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Fat Loss Goals and Perfection
By Scott Tousignant, BHK, CFC
What you are about to read is an excerpt from an interview that I did with Clark Bartram 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.
When you fail, when you mess up, when you have a bad day, which we all will... Guess what? Clark Bartram has a bad day. Every other person on your list that you've interviewed has probably admitted to having bad days.
Scott: Right.
Clark: Champions in life are not those who never fail. They are those who never quit. The real failure is not in messing up, it's in quitting. If you mess up tomorrow and eat a whole pizza, eat a whole cake, drink five gallons of soda, and fill your body full of things that are not going to be conducive to a healthy lifestyle, that's not where the failure is.
The failure is in saying "You know what? I quit. I give up on this. I'm fat because my mom's fat. I've tried this in the past, and it doesn't work." Do you see how all of that works? Do you see how all of this fits in? That's the deal right there.
Scott: Wow, these are very good points for sure. I'm glad you said, we all have our bad days. Even though you've got some good genetics, and it's your business to be in great shape, there are probably days where you just feel exhausted. You could easily say that you're just too tired to work out today.
What do you do on days like that? How do you talk yourself out of a tired state to get your butt to the gym?
Clark: To be honest with you, I'm just going to open up and share my heart with people. I have not trained with weights in two weeks. I did not go to the gym this morning. I did not go to the gym yesterday. I've eaten foods recently that I know are not going to benefit me in the end to make me leaner than I am.
But I also understand that I am not in this for a short period of time. I'm in this for my life. I'm in this until the day that I move on.
By allowing myself the freedom of not going to the gym and by allowing myself the freedom of sometimes having food that may not be on my nutritional program, I take a lot of pressure off of myself to perform every single day to 100% compliance.
I understand personally that a week off at the gym is not going to affect me. Emotionally, it might give me the break that I need to go back in there next week and hit it hard the way I can.
Maybe my joints needed a break. Maybe I just needed to mentally relax. Maybe I just needed to get away from some of the people at the gym who were bothering me. That happens sometimes. I've switched gyms.
But some people, if they don't go, automatically think that they're failing. They automatically think that they're not doing something that's good for them.
Hey, we all need a break. We all need to get away from that environment from time to time. So change it up. Switch it around. Go walk outside. Play football or basketball with your kid.
Or sleep. I personally needed some sleep. I typically get up at 4:30 in the morning. Today I slept until 7:00. Yesterday I slept until 9:00 in the morning. What that is telling me is that my body needed a rest. I'm very intuitive. I listen to what my body is telling me.
That's another key point that people need to understand. Listen to your body. Don't let your trainer or any person who is not living inside of you tell you what you need to do when you're feeling something different inside, when you know "I need a rest. I need a break."
If you hired someone to help you, and they're designing a program for you, by all means listen to that person. But when your intuition tells you "I'm going to hurt myself. I'm going to wear myself down", then you take the break that you need.
Scott: Powerful. That's a very important point for sure, without a doubt. Most diets, programs, books I read out there say, "This is the program for life, this is the lifestyle." Yet typically it's not something that you can really keep up with for life.
You've got the true definition of a fitness lifestyle or a healthy lifestyle. You're really looking at the entire long term. That whole long term includes these breaks and time off and days when you can eat whatever.
You see the whole big picture, and you're not so focused and obsessed and desperate to get into incredible great shape by a certain date. I really like that approach of looking at it for the long haul. Not enough people are really thinking about that enough.
What are some of the things that you see successful people, the people that either you've coached or other people you've come across, what are some key things that you see them doing that others aren't?
Clark: Obviously a lot of people will come to me, and a lot of people will come to you, and they'll say, "Hey, what can I do?"
I just had a phone call five minutes before we started this interview. "Clark, I need you to write me a program." Yeah, sure. No problem. It's been thousands and thousands of times that people have asked me to do that.
Here's what successful and unsuccessful people do. I'll show you both in the same analogy.
That guy that just asked me to write him the program, I'll give him the program tomorrow. Now he's faced with the decision to follow that program. He obviously called me because he feels I'm a trusted source for that information because I live that lifestyle.
Typically what happens for a person who gets into shape is he will follow that program consistently through the end. That's where successful people are successful. They get a program from somebody that they trust, they do that program, they apply it every single day, and they make it work for them.
Guess what? One plus one equals two. It is that simple. Your body will get results.
Here's where people fail. They get a program from me, for example. They start to work it. The results don't come as quickly as they want them to. So they'll go to the next person that they trust and say, "Hey, I need help with my program."
Now this person that has very good information himself will begin to interject some ideas. Those ideas might not mesh with the ones that I gave. It's not that his are any better or any worse, or that mine are any better or any worse. They just don't work together.
Now we have a potpourri of ideas, a potpourri of protocol, if you will. Then people will begin to blend these things together. It doesn't work.
If you hire somebody to design a program for you, if you hire somebody to train you, listen to that person from beginning to end. You've obviously hired them because you trust what they say, or they were referred by somebody who got results.
Four to six weeks into it you will hit the plateau, when you will hit the rough spot that will come, don't go to somebody else and say, "Hey, Joe's training me, what should I do?" ‑‑ "Well, Joe, you should add carbs here..." That messes the whole program up.
Here's where successful people go. Stick to it. Stick with one plan. People that fail start a program, then start getting other ideas and blending them together. It doesn't work.
Scott: Right. Persistence. And some of these people will give up on your program a week before they end up hitting that point where they explode and great results come. They just don't give it enough time to really see the true results come out.
Like you said, the successful people will stick through right up till the very end, till they see it happen. That's a good point.
Clark: I once heard someone say, "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing till you get there."
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.
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