Is any of this stuff sinking in?
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I got a call from an old friend. In so many words he said, Why are you bothering to go to all this trouble of creating a website to share information with a bunch of strangers who are never going to actually implement anything you tell them? This man has legendary exploits and has been an elite athlete for a long, long time. His point was one made by others to me and basically suggests that this website is a doomed exercise in futility. In the old Soviet Union the lumpen proletariat had a saying, We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. My athlete pal was saying in his own inarticulate way, you are giving them information theyre never going to use; the methodology is too arduous and difficult for regular people with real jobs to put into play. You provide information and they pretend to use it.
I disagreed with him; periodically I get to see the results of the implemented information I pass along I pass along advanced methods used by top athletes to whip themselves into shape. I consider myself and interpreter and translator, not an innovator. 90% of the ideas and tactics mention on this website are rehashes of methods used by champions for decades. I repackage the ideas and put them into understandable language for normal people and those who truly thirst after transformation can have it by implementing the tactics described in the articles we publish. A sizeable portion of the general public are interested in fitness and things related but few burn for transformation to the degree necessary to actualize it. I wish that good intentions and fervent earnestness were enough to trigger transformation but as the old saying goeseffort is no substitute for success.
If transformation were easy wed all be walking around buff, muscular and leanmethods exist to trigger the proper biologic response but cogitating and implementing are two entirely different things. Further, just because you show up to the gym is no guarantee of success. In addition to being consistent you need to learn how to generate the intensity requisite to trigger the adaptive response. Nutritionally the name of the game is calories first, then content. The athletic elite know that when balance is established between the three parts of the Fitness Triad (progressive resistance, cardio, nutrition/diet) a physical synergy takes place and results pile up at an accelerated rate. When a battle-tested game plan is combined with regularity and intensity good things happen fast. When a performance eating plan is coordinated with intense training real change occur real quick.
My friend was contenting that I should quit playing primitive Prometheus for the masses; the complexity of the process and the intensity needed to trigger change was to his way of thinking, beyond the grasp of mere mortals. I begged to differ. I have encountered a particular type of individual that is ready, willing and able to successfully implement the triad. Usually these types have been successful at something in life, perhaps business or an art but the disciplined approach they used to acquire success in one sliver of life can be redirected towards physical transformationassuming they have a good game plan and understand how hard they must work in the gym.
I can provide a myriad of tried and tested fitness game plans and strategies thats the easy part how do I communicate to you using words the degree of intensity, the guts, sweat, pure unbridled physical effort and struggle necessary to cause change? My buddy says thats the impossible partthe civilians might be able to grasp the architectural logic and structure of a game plan but how do you impart an understanding of the envelope-stretching effort required?
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