Saturday, November 22, 2008

Do you know these 5 reasons why you are skinny and not muscular?

By Caleb Lee

Since back in the day, I no longer have any trouble with regard to my external appearance. For the reason that I'm already into martial arts ever since I was 5 years old. And when I was 12, I already get down to hard-core strength and conditioning routines.

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:

* Scrawny and feel you can't transform your body into a strong, muscular, powerful specimen...

* 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:

Reason #1: You Don't Have Specialized Knowledge

* You don't know how to build strength.

* You have no idea how to watch your weight.

* You don't know how to eat clean

* You don't know how to cook, so you only eat fast food and food out of a box.

* 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 but you don't want to take steps.

* You know how to build strength, but then you think it's "strenuous".

* 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 healthy, but it's easier to eat snack 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 fat, but if you never start exercising and eating clean then you'll never get ANY results. You have to take action. 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" as an alternative as to what you want to be

* It doesn't bother you extremely that you're this way any longer

* 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 lean and not brawny or teased for being overweight. You shouldn't feel bad about yourself but don't just say "this is just the way I am". You can turn into whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve if you're sick to death of your current situation and want to change bad enough.

Fourth Reason: You Believe Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is difficult

* You accept terms like "hardgainer" and relate them to you

* You don't get results in 2 weeks, so you quit

* 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 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.

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 up your mind yet that "this is the year I get this sh*t handled!"

To tell the truth, you can build muscle, burn fat, and reshape your body using practically ANY training routine and dietary program. That's the reason why there's so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) amounts to 2 things:

2. Make a decision that you're going to go for it and

1. Do it ANYWAY

I used to train with methods I wouldn't use now. They're not "proper" but it WORKED because I refused to take failure as an option. If you too develop the "do or die" attitude, you can achieve anything.

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. - 15438

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