Wow!

We are more than halfway through the year already!!

So how close are you to achieving those New Year’s Resolutions you set set for yourself back in January???

If you’re like most people, those resolutions were forgotten and put by the wayside in February. You ran into all of the common excuses:
“I don’t have time today;” “I’ll start working out next week:” “After the [insert eating/boozing event, birthday, wedding, vacation] this weekend I’m going to start eating good again.”

Then BOOM!! Excuse after excuse and you’re half way through the year already, and you’ve made exactly zero percent of the progress you intended to at the beginning of the year.

What if you’re one of the ones that has been “trying” to lose weight this year?

Did you set any specific goals at the beginning of the year? I.e. “I will lose 30 lbs by December 1st,” “I will work out at least 12 times per month, ” etc?

If you did, have you been measuring and tracking your progress towards those goals?

Have you been “trying” or have you been DOING?!

“Trying,” to achieve anything would be eating “good” for a few days then binging on food or booze, not writing down your calorie intake, making it to the gym on Mondays and Tuesdays but getting distracted for the rest of the week.
That’s what people who are “trying” to lose weight are doing.

If you're "trying" to lose weight, then you are not losing weight.

The folks that ARE losing weight and getting into the best shape of their lives are doing the following:

1) Eating Supportively. They eat the foods that their bodies need to burn fat and fuel their workouts.They also track the calories that they eat, so they know when they need to make adjustments in their nutrition plans to continue shredding body fat. They still allow themselves cheat meals from time to time, and don’t feel guilty when “cheating” at a birthday party or special event, as they know for a fact they’re getting right back on board their nutrition plan once that event is over.

2) Performing intense full body workouts regularly. Their workouts don’t take hours, they are short but effective at burning calories and building lean, tone muscle. They know before the week and usually month starts what days they will be working out, and typically have a plan for what those workouts are and how they are going to get progressively tougher throughout the course of the week, month and year.

3) Performing intense interval training cardio. No hour long boring sessions on the treadmill holding onto the top rail for these folks. They know their bodies need more than that to get something out of doing cardio.  Fifteen to thirty minutes tops and these successful folks are finished with their cardio. The really advanced know how to combine interval training cardio in with their intense resistance training workouts as well, saving even more time and incenerating even more calories every time they hit the gym!

4) Intelligent supplementation. That’s right, the folks that decided to skip “trying” to lose weight and actually do it this year stay hydrated, take a qualitly multi-vitamin, and and help their bodies recover from those intense workouts with a quality post-workout protein/carb mix shake . No infomercial diet pills for these folks. They save their money for things that actually help them lose ugly bodyfat; they don’t waste it on things that help them “try” to lose weight.

5) Personal Assistance. This is the one thing that everyone that has been successfully moving toward their goals this year has in common. Chosing a quality fitness professional helps them bring the first four factors all together, without them having to go out and get a master’s degree to know what to do in each category.

So, if you’re not losing weight, or achieving any of the New Year’s Resolutions you’ve set for yourself this year, WTF are you waiting for?!!! The year is almost over! Get your behind in gear!

Here’s a secret: THERE IS NO SECRET TO BEING SUCCESSFUL AT GETTING THE BODY YOU WANT! But you do have to take the first step!!!

There is still time to achieve the goals for your body that you wanted to at the beginning of this year, but the clock is ticking, so get with it!

If you have no clue how to manipulate those first four factors, then start with number 5 (stop wasting your extra dough on crappy food, home electronic products and shopping at the town center and start investing that extra cash with a quality fitness professional) and the other things WILL come together!!

Stop “trying” to do something positive with your life, and start DOING it today!!

I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes, that a former manager of mine laid out one time:

“Life will work out if you do!”

Stay focused, stay fit

Isaiah

P.S. Don’t know where to get started? Our next FREE Boot Camp Tryout Week starts with Orientation Day, Saturday, July 11th at 9:30a.m. Be sure to call (904-287-2101) or email us (isaiah@staugustinebootcamps.com) TODAY to register your spot, as spots are limited!

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