Basic Blunder: Two Keys to Fitness Success

If you are starting a fitness journey, in the middle of a fitness journey, or even experienced in your journey, or whatever it maybe, if we look back there is always one so called secret that shatters the status quo.

Fitness is no different.

The main differences between someone that gets results and someone that doesn't get results isn't due to a person lifts heavier, a person puts in more time , a person is better.

Seriously almost all of those things don't really matter at all.

At the end of the day, it simply comes down to how well do you know the fundamentals and there implementation that make you successful.

Here me out!

What you do is not nearly as important as how well you do it and how well you implement it. I started my fitness journey 6 years ago. I lifted heavy, hard, and busted my butt and still didn't see what I wanted in the mirror.

Why, you ask?

Simply I wasn't utilizing the fundamental concepts of fitness and implementing them effectively.

When I started my lifting journey I knew the two fundamentals I had to change in my life, in order to start losing weight.

One, I had to become more active (I choose exercise through P90x), two my nutrition had to change.

Now starting out implementing both of these can be super hard and I highly encourage anyone starting to pick the hardest of the two and start there! For me that was being more active.

So for 5 years I made it a point to ingrain the importance of working out daily with the goal of by the time I ended college I would need it almost everyday (it worked)!

Along the way I tried various diets, nutrition ideas, recipes, cutting, bulking, you name it I did the works.

After those 5 years of training and some what subtle changes in nutrition I knew to truly get where I needed to go I had to implement both at the same time. However, every time I tried I would fail miserably at nutrition!

Why?

No one taught me any better, I was to stubborn to to ask, and ultimately I felt stupid for asking. After all I eat everyday I should know how my body functions, what foods I feel good on, and I know best.

I bring this particular subject up because I feel like to many people are plagued with same thing I thought about nutrition.

This particular concept springs to mind after a gym session where a friend and I were talking nutrition.

We were discussing carb cycling (I linked Heidi Powell's blog about carb cycling 101, which gives a nice brief summary) , and an older gentleman slide into our conversation and made the comment if he is on low carbs he just drinks electralights and he is good to go. He went on to describe how he feels and the proceeded to walk away.

Looking back, my friend and I should have stopped him and explained that's not exactly how the body works, but by no means is my friend or I experts on nutrition.

However, we both do know the importance it plays in achieving a fitness goal.

Anyways, my friend and I looked at each other and that's when the fundamental concept of this blog crept up. I looked around the gym and was wondering how many other people think the same thing?

How many know how carbs are used, stored, what fats to eat, the concepts of protein?

Then it dawned on me!

The reason most of these people don't know is because they don't understand the very fundamental importance of nutrition and the roll it plays in obtaining the results they want!

You see working out is awesome and provides a host of benefits (Ill cover these in a later blog), but if you are slaving away at the weights or the cardio machine and you still are frustrated, look at your nutrition.

Its something so simple yet something everyone over looks. It is simply the secret to most peoples success in the gym.

Seriously, before I started my diet for my cutting phase I sent my coach, Adam Neth, my macro break down and the first thing he did was totally re-adjust them for better performance, functionality, and over all utilization.

It took me 6 years of killing myself to man up and ask someone or have someone show me how to calculate and understand how macros work synergistic-ally together.

I knew how to make better food choices when I went shopping. What foods to avoid for my own goals, how to read a nutrition label, heck I knew what carbs , protein, and fats were.

I knew I needed all three in my diet but I truly didn't understand just how much I needed of each or exactly what they would do until he explained the importance and functionality of each.

Heck if I wasn't so dang stubborn sometimes I'd be a mass monster right now walking around at 180 lbs and just lean and mean.

If you are like me ask someone for help, if you don't want to ask learn it, checkout Choose MyPlate, if you are really serious ask a registered dietitian (this should be your number one option). I know nobody wants to be told what they are doing wrong.

However, just like in the fitness industry everyone lacks motivation when they don't see the results they think they should.

So ask yourself are you lacking a understanding of a fundamental skill?

If so that's completely fine but just like any type of passion, life, or value you are pursuing there are fundamental skills that all intertwine each other to produce success.

In this case if its fitness or making a lifestyle change to reduce weight, get the results you desire, see abs, whatever the case is, you need both nutrition and workouts that complement each other to create that vision.

-The Iron Pulse Beats Within You

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