Jason Morgan

Some in search of their ultimate body are only willing to do so much to succeed. Without even knowing what success feels like yet, they make the assumption that they’re already doing enough to get the job done.

Believing that “this strategy is overkill” or “that training style doesn’t make sense” without enough experience to make those kind of evaluations will limit your progress. Coming to the conclusion that “that much focus isn’t necessary” or “that kind of detail isn’t necessary” before even trying the strategy demonstrates that you are only willing to do so much to succeed.

Just because you think you are currently doing enough or are convinced you are on the right track doesn’t mean you really are. Just because you feel you are giving 100 percent doesn’t mean that’s enough to get the job done. Just because you think you are a hard worker doesn’t mean you are working hard enough to be successful.

What makes you so certain that you already know what it takes to succeed? To be brutally honest, how would you know exactly what that requires? You’ve never achieved what you want with your physique yet.

Many in search of fitness make a lot of incorrect assumptions about what’s the best way to train or the best way to eat—without enough experience to support those beliefs. Those beliefs become ingrained convictions that stall their progress and lead toward frustration.

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You must open your mind to new and different strategies if you want to produce better results than what you are currently getting. Look for mentors to help you reach that new level of enlightenment. Success leaves clues. If you do what you’ve always done in the past, you’ll produce the same results.

What are the benefits you will enjoy by opening up your mind to fitness truths and steering clear of false promises? You can gain a sense of understanding, confidence, and certainty which will provide the mental edge needed to reach your full genetic potential. You can progress more smoothly and efficiently. You could make significant improvements in your physique and improve your overall health much sooner. You could generate unstoppable momentum that can produce results that rival those of someone with much more fitness experience. All in all, you could make the entire physique transformation experience more enjoyable and fulfilling.

Sometimes when you are going for your fitness goals, “right” can feel “wrong” to you. Remember that.

There are two realities that have made fitness a multi-billion dollar industry:

• The #1 fitness goal is to have a leaner, more physically attractive physique.

• Everyone strives for improved performance, function, health and vitality.

In terms of priorities, the vast majority of women would put looking good over functioning well. We know this because time and time again women have sacrificed their health, sanity, immune system, energy levels, family, jobs etc…. for unhealthy lifestyle, training, dietary or supplementation practices. Women want the perfect body, often, at any cost. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be a give and take situation. You can be beautiful, lean, sexy, sleek, and functionally fit, strong, vital and healthy at the same time.

Interestingly, the formula for attaining both a body that PERFORMS well and LOOKS amazing is the same but it is the exact type of program that women often shy away from. It is the Female Fitness Paradox. Women are often afraid to work hard, lift heavier weights at lower reps, do less “cardio”, eat more protein and do more functional, compound exercises because as women, you wrongly think that these protocols will produce the opposite results. Meanwhile, the hours of steady state cardio, high rep / low weight “toning” classes, spinning classes, low fat / low calorie fad diets, frozen light entrees and whipped yogurt desserts are taking you further and further away from your goals.

I know the struggle! You can’t figure out why you still suffer from “cottage cheese butt” syndrome when you are supposedly doing everything right.

Your intentions were right but your plan of action was wrong. Your struggle ends now! I strongly believe that what you achieve and master in the gym carries over into your life. Whatever you are afraid to tackle in the gym correlates to something you habitually fear taking on in life. The gym is not real – life is real. But what you do (or won’t do, can’t do…) in the gym is a real representation of your life.

One of the biggest problems with many people’s training program is that they fail to make progress. Usually they have no one to blame but themselves. They either do the same program with little or no change or they impose mental limitations. Many women do not use beyond 12 lb dumbbells because of a stereotype that anything higher is for men, that it will be too heavy or that it will build big bulky muscles (do you think the models in women’s fitness magazines really build those fabulous bodies with the 5 or 10 lbs weights they are posing with?) This thinking will ensure that you never change your body and that your body will eventually decline.

If you continue to train at the same level of intensity, load, sets, reps, tempo, rest between sets with the same repertoire of exercise order, selection etc… you will stagnate. If you continue to tell yourself a given weight is too heavy or a given exercise is too difficult, it will be. You need to apply a “next level” training and thinking to each component of your exercise program – every rep, every set, every exercise, every phase, every cycle, every program. The goal is to always “one up” yourself in some way whether it be load, reps, sets, rest or time. To do this, you need to apply this new way of thinking before every set. You can never allow yourself to think that you are not capable of doing the set/rep/exercise. You need to own it mentally as if you have done it a million times before and will do it again.

This is why recording your workouts is so important. You need to know what you did previously for a given workout in order to take it to the next level and “one up” yourself. If your program outlines a shoulder press for 3×8 and last week you did 3×8 with 12 lbs, one-up it next workout! Next week, start with 12 lbs for your 1st set and aim mentally for at LEAST 8 reps…if you can get 10, do it. Next set, you are a fool if you pick up 12 lbs again. 15 it is! Even if you only get 6, you have taken it to the next level. Guarantee you’ll get 8 on set 3. And the process continues. Once you achieve the rep range with a given weight, you MUST increase the load. I prefer increasing load over increasing reps. That is how you get STRONG, break through mental barriers and build a sleek, sexy, functional body.

If you start applying these concepts to every aspect of your training (nutrition too!), you will make dramatic improvements. Plus, you will constantly impress yourself by busting through new plateaus and be motivated to train again to re-set the bar.

If you feel like your regular crunch just isn’t doing it anymore, you’re probably right! Muscles get “bored” after doing the same exercise repeatedly. The double crunch works your upper and lower abdomen muscles because you are lifting both the upper and lower portion of your body. To “surprise” your muscles into working harder, try this twist on the classic crunch.

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