It's time to review 2008

If You Didn't Get the Results You Wanted

If you gained 10lbs or more of fat this year, you're not a bad person. It doesn't help at all to make yourself feel bad or run yourself down.

It's just a really bad result. Bad results come from strategies that don't work.

The smartest thing we can do is to take stock of which strategies didn't work, and stop doing them.

Time to get real about what we accomplished and didn't accomplish.

Get out all of your food journals.Get out all of your workout logs.

Get your measurements from the beginning of 2008, and your measurements now.

Take a look at your strength and fitness gains in 2008.

Lets see what worked and what didn't.



For awesome results, you're going to need smart strategies.

If your strategy is just "to have more willpower this year", sorry to tell you, you are destined to fail.

Most New Years Resolutions fail because they live and die on your willpower - your ability to motivate yourself and inspire yourself internally.

If you rely on willpower, your willpower will run out.If you rely on your inspiration and motivation, motivation comes and goes, and inspiration fades.

If you rely on the excitement of a new year, that excitement last about two weeks.

A powerful strategy is to have a structure set up to keep you going when the inspiration and excitement fails you. You need:

Accountability
Workout partner(s)
Maintaining a public workout-journal (ie a blog or list your food intake and workouts on twitter)
Joining a workout community
Taking on a fitness challenge. (a race or event that stirs the passion inside you)

Such a structure will keep you going long after the inspiration and motivation run out. You need the accountability to keep you going long after your willpower has left the building.

If you think "I'll make up my own workout", that's a terrible strategy.

If you are a concert level pianist, go ahead and play your tunes. But if you are a beginner, you go get yourself a teacher.

By the same token, if you don't have the body you want, then you actually don't have any idea what works or what doesn't work.

Follow someone else's program until you get results. Then you can add your own stuff.

"I'm going to use a program that's proven to work and follow it exactly."- is a powerful strategy

Remember: One of the most dangerous things a person can tell themselves is "I already know that". If you know what to do, but you aren't doing it,it's as bad as being ignorant of the facts.

A lot of people will be saying "I'll just try to eat better". If you don't keep a food journal, you aren't going to have enough information to succeed.

If you just "try" you will fail. You need structure and planning.

"I'll keep a food journal and know exactly what I'm putting in to my body. I'm going to know if I'm treating my body like a million pound racehorse... or if I'm treating my body like a garbage disposal unit." - Is an awesome strategy



If You Are Getting the Results You Want


it's very important to do two things:

1.) Celebrate! Reward yourself. Buy yourself a new outfit that shows off your new body. Do something you might not have had the fitness level to do last year,something to really enjoy everything you've accomplished.

2.) Take note of what it was you did that worked. If you know what worked, you can replicate it over and over again. You can also use this as a reality check if you ever slip.

You can also use knowing what worked to trim away the things that didn't make a difference. The biggest reason people who use Turbulence Training get good results with very little time in the gym is because we cut out anything that doesn't yield results.

Before You Get Caught Up in Creating Next Year,it's really important to get real about the last year.

The one thing we don't want to do is make the same mistakes again.

Most people make the same New Years Resolutions over and over again because they make the same mistakes over and over again.

Most people don't look at what worked, and what didn't work.

THIS IS DODGING RESPONSIBILITY.

Responsibility is looking at what didn't work and changing it.

If you didn't get what you wanted, you used the wrong strategy.

It's a fact, most people start with strategies that could never work in a million years. Like not having any strategy at all, or just relying on willpower, excitement, and inspiration.

Don't get emotional. Just deal with the strategy.

Have the courage to change your strategies and do something new.

Have the courage to say, "I don't know" and get a program that works.

Have the courage to say, "I can't do it on my own" and start organizing workout buddies or groups of friends to do this with.

It's not as complicated as we'd like to make it.

You already know what all the obstacles are, because you hit them already.

Some of them you found ways around already.

Some of them we keep running into. Don't run into the same ones as last year again.

Make a new plan.

