The biggest problem we have with the fitness industry and indeed most industries is that we are looking for quick fixes.
If you want to become wealthy it requires continual investment and reinvestment and wealth building.
In education it takes continual learning and then learning more about what you have learnt. Adding more information to what you already know.
At the beginning of every journey there is fast improvements and then those improvements slow down. Or stop if you allow it.
Like everything in life there are many people that start a journey at the same point. During that journey many people drop off or quit. It's those that don't quit that achieve the most.
Talent trumps hard work. But at the pointy end of most endeavors the people that come out on top have done the work hard and have the talent.
When you started your
weight loss/bodybuilding/fitness/sporting endeavors you would have made some great progress. Noticeable changes that others may have noticed.
If you completed an 8 or 12 week challenge at the gym you most likely started from the beginning or close to the beginning. After 8 to 12 weeks you started looking much improved.
This is where many stop. They reach a point of being happy with their goals and stop. Not realising that all the progress they made would disappear in less than 8 to 12 weeks.
There may be other people that show their transformations over a much longer period of time. Maybe a year or more. Their improvements are much more impressive.
Transformations are more improessive because beyond the beginner gains there are longer term gains. What is more interesting is that the gains from transformations seem spectacular but the actual difference may only be a 10 or 20% improvement.
A drop in body fat from 30% to 15% probably won't look as impressive as a drop from to 15 to 10%.
The change in skin thickness from 15 to 10% Shows so much more definition, especially in the torso area. The drop from 15 to 10% can also take much longer and require more careful planning and much more work.
The change from 10% to 5% takes months and requires strict adherence to calorie and macronutrient monitoring. As well hard work and persistence in the gym.
At the beginning there is huge percentage changes with not as noticeable appearance changes. Don't get me wrong you will see big changes going from 30 to 15% and the change in clothes with be noticeable.
But dropping another 5% bodyfat will take longer and be much more visually noticeable when the shirt come off.
The problem is always quick fixes rather than long term changes. Long term changes mean much more noticeable difference than just short term.
Usain Bolt once said that people say I'm gifted and I make running look easy. They don't see the hours of training and puking to make that running look easy.
In short most people stop at average but only a small percentage stay the course.
The fitness industry thrives on making big changes in short periods of time. They follow this up with prizes for the winners of the 8 or 12 week challenge and then have a dinner and drinks to celebrate.
There is nothing wrong with being happy with accomplishments as long as there is continual planning to reach new goals.
Never try to maintain. Staying still is going backwards. Continue moving forward with more goals.
The fitness industry is churn and burn and then give you the picture to remember that time you once got into shape.
On the other hand I am not that type of coach. I want people to strive to move forward. To continue to improve. To make lifestyle changes that give continuous improvements that may seem small but makes worlds of difference.
Be in it for the long haul. Have many goals and achieve many awards.
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