The Magic Bullet of Muscle Building
When the winter coats are no longer necessary, people come to the realization that it's that time of year again. Less clothes means more insecurities about how we look. As someone who tries to stay in good shape year round I have a handle on the things necessary to keep my body close to where I like it. Naturally newcomers, and even more so, people who struggle to alter their physique and health, often ask me what I do and how I do it. I could go on for hours about the subject. But really what most people want to know is what’s the "magic bullet". That one thing they might be overlooking or need to know.
You might be surprised to hear me say that there is one. Whether it’s building muscle, losing weight, improving overall health, or all of them, there is one thing that will assure success for the short term and another for the long term.
When it comes to developing a plan for improving your physique it can become easy to get lost in the details. Or as I like to call them, the what’s, the when’s, the how many and the how much. Things like which exercises done how often using how many sets and reps at what weight. Or how many days rest between cardio and weight lifting, should I do both the same day, which first and should I break my workouts into push/pull or upper/lower? All of these things do matter and have an effect on you degree of success. So, of course, does your diet, age, genetics, gender and level of current fitness. As you start to sort all this out you can see that the options for training become exponentially large.
You could sit down with the greatest fitness minds there is and after an exchange of relatively little information they could develop for you a personalized, detailed plan that meets your goals that would encompass every aspect necessary to get you there. The complete 1 year plan! But without the “magic bullet†it would be useless.
AMOUNT of EFFORT = AMOUNT of SUCCESS
Disappointed aren’t you? Most are. But it is what it is. You see the truth of the matter is that you will get out only what you put in. Nothing else matters, really. I mean it does, but only in degrees of success. The best built people put forth maximum effort, and then do all the other things right as well. But without the effort, or in their case, maximum effort, the rest is irrelevant.
I have developed a muscle building plan level 1 and 2 for people to use as a guideline. They are simple, effective and they work. You can add, modify, customize or use someone else’s’ plan, and they will work, but only to the extent that you put in the effort. I smile at the people that are buying all these internet programs for how to pack on 20 pounds of muscle, lose all their fat and do it in 60 days, as if buying the plan was all that was missing and they needed. It’s not.
Once you have figured out that my “magic bullet†is in fact the key you will have short term success. As you might expect to have continued long term success the “magic bullet†here is “equally excitingâ€.
CONSISTENCY
If you do not adopt what works as your life style, then what ever short term gains you have will be just that. I saw recently where Oprah acknowledged that she had packed on 40+ pounds again and was up over 200 pounds. This from a woman that helped write a book with her “fitness guru†and popularized the whole thing as the “here all end allâ€. So what happened? Yeah, short term success without consistency. She got the effort = success part down, and then began being “Oprah†again. Billions of dollars, all the fame and power imaginable, and every resource in the world at her beck and call and “fat city†like nothing ever changed. That’s because it didn’t.
The game doesn’t end when you set personal bests, can tighten your belt another notch or like what you see in the mirror.
My website is about giving you constant information about things that will help you be in the best shape and health in your life, for free, but you have to put in the effort to be successful and you have to remember every day what gave you that success and keep doing it.