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Many Bodybuilders Do Not Put A High Enough Priority On Good Eating  Habits

You’ll witness this problem when bodybuilders put almost all of their focus and effort into the way they train in the gym and very little on the way they eat.

Here’s the challenge:

“I don’t know why I’m not growing. I train harder than everyone else in my gym. No one works harder than me. Ask anyone! It’s frustrating to see people who don’t train nearly as hard as I do build more muscular and leaner bodies than mine!”

Do you see people who train like animals in the gym but their physiques simply don’t reflect their efforts the way they should?

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When it comes to weight training, they have learned and applied all of the most effective training programs, theories in exercise execution, and repetition range. They even know what the best exercise equipment is and why.

But when it comes to nutrition, they openly admit that they don’t know as much as they should. They’ll honestly reveal that they don’t even follow through with what they do know. For whatever reasons, they don’t mind being deficient in this critical component of the physique-enhancing process. Is it because they assume they can make up for poor eating habits with superhuman training efforts in the gym? If so, that’s an incorrect assumption.

If you want to produce high-quality muscle and maintain lower body fat levels from the time and effort you invest in training, you must feed yourself properly. Your nutritional habits—not how you train in the gym—have the greatest impact on the development of your physique. Many experts feel the way you eat accounts for as much as an astonishing 80 percent of the way you look. From my experiences, this figure is surprising accurate. If you want an impressive muscular body, you are going to have to pay close attention to what you are eating.

In fact, if I was faced with the dilemma of choosing between training or eating properly as my only vehicle to look and feel my very best, I would choose to eat properly. Sound nutrition is that important to your bodybuilding efforts. A heavy emphasis needs to be placed on studying winning nutritional strategies and executing those strategies on a consistent basis.

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Some  bodybuilders show up to the gym on a consistent basis but are not demanding  enough out of themselves while they are there. It is like they are merely  “punching a time clock” when they are in the gym. I do appreciate their  commitment and consistency but, to get the muscle gains they are after, they  will have to add more quality to what they do during their workouts.

There is a huge difference between activity and intensity. Activity is  merely showing up. That’s a good start but it’s not going to get these  bodybuilders the results they are truly after.

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Intensity when training can be described as giving 100  percent of your mind, body, and soul to every repetition, every set, every  exercise, and every workout. Whatever training routine or philosophy you decide  to use, you must train with intensity. Without enough intensity, your training  efforts will produce results that are mediocre at best. Intensity means pounding  the weights so hard that every set throughout your entire workout ends in  absolute failure. In other words, you have absolutely nothing left in reserve  when the set is completed. Intensity is just as much a mental feat as it is a  physical one.

Intensity can also be defined as consistently striving for  a higher level of excellence with every exercise, set, and rep you perform  regardless of what you have achieved in the past. You constantly strive to raise  your standards for what you expect of yourself during every session. Intensity  is never being satisfied with your current level of performance or development  because, deep inside your soul, you know that you’re capable of at least one  more repetition, five more pounds, or a slight improvement in your form or  execution.

When you train with this type of passion, zeal, and  enthusiasm, constant improvement in your physique is inevitable. If you train  with intensity, there’s no question that you’ll be more productive in your  bodybuilding efforts than those people who do not. The higher your training  intensity level becomes, the better you’ll be at initiating the muscle-building  process.

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Play Up Your STRENGTHS and Camouflage Your WEAKNESSES!

Too many times, people who are working hard in the gym focus primarily on their challenges and not on their advantages. They actually obsess about any weaknesses they may have and make their journey toward developing their physiques more challenging than it has to be. Instead of identifying what is great about their particular circumstances, they choose to emphasize the factors that are especially difficult for them.

“I cannot build muscle as easily as others because of my genetically skinny frame” or “I cannot get as lean as other people because I have a very slow metabolism” are perspectives frustrated trainers choose to adopt.

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Strive to be the very best version of you possible regardless of your genetic limitations. We all have weaknesses. We have what we have. And for what weaknesses we do have, we can create a plan-of-attack to systematically overcome them.

Our job is to make the most out of what we have been given. If we are not careful, we can let our perceived genetic limitations get in the way of our progress and the level in which we enjoy our bodybuilding and training efforts. We must learn to consistently focus on the gifts we do have and not the ones we don’t have.

The same individuals who complain about their challenges could just as easily say, “I’m so fortunate to have the ability to lose body fat quickly and easily. When I discover the strategies to pack on more muscle—watch out!” or “Unlike a lot of other people, I can gain muscle size efficiently. I may have to diet longer and more strictly than others but I can sure pack on the muscle mass!”

Many Bodybuilders Blame the Wrong Factors When They Should Be Looking Squarely At Themselves

This slip-up takes place when bodybuilders blame their nutritional plan or poor genetics when they don’t see the results they wanted.

Here’s the challenge:

"That diet didn’t work for me. The other diet didn’t respond to my body type. And, my metabolism is really slow. I just can’t seem to find the diet that works for me!"

Take 100 percent responsibility for your success and failure. In other words, if you are not getting the results you want, it’s you and not necessarily your diet that’s letting you down. It’s not your challenging situation, genetic limitations, or time management dilemmas that are preventing you from reaching your goals. Your inability to do what it takes (or find out what it takes) to overcome your challenging situation, genetic limitations, or time management dilemmas is what must be addressed–and overcome.

People oftentimes blame their individual circumstances or genetic conditions for their lack of progress. If you are truly committed, you will eventually find a way around any of your physical, mental, emotional challenges.

People will also sometimes unfairly compare themselves to other people. "They can eat anything they want and still look good while I eat like a bird and gain weight!" The route you may have to take may not seem as easy as someone else you know, but there is indeed a way to overcome your challenges.

Solution

You must realize that YOU are determining the quality of the physique you really want with the decisions you make. Everything worth having has some sort of "price tag" on it. Usually the more desirable something is to have, the higher the price. Maybe you don’t want to pay the price necessary to have the physique you thought you really wanted. If you don’t want to pay the price, that’s fine. But you must accept the decision that you’ve made. Don’t blame your lack of knowledge?blame your lack of desire. Don’t blame your genetics or personal conditions?blame the fact that you decided not to overcome those challenges at this time.

These days, many people mistakenly believe that they are entitled to the better things in life. They feel as though they deserve to be treated a certain way by other people. And, they ought to be rewarded for their efforts or for being the kind of person they think they are.

The fact of the matter is that you actually get what you deserve in life–and you don’t get what you don’t deserve. You are ultimately responsible for what is happening in your life. Whether it’s good or bad, YOU are the person who manifests the events in your life.

If you don’t like how things are going, you must commit yourself to finding a way to make them better. However, this won’t happen until you accept ultimate responsibility.

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