8 Secrets of Successful Skiny to Buff Transformations
There are things that all people who succeeded at transforming their body did. All people had the same patterns of behavior that helped them achieve their goals. And I think I’ve found it, here are those “secret” things people did that lead them to become awesomely built even though they were very skinny and muscle gaining was hard for them!
1. They were determined to do it No Matter What!
Yes, nothing happens if you are not determined to succeed, no matter what happens. You want to have the transformation from skinny to buff? Then prepare to work really hard for some time because it won’t be very easy.
2. It’s a lifestyle, not only a hobby!
In order to succeed you need to change your lifestyle. Other did that too, some had to quit drinking a lot on parties, some had to eat few times at work/school during the day and get laughed at by others because of it, some had to sacrifice a date/hangout with friends in order to get a workout on that day. Everyone had to find the time to get enough of food and to healthy, whole foods (some that they don’t really like). I had to start drinking milk which I didn’t really like when I was a child.
You have to adjust your lifestyle to bodybuilding. Get ready to sacrifice some things in oder to succeed!
3. They were NOT happy with the way they looked and felt!
Maybe something happened and it opened their eyes to the fact that they had to go from skinny to buff. Maybe it was a negative comments from a girl or friends about their looks, or they needed muscles for a sport, or they had ideals and wanted to look like them. Something sparked the fire in them, the fire to change, the fire to workout constantly and eat a lot to finally achieve something good! But they had their OWN reason, try to look for your own reason, ask yourself how going from skinny to buff will improve your life?
4. They ate a lot!
Yes, again, nutrition is 70 percent of gaining muscle. You will achieve NOTHING if you don’t eat. You can have the most grueling workouts and still not gain a pound of muscle if you don’t eat! So EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT….
Did I mentioned that you need to EAT?
5. They were willing to take some criticism for what they did
They became a little selfish so to say. They continued to train and eat properly when their friends had no idea why they’d do so and it looked stupid for them. And I used to be misunderstood by my friends, they’d would look at me with a grin thinking I was a little dumb to work out and gain muscle. Only dumb guys train and have a lot of muscle they were probably thinking. But, I still do, I will do it for sure in the future. You too may have to be critiqued for this, Persist then!
6. They learned a lot
People were interested in weight lifting and how to gain muscle. They were active in forums, were reading bodybuilding books, watching videos, reading interviews with famous bodybuilders and were learning from those people at the gym who had great physiques…
7. They trained HARD
They trained hard, they killed themselves in every workout, gave it all they could. Workouts were intense and BRUTAL! They were exhausted afterwards and could barely walk down the stairs after doing heavy sets of squats… but they still trained hard ever workout!
8. They were not afraid of setbacks
Setbacks will happen. Shit happens in life… Be prepared. If you gained a kilo one month and lost two on other month (happened to me 
) don’t let yourself to give up. Gain those kilos back. You can do it. Don’t let some small challenge to stop you from achieving incredible transformation!
These are the things I noticed, if I forgot something, I will definitely post it in the future. My goal is to help you guys go from skinny to buff along with me so that in the future we could all be proud of what we did 
This is a post I wrote on my blog and I think it is accurate description of what people did. I’m am sure gonna do it and I will be a guy who has done an incredible transformation!
Best of luck
Adrian
May 31, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Good insight! Number 8 really rings true for me personally…It seems I gain only to lose it later, but at least recently there’s been more + than -..