One of my members was telling me about a friend who was going on and on to her about her new diet plan. She'd gone through her house, thrown out all of her old favorite foods, hit the grocery store with a list in hand, bought a bunch of food she didn't even know had existed, and rushed home to do a big meal prep with all of her new storage containers. She didn't know how to cook all of that stuff, but she was excited!
You know what? That's awesome. I'm glad she's made a change. But we all know how that often ends up. Here's where to go a different direction for more success.
"If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them"
-Jim Kwik
I heard Jim drop this quote on a podcast and I thought it was worth digging into a little bit. Here's the thing with limitations: Everyone has them. It's not necessarily a bad thing to recognize them, even. That gives you some points to build a strategy on.
Too many people, though, choose to hold on to and identify themselves by their limitations. They keep those limitations at the forefront of their mind, as opposed to simply observing them, gleaning the available knowledge, and forging onward.
There's a couple of reasons for this, beyond simple habit.
In this quick podcast, I get into some of those reasons and how you can start to combat them... leaving those limitations where they belong: In the rear view mirror.
If you spend any time in the fitness universe, it's not going to be long before you're assaulted by supplement ads.
Every time you turn around there's a loud advertisement in your face promising that this pill, powder, capsule, shake, cream, or whatever is going to be THE fix to whatever you have going on.
Just like the old traveling snake-oil selling "doctors" of yester-year, the supplement business is full of a lot of people talking loud, fast, and trying to sell you some questionable stuff.
Are there any supplements that are actually worth taking, though? Maybe. In this podcast I go into:
-WHEN you should consider taking supplements, and IF they are even a useful part of your plan.
-My "Basics": The supplements that, if you meet the above qualifications, probably would be your first go-tos.
-The "Next Level": The supplements that might be useful layered on top of the Basics.
-What to look for in a supplement and supplement company to make sure you've got a reputable company.
-The biggest thing that shady supplement companies do to mask the sneaky stuff they do that saves them money and takes it out of your pocket... with poor results to boot.
Want to get the down-low on the Supplement game? Give it a listen!
Some mistakes cross multiple domains:
Fitness
Business
Relationships
Life in general
Not building a firm base before upping the ante is definitely one of those. For example, this is the time of the NFL Combine, and so there's all kinds of really cool videos of future NFL athletes doing crazy training floating around.
I love those videos just as much as the next guy.
That doesn't mean, however, that every thirteen year-old kid who is three weeks into his training for football experience should be emulating these guys. At best, he's not going to get good results. At worst, he's going to get hurt. In the middle he'll just learn some bad habits because he's not ready to do those movements at that intensity yet... if ever.
It's not just sports training, though. Is there somewhere in your life where things aren't operating well but you're trying to just double on the intensity in hopes it'll work out? That's a unlikely. So what do you do instead?