Started with Maria back in October 2011 when she came in for a week to learn the big barbell lifts. A few months passed by without hearing from her until she sent me the following update last week.
“My training is progressing nicely! I finished the first phase of The Fat Bastard’s Guide to Getting Lean in December. I missed a week due to having the flu and some work related stuff kept interfering with my sessions, so I wasn’t as consistent as I could have been.
After that I started the second phase in early January, and now possess more dedication and energy than ever before!
I’ve conditioned myself up to the point where I no longer miss any planned sessions. Don’t even feel like it since training has become a priority in my life. The less important stuff can wait.”
My results so far: I’ve built muscle, gotten stronger and visibly leaner, and feel awesome. I’ve managed to continuously add weight to the bar. When I first started with you, my deadlift was 55 kg and now it’s 70 kg [Editor's note: sets and reps are currently 3x3]. The squat has progressed the fastest, going from 35 kg up to 70 kg [3x8]. My bench is dragging a bit, at the moment I use 35 kg.”
A 35 kg increase on the squat in 3 months is huge. Though I must say that Maria had the best technique for a female without any prior barbell training under her belt I’ve ever seen. A few simple coaching cues and she was set – on all exercises. I’m very pleased with her progress.
“Overall, I feel great! It’s as if I’m a completely different person now and I’m glad I’m doing this! As flamboyant as the following might sound, I can honestly say that that one week last fall when I had the chance to train with you and you taught me how to perform the basic exercises, has changed my life.“
Maria is a prime example of someone who made a conscious decision to alter an aspect of her life she wasn’t completely content with, stuck to her resolution and persistently followed things through.
There will be times when life gets in your way and your training or eating won’t be optimal, as was the case with her too. What differentiates her from most people is that she didn’t let that become an excuse for her to stop going forward.
You don’t need to be perfect round the clock to get great results. Shoot for taking right action 90% of the time and you’ll succeed.
Consistent, productive action repeated frequently over the years is bound to affect your psyche and physiology in the utmost positive manner.
That goes for you females, too.
Hit those weights hard and you’ll become a tough as nails, take-no-shit-from-anyone, indestructible modern day survival machine a la Sarah Connor (with a pair of guns of your own to boost), ready to take on and demolish an army of killer cyborgs, force-feed Hannibal Lecter his own balls for breakfast if you so please and barrel through a friggin’ zombie apocalypse alive and hungry for some mo’ ass kicking.
If you’re not happy with your life right now, then change it. Not next Monday, not tomorrow. Now.
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