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How Do You Measure Fat Loss Success
By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
www.UnstoppableFatLoss.com
What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Joe Vitale from the MP3 audio program, Unstoppable Fat Loss. If you adopt the mindset that we cover below and apply it to your workouts and nutrition plan, you can expect success and amazing results.
Scott: …But there's one point, you're talking about you enter these Body for Life contests, and it was more‑or‑less for the accountability. It wasn't necessarily to win the contest, and I saw in one of the videos, you were excited just to have your name on the list of people that completed...
Joe: Thank you for pointing that out. You know, I've written, as you pointed out earlier, more books that I can list here, like 30‑some books. But I have five certificates of completion from the Body for Life people, and I'm more proud of those than most of my books, because those five 12‑week programs were harder to do for me.
What I mean by that is, it wasn't impossible, of course. Obviously I did it. But it was more of a challenge for me after 50 years of basically not working out to actually enter a fitness contest, and entering the first one when I'm 300 pounds or just about, was a major effort for me. That was a major challenge for me. So these are milestones.
In that one piece of paper that you're referring to was published in the EAS Body for Life award catalog, and it was like... I think it was the 2005 Championship Finishers, and my name is on there. It's in small print, but it's big enough to see without a magnifying glass, and whenever I see it, I'm thinking, "Oh man, I'm proud of that."
In fact, all five of these things, six of these things, are in frames and they're on the wall in my gym, right where I look at them, when I'm on my bike doing the cardio. I'm looking at those and reminding myself, "I've done it before. I'll do it again, and I just might win one of these suckers down the road."
Scott: That's fantastic. I love that. I love that. It's really cool because success can be measured in so many different ways. So many people could have come up to you and said, "Well Joe, you didn't win the contest", but you won in so many other ways that you didn't have to win the contest.
Joe: Yeah, and that's an important thing. First of all, nobody has ever said anything negative about winning or not winning, and I think most people realize that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people, enter these contests but the vast majority of them, if not 80% or 90%, never finish them.
Scott: That's right.
Joe: So it's not a matter of actually winning anything, it's a matter of actually finishing something, and then for me, I like the phrase that the runners have about exceeding your personal best.
Scott: Mm‑hmm.
Joe: What I'm always trying to do is not beat somebody else, I like the idea that we live in a co‑operative universe, not a competitive universe. And there is some truth to having competition and whatever you're doing sports‑wise. But for me to lose weight, it's more a matter of me beating my personal best than me beating anybody else.
Along the way, and this is worth mentioning because it's going to help folks, when I first decided that I wanted to lose weight and get in shape, I started looking around for a role model. I started to think, "OK, what do I want to look like, when I'm all said and done?" And I didn't have any pictures of me being perfectly slim and trim and athletic and fit, because that didn't exist beforehand.
So I went looking around to find, OK, who's got the ideal physique for me. And I found it in the world of bodybuilding with Steve Reeves. Steve Reeves was the original Hercules; he had what's called the classic physique. I will not end up looking exactly like him because for one thing, he had hair.
Scott: [laughs]
Joe: For another thing, he was like 6'2" or 6'3" and I'm not even... I'm like 5'8" or eight and a half, somewhere in there. So physically, there's not going to be a direct comparison, but his model, his physique, inspired me to want to... what is it... what's the word I'm looking for ‑ mutate, not mutate ‑ it's like transform... morph! Morph my body. Morph my body into something closer to him.
Well, Steve Reeves, if he was around, I would have found him and trained with him but he had died a few years ago. The person who had the classic physique, who's still alive is Frank Zane. I found Frank Zane is alive and well, he's like 64, he's in phenomenal shape, he works out tremendously all the time, and he does trainings. I flew out and trained with Frank Zane a couple of years ago.
Scott: Wow!
Joe: It's important to realize I was still overweight. I had already been in a couple of contests, I had lost like 60 pounds by the time I got to Frank Zane's door, and also I want to admit, I was nervous about it. I didn't know Frank Zane; I knew he was a legendary bodybuilder of the Olympic School. He's one of the classics; he's going to go down in history as a famous classic physique bodybuilder. And here I am flying to his home, paying him for three days' worth of training in his own gym, and I'm thinking to myself, "Oh my God, what have I got myself into!" Yet at the same time I'm also thinking, "Wow, Joe, you must be serious, because look what you're doing! Not only are you working out, but you've been to all these contests, and you're modeling Steve Reeves, but you've found a living classic physique bodybuilder in Frank Zane, and you're flying out to his home!"
Scott: Right.
Joe: So I'm doing all of these things to help me move to my goal. And I think these are all elements, when you make a decision, things will start showing up that you can do or can't do, and it's up to you to decide to say "yes" to them, even when they might seem out of your comfort zone.
Scott: Right.
Joe: You know, might seem a little scary at first, but it's only scary because you haven't done it before. It's actually not scary in a life threatening way, it's just scary because it's new.
Scott: I think, I forget the exact quote, but it goes something along the lines of, "If it doesn't scare you, it's not worth doing." Something along those lines.
Joe: Yeah. Well, Bob Procter who's in the move "The Secret", a friend of mine, he's a great guy. Well‑worth studying his products, they're very inspirational. He says, "A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot."
Scott: I like that.
Joe: And I like the blend of that, it's like, "Yeah, it's going to excite you. It's like, wow, I'm going to get fit; I'm going to lose weight; I'm going to be in shape." And then it's going to scare you a little bit, it's like, "Oh my God, this is a different me."
That's something you also have to take on, it's like, yes, you are becoming a different you. A better you, a healthier you, a new and improved you, but a far more confident you, that will be able to do so many more things in the world with a greater degree of confidence.
I remember, and this was a year or so ago, I was at a conference some place, I was speaking, I had a booth, it was long days, and I woke up in the morning and the thought went across my mind, "I should go work out." And I remember telling myself, "Oh, forget that. You're already working plenty by being at this booth, by giving these speaking engagements. You just traveled here. Just keep sleeping." And then the thought went through, "But this is the new Joe. The new Joe gets up and works out!"
Scott: [laughs]
Joe: In that moment, I wrestled with it for just a second. I thought "Nah, it's OK to sleep," and then the thought came, "Wait a minute, this is the new
Joe: this is the Joe who wants to be slim and trim. This is the Joe who wants to be fit. This is the Joe who is at least semi‑athletic. This new Joe would get out of bed."
I got out of bed. Marissa was laying beside me, and she says, "Where are you going?!" And I said, "I'm going to go work out..." and she said, "Are you serious?!" And I said, "Yes, this is what I do now." And I went and did it.
This interview was an excerpt from the MP3 audio interview program, Unstoppable Fat Loss
About The Author:
Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC is a personal trainer and motivation coach from Ontario, Canada. After graduating from the University of Windsor’s Human Kinetics Program with honors in movement science, Scott began his career with an intense interest in physiology and biomechanics, but quickly developed a love for sport psychology.
His interest in the power of the mind led him to create Unstoppable Fat loss, (UFL) an audio interview MP3 interview series. UFL is different because it’s not about what to eat or how to train. It’s about goals, mind, motivation, vision, persistence, emotions, passion, overcoming obstacles and even how fitness and health fit into your life purpose. The interviews include fitness professionals and “regular folks” who have overcome some very big problems.
You can visit Scott’s website at:
www.Unstoppablefatloss.com
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