I read something by John Berardi that I’d like to share with everybody:
"As I wrote to Dave recently, "you just have test yourself from time to time �?? especially as you get a bit older, collect a few more creature comforts, and watch everyone around you ‘takin’ er easy’ and getting weaker and softer in mind and body. Every once in a while you have to make it hard on purpose. Doesn’t matter if it’s in the gym or in the kitchen.
And while you’ve gotta be smart about things and stick to your goals, you’ve also gotta remind yourself that you’re a man. You’ve gotta remind yourself that when you make a promise, especially one to yourself, you’ve got to stick to it and not crumble like many do. You simply gotta get in there and get it done �?? without complaint and without compromise. You just knuckle down and do what it takes."
I wonder how many of the people I see every day, stumbling down the street, have ever pushed themselves really hard; have ever gone the distance; in anything in their lives. I know, for a fact, that some haven’t. And, to me, that’s not a life worth living. But that’s just my opinion."
I started my own log a few months ago and have only seen minimal results despite my efforts, so I figured its time to take a page out of Gus’s playbook and bring out the big baby to get the job done. I know what I have to do in order to be succesful, and I’m going to just do it with no complaints. I’m a big fan of periodizing my nutrition, as I’ve been eating everything in sight for the last 2 weeks, but now I’m ready to go all out in order to break into single digit territory.
8 weeks - no excuses. It’s time to get shredded folks.
