The main reason some men choose lifting weights as their primary form of exercise is they believe it’ll allow them to build a great body very quickly – without making substantial changes to the way they eat and live.
They’re wrong, of course – but it’s not their fault.
Here’s why:
The overarching message from the fitness industry for the last goodness knows how many decades has been, “You gotta eat big to get big”.
Moreover, cardio is de-emphasised or, in some cases, proclaimed as harmful.
Authority figures are saying you don’t have to do anything truly uncomfortable to get the body of your dreams.
You can continue to overeat.
You don’t have to sacrifice hours of your free time every week to do boring and uncomfortable steady-state cardio.
All you gotta do is go to the gym three to five times per week and lift weights.
I’m sure you can see why this is an attractive proposition.
Shame it’s nonsense, isn’t it?
Yeah, lifting weights is hard. But let’s not pretend a typical gym session is anywhere near as challenging as running a 5k at a good pace.
The lesson?
A harsh one, I’m afraid.
If you’re not prepared to put in a lot of work – we’re talking “second job” amounts of time and effort here – the outstanding results you desire will forever remain tantalisingly out of reach.
For the avoidance of doubt, I’m not saying you need to go nuts every session and train for hours and hours at a time.
However, I am saying you’re probably going to have to do some training five or six days per week, and this typically involves upping your cardio and reducing the amount of lifting you do. (For example, right now I’m lifting just two days per week but I’m doing some form of cardio six days per week in addition to taking a daily 60-minute walk).
Getting the balance right is perhaps the hardest part of all.
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