Are Your Training Results Repeatable?

20 Dec

Close to 5 years ago now, I had the idea to go for the cover of Men's Health magazine.

I'd read the magazine when I first started training, and the idea of the getting on the cover for their competition, felt right. It felt like coming full circle in a way.

At the time I invested in John Romaniello's online coaching, a program that cost me $350 a month; I wanted to get in great shape.

And I did.

I used his method for getting ready for a photoshoot, and the photo's ended up awesome.

But after a few days, I started to look less ripped. I knew that would happen of course. I specifically did things to make myself look extra lean for the photoshoot, something bodybuilders, fitness competitors and models do all the time.

But it can't be maintained. Not in the long term anyway.

Unfortunately, we've lead you to believe that you can not only get those same results quickly, but that they'll stick around for the long term as well.

Well I assume that's what we make you believe when we do "30 Day Summer Shred Programs".

Full disclosure: you're very unlikley to get shredded in 30 days, and it's unlikely you can keep training for that long term with your current lifestyle.

And when I say we, I mean the fitness industry. I apologise on everyone's behalf.

I thing I try to get people away from is that type of thinking. 8 Week programs that solve your problem once. Mainly because it never does, and because (cue the dramatic music) you have the rest of your life to be healthy. If all it took was 8 Weeks, the gyms would be ghost towns.

The results that you achieve, assuming you're training for health and leaness (and not for competition), should be maintainable and repeatable.

Every summer you shouldn't need to "lose the winter bulge" (or whatever mind numbing marketing copy we use in this industry).

Can you repeat your results, even with the stress in your life, even with work, kids, friends and family?

Can you maintain the results once you've achieved them?

I love teaching clients how to get results in a sustainable way. How to form habits that will stick around for the long term.

If your training and nutrition always seems like it's at full throttle, then maybe it's time you started training in a more sustainable, long term way, because of course, you've only got the rest of your life maintain it.