- So if you've been on your quote unquote fitness journey
for any reasonable amount of time,
you probably realize there are two main groups of people.
Group number one,
individuals who keep showing up consistently,
working hard at it, gradually seeing progress,
posting an occasional progress photo,
and everything's going great.
And there's also group two,
individuals who also keep showing up consistently
and also keep working hard, buying different programs,
they are changing their calories, macros, tracking things,
but they're not seeing results.
And this group, no matter what they seem to be doing,
they're not actually achieving that breakthrough moment
where they get to that exceptional level.
Now, the question you should be asking yourself is
how do I end up in group number one
and avoid ending up in group number two
and that's exactly what I'm gonna answer in this video.
I'm gonna share with you three main reasons
why most people don't see results and never will see results
until they fix these.
And this is based on my experience as I coach,
I work with more than 600 clients at this point directly.
I've seen a thing or two about success and failure
over the last eight years
and I've also done this myself for 10 years.
And I wanna go deep here with you in this video
and I promise you, if you implement the three things
that I'm gonna talk about here, master them,
you're going to see some phenomenal results.
So let's dive into it.
The first reason most people aren't seeing results
is due to something I call
the upside versus downside paradigm.
And the way I see it,
your success, your results on the fitness journey
depend more on your ability to manage the downside
rather than your ability to create more of an upside.
In order for me to explain this correctly
we have to go outside of the world of fitness
into the world of investing,
and who's better to learn from there
than one of the greatest of all time, Warren Buffet.
And one of the things that Warren said
that really really stuck out to me when you said that,
rule number one is never lose money.
Rule number two is don't forget rule number one.
And it's a well known fact in the world of investing
that what makes a great investor
is their ability to protect themselves from losses.
How they make decisions when things aren't going that well.
For example, you invest a dollar
and now you just lost 50 cents,
and now you're forced to make 100% of a return
on that last 50 cents to get back to a dollar,
to just get back to where you previously were.
It would've been a much better strategy if you lost less
rather than having to be in a position
where you have to make unrealistic returns, which is a 100%.
Now in fitness, a very common thing that happens is
overeating on the weekends
versus going harder on the weekdays.
Sure can you cut a 100 calories or 200 calories
on one of the weekdays or multiple weekdays?
Yeah, but is that gonna offset
the 5,000 calorie binge on the weekends?
No.
So the leverage point of your progress actually
isn't to make the good weekday better,
it's actually to make the terrible weekend less terrible.
So instead of over eating 5,000 calories,
what if you over ate only 1000 or 500 calories?
And from a training example,
imagine someone who is training really, really hard
with maximum intensity every single time they go to the gym,
but they're also having periods of inconsistency,
they're taking multiple weeks off or several months
where they fall off track,
versus someone who is not training as hard,
but they're doing it consistently.
Well, you can't compensate for those weeks that you're off
even if you go extremely hard when you're on.
It's just not gonna work out.
So the person that's just going at it
at a more steadier pace and they're doing it consistently
will see way better results.
So how can you apply the upside versus downside paradigm
to your own journey?
Well, look at your pitfalls, look at your challenges.
Where do you fall off track?
And instead of focusing all your effort
in making what's good better, look at where you lose a lot.
Are there situations where one bad meal
turns into a whole day of over-eating
or that day turns into a whole weekend?
Could there be a situation
where you fall off track one workout
and that ends up being too weeks off?
If you fix those big losses and you lose less there,
even if everything else stays the same,
you're gonna see much more progress.
So instead of just focusing on the upside,
take a look at the downside, analyze it thoroughly.
You're gonna definitely find some good stuff to fix there
and you're gonna start seeing some great results.
Now, the second reason most people aren't seeing results
is due to a factor I call the results attribution error.
When I speak to beginners and intermediates
and those who've done it for a while and they tell me,
Mario, I'm stuck, I don't know what's wrong.
I'm putting in the work.
It is almost universally the case
that this person has failed to master the fundamentals.
It's not that they're not doing any of the fundamentals,
but they suck at doing the fundamentals,
and what are those fundamentals?
Compound lifts, progressive overload,
good workout technique,
making sure they're training consistently,
making sure they're on top of their calories and macros,
eating a healthy diet, getting to bed on time,
hitting the like button on my videos,
making sure that they're actually following a plan
with a goal in mind.
Those are the things where 80, 90% of your effort,
time and energy should go into.
When I look at the beginners and intermediates
who are stuck not getting results
is that they deviated away from the fundamentals.
They've gone into seeking gimmicks, secrets,
looking for the bicep exercise angles video after video.
They're going broad instead of going deep.
A master is someone who's never stopped doing the basics
Someone who focused on those fundamentals
to get really, really good at them.
If I ask you, do you know progressive overload?
Do you know tracking calories and macros?
Maybe you will answer me yes to all those questions,
but how good are you at those things?
How consistently have you done it?
How deeply do you understand the concept?
Because there's different levels of understanding
and maybe you're just at a very basic familiar level
and that's not gonna be enough
to achieve exceptional results.
So you want to seek mastery instead of seeking familiarity.
And this is where your efforts
should be focused on the fundamentals first
especially if you're beginner or intermediate
because that is going to deliver
the most that he can possibly get on your fitness journey.
Now the third reason why most people
never see exceptional results
is because they never make fitness a part of who they are.
Let me ask you a question,
how much time do you spend thinking about your fitness,
your goals, your routine,
redefining your process to get better results?
'Cause there's one thing that I know to be true
with those that have achieved amazing results.
They're thinking about fitness.
They're spending their free time learning about fitness.
They're talking to other people about fitness.
As Naval Ravikant said,
to them it feels like fun, to others it looks like work.
So you've made that switch from it being a chore
and something they have to do,
to something that they really want to do.
Compare that to someone who is doing it casually,
who's dabbling around, who's being wishy-washy.
They're not bothered to go out seek new information,
to update their knowledge,
not bothered to look for our accountability,
they don't bother to look for help
and they're just basically stuck at the same place.
And if you want exceptional results,
you have a choice to make.
You can stay casual and approach it from that perspective
and be okay with getting those average results.
Or you can really commit to that exceptional journey,
which is gonna require
that you make more space for fitness in your life.
It will have to be a bit of a higher priority.
I'm not saying it has to be a higher priority
than your family or your business,
but it has to be up there.
It has to be something that you're thinking about it
because then it's gonna become a part of your routine,
it's gonna become something you enjoy
when you learn more about it.
And that's really the way
to get out of the whole discipline game
is to make it a habit, to make it a part of your identity
and that takes time and that takes commitment and effort
and you will have to get there eventually,
if you care about exceptional results.
There's nothing wrong with being casual,
but there's a pretty big difference
between that and achieving your fullest potential
which I really want for you.
So think about this
and how big of a part of your life is fitness right now?
And how can you find more space for it to really grow
and become something meaningful to you?
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