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Apparently, there’s a thing or two you learn when you have been doing this for over 10 years.
And to be honest, I completely regret what I did when I started.
Sure, I did my best at the time with the information I had.
But now that I know better…
I would do something completely different (and for some, counterintuitive).
First, let me share what I did when I started this journey.
As many, not only I haven’t tried worked out before.
So when I started doing some training (following basic workouts on the internet), I was doing bodyweight training.
(Fun fact: I still do bodyweight training and it’s the only thing I do — so there’s nothing wrong with that).
But… I was mostly focusing on my abs. You know, because I wanted to show them off.
Still, the “funny” part comes with the diet.
Why?
Because when I started working out, I decided to immediately do the “common sense” we all kinda know in theory.
I ate less and moved more.
In other words, I basically cut out my carbs and fats. I ate salads and chicken breast (someone remembers this type of advice?…)
The results?…
Well, I now realize that I negatively affect my potential of building muscle and losing fat.
Because not only did I not get any of them… I actually got the opposite effect.
(Sadly, I don’t have any photos to share — I will keep looking at old photos.)
I didn’t build as enough muscle as I could because I was trying to focus on getting abs rather than maximizing my muscle growth. And I couldn’t even get that desired 6-pack (partly because I made such a drastic change in my diet by cutting out carbs and fats).
But as I said, I now know what I should have done.
Simply put… I wouldn’t have changed a thing about my diet and just start working out hard.
I would have put a lot of emphasis on larger muscle groups from day 1.
Chest,… back,… legs.
My abs would have been secondary.
And with my unchanged diet, I knew I was getting as much of the nutrients from carbs, fats, and protein.
With that, I know that the body I would have built by now would be in a better position than what’s right now.
Over time, I’d have eaten more protein to make sure I really get the most out of the physiological changes that happen when someone starts working out.
Anyhow…
This all made me realize how twisted the fitness industry is.
Because we glorify things like the abs (in men, for the most part) and glutes (generally in women).
And while there’s nothing wrong with that… when we have the wrong advice we can only hurt our own progress.
This is what happened to me.
And with all the information overload we experience in terms of diets and fat loss, doing the wrong thing can cost us a lot more than we think.
The moral of the story?
First, don’t get too obsessed with your physique (whether you’re experienced or just starting out — especially when you are starting out).
Focus on working out as hard as you’re capable from day 1 and all your muscles.
But make sure that the information you use is the right one.
Now, what is the “right” information in terms of diet?
The real answer is — it’s complicated.
I can’t point you out and tell you that “keto”, “intermittent fasting” or “flexible dieting” is the answer for you.
But what I can tell you is this.
There’s a building block to all diets.
This means that you need to have this in place in order to lose weight — and know that IF your goal is to lose weight (specifically fat), you need to have a system in place.
A system that’s built around the science of fat loss and that doesn’t make you start on the wrong foot.
By the wrong foot, I mean doing things like
- Drastically cutting out calories (just like I did)
- Stopping eating carbs
- Stopping eating fats
- Avoiding at all cost your favorite food
I like to say… a diet that doesn’t feel like dieting at all.
(It’s possible, and it’s simpler than what we think and see online.)
Because the science of fat loss shows you what’s the building block of all diets and how to use it for your specific situation, it helps you start a diet without sacrificing your favorite food, doing crazy diets, or having food cravings all day long.
The true beauty is…
Knowing what I now know, I’d just use what’s inside, and once I’m done with the first step before making adjustments to the diet and stop worrying about it at all.
So no matter what you do…
Just know that doing what we thinking it’s “common sense” can sometimes give us the opposite effect of what we want.
Till next time,
Ivan @ Fitnessthetic
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Want to explore what I mean by the building block of all diets and how it helped me make my ‘next’ diet, the last one I needed? Then you’re gonna want to check out my new ebook “Fat Loss On Demand”.
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