Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews - 10 Tough Fitness Truths

Episode Date: May 30, 2022

Many people say the best diet and exercise regimens are the ones you can stick to. This is true insofar as compliance is concerned, but it misses a crucial caveat: efficacy. No matter how well you stick to a diet or exercise routine that doesn’t work, you’re nowhere. The goldilocks zone, then, is the overlap between what you can stick with and what works. And while that territory is larger than you might think, there are boundaries. Some people try to snub such “tough fitness truths” for more comforting myths and fictions, but the sooner you can find, accept, and adapt to them, the sooner you can get on the glide path to your best body ever. Listen to this podcast for ten of these fitness truths! Timestamps: 0:00 - Please leave a review of the show wherever you listen to podcasts and make sure to subscribe! 3:00 -  Legion VIP One-on-One Coaching: https://muscleforlife.show/vip Mentioned on the Show: Legion VIP One-on-One Coaching: https://muscleforlife.show/vip

Many people say that the best diet and exercise regimens are the ones you can stick to. Well, that's true insofar as compliance is concerned. Consistency is the watchword of winners. But it misses a crucial caveat, efficacy, because no matter how well you stick to a diet or exercise routine that doesn't work, you're nowhere. The Goldilocks zone then is the overlap between what you can stick with and what actually works. And while that territory is larger than you might think, you do have a lot of latitude in how you can eat and exercise to achieve your health and fitness goals. There are boundaries. For example, too many of even the healthiest calories will cause weight gain because energy balance is a rough mistress. Also, you can look like a model of fitness and feel like a measure of death.

Don't mistake big muscles and little wastes for picture postcard health. picture postcard health. If you try to lose more than 0.5 to 1% of your body weight per week, your chances of success and satisfaction with the results tumble. Patience is more important than pain tolerance. You should also know that organic slash vegan slash gluten-free, etc. junk food is still junk food. I'm sorry, but I'm not sorry. And what about the best way to lose weight if your blood is type A? Ah, calorie deficit. Type B? Yep, calorie deficit. AB? Oh, well, then it's keto. No, I'm just kidding. It's still just a calorie deficit. Also, it's a lot easier to eat too much fat than it is to eat enough protein by a long way. There are no weird tricks for melting belly fat. There are no pills, powders, or potions for

packing on muscle. There are no biohacks for supercharging your chakras with higher vibrations of the green tea infinity. There is only the work, my friend. You also need to accept that grains can make you fat. Seed oils can make you fat. Sugar can make you fat. Nuts can make you fat. Cheese, that can make you fat. Fruit, sure, that can make you fat too. Starches, they can make you fat. Eggs can make you fat. My point, well, just about anything can make you fat if you eat too much of it. You also need to know that aside from maybe your immediate family and closest friends, most people either don't care whether you reach your fitness goals or would rather see you fail. So stop seeking validation.

And my final lesson for today is to get the body and health that you want, you have to deserve what you want. You have to slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, because eventually, if we live long enough, most of us will simply get what we deserve. I've worked with tens of thousands of people over the years, and the biggest thing I see with the people I have helped the most is they're often missing just one crucial piece of the puzzle. And if you are having trouble reaching your fitness goals as quickly as you'd like, I'm going to guess it is the same thing with you. You are probably doing a lot of things right, but dollars to donuts, there's something you're not doing right. And that is what is giving you most of the grief. Maybe it's your calories. Maybe it's your macros. Maybe it's your exercise selection. Maybe it's

food choices. Maybe you are not progressively overloading your muscles and whatever it is, here's what's important. Once you identify that one thing, once you figure it out, that's when everything finally clicks. That's when you start making serious progress. It's kind of like typing in your password to log into your computer. You can have all the letters, numbers, and symbols, right? Except just one. And what happens? You can't log in, right? But as soon as you get that last remaining character, right? Voila, you're in business. And I bet the same can be said about the body you really want. You are probably just one major shift, one important insight, one powerful new behavior away from easy street. And that's why I offer VIP

one-on-one coaching where my team and I can help you do exactly that. This is high level coaching where we look at everything you're doing and we help you figure out that one thing that is missing for you. And it can be a couple of things too. That's fine. There's no extra charge for that. But once we figure it out, that's when you start making real progress. That's when you start looking better and feeling better. yes, that has happened for many of our clients, head on over to muscleforlife.show slash VIP. That's muscleforlife.show slash VIP and schedule your free consultation call, which by the way, is not a high pressure sales call. It's just a friendly chat where we get to learn about you and your goals and your lifestyle, and then determine whether our program is right for you. Because sometimes we do speak with people who just aren't a good fit for our service, but we almost always have other

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