Category Archives: Mind Set

How to Get Motivated to Work Out

Image provided by Pink Sherbet Photography For some people, going to the gym is a constant struggle. It’s a test of willpower: Either you force yourself to go to the gym, or you give into the temptation to sit on the couch and watch t.v. Normally, it’s pretty hard for these people to go work out. [...]

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Are You Focusing On the Right Parts of Your Workout Program?

Image by AndYaDontStop   There is a kind of well known principle called the Pareto principle that puts forward that in many cases, roughly 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. This was first hypothesized when an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of [...]

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A Cure For a Loss of Motivation

Image by R’eyes Are there some days that you step into the gym, look at yourself in the mirror, and just don’t feel like working out? Do you sometimes feel that it’s useless, you doubt that you will ever get the body that you want, or that you are just wasting your time? There are a [...]

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The Importance of Your Mind in Getting the Right Body

What is more important:  Going through the right rep ranges, eating right, and performing the sets with good form or having the right mindset? I am going to argue that having the right mindset wins every time. Why? Because with the right mindset, all of the other stuff will naturally occur anyway given time. It’s [...]

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How to Get Motivated to Workout

You see them everywhere: People saying that they desperately want to either lose weight, build muscle, or both, but then do next to nothing to actually achieve it.  Why?  Well if you search google, you’ll find many, many, many answers as to why people are not motivated to workout.  I used to be one of [...]

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The Only Way to Get the Body You Want

Let me let you in on a little secret.  There is only one way that you will ever get the body that you really want.  Now, without this you might get close to the body that you want, but you will still be settling.  Also, to be fair, this isn’t really a secret… almost everyone knows [...]

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