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 If you are a regular reader of this blog you know that I have passionate feelings about staying the course when you have a plan in place. I believe that you need to continually verify your results and make minor tweaks when needed, but that overall you should be sticking to your plan if you took the time to correctly plan in the first place. This can be difficult when faced with so many different paths to go down. I recently had an experience with this during a conversation with Carlos DeJesus. Carlos and I were going over my M6 plan and he mentioned a few things that got me thinking. He made one statement about how quickly I would see results if I did a certain thing (not to be revealed right now). I found myself thinking “Why wait until M6? Why not just get on this now?” I was extremely tempted to jump on this new idea, but something came over me. I realized that I had been carefully tracking my results during M5 and that I am more than satisfied with what has been happening, so why jump ship and change plans now? I have 12 days left in M5 and I am going to stick with the original M5 plan until it is completed. Yes, there are probably good reasons for changing your plans at times. However, I strongly believe that if you take the time to carefully plan things out there is no reason to make drastic changes to a plan. I do believe that minor adjustments are necessary as you never know how your body is going to react to the changes you make. These minor adjustments are just that—minor. They involve things like a slight modification (up or down) in total caloric intake or an increase in the number of cardio days you have, but the plan should still be completely recognizable. If you are one of those people who jumps ship on your plan midway through it, take heed. You are not truly conducting the Experiment of One if you are not letting things play out to the end. You can’t truly know if something works if you don’t let the process play itself out. The next time you are tempted (like I was) to change your plans drastically while in progress, take a step back and make yourself stick to the plan. You won’t be sorry. |
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 My Cardio Coach ripped me through an intense workout today. He has a great line as he motivates you: “If you wanted to relax you’d be on the couch right now eating chips and watching TV” |
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 Failing to plan is planning to fail. |
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 Are you a plan changer or do you stick to the plan until the bitter end? Comment this post to answer the question. |
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Until tomorrow…GET BACK TO LIFTING! |
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