We see the adverts on most sites "Tips to loose your belly" or "Something's that the fitness pro's won't share". Well firstly if you click on them they usually take you to the same site where you have to pay through your nose to get a book or video on what is effectively a diet and exercise regime to shock an awe you - but in effect it's nothing different than paying for a few training sessions with a REAL health and fitness pro.
I also take offence to the notion that by clicking on some link you will go to some site which promises you something that a professional otherwise wouldn't want to tell you. Ask yourself this, why wouldn't they want to tell me? It would be like going to the garage to get your car fixed but then the mechanic saying "I can make it perform more efficiently, but I am not going to tell you how". Would you trust that mechanic? Nope I wouldn't either.
I said in one of my posts a few weeks ago that I would share what some of my tips for training have become, what the acquired knowledge of this experience coupled with the knowledge I had before this 20 week stint would bring out of me.
Well, I thought to share one today.
1. Patience
Achieving your goals be it in getting stronger, faster, more muscular etc it all requires patience - in my honest opinion. I don't believe in taking short cuts and I do believe that if you aren't strict with yourself on the days when you are meant to be doing exercise of such then, ultimately you will never achieve the results you were looking for.
Let me put it another way, if you want to achieve your degree in higher education, you know that you will set out on a course with a specific time duration. In that you will need to attend the lectures, classes, workshops, work on assignments, and finally take your exams. If you want your degree you NEED to follow those principles to the letter. You can't not hand in an assignment one week, and not do several exams expecting to achieve the same outcome, for you to get your degree you need everything working in your favour.
Bodybuilders train for years, in that time they eat a strict diet, they have a regimented structure of supplements (and other not so legal supplements) they rest when they can and they know that to achieve their goal it comes with hard work and time, for them it's all about being patient until the moment is right. So why should you look at doing this any differently?
Olympic athletes train for 3.5 years to aim for that Gold medal. Football/Soccer stars most of their childhood to make it professionally and with the hope of representing their nation. You could apply this to nearly every professional sports person on the planet - they had to wait to achieve their goal.
That for me is what training is, you can't afford to take the short cuts when it pleases. I don't mean throwing in an extra rest day or treating yourself every now and again to something not specifically in your diet. What I am trying to get at is understanding what your goal is. Understand how long it will take to achieve your goal - realistically - and work towards it. Set out a plan and work hard to achieve it.
Anyway, I would say that this is one of the foundations of training that I have discovered. I would ask any of you who has a personal trainer & ask them what they think about the patience principle and then ask yourself, if I want to achieve my goals am I being patient enough about it?
I also take offence to the notion that by clicking on some link you will go to some site which promises you something that a professional otherwise wouldn't want to tell you. Ask yourself this, why wouldn't they want to tell me? It would be like going to the garage to get your car fixed but then the mechanic saying "I can make it perform more efficiently, but I am not going to tell you how". Would you trust that mechanic? Nope I wouldn't either.
I said in one of my posts a few weeks ago that I would share what some of my tips for training have become, what the acquired knowledge of this experience coupled with the knowledge I had before this 20 week stint would bring out of me.
Well, I thought to share one today.
1. Patience
Achieving your goals be it in getting stronger, faster, more muscular etc it all requires patience - in my honest opinion. I don't believe in taking short cuts and I do believe that if you aren't strict with yourself on the days when you are meant to be doing exercise of such then, ultimately you will never achieve the results you were looking for.
Let me put it another way, if you want to achieve your degree in higher education, you know that you will set out on a course with a specific time duration. In that you will need to attend the lectures, classes, workshops, work on assignments, and finally take your exams. If you want your degree you NEED to follow those principles to the letter. You can't not hand in an assignment one week, and not do several exams expecting to achieve the same outcome, for you to get your degree you need everything working in your favour.
Bodybuilders train for years, in that time they eat a strict diet, they have a regimented structure of supplements (and other not so legal supplements) they rest when they can and they know that to achieve their goal it comes with hard work and time, for them it's all about being patient until the moment is right. So why should you look at doing this any differently?Olympic athletes train for 3.5 years to aim for that Gold medal. Football/Soccer stars most of their childhood to make it professionally and with the hope of representing their nation. You could apply this to nearly every professional sports person on the planet - they had to wait to achieve their goal.
That for me is what training is, you can't afford to take the short cuts when it pleases. I don't mean throwing in an extra rest day or treating yourself every now and again to something not specifically in your diet. What I am trying to get at is understanding what your goal is. Understand how long it will take to achieve your goal - realistically - and work towards it. Set out a plan and work hard to achieve it.
Anyway, I would say that this is one of the foundations of training that I have discovered. I would ask any of you who has a personal trainer & ask them what they think about the patience principle and then ask yourself, if I want to achieve my goals am I being patient enough about it?
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