What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
Today I have a very important video for you because we're going to talk about, despite
all the great advice you've been given, why is it that you're not losing the fat, or the
weight that you're trying to?
I think it starts with a pretty profound statement.
That is: good advice, at the wrong time, becomes bad advice.
If you're getting what others will deem as 'good advice' that you're not ready for then
it's not going to help.
So I want to show you what that means, and how we can fix it.
If we look here, we've got just a line along the continuum here.
If we look up and we say this I 40% body fat over there, or about 5% body fat here, we
have our 30% line, we've got our 20%, and we've got our 10%.
So those of us that are struggling with our body fat and our weight are generally going
to be up, in this range over here.
So now, good advice.
Someone might say to you "Well, geez", or you've read "I know sweet potatoes are supposed
to be better than white rice," or "We need to be switching from white rice to brown rice
because that's what I read in an article.
Guys, that's not the problem.
The problem is not whether or not you're choosing white rice, versus brown rice up here.
That's not what’s keeping you up here, and you know that.
I want to make this as truthful of a video as I possibly can.
What's happening here is, you're not choosing either.
You're choosing French fries which is kicking you up in this range.
So you don’t have to focus on that advice.
That advice isn't pertinent to you.
At the moment, what you need to do is start realizing that there's better options out
there than French fries.
We can continue.
Some people talk about cardio.
Well, I read that fasting cardio is better for fat loss.
Well, is that your problem here?
Because what happens is, when you don’t do the cardio because you can't do it fasting,
because it doesn't work for your routine in the morning, then what do you do?
You don’t do anything.
No cardio gets done because "Well, if it's not fasting cardio I'm not going to do any
cardio."
When up here, in reality, what you really shouldn’t be focused on is necessarily the
exact type of cardio you're doing, or whether it's even HIIT training, or not.
What you should be focused on is doing conditioning, or cardio work because we know it's good for
your heart, and especially in this condition up here.
That becomes really, really important.
But don’t think that is your mechanism for fat loss because as I've covered in a video
here before, your ability to burn a significant amount of calories using cardio alone is going
to quickly be eclipsed by the damage that you do by not paying attention to what you're
putting in your mouth.
So focusing on that is not the right way to go about getting down this line.
We can go on.
Cinnamon has been shown to increase your ability, or your insulin sensitivity.
It makes it easier for you to lose body fat.
That's not your problem up here.
If you start sprinkling cinnamon in, or thinking "Well, I'm just going to eat my Cinnamon Toast
Crunch", you have to realize that Cinnamon Toast Crunch is what doesn’t' belong in
here, to allow you to get your cinnamon.
That's the bigger move.
The bigger move is you making bigger mistakes up here, than whether or not you're sprinkling
cinnamon on your food, or not.
We also have this reliance to think that supplements can save the day.
We'll say "Well, I know.
You're right, Jeff.
I need to fix my nutrition.
I've heard that a lot, and I know that supplements are a great way to do it because, hell, everybody
in the supplement market tells me that supplements will fix everything.
Well, not me because I always tell my people 'if you're in this range, and you think you're
going to fix your nutrition – even with my supplements – forget it.
Don’t do it.
Trust me.
You don’t do it.'
Don’t think supplements are going to save the day up here because they're not.
Let's say that the money dries up and you don't have the ability to pay for your supplements
anymore, on a monthly basis.
Then what?
What skills have you learned to fix your nutrition?
Other than "I can take something out of a bottle".
You've learned nothing.
So you're back in the same position you were in the first place.
Finally, the one other thing that people will do here is, they'll go the other way.
They'll say "Well, I know Jeff, because you preach it, you say consistency is what matters
the most", and you are absolutely damn right.
Consistency is what matters most.
No matter where you are on this continuum here.
But I'll tell you this: consistency is a sliding scale.
If you think that you're going to go from this area over here, to being 100% consistent
you're setting yourself up for failure, and you know you have to be truthful to yourself
because you're anything but perfect, at this point here.
I always say "Perfect is the enemy of the good".
A lot of people, almost artificially, try to make perfect the goal because they know
they'll never be able to get there, and they can just quickly fall back into their old
habits.
Saying "Well, I can't do that because I can't be perfect."
And that's not the reality because what we always talk about here is that you don’t
need to be perfect up here.
In fact, if you went 60% good with your nutritional choices, and 40% not so good, you'd still
be making progress, and you know it.
You know you're probably not making 60% of the right decisions up here.
You're not.
So if you were to get 60/40, well, we know this is a sliding scale.
As we go back in, through here, maybe you've got to be 70/30 with your decisions in order
to be able to continue to make progress down here.
Then we go here and we're about 80/20, right?
When we get down to the 5% level you're going to need to be 90 and 10 to be able to continue
to see progress.
Maybe you want to get into the insane, low levels of body fat if you're competing, or
whatever it might be.
You might even need to be more specific than that.
But that's a sliding scale.
Guess what?
It becomes a lot easier to do these things as you slide down here because you get motivated
by the results that you see, as you make those changes all the way down here.
If you start off here, at 60/40, if you ignore some of the minutia, in terms of the advice,
if you took the advice that you're getting that actually applied to you, and you did
that here; you'd start to see changes that would put you into this category here, and
that would inspire you to continue.
Then when you see that you can start to make some additional changes that inspire you to
keep going because you continue to see those changes.
That's where these other things come in here.
Maybe fasting cardio starts to become a consideration as you start to slide down, instead of just
doing your cardio after work.
Or maybe start to decide whether or not you are going to switch to sweet potatoes, as
opposed to white potatoes, to become more of a consideration for you.
It all depends on your goals.
It depends on what you're training for, but these are the things that at least start to
enter into the discussion.
Supplements become much more of an important issue as you slide down this scale.
Whether or not you're just going to stay very top level with your supplements – like taking
a daily multivitamin – or whether you're going to start to add specific supplements
concerning workout nutrition before, and after your workout.
Whether that becomes important.
It all depends on where you are on the scale.
However, all of it is good advice.
It just might not necessarily be the right advice for you, and therefore, at the wrong
time it can become bad advice.
So guys, I hope you get inspired by this video.
If nothing else, realize that no matter where you are, there is a light at the end of the
tunnel.
You can always go this way.
Of course, we can always go that way, too.
But that, we know when we're doing that.
We know when we're making wrong decisions there.
But here, if you can get some clarity on the decisions that you are making it will open
up that avenue for you to see the possibilities of what you can accomplish.
And when you can see that, when you can set your sights on that, you can reach it.
And I want you guys to be able to reach it.
I have a whole channel here that gives you guys the tools to be able to reach that goal.
But you have to be real with yourself first, and understand what you need to be focused
on in the first place.
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truth back in everything we do, always – I'm not going to bullshit you – you can go to
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Use our program selector.
Find the program that's best aligned with your goals, and then guess what?
Be prepared to work a little bit because it's not going to be easy.
It's always simple, but it's not easy to do.
If it was easy everybody would look perfect, right?
We know that's not the case.
If you want to start getting closer to this end of the scale here, you've got to start
making changes little, by little.
But you can do it as long as you're prepared to work.
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Let me know what else you want me to cover here and I'll do my best to do that in the
days, and weeks ahead.
All right, guys.
See you soon.