10 of the Best Ways to Fail at Fitness

Many people want to know what to do to reach their fitness goals faster, but they should care even more about what not to do.

Because there are far more ways to fail in fitness than to succeed, and unfortunately, just a few wrong moves can undo a lot of the right ones.

Mistakes like these:

  1. Train so hard that picking up a jug of milk hurts and walking down a flight of stairs is a life-threatening affair.
  2. Don’t worry too much about how much protein you’re eating. After all, horses and gorillas are jacked and only eat grass.
  3. Always train to muscular failure. Every exercise. Every set. And keep a really good orthopedic surgeon in your favorites.
  4. Wear a continuous glucose monitor to track your insulin levels, but don’t use a meal plan to track your calories and macros.
  5. Immediately change training programs every time you feel even a little bored with your workouts or disappointed with the results.
  6. Constantly look on social media for people to compare your physique to. With a rigor mortis grin staple-gunned to your face. Until you incur total Ego Death like you drank a gallon of peyote tea.
  7. Only listen to people who say things that are the exact opposite of accepted evidence-based guidelines. They’re usually pioneers sharing forward-looking insights, not grifters fishing for their next mark.
  8. Pay more attention to your protein/carb/fat ratios than how much you eat and drink on the weekends. That 20 minutes of cardio on Mondays should balance it out.
  9. Keep telling yourself the reason you feel like twice-crapped crap is adrenal fatigue and not the coffee-and-wine diet and 5 hours of sleep every night.
  10. Use “good enough” form when you train. Remember, king: more plates means more dates.

What other blunders are keeping guys and gals frail, fat, and weak? And what should you do instead?

Well, you should read my new book and find out:

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Because in it, you’ll find 169 short and insightful chapters with …

  1. Simple, evidence-based, time-proven diet, exercise, and supplementation techniques that’ll help you achieve your health and fitness goals faster, including improving your body composition, reducing the risk of disease and dysfunction, slowing aging, and more.
  2. Motivational musings that’ll inspire you to wallow in fewer “cheat days,” skip fewer workouts, and generally stay out of your own way.
  3. Zany meanderings that’ll earn your smile because, as Victor Borge said, a smile is the shortest distance between two people. And one of the reasons I wrote this book was simply to get closer to more like-minded people, like you. 

What’s more, about one-third of the chapters in Stronger Than Yesterday are for beginners, one-third for intermediate fitness folk, and one-third for veteran meatheads.

And so, whether you’re a guy or gal, whether you’re squatting the bar or a pile of plates, and whether you want to build a few ounces of muscle or a few stones or lose a drop or two of fat or a gulp or three, my new book can help you achieve your fitness goals faster.

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