Why Most Will Never Get in Shape (And How You Can Break the Cycle)
There always seems to be one common theme around the thousands of transformations I have witnessed over the last two (and a bit) decades. There are patterns of success and patterns of failure. Think about it for a second: It’s the same trainer, giving the same advice to potentially achieve the same result for everyone—optimal body composition, health, and vitality. These are the only two common denominators behind both the successes and the failures: trainer and philosophy. What seems to differentiate those who do from those who don’t is not the coach or his message, but the actual recipient of the information. Why do some succeed while others don’t? Here it is for you, and it’s so simple: The reason why most people will never get in the best shape of their life is because their organisation is extremely poor. They let life beat them up. They become reactive to their daily circumstances, not proactive. Rather than being the cause of their own reality, they resort to being at the effect of it. They never took the time to become the pilot of their life, only a passenger in their own body. If you truly want to change your body, your health, and your life, you need to become assertive. You must become deliberate with your day-to-day actions. You need to plan ahead for what, when, and how much you’re going to eat, where you will fit in your weekly workouts, and how you’ll get your daily steps in. No ifs, no buts. You need to know what time you MUST get to bed each night, not let life’s circumstances and poor habits dictate that for you. You need to know when to disconnect your relationship with your phone each day. Are you tracking your training, your steps, your sleep, the screen time on your phone each day? The main reason why most people will never get in shape is because they don’t take the time to organise their life. Most people look at getting in shape as swimming upstream in a river. They never truly took the time to understand why they want to achieve the goal in the first place.