You’re Fit For A Reason: Interview w/ AT-13 Winner Stuart Barton

July 7, 2014 by Allen Elliott

Here’s your latest interview with one of the winners from the 13th Adonis Golden Ratio Transformation Contest. Scroll down to read how the Adonis Golden Ratio System enabled Stuart to become “fit for a reason.”

But first, check out his AT13 Pictures:

Stuart Barton – AT13 – 1st Place – Front Before/After Photos

Stuart Barton – AT13 – 1st Place – Transformation Image

Stuart Barton – AT13 – 1st Place – Side Before/After Photos

Stuart Barton – AT13 – 1st Place – Back Before/After Photos

Stuart’s Transformation Interview:

1- What workout or nutrition routine did you do before Adonis Golden Ratio (AGR) System? What kind of results did you get?

I used to workout quite often and hardcore. My workouts were based in crossfit and kettle bell training. I had a trainer for a short while to help me master the 300 workout! Then life happens, girls happen and you question what’s it all for?

Nevertheless, it had been almost 3 years since I’ve gone to the gym. My job in construction is quite physical anyway, and I ate ‘healthy’ but I never new about how important calories were. So I was fit and strong for my size, I could perform amazing physical feats but never looked as lean as I always wanted to.

2- How did you find out about AGR?

I can’t really remember. I had joined up to Kyle Leon’s Muscle Maximizer program but had never really taken it on board. Found it wasn’t what I needed to really connect with me. So either through association with John Barban or searching the web, I came across AGR.

3- What was most appealing to you about AGR?

The fact that it used the scientific/mathematical approach of physical dimensions and a program catered to me and my dimensions personally. The AGR system was very progressive; as your dimensions changed regularly you were able to adjust using the nutrition calculator and set new calorie goals each week.

4- Were there any concepts or approaches you were skeptical about?

No not really! Everything was explained logically and backed by science. So it made sense. The only thing I really wondered about was the workouts’ choice of exercises.

They didn’t seem to focus on abs or chest as much. Especially abs. It was a well rounded routine that focused on everything so I wondered if I would actually get a six-pack. But what I read elsewhere on the site was to just trust them. The exercises and the order of them have been carefully chosen. They were right!

5- When did you decide to jump on board full fledge with AGR?

I bought the program in September 2013 but didn’t do anything until about 5-6 months later when contest AT13 was announced.

I had to make sure my life circumstances were best suited to focus on the 3 month program so I wouldn’t be taken away with trips and other distractions. I purchased my needed supplements, stored my AGR pdf printouts in a binder so I could read them and also take the workout with me to the gym.

6- When did you first decide to enter an Adonis Transformation (AT) contest?

I was getting ready to start the program and read about the contest and thought it was a great motivator for me to really get into it and nail it. An extra incentive to stick with it.

7- What was your experience going through the AT contest? Challenges that came up? Things you didn’t expect?

Oh boy! 🙂 It was harder than I imagined. The workout was fine, no problem. But the nutrition! It’s all about the food! I found I felt like I was starving sometimes.

Mainly late afternoon and at night. The hunger pain! I can’t sleep on an empty stomach so it was torture for me during those moments. I had just gotten used to eating whatever I wanted whenever I felt hungry. So I learned that EVERYONE is overeating. And I learned vegetables, vegetables, vegetables! We don’t need that much meat. Next time I will definitely incorporate “cheat” days.

8- How did people react to your transformation? Positives and negatives (if any).

Everyone thought I was fine and nothing wrong with me. Although they didn’t see me without a shirt. But when they saw the before and after pics they all were impressed. Blown away!

My cousin saw me without a shirt near the end of the contest and said I looked like a Marvel hero with all these veins and shredded muscles.

The guy behind the counter at the gym called me ‘Shredder’! A number of people noticed my arms and said that the veins looked crazy! A friend of mine, a married mother of 2 in her twenties really was striving for the “Female Fitness Model” look. She already was in great shape mind you! But she does a lot of cardio workouts and running and not really seeing the results she wanted. So she trusted my advice and now she’s hitting the Venus Factor program! My older sister though said I looked too skinny.

9- How do you react to the “Brand New” you? Have you noticed changes in your outlook and attitude in general.

I was very happy with the result but I thought I could be better. But I am a bit of a perfectionist. My view? I’m a lot more conscious of what I eat now and always will be. Veggies with a bit of meat. And now it’s my duty to inform people that what you eat and how much is SO important.

Because they don’t know. They try everything! But guaranteed it’s the diet letting them down. I had always sort of subconsciously evaluated myself and others by the condition their body was in. But without being too sure or vocal. Plus it’s a little shallow I know or just unfair/unkind. But now it has been set in concrete. Based on science: calories in=calories out. And having gone through it myself. My view is you can’t judge a book by its cover but you can judge a person by their body. We are a result of our choices. And those choices may be hard, or easy…

Eat what you want or eat what you should?

‘You’re fat for a reason’ or ‘You’re fit for a reason.’

Which one will you choose?

