- Are you stuck at 15% body fat right now?
Are you type of guy whose real goal
is to get down to 10% body fat,
but you find that every time you try to break through
15% and get leaner, take one step forward
or two steps forward,
you keep going back to 15% as if there is some type of
invisible ceiling keeping you there,
and keeping from breaking you through to that next level.
If that's you, if you've been
struggling with this for months or even years,
in this video I'm going to share with you why.
I'm going to tell you why you're stuck,
and once you overcome this you will actually be able to
get to 10% body fat and take your physique to the next level
and by the way, there is no magic solution for this.
This is not going to be a quick fix.
I'm not going to give you like one little tactic
that can solve this-- there is no such thing.
This is going to require a lot of work and I've actually
just read this interesting statistic recently that said that
it's easier to become a millionaire
than to get a six pack, statistically speaking.
So, it's actually pretty difficult.
And I've been between 10 and 12 percent bodyfat
for more than six years now,
and I know how hard that can be,
and even getting there for the first time
was even much, much harder. So I'm going to share with you
actually why you are stuck where you are stuck now
and how you can change your approach
and actually get down to 10% body fat
and by the way, if you're new here,
my name is Mario Tomic. Welcome!
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So why do so many guys get stuck at 15% body fat?
What's so special about this number?
As I said earlier, I've been at 10-12% body fat
for more than six years now, and actually even pushed it
to 7 or 8 percent body fat in some cases
where I did a photoshoot or something like that,
and before I did that, and here's the truth,
I was actually at 15% body fat for almost a year
trying to break through that ceiling,
trying to break through that plateau.
And initially, before that, I was actually between
22 and 25 percent body fat at my highest.
I was a pro-gamer, I was playing World of Warcraft.
I actually graduated a software engineer,
I studied computer science, I was a really nerdy, fat guy
who had a really hard time doing anything with his body
and I was never really that athletic type who was
just doing things and naturally being very lean.
And that's the thing with that, like
at that position, I realized that getting from 15%
to 10% is different than getting from 25% to 15%
and that's what I want to share with you here,
what's that shift that you need to make
and it's not something like, intermittent fasting or keto,
or some kind of low carb, or doing HIIT,
because I tried all of that stuff.
I tried eating two meals per day,
I tried eating six meals per day,
I tried doing intermittent fasting, skipping breakfast,
or skipping dinner, I tried a little bit of keto even,
I tried a little bit of low-carb, I tried a ton of cardio,
I tried intervals, I tried everything
but nothing really worked.
For me, getting from 15% to 10% until I made really
this one shift that really solved this issue for me
and I realized what was the true problem.
Now, me being at 20% body fat, 25% at my highest,
this is where I was desperate.
I was actually in real pain. I realized that
my physique and my body and my health was a mess.
I felt bad, I had low energy levels,
I didn't want to take off my shirt,
I was getting super sweaty every time I'd walk up
a flight of stairs, I just felt heavy.
I just felt out of shape, and
this condition that I was in was actually a great source
of energy and motivation to push myself from 25% to 15%.
And I was successful at that.
I used that to drive me, to fuel me to take action
to do whatever it takes to get down to 15% body fat.
Now here's the problem: that same thing doesn't work
from getting from 15% to 10% because at 15% I felt good.
I was fine, there was none of that pain with
being disgusted with taking off your shirt,
there's none of that pain with being, feeling fat
and just looking at yourself in the mirror
and you're like, "Man, I'm not happy with this appearance.
That's not me, I don't want to be this guy."
There's none of that. At 15% actually,
I was in better shape than anybody around me.
I was in much better shape than I ever was in my life,
and I felt good. I had good energy levels,
I was eating right, I was training, and really
there was nothing driving me to get down to 10% body fat
except this idea in my head that I had that
that would be really cool to have a six pack.
And that was the true problem.
The same motivation that was driven by desperation
from 25 to 15% is not going to work anymore from 15 to 10
and that's what I see a lot of guys trying to do.
They're trying to apply the same level of motivation,
the same mindset, the same strategies going from 25 to 15
or 20 to 15 instead of changing their approach now
from going to 15 to 10.
And I see what a lot of guys actually reach out
for me to mentor them, to coach them to overcome this
and maybe right now you're struggling with this, is that
their motivation actually is really high
when they start their journey, and then
as they go through the journey the motivation
actually goes down, instead of the motivation going up
when you really need it the most, which is
toward the end, toward those exponentially harder goals
which is 10% body fat, right? Think of this.
Going from 25% to 20% body fat,
it's like a decently sized bridge.
It's pretty wide, you can just walk over it.
From 20 to 15, the bridge gets a little bit more narrow.
Now from 15 to 10, and the end as you get closer
to that 10% body fat, the bridge is almost like a tight rope
so every little mistake, every little thing
that you fluctuate a little bit in your motivation,
you're not driven a lot, and you're just not
pushing yourself a lot is enough for you
to fall off track, and for you to actually not
be able to push yourself to get to that 10%
because you're now making a lot of mistakes.
