Do you know these 5 reasons why you are skinny and not muscular?
I’ve never had to worry about how I look. I’ve been training in martial arts since I was 5. I started doing hard-core strength and conditioning routines since I was 12 years old.
But I meet people who don’t look the way they want, and every time they open their mouth, it’s like hearing the same stories over and over again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are
* A lean guy who has trouble building muscle mass…
* Fat and think you can’t lose the weight
* “skinny fat” where you have no beefiness, but you’re just lean…
In that case, I know for certain that you are this way because of one of these 5 things:
First Reason: You Lack Specialized Knowledge
* You don’t know how to build strength.
* You have no idea how to watch your weight.
* You don’t know how to eat clean
* You don’t know how to cook, so you only eat fast food and food out of a box.
* You don’t know which training program is the finest.
Knowledge is always the first step. The first thing you need to realize is how your body works, how proper nutrition and exercise changes the animal - then you discover how to make it do what you want it to do. In your case: change your physique for the better-build muscle and lose fat.
That’s why you’re here. I will give you the understanding you need. Yet it’s up to you to utilize it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.
Reason No. 2: You Are Lazy
* You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to put in the work.
* You know how to build strength, but then you think it’s “strenuous”.
* You make alibis like “I don’t have the time!” though you know how to burn fat.
* You know how to eat clean, but it’s easier to eat junk food and microwave box food
I’m a big fan of being what I call ambitiously lazy. That is, I find the very best ways (specialized knowledge) to get the maximum results I want in the minimum time. So I get in, get it done, and get out. You have to EARN the right to be lazy.
You can read every book on the planet about building muscle and losing fat, but if you never start exercising and eating clean then you’ll never get ANY results. You have to take action. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their entire life is one big mistake!
Third Reason: You Admit Yourself As “Skinny” or “Fat” or “Not Muscular”
* You think of yourself as “skinny, fat or not muscular” instead of as what you want to be
* It doesn’t bother you extremely that you’re this way any longer
* If you truly cared enough, if it worried you enough, you’d change
* You’re AT EASE with your look
Being fat or out of shape is considered normal these days. It wasn’t always like this. We used to be hunters and if you weren’t in shape-you were dead-end of story. During the industrial age everyone survived on hard physical labor, everyone was in shape and athletic.
You were considered “sickly” if you were thin and not beefy or laughed at for being flabby. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself but don’t just say “this is just the way I am”. You can turn out to be whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve if you’re fed up of your present situation and want to change bad enough.
Fourth Reason: You Believe Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is difficult
* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and relate them to you
* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, therefore you give up
* You leaf through books and magazines that point out “battling the bulge” like it’s hard
Building muscle isn’t all that tough. If you’ve always been thin, try to get strong. Your body SHOULD adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.
Losing weight isn’t difficult either. You eat nutritious and you stay vigorous. Anybody who says they can’t get 12 minutes a day 3x per week to go on a diet is dishonest to themselves.
Reason #5: You Aren’t Determined Enough
* You haven’t said “hell or high water”
* You haven’t advised yourself “failure is not an option”
* You haven’t made a decision yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”
The truth is: You can build muscle, burn fat, and reshape your body using just about ANY exercise routine and nutritional program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) boils down to 2 things:
1. Come to a decision that you’re going to make a start and
1. Do it ANYWAY
I used to train with ways I wouldn’t utilize at of the moment. They are not “proper” though it WORKED since I declined to take failure as an alternative. If you too develop the “do or die” attitude, you can pull off no matter what.
I will give you the know-how - or you can get the drift somewhere. I like to believe that I have the fastest, really intelligent, highly effective means to execute it - yet you can obtain the knowledge you need from any person. In addition, you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thinking. Simply make a decision and find a way to get it done.