IS YOUR IDEAL FITNESS SELF GETTING IN YOUR WAY BECAUSE YOU CAN’T LIVE UP TO IT?

Why insist on training five days a week when you’re not even making it to three?

That’s the question.

Because completing all your workouts for one week is easy.

Do it week two.

Week three.

Week twelve.

How’s that going?

Now we see the real problem.

It’s not about going to the gym and training TODAY.

It’s about doing it again.

And again.

And again.

I know this because I live it too.

My entire workday can be about fitness. I’m coaching clients. I’m writing. I’m creating programs. I’m editing and uploading training videos.

I can literally spend my entire day WORKING in fitness and still not train.

That happened to me today.

I had a plan. Then I kept working. I wanted to finish what I was doing. Perfect what I was doing. One thing led to another and seven hours later I still hadn’t made it to the gym.

And I’m a trainer.

Do you think I always feel like training?

Do you think every day falls perfectly into place and I’m walking around feeling invincible, motivated and ready to go?

Of course not.

That’s exactly why I created 4-12-1.

4 weeks.
12 workouts.
1 goal.

Why keep building your training around some ideal fitness version of yourself who trains five days a week—or twice a day—when that person isn’t showing up?

Lower the bar.

Not because you’re lowering your standards.

Lower it so you can actually SUCCEED.

Complete the workouts.

Build consistency.

Progress from there.

Three training days you actually do beat five training days you don’t.

THE ONLY WORKOUT THAT CHANGES YOUR BODY IS THE ONE YOU ACTUALLY DO.

And the same problem shows up with your diet.

THE WAY YOU GET LEAN IS THE WAY YOU STAY LEAN.

Getting lean and staying lean are not two different systems.

But instead, you keep trying to eliminate every temptation while you’re getting lean.

Another crash diet.

Another cleanse.

Another elimination diet.

You create this closed-off little world so you can control your cravings, curb your appetite and comply with all the rules.

But what happens if you actually get lean?

Eventually you have to return to reality.

And reality has food.

Reality has temptation.

Reality has celebrations.

Reality has stress.

Reality does not care about the perfectly controlled environment you created for your diet.

If you never learned how to live around those things, what happens?

Your mind says:

SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY.

Eat it now.

Start over tomorrow.

Then you fall off. You get disgusted with yourself. And instead of learning the eating habits you actually need to maintain your results, you want another cleanse.

And the cycle starts again.

That’s why I don’t believe the problem is simply that “life happens.”

You need a system built on the assumption that life WILL happen.

There will be chaos.

There will be emergencies.

There will be days when everything falls into place.

And there will be days when absolutely nothing does.

Your fitness has to survive both.

You have two fundamental things you need to maintain:

Your diet.

Your training.

You don’t stay lean if you can’t maintain the way you eat.

And you don’t build a strong body by flaking on your workouts.

Both require your mind.

That’s why I coach mind and body.

Your body can’t do what your mind doesn’t tell it to do.

Stop designing your fitness life around the person you think you SHOULD be.

Start with the person you are TODAY.

What can you actually do?

What can you repeat?

What can you maintain?

Then build from there.

That is the real fitness life.

Think less.

Train more.

Seize the Training Day.