Get Through It, or Get Better?

Here's a question for you...

When you are working out, what is going through your mind? Are you just forcing yourself to go from exercise to exercise so you can "just get through your workout"? Is your sense of accomplishment that even though you didn't want to do it, you dragged your butt to the gym and got through your workout?

Or, when you are working out, are you doing it with the intention of getting better? Getting better by losing more fat, gaining more muscle, doing one more rep, lifting 10 more lbs, etc?

If you start walking into your workouts with the mindset that you want to be a bit better than your last workout, I guarantee you will get better results than if you are just trying to get through it.

~Dave

You Can't Out-Train Lousy Nutrition

I see lots of people who are faithfully following a proper exercise program, but are frustrated because they aren't losing weight or inches. For some reason, many people think that just because they exercise regularly, they can then eat like crap and get away with it.

Well, I guess you can, as long as you don't care if you look and feel like crap as well. But if your goal is to lose weight, then you've got to get as serious about your nutrition as you are about working out. If you're not willing to do that, then don't expect to see great changes in the mirror or on the scale.

And as I said in a previous post, that doesn't just mean eating well. You've got to eat well, but what you've really got to do is eat well and create a caloric deficit.

That translates into 'stop eating crap and eat fewer calories than you burn'.

Combined with an appropriate training program, that is how you lose weight, because no matter how you try, you can't out-train lousy nutrition.

~Dave

How To Lose Weight and Why Diets Don't Work

If you've had a hard time losing weight (who hasn't?), check out this video.



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~Dave

Today is the Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday

"I don't have time to exercise."

"I'm too busy."

"It takes too long to work out."

Want some cheese with that whine?

Every day people tell me the reason they can't exercise is because they simply don't have time. That's not a reason. That's an excuse. Big difference.

Most of these people have time to watch Survivor or The Bachelor though. They also have time to keep up with the latest on Britney Spears. No wonder they don't have time to exercise.

Guess what? Fit people are just as busy as you.

You can't tell me you don't have 15 minutes to get a workout in. Wait, don't think you can work out in 15 minutes?

I just did.

I did a quick warmup of some arm circles, bodyweight squats, and pushups. Then I did a circuit of dumbbell lunges, incline dumbbell chest press, and 1-arm rows. I did the circuit 3 times and finished off with a set of ab wheels.

Worked hard, hit all the major muscle groups, used weights that challenged me to do 10 or so reps per set, and finished in 15 minutes.

Please stop telling me you don't have time to work out. More importantly, stop telling yourself that you don't have time to work out as you watch Survivor.

~Dave