How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Transforming Your Body

As you can see, I WAS NOT born with a body that would easily add muscle, or improve in other areas as well, like strength, speed and athleticism. Here are a few things that led to my eventual transformation…

For starters, if I hadn’t eventually met the right person who helped me build the system that lead to my transformation, I’d probably still be stuck failing, doing the same crap that I was doing for my first 7-years in the gym. I would have been stuck in the body that you see above.

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.” ~ Einstein

Learn From Someone Who Has Accomplished What You Want to Accomplish

(Or at least someone who has helped someone accomplish what you want to accomplish)

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Develop Power That Lasts

Rocky Marciano had power in the 1st and 15th round (when it counted the most).

Power is a fast but brief exertion of force. The more weight you can move the faster, the more powerful you are. But that doesn’t really count in sports – unless you’re an Olympic lifter or power. We need power that is there in the first round, quarter, period, or inning, but is also there in the last.

There’s more than one way to skin a cat

And there’s more than one way to build power that lasts. My preference is using each of them at different periods of training. The thing with being an athlete, weekend warrior, or just a normal guy who wants to be as awesome as possible, is that we want more. We want lean muscle, to look like an Adonis and to perform like Achilis.

It makes sense that we want power that lasts, not just something that’s going to be a one and done type of deal.

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the Best Way to Build Lean Muscle: Accidentally

Reggie Bush

What do Reggie Bush, Wladimir Klitschko, and George St. Pierre all have in common?

1. They train to perform better. They focus in improving things like speed, power, endurance and quickness.

2. Each of them is as shredded as can be and physiques that a lot of guys would dream of having.

So what gives? Why do they have insane physiques, while the average guy at the gym – who wants nothing more than to build an amazing-looking body – struggles to put on just a bit of muscle, or lose just a bit of fat?

There are the obvious excuses we can throw out there. We can talk about these guys have insane genetics – true. We can go into how they have more on the line than we do – really? Or we can just look at what they do that we don’t do, and implement the stuff that works for guys like them into our routines.

So, what the hell do I know about “accidentally” putting on lean muscle, or building my ideal body?

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How to Build LEAN Muscle

If your ultimate goal is to just build mass – then this blog post isn’t for you. But, if your goal is to build lean and athletic muscle mass, then read on.

I was always a skinny kid growing up. In high school and college this didn’t change at all, even though I was trying, working my ass off in the gym 5-6 times a week in vain. I wanted to build muscle, but I wanted to have a six-pack, that V-shaped torso, and improve my performance at the same time. I just had no clue how to make it happen.

I failed for 7 years. I’d try a powerlifting plan, gain some fat and a bit of muscle, then try a bodybuilding program like the pro’s do, which would make me lose weight. It was frustrating as hell, but there were a few things that I was doing wrong. When I fixed them, I put on the muscle (32 pounds in 32 weeks) that I had been craving for so long.

What not to do

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