Editor’s Note:

Hey Stuart,

Glad to know that contest AT13 was able to help you re-define your motivation for working out.

I really liked your closing thoughts where you mentioned:

“You’re fat for a reason’ or ‘You’re fit for a reason.”

You also touched on a lot of key points which are the “Essence of Adonis.” For example, most people are looking for the magic pill when it comes to weight loss, when there is already a magic formula… Calories In = Calories Out. I appreciate your openness about how you suffered some occasional hunger pangs as your body began to transform.

That is something I believe others should know and expect along their transformational journey. Sounds like your body acclimated to the new caloric goals you set for yourself, but indeed there will always be resistance when striving for something greater.

Very happy to learn that you faithfully applied the principles and gained some amazing results!

your brother in Iron,

Allen Elliott | Adonis Transformation Coach

Filed Under: body image, diet, exercise, Goals, Physique, Sage Advice, Transformation Tagged With: adonis index, Adonis Index Contest, Adonis Index Transformation, Adonis Physiques, AT13, AT13 Contest Winners, Stuart Barton

Victory or Regret?

June 27, 2014 by Allen Elliott

Victory or Regret?

Sweat drips down me as if I had just come out of a rainstorm. I write the last little tick mark on my workout sheet but the sweat blurs the ink into a blob. I look down at all the ink that is just this gelatinous-looking mess and I start to try to correct all the other marks that got smeared but they get even worse. I muse to myself how I’m going to have to let the sheet dry out due to the “sweat effect.”

Here I am trying to catch my breath while I dictate this post via a dictation app, as I feel inspired right and it seems easiest. I try to search for the words of accomplishment that are really coursing through my body and my mind right now.

I came to the gym not really wanting to be here, but I forced the body to move.

I arrived relatively uninspired.

I leave…well…I’m going to leave fully satisfied with the effort I gave today.

When I train…I just get better and better the warmer I get. The more sweat pours, the more satisfied I am and thus the harder I push beyond what I thought I could do.

What can I say? I am truly and thoroughly enjoying these new immersion tricep and chest Advanced Growth Series workouts. The density blocks that I have undergone and conquered are exactly right up my alley and what I truly enjoy doing.

You know, you really got to find a way to enjoy your workout. There are plenty of days when you don’t want to go to the gym. It’s easier to make an excuse:

“Oh it’s raining”

“ Oh it’s snowing”

“I just feel lazy”

“…but a re-run of <insert name of TV show here> is on…”

But, I’m going to tell ya: you don’t regret the work out that you accomplish. You don’t regret that workout that you forced yourself to go to and you actually do it.

You regret the workout that you skipped because you were lazy. That’s the one that we beat ourselves over.

(Side note: if this isn’t your way of thinking, then may I suggest that you might well not be as dedicated into your training as you think you are, especially if your physique isn’t at least showing some of the changes you want. You might willfully be deceiving yourself.

It might be time to have a reality check…are you dedicated to your training or are you ho-hum about it?)

LOL…If you think I need to prove what I’ve written in the blog…this was from my thursday workout.

Inspiration comes from within and I find it in the gym when I’m sitting here doing my stuff with no one else around to get in my way. After all these years it just comes naturally. It’s like a motor reflex. Many days I force myself against the inertia of laziness and procrastination and train. As the workout goes on I get more into it and work harder. As I then work harder, I push it more. The harder and harder and harder I work out the more sweat I work up, the more I push it and the more satisfaction comes.

Now, we’re not always inspired. We’re not always gung-ho to go to the gym and train, but like I said, we don’t regret the workout that we accomplished even if it was not the best effort ever. Even if it was not the most intense workout that we’ve ever accomplished we still went there we did it we did the best we could considering the situation on that particular day in that particular season of life.

The workout we do regret, however…the workout that makes us just beat ourselves up is the workout where we wussed out and didn’t even make the attempt. We let that old mindset…our old mindset rooted in failure, no ambition, and no desire to really push ourselves. We let that rule us and that hurts afterward.

And it should!

That’s what we regret.

That’s what we beat ourselves up over.

(Again, if you skip workouts for no good, real, legitimate reason and don’t feel the way I’m describing (even slightly), then it might be time to re-assess yourself. How dedicated are you to training? How badly do you want that golden physique?)

However, when we overcome that lazy flesh and we’re sitting in the gym after the work out like a victorious warrior…yeah the iron beat us again…yeah it will always beat us, and we’re ok with that.

Yet we report for duty each and every time.

Every time we come into the gym we report for battle and we’re bigger and stronger mentally and physically every single time that we don’t skip this battle.

Gentlemen, do not neglect the battle. Do not shy away and do not wuss out from the challenge of improving yourself mentally and physically. Your body will reap the rewards, and your mind will become stronger…just as your body does.

NO REGRETS! Sweat is my fat crying.

We don’t regret the work out that we forced ourselves to go to. We don’t regret that we conquered our flesh and got it done.

But, we do regret the one that we wussed out on.

If you are looking for an outstanding battle plan for attacking your physique goals, check out the AGR Systems that has helped hundreds of men to conquer themselves and achieve their best physiques.

