There is a corelation between those who sit around on the equipment and those who make no gains.  They tend to be the same people!  My belief is that they aren’t at the gym to work, they are at the gym to socialize.  You see these people sitting and taking up the equipment and then talking to people who stop by.  They have their own little club within the gym.  These people are the reason I have always worked out early in the morning.  I get to avoid their social interruptions.

I can build muscle and burn fat at the same time.

I can eat well and still not gain alot of fat.

I can be consistent about my workouts.

I can blog consistently.

I can continue to grow because I have not yet reached my genetic potential.

I can lift heavy weights.

I can continue to get stronger.

I can teach others what it is I am doing so they can replicate it as well.

The return of the deadlift this week is welcomed by me.  I was amazed that my strength on that exercise has not waned at all.  When it was all over I felt like I had been through a major fight.  My body was already sore.  The main thing was that my mental state was incredible today.  I worked extremely hard through every single set.

Matty’s Workout Log:

As we go ahead with our plans we figure out ahead of time what we need to do.  We plot out the plans and then we execute them.  If we stick to them we see positive results even from things that appear to be negative.  The light is always visible in front of us as we move ahead.  It is a key learning I’ve had.  You only do well when you stay the course.

I can’t afford to make the wrong nutritional choice or I will have that much more work ahead of me.  If I were to skip a workout I put myself into a hole.  Imagine if we were to be fined $250 for every workout we missed.  How many times would we skip a workout in that case?  My bet is that our compliance would be perfect.  That’s how I look at it every single time I hear the alarm go off at 3:30 a.m.  There are many times that I feel like rolling over and going back to sleep.  I remind myself of why I am doing what I am doing and I get up and do it.

I was having a conversation on Twitter today and the term “common sense” came up.  To me it has always been a silly term because it is pretty clear that a majority of people do not have common sense, so how can it be considered “common”?  This lead me to think about how many people are getting mislead by the information they get on the internet.  How much of it is misleading and how much of it is just about these people not doing their homework?

Laziness is a major issue with most people.  They don’t take the time to check things out.  They would prefer to “try” it first.  As Yoda once said, “Do or do not, there is no try.”  This applies to everyone.  You can’t “try” something really.  You are either doing it or you are not doing it.  The word “try” is just a cop out so that you can later change what you were doing to something else. 

To me, the failure to stick to one plan for an extended period of time is a key reason why so many people fail at what they are doing.  It just takes too much effort to do the same thing for a long period of time.  Everyone wants instantaneous results and when they don’t get them, they stop and move on to another thing.