Fact: Most people grossly underestimate the amount of food they eat and vastly overestimate the amount of exercise they do.
This is why people get fat. It’s also why they struggle to lose fat when they inevitably get sick and tired of their predicament.
To fix this, convention holds you must do one of the following:
1) Eat less.
2) Move more.
3) Both.
All fine, dandy, and true.
But, there’s a problem.
You see, there’s a hard limit to how much less you can eat without feeling so awful you break and fall off the wagon or, worse, make yourself ill.
There’s a hard limit on how much “more” exercise you can do. After all, there are only so many hours in the day and between work, family, hobbies, etc, it’s neither practical nor desirable to increase the amount of hours you spend training past a certain point.
Try to do both, and you’re just combining the above-mentioned problems into a foetid stew of anguish and exhaustion.
So, what’s a guy to do?
Well, if he is following my 3 diet rules, he’ll be eating an appropriate amount of fresh, healthy food, while still enjoying the occasional dalliance. So that’s food taken care of.
Therefore, he ought to focus his attention on his training.
However, I can say with confidence he probably doesn’t need to train “more”. Instead, he needs to focus on training efficiently and effectively.
By that I mean, getting the most out of the training he’s already doing – not doing “more” low-quality work that does little to move the needle.
Why?
The answer lies in something called “adaptation”.
In a nutshell, your body adapts to stress to cope with the same stress better in the future.
If you want to stimulate further adaptation, you need to increase the intensity of the stress.
So, if all you’re doing is exposing your body to more of the same, you won’t get any leaner.
This is why you see guys in the gym who look exactly the same despite training consistently for months or even years. They’re just doing what they’ve always done (or thereabouts), so they’re getting what they’ve always got.
Make sense?
Wonderful.
Anyway, the cool thing about adaptation is it means you can actually make tremendous progress by training less.
In fact, you can get incredible fat loss results by training in the gym just two days per week and doing a few short conditioning workouts at or close to home.
Don’t believe me?
Fine. It’s not my job to convince you of anything.
In any case, any disbelief on your part doesn’t change the fact that what I say is true and that my methods work reliably and predictably.
So, if you want to lose fat… and… you want to do it by training and eating in a sustainable way, we should talk.
Email me at phil@philtyreman.co.uk. Make sure to include an outline of your fitness goals and the challenges preventing you from reaching them. If you don’t furnish me with this information, I won’t respond.
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman