If it aint you it aint gonna work

The internet is a wonderful thing. It allows massive communication all over the world about millions of topics. It also unfortunately because of how human beings act and react, is one of the biggest time-wasters ever invented. Am I cutting it down? Absolutely not I make my living off of it. But if you’re not searching for knowledge on a particular thing, you’re just surfing and you’re spending more time on that than training, then you’re wasting your time.

Ninety percent of the discussion on training on the internet is a waste of time. Why? Because much of it is nitpicking over things that people have no real idea about what they’re talking about. All theory, no personal knowledge. Generally attempting to be governed by whatever they think is the “rules” for their particular sect of training. If you put out a low volume program and ask for discussion about it, some follower of the High Temple of High Volume will immediately jump on it with both feet. The opposite is the same for an initiate of the Low-Volume Order of Holiness. Then a general religious war will ensue extolling why I’m right and you’re wrong.

Let me put it to you straight. There are success and failure stories from every denomination, order, rite, temple, church, group, gang, and commune of training known. The missing ingredient to what makes success or failure from any one of these disciplines is you. What do you like, what do you want, what style suits you both mentally and physically, what works for you and achieves your goals?

People almost always want specific prescriptions for what will work for them. And I and many other knowledgeable trainers can give them to you. However if you’re not making your own choice helping to figure out what works for you and putting yourself both physically, mentally, emotionally into the training you won’t get the greatest results. It’ll work for a while and then what you really want to do will emerge strongly enough to push you in another direction or kill your progress. You have to step up, put some skin in the game and be responsible for your own progress and knowledge of your own body. You also have to spend more time training than you do discussing it.

Get off your butt and put YOU in the game.