The Recipe for Disaster

Posted Aug 31, 2009 by . This entry is filed under Plateau.

Stairway to the land of Zero Changes

Part I

Doing what you've always done is a surefire way to get what you've always got: nothing.

I've seen you. Day in and day out, you stroll into the health club, hang up your jacket and jump on the treadmill. Five days a week, 30 minutes a day, just like the infomercial says. Consistency is definitely not your problem; you just simply don't recognize the pattern. You can't blame yourself. Most people don't see it either.

But I admire your persistence! You skip breakfast, head to work, knock down four shots of espresso drowned in milk, starve yourself till lunch, then slurp up a healthy bowl of chicken noodle soup. (Or, really, chicken remainder, sugar strings, and salt water. But you call it lunch. I call it just another component of the recipe of disaster.)

You probably walk by the vending machine, eye that delicious, mouth-watering dark chocolate Milky Way and think, "I had a light lunch and I'm headed to the gym for a very tough work out tonight; It'll be fine." 

You get off work, jump in your car, stroll into the gym, hang up your jacket, jump on the treadmill and run yourself to freedom. Remember not to lose any weight or build any muscle, either. It's all in a days work!

Do you see the pattern?  Do you recognize it at all? You're getting nowhere fast and it's probably not that much fun.

Sure, you need some moral support, but if you're trying to talk your coworker to join you at the health club tonight you need to do her a favor and stop.

Why get him into the same situation you're in? If you're thinking that walking and talking on the treadmill is your ticket to success, it's not! Never was, and never will be, I'm afraid.

But how do you get the body you want?

By performing resistance exercises with high intensity, cardio intervals, and eating clean, healthy foods with proper timing, that's how. But anyone can say it. The trick is to actually live it.

Want some advice on how to make changes to your body? Then come by the TheMissoulaUnderground daily and subscribe to the newsletter!  I'm going to give you all the tools you need to change your health. For free.

Head to the contact page right now and send me a note that says, "help!"

If you don't, then you know what's going to happen. You're going to do what you've always done, and you're going to get what you've always got. Which is nothing.

So get a grip and let me help you.

Mike

PS - Tomorrow Ill be posting some nutritional strategies that will help you implement some changes immediately, so be ready to rock and roll!