I Just Want To Look Good
I want more muscle. Less fat. More tone. Bigger chest. Bigger arms. Rounder shoulders. Tighter butt. Better legs.
I want to look better
Not many people sit in front of me and say they are looking to get hot, sweaty and uncomfortable just for the fun of it. Very few say they absolutely love the nauseous feeling they get from a hard session. I fail to remember the client who has ever said they enjoy struggling to move for several days after a leg workout. Most don’t say they are looking to stop eating a variety of foods while going out with friends drinking all kinds of poisonous liquids because there is too much choice and they want to make cooking decisions simpler.
No. Every single person who has ever sat in front of me has said the same thing: I want to look better.
In order to look better you need to be better.
Most people don’t train because they want to. Its a chore. A big, painful chore. But they’ll do it. They’ll bitch and moan the entire way but they’ll do it, if they get the results they’re after. The body they want.
Training and working out are very different. Training is about making progress. Training has a purpose. Training has a specific outcome. Its tracked. Its measured. It’s constantly adjusted. Working out is turning up with no real direction or meaning. It’s getting your heart rate up. It’s maybe breaking a sweat. Its elevated breathing. Its completely random. Its meaningless. Tracking? Measuring? Please.
Recomp:HQ is training. Fitness First is working out.
If the training doesn’t progress, its not training it’s working out and its not doing anything. If its not progressing then you’re not changing. There is absolutely no reason your body will change unless it has to. Lifting the same weight week after week isn’t doing anything. Doing the same reps with the same weight over and over isn’t doing anything. Wasting time with pointless random exercises isn’t doing anything.
Training isn’t fun. Sorry but its just not. Not in the "ha ha we are playing a game" kind of way that trainers are selling it to clients in order to keep them coming back. There is nothing fun about pushing sets to failure. There is nothing fun about putting hundreds of kilos through your body and then adding more and more. Its just not fun. Its life changing. It’s character building and satisfying beyond words. But fun? Sorry. No ha ha.
Training can build you as a person in ways no other activity can. It builds both mental and physical toughness. It teaches you discipline and will power. It gives you structure and routine. The list of positive things training does to your body goes on and on and on. What you do in the gym can carry over to every facet of daily life.
Never underestimate the life changing characteristics of training.
Training is awesome.
But then, no one has ever sat across from me and said they care about any of those reasons either.
They just want to look better.
Stop working out and start training. Train to make progress.
In order to look better you need to be better.