore, I can verify that you are this way because of one of these 5 things:
First Reason: You Lack Specialized Knowledge
* You don’t have any idea on how to build up strength.
* You don’t know how to lose fat.
* You don’t have any idea on how to eat nutritious
* You don’t know how to cook, as a result, you barely eat fast food as well as food in a packaged form.
* You don’t know which training program is the finest.
Knowledge is always the first step. The first thing you need to realize is how your body works, how proper nutrition and exercise changes the animal - then you discover 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 knowledge you need. But it’s up to you to apply it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.
Second Reason: You Are Lazy
* You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to put in the work.
* 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 clean, but it’s easier to eat junk food and microwave box food
I’m a big fan of being what I call ambitiously lazy. That is, I find the very best ways (specialized knowledge) to get the maximum results I want in the minimum time. So I get in, get it done, and get out. You have to EARN the right to be lazy.
You can read every book on the planet about building muscle and losing weight, but if you never make a start on working out and eating healthy then you’ll never achieve ANY results. You have to do something. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their whole life is one big mistake!
Reason #3: You Accept 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 AT EASE with your look
Being fat or out of shape is considered normal these days. 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 everyone survived on hard physical labor, everyone was in shape and athletic.
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.
Fourth Reason: You Believe Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is difficult
* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and pertain them to you
* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, hence you stop
* You read books and magazines that talk about “battling the bulge” like it’s hard
Building muscle isn’t all that hard. If you’ve always been skinny, try to get strong. Your body MUST adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.
Losing weight isn’t difficult either. You eat nutritious and you stay vigorous. Anybody who says they can’t get 12 minutes a day 3x per week to go on a diet is dishonest to themselves.
Fifth Reason: You Are Not Persevering Enough
* You haven’t said “hell or high water”
* You haven’t told yourself “failure is not an option”
* You haven’t made up your mind yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”
The fact is: you can build muscle, lose weight, and transform your body pretty well using ANY workout routine and nutritional program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) comes down to 2 things:
1. Make up your mind you’re going to do something and
2. Carry it out WHATEVER HAPPENS
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 knowledge - or you can get it elsewhere. I like to think I know the fastest, smartest, most efficient ways to do it - but you can get the knowledge you need from anyone. And you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thinking. Just make up your mind to do something and find a way to get it done.
