Simply Complex

How to make a simple thing complex –

 

Ask for a short answer 😂

 

Morning All,

 

In fitness there are a few rules you must adhere to.

 

Yep, these are pretty much non-negotiable

 

Training wise:

 

1 – You must training with/have specificity

2 – Progressive overload is needed

3 – Fatigue Management

 

Nutrition wise:

 

1 – A specific goal

2 – Appropriate calories for your specific goal

3 – Consistency & honesty with yourself

 

While there are literally hundreds of permutations the basic principles are almost always the same.

 

We want things to be more complicated than they are, perhaps because it makes it easier for us to come up with excuses for our own shortcomings and failures.

 

Maybe not, I suppose it does’t really matter.

 

We can discuss programming until the cows come home, what I’ve found over the years is that most people won’t really listen to what you have to say unless it’s what they want to hear.

 

You’d think by now people would understand the necessity to listen to the professionals rather than thinking they can do it themselves.

 

After all, you wouldn’t hire a plumber and process to tell them how to do their job, or as an investment manager for advise on to ignore it because you knew better. Yet in fitness this happens all the time.

 

To those of you that this applies to, get your head out of your ass please.

 

While we can all make progress to some degree on our own in a great many things, to get further we need help, even if that comes in the form of books, blogs, internet forums or generally chatting with people, we need to get the information from somewhere.

 

If someone claims to have done it all themselves call them out, because that would mean they didn’t use any resources at all, they simply just knew what to do. Yea… Not likely.

 

Been a bit of a rant today.

 

The moral here is this: Ask for help, don’t ask for agreement.

 

Enjoy,

Ross