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Interested in Muscle Building? Here’s My New Years Resolution Challenge
I have said before that I hate New Years resolutions. I hate them because the whole idea of resolving to improve or change something should not have anything to do with the time of year it is. I know, and in the past have done myself, people that decide to make a New Year’s resolution in early December to “lose weight” and then say, “I can eat whatever I want UNTIL then”. How’s that for trying to have the best of both worlds!“I am going to commit crimes until the first of the year, then turn over a new leaf, so I better get cracking, times a wasting.”
Sounds absurd in this context, doesn’t it? But we all do, or have done it. So okay. Whatever it takes to get someone to decide to change, is ultimately semantics. Just start making the change. So make your New Year’s resolution.
But here is MY challenge to all of you. If you are on this site, health, fitness and hopefully muscle building are important to you, and I will assume your resolution will involve some type of improvement in these areas. Having said that, making a resolution to “whatever” is not going to be good enough. I am going to recommend you take it a step farther.
Have you ever noticed how people like lists? The top 5 this, or the 10 best ways to that. Men in particular like lists. It’s quantitative. Measurable. It’s one of the reasons we like sports. My team scored more than yours, I win. No debate, nothing willy-nilly about it. Oh you can say this team outplayed that team, or if it wasn’t for this bad call or that bad bounce, the results might have been different. But in the end 24 beats 21 every time.
It’s also one of the reasons I like weight lifting as a personal challenge as well as a way to better health. At the end of the day if I can bench 330 today for 6 reps and last time I only got 5, it’s a win for me. Of course, that sword cuts both ways. In a subsequent workout if I can’t get it 6 times again, there’s cause for concern. I can’t blame the wind, bad luck, blown calls or not having home field as an excuse. It’s just me and the weights, and you gotta live with the results, which brings me back to my challenge.
I have stated before that the surest way to be successful in any endeavor that requires effort over an extended period of time is to write it down. In my biz that means to keep a workout log. No one should be lifting without one. But for the purposes of your New Years resolution writing it down is only half the challenge.
Nothing subjective!
I will lose weight. I will go to the gym. I will workout. I will quit smoking. I will stop drinking. I will become healthier. All admirable and laudable goals. Also all way to easy to bend and manufacture a “victory”. Not this year!
Here is the challenge: Make a list of 5 quantitative statistics of your body and /or performance. Write down what the current measurements are for each. Then create the 2 columns, one titled “June 30, 2009” and the other “December 31, 2009”. Under the first write down half your goal and under the second your goal number. That’s the easy part.
Now make 50 copies of this page. Place a copy EVERYWHERE you need to be reminded of what you have resolved to do this year, relative to your health and fitness. Lastly, place one copy in that spot in your wallet or purse where you keep that $20 bill for an emergency, and forget about it.
Just imagine how you will feel next year at this time when, after slowly and methodically discarding the 49 copies you stumble onto the last hidden copy in your wallet and realize that you accomplished your goals. Because you did accomplish your goal, right? That is why you are making them isn't it? More importantly, imagine for a moment right now, what will you resolve to do next year at this time, considering that what you resolved to do this year doesn’t have to be repeated.
AGAIN.
Now you see why I hate New Year's resolutions. Making the resolution because it's "that time of year" IS THE EASY PART.
Serious about changing? RIGHT NOW is the right time of year.
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