The simple truth about getting health and fitness results is this:
Nutrition, training and lifestyle are a combination of science and art. To achieve outstanding results you firstly must understand the science behind the physiological realities of the human body and how it works. Armed with this knowledge, you must then translate and apply it to craft a way of eating, training and living that provides your unique physiology with exactly what it needs to achieve the results you ask of it.
Or more succinctly:
Learn once and for all how the human body really works, decide what you want to do with your body and then give it precisely what it needs to do what you have asked. (Check out this great article about weightloss and bodybuilding nutrition: http://www.ultimatebodysuccess.com/e-course1.html)
People are always looking for shortcuts to be leaner and more toned and muscular. They just want someone to come up with some way or think of some magical system or "diet" or better yet a "supplement" that will give them the body that they want. They read diet book after diet book, rubbish article after rubbish article in magazines and try every new supplement under the sun 'guaranteed' to miraculously strip body fat as 'proven' by ridiculous before and after photos that they simply want to believe are real against all better judgement.
Getting a lean muscular body for life is not achieved by letting some schmuck sell you a book or pill that promises your salvation. You must not let anybody else do the thinking for you and make crucial decisions on what is best for your own body. If you want real results, it is time for you to take back control of your body once and for all. (Check out this great article that destroys the myth about training to 'tone up': http://www.ultimatebodysuccess.com/e-course5.html)
The single greatest shortcut you can ever take for your health and fitness is to actually take the time to learn how the human body actually works. This is not as hard a process as it seems and is profoundly important.
Billions of dollars are spent on health and fitness products and services with only a miniscule minority knowing how their bodies actually function. How can anyone make an educated and sane decision about what to eat and how to exercise without knowing how the body really works? This is why people spend billions on junk diet books and scams and hours of wasting their lives in gyms. How the hell could you possibly know what is good for you or what will work to get you the body you want if you have no idea how the human body actually works? It's like demanding an answer before even having contemplated let alone asking a question.
It is for this precise reason that at least 90% of people are doomed to fail miserably before they even set foot in a gym. Most people don't know how their body really works and as a direct result their training, nutrition and lifestyle is an exhausting, ineffective, costly and frustrating shambles that doesn't even get them into the same universe as looking like a Men's Health cover model. (This is a very important article about how to approach training before you even get started: http://www.ultimatebodysuccess.com/e-course2.html)
Without working understanding of how your body functions you are simply stumbling around in the dark because it is simply impossible to tell what information is correct or whether what you are doing will deliver you the result you want. You are also easy prey for the criminal behaviour of the hordes fitness industry frauds that are just itching to rob you of your money.
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