Take a careful and deliberate look at the people around you. Give this past week of your life a little thought.
How many times this week did someone tell you that they were going to do something, and proceed not to do it? Did you assume that would happen – that people would break their promises and commitments so easily and frequently?
This is the realization you should’ve had if you took that quick minute to think: you live in a society where the idea of a commitment is somewhat of a joke. People everywhere break promises and their word to both themselves and others without a second thought it seems.
Is it just me who thinks that it’s sad that the person who actually does what they say they’re going to do is remarkable? Shouldn’t this just be an assumed outcome of someone making a promise or commitment?
This post will be long enough so I won’t rehash in depth what I already covered in my last post where I go into detail about the main reasons that I ended up stopping the Warrior Diet. Here’s a quick summary though just to give some context to this post:
My sleep was affected because I was forced into eating too late for a variety of reasons.
My digestion suffered due to stress and other factors, and I wasn’t absorbing a lot of the food I was eating
My energy and testosterone levels, while initially great, steadily fell due to not absorbing as much food as I should be.
After really giving some thought to these considerations, and making significant changes to tailor my own eating, here’s the changes I would definitely make if I gave the Warrior Diet meal plan another run through.
Early last year I woke up one morning fed up and frustrated with the traditional bodybuilding dogma of having to eat at least 6 meals a day. The day in and day out meal preparation, cooking, eating, and cleaning was wearing me down. The constant time spent in the kitchen and at the dinner table started to feel more like a job and less like a privilege… and the whole nutrition aspect of gaining muscle was becoming a massive struggle for me when I had to balance it with university exams, income generation and my social life, all while ensuring I got my workouts in.
Feeling that there must be a better way, I started researching eating strategies that would still get me significant results, but would solve my problem of being a slave to the kitchen. Within two weeks of research, I settled on a brand new eating strategy that completely went against most of what I believed was gospel as far as proper nutrition went for gaining and maintaining muscle.
If you’ve ever told yourself one of the following, this video is for you:
“I’ll do it tomorrow”
“Maybe I’ll do it someday”
“I’ll just wait a bit before doing it”
“I’ll just do X before doing it”
“I’ll do it later today”
Check this out…
Passive optimism is subtle. It’s so subtle that you have to pay VERY CLOSE attention to the thoughts in your mind to see it at work. Again, passive optimism is the belief or feeling that things will get better over time, even though you aren’t doing anything to act upon it.
I hardly do any reading over on T-Muscle since a majority of their articles are filled with a lot of hype, product placement, and terrible advice for the average lifter. That being said, there was a study done over there over the last few months that produced some REALLY neat articles on how we should go about gaining muscle.
This is the first study I’ve seen of this depth. The researcher measured the electrical activity (amount of activation) in certain muscles during specific exercises, and he did this with literally hundreds of exercises, mostly used by bodybuilders and powerlifters.
What that means is that we now have a really good understanding (not complete, but good) of what sort of exercises we can use for the best muscle activation which should translate into better muscle growth.
I explain more in this video and give you my thoughts on the articles. All of the articles are linked underneath the video, and I would definitely encourage you to read them yourself after you watch this video! There’s some awesome information in there.
