Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Guys, from me to you.
Now with that out of the way, can we start working out?
What is it about this time of year especially December, everybody like to put off their
dedication to fitness until, when, January 1st.
So I figure, what if I made a video here where we speed that process up because I know if
you start now,
by the time January 1st rolls around you're already going to start to see changes and
feel better about yourself and be ahead of the curve.
And here's the deal, we can't keep relying on external stimulus to motivate us to workout.
We can't keep relying on dates to make us workout.
Because guess what?
We're always going to find a reason to keep putting them off.
I've said it before in a video of ours.
Someday is not a day of the week.
It never will be.
If you keep thinking that Happy New Year, those three words, trigger your dedication
to fitness.
Well guess what happens on June 1st, you going to say Happy Half a Year.
You're not going to care anymore, You're not going to care.
Or people will say When I get Back from Vacation!
Or when the kids go back to school!
Or When My Friend decides to workout with me.
Everybodys always got, or next Monday.
At least that's a day of the week but it's not now.
And people always want to push the date further and further back because they know that changes
are coming.
And they don't want those changes.
They know they need to, they see it in the mirror every single day.
They re-convince themselves every single morning, when they look in the mirror and go, I've
got to do something about myself.
I've let myself go.
But there's never a strong enough stimulus to make them say I'm going to make that day
today.
And my job as a coach is to make sure that your day is today.
The crazy thing is if you think about what it is that gets people to move and act on
something.
it's usually some form of a displeasing event will cause you to really want to change and
do it right away.
If you were to step on a nail and you had that nail sticking in your foot, do you think
you would say, Ah that really sucks but I'll take it out tomorrow, we can wait.
No you'd be getting that thing taken off right away and out right away.
Or if you had a rabid animal running around your house because you left your door open.
Would you say, that's ok, he'll be fine for the night we'll get rid of him there tomorrow.
You'd be getting him out of there right away.
So why is it that when someone sees themselves and hates what they see because it happens
all the time, guys.
I get emails, really heartfelt, serious, deep reaching emails, guys looking inside themselves
and being honest,
and saying, I can't stand what's happened to me.
I used to be a Division 1 Athlete and not I can't move.
Or I used to look so good that I had everybody, you know asking me what I did to workout and
now I have nobody thinking that I ever worked out.
Things that really hurt.
But meanwhile, despite the fact that they hurt, there's always some reason why we pushed
them off.
And I'll tell you this, it doesn't have to be that way, if you guys make this a dedication
to changing in your lifestyle.
You'll get it to work and you'll get it to click and you've got to start right now.
There is no better time than starting right now.
Forget New Years, forget all this bullshit guys seriously.
I mean I like, well actually I don't like New Years all that much, I don't.
I like the Holiday Season.
I don't like New Years in particular because, I do, I feel that people wait too long and
they put so much emphasize on that day,
and those two weeks because we know that three weeks later, January 21st 85% of the people
that started resolutions on January 1st have given up on them.
They've given up on them, they're gone.
There's no more stimulus of January 1st is gone, Happy New Year is gone.
If you have to write it on your calendar every damn day if that's what's going to make you
workout.
Then start saying it now and use it every single day for the rest of the year.
I don't care, if that's what you need.
But you've got to start doing something.
And don't do this, please don't do this.
Don't set yourself up for failure by creating our own barriers, people are renowned for
doing that,
they will create their own obstacles so that they know they'll fail.
So that they'll have a reason for why they'll fail.
Don't go join a gym that's 60 miles away.
Ah, you know I can't ever make it, I mean it's sure a far way away.
How am I ever going to make it to the gym.
Great, then you're probably not going to.
I wouldn't have made one 60 miles away, so don't do that.
Workout at your home.
Or like I said, ah, you know, my workout partner didn't show up today or they're going to be
out of town for the next couple of weeks so I can't workout.
Then don't rely on a workout partner.
Let me be a workout partner if you want.
I do that in our ATHLEANX System.
I try to be your literal workout partner, I try to tell and coach you through every
workout.
I'll do it.
I'm happy too.
But don't start setting up these obstacles so that, oh I can't follow any type of eating
plan because I don't like steak.
Then don't eat steak!
Eat Chicken, Eat Fish, Eat one of the many zillions of protein options that we have that
don't require,
and if you're a vegetarian, eat the vegetarian items, just don't eat what you don't like.
There's so many foods, you don't have to confine yourself to this really restricted diet of
foods that you don't like,
that's an obstacle that you're setting up for yourself so that if you don't dedicate,
and I mean really dedicate to changing your life,
and you wind up falling off that path, you could easily say that's the reason why I fell
off that path.
No, that was an excuse and that was a self made obstacle that you put up in the first
place.
So, that being said, Happy New Year, no seriously I really mean it, Happy New Year.
This is going to be your best year ever.
And if it needs to start right now, then it's going to start today because I think it should.
I don't think we should ever be procrastinating and pushing back what we could do tomorrow,
that we can do today.
Especially since you're able bodied, you're able to do it, it's a blessing to be able
to have this day to be able to make that change, so go for it!
That fat that you see in the mirror, or whatever it is that's displeasing you, the way your
knees feel, the way your shoulders feel,
make that the nail in your foot.
Get it the hell out of your foot and start!
That's the whole point guys.
Start acting today, I'm telling you, especially guys that use our program.
If you're going to see changes, you will see them fast.
We have the ability to create fast changes because we start training you differently
that you've ever trained before.
We train you like an athlete.
When you start training like an athlete, you see changes because you've never trained this
way before.
Even if you are an athlete.
And you can do that guys at ATHLEANX.COM with our ATHLEANX Training System.
and again, I'm happy to be the guy that takes you through,
I'll be your workout partner, just let me do it before, God's sake, get off your ass,
let's go, it's New Years now.
Guys if you found this video helpful, if it gave you a little bit of that little kick
in the ass that you might have needed today
to get yourself motivated to start doing something about it, that is exactly why I did it.
In the meantime I'll see you guys back here in just a couple of days with some more videos
of course.
See you soon.