Create some new structures.

Get some new results!

Lose Fat for 2009

2008 is almost over. There are four weeks left.

It has been said that the average person gains ten pounds between Dec 1st and New Years?

Ten pounds.

Now I'm not sure how accurate that statistic is -- but what I am sure about is that most people do gain some weight and don't lose it again. So even if it's only 3 or 4 lbs, that can add up fast...

But here's the kicker ... your body doesn't know it's the holidays.

Your physiology doesn't change just because it's the holidays. There's absolutely no reason why - with four weeks to go - you can't actually lose weight over that time frame.

Actually - with a good nutritional approach, and a solid training plan - even allowing you to "cheat" 10% of the time and enjoy some parties, there is absolutely no reason why you can't lose at least five pounds by December 31st.

Let's add in a Christmas or Hanukah party and maybe three more family parties or get-togethers.

That's five days completely off. No diet - no training. Enjoy it. But that also means three weeks on!

Get started on an effective fat loss program today - dial in your training, cardio and nutrition and this year - enjoy the holidays while actually losing fat.

And if that original statistic is true - that means if you lose five pounds in that time frame - it's worth "double" when you're standing next to your friends at the New Year's Eve party :)

So close your eyes and picture yourself four weeks from today at the last party of 2008. Picture yourself standing there - but leaner than you are today......

It's not too late. And it's not complicated. It just takes work. In fact all the lnformation you need is here

All that's left is for you to do it. Are you in?
Why wait till January 1st to change your habits?

We've got a perfect, Monday, December 1st to get a full month's
head-start on your fat burning goals.

If you are a beginner and don't know where to start, simply make one
small change to your nutrition. Add one serving of fruit
and one serving of vegetables, and cut back on the sugar, bread,
and junk in your diet.

Then try to get a little bit more exercise today than yesterday. If
that means 5 minutes, then that is good! That's fine.
Each day do a little more. even if it is only a minute.

If you are more advanced but have started to slack off because of
the holidays, turn that mindset around and use the holidays as a
reason to "tighten things up".

Plan out your holiday treat meals in advance, and focus on sticking
to your fat burning meal plan at all other times.

You'll feel much more satisfied this way, than throwing all caution to the wind for the next 4 weeks.
Make sure you plan out 2 solutions to EVERY obstacle that might get in your way.

Do the impossible and show the world that not everyone has to gain five or
ten pounds every December.

Get a head start on your 2009 fat burning plans today.

Begin by creating one new healthy habit every day in December.

There is NO reason to wait,click here to get started

Why do so many people waste time in the gym?

I find it incredible how many people waste the most precious commodity in the world (time-once it's gone you can never get it back)in gyms. In this day and age we are all pushed for time, yet we all need to exercise to stay fit and healthy, and to control our weight.Not to mention the feeling of achievement and the mental well being a regular exercise programme brings.

Go to any gym, have a look around at the regulars, then visit a year later.I would estimate that 90% of the people look exactly the same as they did on your previous visit. Why is this?

To be fair 90% of the instruction they are given is worse than useless.It's based on a bodybuilders routine, designed to develop every muscle to it's full potential for when they flex on stage. Look if you are a competitive bodybuilder reading this- I salute you.It must be the hardest of sports, it certainly takes the most discipline, training insanely hard, and eating so little food to bring out the definition of the muscles.

My point is, most people go to a gym and want either (a)to lose weight or (b) put on a little muscle to look good naked or at the beach.Now that does not require "working a muscle from every angle" 25 sets a body part routine. It requires full body circuit training 3-4 days a week for around 30-45 minutes a session. Here's a little test- ask your wife/girlfriend/significant other, what type of physique they prefer? Daniel Craig in Casino Royale

Or a hardcore bodybuilder?




I'm betting 007 wins 95% of the time.

Once again I'm not being disrespectful if you are a hardcore bodybuilder, If that's your thing more power to you. The point I'm making is the training needs to be different for @95% of the gym going population.

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