What's the game plan??

Hey there HEALTHYFITTERS!! Sorry for the extended delay between posts, it has been a very long month! Hope everyone is enjoying a good start to the summer! Today I would like to talk about goals and where you are headed with your health & fitness and how you plan to get there..

I know for most of the regular gym population, if you were to ask them what their goals are or why they are working out, most of them will tell you that there is no real reason or they most likely will say they want to lose weight or get big. OK, so you have this idea for healthy eating and going to the gym but my question is Why and How? I want to lose 20lbs., OK but why? What's the reason for losing the weight and why 20lbs.? Why not 10, 15 or 30lbs.? How do you plan to lose that 20lbs.? Another answer you will hear is I want to get big, I want to put on 10lbs. of muscle. Why do you want to get big? How long is it going to take you to get that 10lbs. of muscle? I think you see where I'm going with this.

You can't just go to the gym and do cardio for days and expect to come out looking like a Victoria Secret model, just like you can't walk in and start lifting weights and expect to be this huge guy that can't move his arms to wipe his ass! You have to have a game plan, know where your going and it doesn't hurt to know why! Not to mention a quality meal plan. So many of you think you know what your doing, but in reality you have no clue what's going on. If we are older, we think that what worked for us in high school is going to work for us now or you younger people listening to whatever the smoking hot fitness model or roided out, juice monkey featured in your favorite fitness magazines says to do, which will most likely not work for you. We have to remember that in the fitness world "we are not created equal". What works for one person may not work for another and so on and so forth. You have to find what works for you and your body type, a meal plan that works for you, along with your health and fitness goals.

When it comes to having a good game plan, you have to your homework, do some research. Take some time and read about what others are doing and what has and hasn't worked for them. Don't just grab a cookie cutter program and meal plan and expect these amazing results when it's not really designed for you. Seek the help of a professional, it can be a nutritionist, dietitian or a personal trainer. Your not alone out there and I promise you can obtain your goals in half the time if you take the proper, necessary steps to prepare a game plan for your health and fitness goals and needs. Don't be the guy who doesn't ask for directions cause he THINKS he knows where he is going. Ask for help, the health and fitness world is constantly changing and there is so much info out there and it can be sensory overload a lot you. Just remember the better prepared you are, the greater chance of success!!

BE THE PREDATOR, NOT THE PREY