We tend to look for a specific formula when trying to gain success in something in life as humans. We look at successful people and we want to mimic what they did to attain what they have. I remember thinking when I was younger that if I could just be like Tony Robbins I would get all the stuff that he has. I was wrong.
I also remember thinking that if I did Karate like Bruce Lee did, my life would end up like his with fame and fortune. No fame and fortune yet. I remember thinking about all these things and wondering how come some people could manage to make it and others not. And then one day it dawned it on me. Instead of looking at the results they have achieved, I started to look at how they were thinking and what they were doing to achieve those results.
It is true that there are many sports in the world right? Yet in every sport we find individuals who really excel to a point of super stardom. Why is that? And if they can do it, why can't we? The first thing we need to remember is that all of us are individuals and what works for one person might not necessarily work for someone else because individual skills vary due to our genetic disposition. But we all can be superstars at something, remember that.
The answer that dawned on me all those years ago was that it doesn't matter what I do but rather how I do it. That's they key to success in anything in life not just sports or physical training. In order to keep this site true to the theme of teaching let's use some examples that are conducive to physical training.
You could lift a weight 50 different ways and get minimal results. You could have access to a gym with over 1000 different machines and still see no results. It's how you train that is important. It's what you do to activate muscle growth that is important otherwise what's the point of going to the gym then right?
This is what made all the difference for my wife and I in our training programmes. We used to do so many exercises, I really mean many when I say that. This kind of curl for that kind of muscle and this lift for that muscle and it was all because we had no understanding of how our bodies actually build muscle. Now we do and we share that with you so that you don't have to make the same mistakes we did and waste months and years figuring it out. That does not mean that you should not test things out for yourself. The spice of life is in trying things out for ourselves.
Familiarise yourself with the training principles and give them a try. If everything you have tried up to now has not worked then you have nothing to lose but absolutely everything to gain. Remember that training has nothing to do with equipment. It has everything to do with knowing HOW to get the desired result you want from what you have available to you.
If you haven't been active in a while then that's great because these programmes are designed for those who have no experience or who have not been active in a very long time. I know because I was someone who wasn't active for a very long time and I felt the uneasiness of not being able to run down the street or play a game of soccer with mates because I was so unfit. It's never too late to get back into it. Start here.
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