Here's an idea: eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods, and ease up on the snacking. And don't act like you don't know this: eat more vegetables and fruits. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.
I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.
Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.
There is a price you pay if you want to train military personnel - they don't all come back.
Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.
If something is important, do it every day; if it's not important, don't do it at all.
Just tell me what to do. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I don't want to be here.
If it is important do it everyday
There's nothing worse than when someone takes a community education course and becomes an expert on how yoga is the best way to burn the visceral fat that's housed deep in your abdomen.
I said it was simple. Not easy.
Squats don't hurt your knees; what you are doing hurts your knees.
Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.
There are “bus bench” workouts and “park bench” workouts. A bus bench and a park bench look exactly the same, but your expectations sitting in them are radically different.
I only judge people by the depth of their squat.
Come, enter into my imagination and see me as I truly am.
Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.
Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.
The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!
Their highs are too low and their lows are too high.
If you're spending so much time at the gym that your mail is forwarded there, you're not dedicated - you've got a mental disorder.