The same approach that can be wishy-washy and
not as optimal to get to 15% and is gonna work,
now it doesn't work anymore. Now you need more drive,
now you need more motivation,
now you need better discipline,
now you need better systems in your life
to actually stay consistent to push it to 10% body fat
and that's what's missing for a lot of guys.
They get to complacent. They actually get to 15%
and they look around them, okay well I'm in good shape,
you know, I'm better than average, and I'm okay, I'm good.
But which standard, are you looking at, right?
What is the standard you have for yourself?
Are you looking to be the best that you can be?
Like, is your goal to be the best you can possibly be
in this area of your life, and
that's really what you need to get clear on.
What are your core values?
What's the type of person you want to be?
Are you the type of guy who's
not going to settle for average?
Are you the type of guy who's not going to settle
for anything less but the best?
Because that's exactly what you need to be
if you want to get down to 10% body fat
if you're not blessed with some type of magical genetics
like I don't have those. I mean,
I had to work really hard to get down to 10%
and I know other guys easily, no problem whatsoever.
But if you're struggling with this,
I know you don't have the genetics, so
you're going to have to change your approach,
you're going to have to get much more precise,
much more discipline, much more detailed, and
it requires this mental shift which is
really the real reason why you're stuck here,
is because you're not driven the same way you were
to get to 15%, you don't have that fire within.
You don't have that passion to figure it out,
to really work hard, to stick with it.
Maybe you stick with it for a few weeks but then, you know
a party comes out, a binge comes out,
some kind of holiday vacation stuff comes out,
same as what happened to me,
that's exactly why I was stuck at 15.
I would be okay for 2-3 weeks and then
something would happen, I would binge my way back up to 15
because it was okay, there was no consequences,
there was no real sense of urgency,
there was no real deadline. I was just thinking of it like
"Oh it would be a nice goal to get."
And then it never happens, I was literally just
spinning my wheels, I wasn't serious about it.
And that's the true reason why you get stuck there,
it's not the supplement, it's not the
magical tactic of skipping a meal here and there-- no!
It's not. It's literally that, it's my whole approach
my entire mindset was wrong, my psychology was wrong,
and that was affecting everything else because
I would find a way to self-sabotage myself,
same as you can find a way to self-sabotage yourself
no matter how good you're training
or how good your nutrition is,
no matter how good your recovery is.
And look, those things are important, totally, 100%
good training program, absolutely,
nutrition has to be dialed in.
Sleep, recovery has to be dialed in.
But this also is really, really important is
your overall approach, your mentality.
How you have this mindset and are you driven
to really bring that goal home.
Are you the type of person who is not going to settle
for anything less but the best.
Are you that type of person because
that's the guy who's at 10% and if you're not that guy,
if you're not thinking like that,
you're not going to get there and
especially aren't going to maintain that
and that's really what it takes.
It takes that whole mental shift,
it takes that different approach
and different way of thinking about it,
and when you're thinking about it like that,
then nothing can stop you. You are going to find a way,
you're going to find mentors, you're going to find coaches,
you're going to find the information, the systems, knowledge
anything that you need to succeed, you're going to find it.
And by the way, if you need help with this,
if you need someone to mentor you, to guide you,
if you're an entrepreneur or busy professional,
if you're struggling with this and
if you really want to figure this out,
if you want someone to give you a system
and work with you side by side to figure it out,
I'm going to leave a link in the description below
where you can actually apply to work with me directly,
so I can personally mentor you, to help you
reach the 10% body fat and actually
take your physique and your health and fitness
to the highest level that's possible for you.
If you're that guy, you're the guy who
doesn't want to settle for anything less but the best.
Now, of course there are people that are
super happy with 15, and I don't want to bash on that.
If that's something that's your goal,
and you want to get there, and you're super happy with that
totally, I respect that, but if you're the type of guy
who knows that there is the next level,
and you know your true potential,
and you're not actually happy if you don't
reach that full potential of yours,
if you're not pushing yourself,
you're not improving consistently,
then you have to consider this seriously.
Because, if you are looking at all areas of your life,
if you're crushing it in all areas of life except fitness,
and in fitness you're kind of stuck,
you're trying to figure this out and you're stuck at 15,
your work is going great, your relationships are going great
well now it's time to step up your game in your fitness
and really take this thing to the next level
so definitely check out that link if you want mentoring,
if you want to work with me directly,
I work only with a handful of guys,
and I take only a handful of guys from time to time
so you do have to apply. Link is going to explain everything
Other than that, I really hope this video helped you.
I want to hear from you in the comments.
Comment 'next level' below if you resonate with this,
if you personally have been stuck at 15%
maybe you're stuck there right now,
and let me know in the comments below.
Comment 'next level' and I will see you
actually in the next video.
I'm just going to leave a video here in the end
which you can check out which is going to further help you
with those internal and other obstacles that I think
will really add value a lot to your journey.
So check out that video that's going
to come here at the end screen.
Other than that, I will see you in the next video.
Peace.
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