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!