The Health and Fitness ChannelNovember 2003 IssueYour Truth In Fitness Source
It's 10 p.m. and I'm in a foreign country. My flight from Argentina to Miami has been delayed -- and possibly cancelled. So while I wait, I thought it would be a good time to write you this month's newsletter. I'm here in Argentina visiting my wife who's here for a couple of weeks, working. It seems lately the only time we get to see each other is on these International junkets. I can't complain though, I get to travel to some pretty interesting places, stay in some nice hotels, eat some great food, and stretch the boundaries of my normal life. Ok, so I wasn't exactly perfect on my diet while here, but I did increase
my exercise a bit to try and make up for it (though that never does
seem to completely eliminate the inevitable couple of pounds of "baggage"
I always seem to bring home). Never mind, I know that in less than a
week
Last month I gave you your first (of 20) lessons on how to get and stay in shape. This month brings lesson 2. Here's a recap of your lessons so far: Lesson 1: You Must Have a Powerful and Meaningful Reason To Want To Change Remember, the greatest effect from these lessons will be their combined synergy. Now on to lesson 2. Lesson #2: You Need to Make a DECISION to Change So now that you have your reason(s) to change, now what? Next you must
make that decision to change. What does this really mean? I'll tell
you in a second. But the fact is it's one of the most powerful things
you can do to push yourself beyond anything you could ever have
You could have all the goals in the world laid out in front of you but if you don’t make a conscious decision with yourself, if you don’t say something like, “That’s it, I’m making the decision right now, right
here, then you haven’t truly triggered your entire being to accept your decision to change. What this kind of self-thought does is trigger a cascade of psychological signals that causes tremendous and powerful mental processes to occur. New manners of thought that seemed totally foreign to you before will now seem as if they were second nature. Where before you may have said, “I just can’t resist chocolate. I was
born with a sweet tooth and there’s not much I can do to change that”,
now you’ll say, “I still love chocolate but there’s something I’m doing
now that Making that decision to change causes a mindset transformation that completely realigns your goals, wants, needs, and desires. You understand you won’t have to give up chocolate completely, but you will curtail the amount you used to eat because it’s no longer productive to your goals.
Because you now have more important reasons than chocolate and you made that decision to change, the seeming agony you used to experience by depriving yourself of your favorite food has now almost disappeared – replaced by a focused goal towards a betterment of your body. You ‘suddenly’ realize that the lasting feeling of an in shape body is MUCH better than the short-lived taste of chocolate in your mouth. What will cause you to make this decision? The reasons are as varied
as there are stars in the sky. But by using Blueprint #1 along with
some of the other Blueprints here (Blueprint #5 is usually enough to
push one into making that decision), you should have no problem making
that The "Fitness Corner": Your fitness questions answered.QUESTION: Hank, The reason I haven't bought your program yet is cause i'm not sure it offers what i want. I'm in that class of person that looks large but is a solid bulky person. Currently I weigh 116.5 kgs and my % body fat is 18.8, which is not to bad, but i do want better. I'm looking for a way to loose body fat whilst keeping (or gaining)
muscle. Everything i read or study tells me this is near impossible.
I know thats a crock cause so far i've lost 28kgs and reduced my % body
fat by 10%. The annoying part is that it's taken a year to do. I've
designed everything myself so far and am looking for ways to fine tune
what I currently do to speed the process. Basically i'd be happy to
weigh 100-110kgs if my % body fat was between 8-14%. So i'm hesitating
to bye your program as it might make me loose to much muscle, something
that Regards, Rocky Pellegrino ANSWER: Rocky, My program is designed to keep, and even add, muscle as you lose fat. Losing muscle is the nemesis of any dieter. It slows your metabolism down and makes it even harder to lose fat. So I've put it together specifically to prevent lean muscle loss from happening. However, you may have a problem here. You have to get out of the mindset that you need to look "bulky". Although you may "feel" big, in fact, if you're close to 20% (and you're a man) you don't look in shape. And isn't the purpose of working out to not only be healthier but look good too? A lot of guys have a phobia of losing weight for fear of losing muscle. Get over it! Here's why. Your current arm size is a combination of muscle tissue AND intramuscular (within the muscle) FAT. While this may make you feel big, to others you just look like a shapeless "blob". I don't mean this in a derogatory manner, rather, to make you realize that a truly impressive body is lean, with "ripped" muscles. So, while you won't lose muscle while doing my program, you will lose
"bulk" (because you'll lose the fat that's in between your
muscle cells). Although this may make you feel as if you're losing muscle,
you actually won't be. And the true test is in the gym where you'll
still be pushing If you're 19% now, you can get down to below 10% in 12 weeks if you follow a good fat-loss program. Thanks for writing!
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I hope you enjoyed this latest issue. See you next month with more tips and solutions to achieving your best body. Good luck, God bless, and all the best in health and fitness, Harry "Hank" Johnson Jr,
President
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