The biggest mistake that beginners make in training bodybuilding, powerlifting anything in the strength realm are the excuses they make. It’s the way that you get past being a beginner and starting to make progress is to shut the fuck up and quit making excuses. Because as soon as you do that then you recognize the fact that you’re a beginner.
Nobody wants to take ownership in the fact that they’re a beginner. Everybody thinks they’re a fucking expert. This isn’t because of the internet, this is how it’s always been. When they can take ownership to the fact of knowing they don’t know shit and then starting to listen to people and actually apply some of the things that they’re being told.
Then experimenting with things that logically make sense instead of experimenting with shit that they just come up with out of the blue that sounds cool, but really doesn’t logically make any sense in the world. As soon as they take ownership in that then they’re going to start moving forward.
Because the same shit that was being done 50, 40, 30, 20 years ago, it’s the same stuff that’s going to get the beginners wrong today. People are not coming into the strength sports and starting in different ways today than they have been for the last 30, 40 years. Everybody starts doing the same shit, except for the ones who make excuses why that same shit isn’t going to work.
If they stop with that and just start doing the work and being consistent and that falls into the excuses again. I don’t care what your program is, say you’re supposed to train three times a week, four times a week, five times a week I don’t give a fuck what it is. Say it’s set up you’re supposed to train four times a week, but then on week you start making excuses as to why you should only show up twice.
Then on week three you start making excuses, “Oh shit I should probably be going in five times,” and on week three, “Oh men I should only be going in …” Would you just decide and stop making excuses and stick to what the fuck you’re supposed to do. Because consistency and discipline are part of what’s going to move your forward. Not excuses on why you can’t move forward or why you can’t do something.
People who succeed in the strength sports are the ones that are going to focus on the reason why they can do something, not the reasons why they can’t.
Dump the excuses, start doing the work, and then you start moving forward, and then you start to focus on the technique, and you start to work on the better programming and all those other types of things.
Until you make that commitment to actually show up and to want to make this a part of your life and to want to be committed enough to make progress. Then all you’re doing is making excuses and wasting everybody else’s time including your own.
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