KEEP INCHING FORWARD

In the beginning, this journey will be mostly about the physical pursuit of fitness. Looking as good as possible will be at the forefront. This is something that is completely natural and normal in the early stages. Nothing will give you a reason to keep pushing forward more so than actually seeing the results on you speak for themselves.

Once the beginner gains have dissipated, the real work begins. This generally happens after about 2 years of consistent hard training. The gains in strength and size come to an almost grinding halt. Some people claim at this point, this is the size you are supposed to be. Your baseline.

Whatever the case, the bottom line is; this is when the real work begins. This is when training becomes more difficult and you learn how to embrace what sucks. You will also develop a tougher mindset. Your mind gets tougher because you are no longer getting instant gratification. You are having to put more work in to get a smaller result.

Even though the gains come more slowly, you will learn more about how life works. You have to put in a lot to get a little. Sometimes you put in too much and you go backwards. When that happens you learn to take a step back and let your body rest for a short period of time so you can come back more ready and feel stronger. This is called a deload week. During the deload week you cut back on the volume and intensity of the work you do in the gym. I will speak more on this another time.

After you put about 10 years in to your fitness journey, its going to be all about you chasing a feeling inside of you more so than chasing how you look on the inside. You will get used to how you look, and the amount of time its going to take to make just the smallest minor details in your physique will not be worth the time unless you are a competitive bodybuilder. But that feeling im talking about is your highest self. Nobody ever walks out of the gym, after a hard workout, in a bad mood.

Try to put yourself through a grueling workout, and afterwards be an asshole to somebody. Its almost impossible. That feeling is so good it would take something extremely low vibrational to lose that. Once you start to notice how you feel after a hard workout that tests the core of who you are, you will never want to go back to the man who just sits on his ass. And if youre worried that its going to take too long, then I suggest you start anyway and come to this side of the fence; or just sit back and watch the rest of us build the best version of ourselves. We will wait for you. But you will wish you started yesterday when you finally put your time in.