Skinny and Not Muscular? Know these 5 reasons now!

by Caleb Lee

Since back in the day, I no longer have any trouble with regard to my external appearance. For the reason that I’m already into martial arts ever since I was 5 years old. And when I was 12, I already get down to hard-core strength and conditioning routines.

But then again, I meet folks who don’t look the way they want, and whenever they bare their soul, it’s like hearing the same thing again and again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are:

* Scrawny and feel you can’t transform your body into a strong, muscular, powerful specimen…

* Overweight and think you can’t go on a diet…

* “skinny fat” where you have no brawniness, but you’re just thin…

In that case, I know for certain that you are this way because of one of these 5 things:

Reason No. 1: You Don’t Have Particular Understanding

* You don’t know how to build strength.

* You don’t have any idea on how to lose weight.

* You have no idea how to eat healthy

* You don’t know how to cook, so you only eat fast food and food out of a box.

* You don’t know which training program is the greatest.

Knowledge is always the first step. The first thing you need to realize is how your body works, how proper nutrition and exercise changes the animal – then you discover how to make it do what you want it to do. In your case: change your physique for the better-build muscle and lose fat.

That’s why you’re here. I will give you the know-how you need. Though it’s up to you to use it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.

Reason #2: You Are Lazy

* You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to put in the work.

* You know how to build strength, but you think it’s “too much work”.

* You make alibis like “I don’t have the time!” though you know how to burn fat.

* You know how to eat clean, but it’s easier to eat junk food and microwave box food

I’m a big fan of being what I call unrealistically lazy. That is to say, I look for the very best ways (specialized knowledge) to achieve the extreme results in the minimum time. Thus, I get in, get it done, and stop. You should be WORTHY of the right to be lazy.

You can read every book on the planet about building muscle and losing fat, but if you never start exercising and eating nutritious then you’ll never get ANY results. You have to go for it. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their entire life is one big mistake!

Reason No. 3: You Recognize Yourself As “Skinny” or “Fat” or “Not Muscular”

* You think of yourself as “skinny, fat or not muscular” rather than as what you want to be

* It doesn’t bother you a lot that you’re this way at all

* If you really cared enough, if it bothered you enough, you’d change

* You’re COMFORTABLE with your appearance.

Being fat or out of shape is considered normal these days. It wasn’t always like this. We used to be hunters and if you weren’t in shape-you were dead-end of story. During the industrial age everyone survived on hard physical labor, everyone was in shape and athletic.

You were considered “sickly” if you were skinny and not muscular or ridiculed for being fat. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself but don’t just say “this is just the way I am”. You can become whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve if you’re sick and tired of your current situation and want to change bad enough.

Reason #4: You Think Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is hard

* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and apply them to you

* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, therefore you give up

* You leaf through books and magazines that point out “battling the bulge” like it’s hard

Building muscle isn’t all that difficult. If you’ve always been lean, try to get strong. Your body HAVE TO adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.

Losing fat isn’t hard either. You eat clean and you stay active. Anyone who says they can’t find 12 minutes a day 3x per week to lose fat is lying to themselves.

Reason #5: You Aren’t Determined Enough

* You haven’t said “come rain or shine”

* You haven’t said to yourself “failure is not an option”

* You haven’t made up your mind yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”

To tell the truth, you can build muscle, burn fat, and reshape your body using practically ANY training routine and dietary program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) amounts to 2 things:

1. Make up your mind you’re going to do something and

2. Carry it out WHATEVER HAPPENS

I used to train with methods I wouldn’t use now. They’re not “proper” but it WORKED because I refused to take failure as an option. If you too develop the “do or die” attitude, you can achieve anything.

I will give you the know-how – or you can get the drift somewhere. I like to believe that I have the fastest, really intelligent, highly effective means to execute it – yet you can obtain the knowledge you need from any person. In addition, you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thinking. Simply make a decision and find a way to get it done.

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