Skinny and Not Muscular? Know these 5 reasons now!
November 30th, 2008 Posted by: Caleb Lee
I’ve been working out since I was 5 years old through martial arts. Plus I started doing hard-core strength and conditioning routines since I was 12. Thus, keeping in shape wasn’t really a problem.
But I meet people who don’t look the way they want, and every time they open their mouth, it’s like hearing the same stories over and over again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are
* Scrawny and feel you can’t transform your body into a strong, muscular, powerful specimen…
* Overweight and think you can’t go on a diet…
* “skinny fat” where you have no muscularity, but you’re just skinny
In that case, I know for certain that you are this way because of one of these 5 things:
First Reason: You Lack Specialized Knowledge
* You don’t have any idea on how to build up strength.
* You have no idea how to watch your weight.
* You don’t know how to eat clean
* You don’t know how to cook, as a result, you barely eat fast food as well as food in a packaged form.
* You don’t know which training program is the greatest.
Knowledge is always the initial step. The primary thing you need to understand is how your body works, how good nutrition and exercise changes the animal - then you realize how to make it do what you want it to do. In your case: change your physique for the better-build muscle and lose fat.
That’s why you’re here. I will give you the understanding you need. Yet it’s up to you to utilize it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.
Reason #2: You Are Lazy
* You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to put in the work.
* You know how to build strength, but you think it’s “too much work”.
* You know how to burn fat, but you make excuses like “I don’t have the time!”
* You know how to eat healthy, but it’s easier to eat snack food and microwave box food
I’m a big fan of being what I call ambitiously lazy. That is, I find the very best ways (specialized knowledge) to get the maximum results I want in the minimum time. So I get in, get it done, and get out. You have to EARN the right to be lazy.
You can read every book on the planet about building muscle and losing fat, but if you never start exercising and eating clean then you’ll never get ANY results. You have to take action. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their entire life is one big mistake!
Third Reason: You Admit Yourself As “Skinny” or “Fat” or “Not Muscular”
* You think of yourself as “skinny, fat or not muscular” rather than as what you want to be
* It doesn’t bother you a lot that you’re this way at all
* If you truly cared enough, if it worried you enough, you’d change
* You’re COMFORTABLE with your appearance.
Being fat or out of shape is considered normal these days. It wasn’t always like this. We used to be hunters and if you weren’t in shape-you were dead-end of story. During the industrial age everyone survived on hard physical labor, everyone was in shape and athletic.
You were considered “sickly” if you were thin and not beefy or laughed at for being flabby. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself but don’t just say “this is just the way I am”. You can turn out to be whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve if you’re fed up of your present situation and want to change bad enough.
Fourth Reason: You Believe Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is difficult
* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and relate them to you
* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, so you quit
* You leaf through books and magazines that point out “battling the bulge” like it’s hard
Building muscle isn’t all that difficult. If you’ve always been lean, try to get strong. Your body HAVE TO adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.
Losing fat isn’t tough either. You eat healthy and you stay active. Anyone who says they can’t find 12 minutes a day 3x per week to count the calories is untruthful to themselves.
Fifth Reason: You Are Not Persevering Enough
* You haven’t said “come rain or shine”
* You haven’t told yourself “failure is not an option”
* You haven’t decided yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”
The truth is: You can build muscle, burn fat, and reshape your body using just about ANY exercise routine and nutritional program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) boils down to 2 things:
2. Make a decision that you’re going to go for it and
2. F*cking Do it NO MATTER WHAT
I used to train with methods I wouldn’t make use right away. They’re not “proper” but it WORKED because I turned down in taking failure as an option. If you too develop the “do or die” attitude, you can attain whatever.
I will give you the knowledge - or you can get it elsewhere. I like to think I know the fastest, smartest, most efficient ways to do it - but you can get the knowledge you need from anyone. And you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thinking. Just make up your mind to do something and find a way to get it done.
