Five Guaranteed Ways to Sabotage Your Strength and Fitness Goals…
1. Unrealistic Goals:
If your goal is to look like a model on the cover of a fitness magazine, but you are only willing to exercise 2-3 times per week, you have an unrealistic goal. Perfect physiques take years of work and lives that revolve around training. Unless you are willing to make training and nutrient timing a 24/7 job, you will not attain that physique. Get that image out of your head unless you are willing to make that type of commitment for several years to come.
2. Missed Training:
This should be obvious, but allowing yourself to miss training times is unacceptable if you plan to progress. To make progress beyond a bare beginner level, expect to spend a minimum of 5 days per week training.
3. Fail to Maintain Strict Nutritional Guidelines:
Consuming junk – in any amount – such as: pop, cookies, candy, bread, chips, beer, cereals, anything that comes from a drive-thru window, sugary coffee drinks, etc..
One planned cheat meal per week is fine, but beyond that don’t expect results. “Just a handful” of this and that does nothing but preserve a nice layer of fat.
4. Fail to Make Yourself Accountable:
Keep a detailed training and nutrition log. If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen. Unless you are logging nutrition, you really don’t know what you are taking in.
5. Focus on new movements/routines, rather than on weight, reps and rest intervals:
Sometimes the answer is simple: It is hard to understand this when so much marketing is done to make it seem as though every training method is the best thing out there.
Want to build muscle and to burn fat? Move more weight. Rest less.
Do not get sidetracked by 100 different exercises and new fitness gadgets that claim to work wonders.
Focus on moving a prescribed weight in a mechanically sound manner for prescribed rest/work intervals.