If you are looking for brother-in-arms who have fought the battle, achieved the golden physique, and have maintained it for years, check out our Premiere Coaching Program, where experienced coaches who have successfully underwent their own transformations will help you through the minefields that come up with training and nutrition.

Train Hard, Train Smart,

Jason

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

ADONIS ORIGINS: Jason Haynes | Circa 2009-2010

Jason Haynes is one of the oldest members of the AGR community and has been around since he participated in the first and second AGR Transformation Competitions, of which he placed second and first, respectively. Having found a system that he is confident in and that works, he has faithfully stuck by it ever since. Now in his 40’s, Jason enjoys living the life of maintaining his physique easily and with little effort, thanks to the AGR system and tools provided. He is also a coach in the Adonis Premiere Coaching program and desires to help anyone to achieve their fitness goals.

ADONIS LEGEND: Jason Haynes: May 2014

Filed Under: body image, Contest, diet, exercise, Fat Loss, Featured Articles, Muscle Building, weight loss Tagged With: adonis golden ratio, Becoming Golden, coaches corner, Regret, transformation, Victory, Weight Loss

Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Coaches’ Corner w/ Jason Haynes

June 20, 2014 by Allen Elliott

Today’s post is our latest installment of a new series called the “Coaches Corner.” Our Adonis Transformation Coaches will share their knowledge, experience, and best practices to help ensure your successful transformation. To continue the series, our topic comes from none other than Adonis Legend and AGR Pioneer, Jason Haynes.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

It never fails to happen at least once a week at work. I thank God nowadays for my attitude when it happens, as I am a LOT better now than I used to be. The scenario varies slightly from week to week, but it goes something like this (and this is a specific example that really happened) :

Co-worker walks up to me to show me something on his cell phone…it’s a comic strip of two guys. One is buff and ripped and busting tail doing a workout. He is shown in obvious exertion and strain. The other guy is fat and eating a box of some kind of donuts (I would guess jelly filled) and he is wearing a totally satisfied and tranquil expression. The “punchline” to this comic, as shown in the last panel of the strip, is the donut-eating character looking smug saying “who looks happier?”

Now, the man who showed me this cartoon is overweight and obviously out of shape. He’s a great guy and I consider him a good friend, but facts are facts. I look over to him after reading the comic and he has this kind of smug look (strangely the same look as the comic character), and I reply: “the guy lifting weights is way happier.”

I hand his phone back to him and my friend nods and wordlessly walks away. Guess I didn’t play into his game, so I suppose that I was no fun.

This was the best answer I could have given, in my opinion. Sure, my ego kicks in after some retrospective time and I think better retorts that “should” have followed my initial one. Thing like: “And who do you think is happier when he looks into a mirror while shirtless? And which one avoids the mirror like the plague? Or pool parties or beaches, for that matter?”

Perhaps that would have been taken personally, so like I said, I am thankful to God that I handle things differently nowadays.

Anyway, this week I had a pair of happenings, this time both with women I work with. I’ve had several instances like this with both of them in the past, but again with slightly different topics although they all revolve around my lifestyle of training at the gym during my lunch break. Yes, it’s true that I <gasp!!> don’t go to lunch with any of my co-workers because I choose to train during lunch break and then scarf down a quick egg and cheese sandwich before getting back to work.

It is, of course, nothing personal against them but personally I like having full run of the gym (no one but me is there during lunchtime), and I would prefer to go home to my beautiful wife and daughter after work instead of going to the gym at its busiest hours.

Anyway, so I’m walking down the stairs and another co-worker sees me on the first floor as I approach the bottom. She stops and takes a long pause as I finish descending. When I am at the bottom of the stairs, this simple scene unfolds:

“Oh, off to exercise again?”

“Yup.”

We head out the double doors at my work and just before we go separate ways, she adds:

“Well, you go exercise, and I am doing my exercise of walking to lunch. See, I exercise too.”

(Which, in my opinion, is akin to telling a holocaust survivor that you understand the depths of horrors of what he has been through because you know a person of Israeli descent…as if that is common ground and puts you on equal footing with them.)

“People notice the fruit of our actions more-so than our words.” – Jason Haynes

The other one from this week was with a different woman. I had a run in with her previously when she told me that I don’t need to exercise because I “am in good shape,” to which I said “how do you think I stay this way?”

Anyway, I was walking to the parking lot and we were going the same direction so she started talking about how she knows she should exercise but she is lazy. Yes, she said that word, which kind of surprised me. At least she is honest about it.

I simply told her “That’s ok, there is nothing morally wrong with that…you just don’t want it badly enough to take action. There is nothing inherently wrong with that.” (Yes, my blog about “Wishing vs. Wanting” was ringing in my ears at this point. Ha!)

Now, if you have read to this point you may well be wondering: “What in the world is Jason rambling about? Is there a point to this?”

And rightly so, I must say, so let me get to the point:

See, simply having a lifestyle of training says a lot to people even without us saying a word to them about it. We don’t have to stand on a soapbox and preach to the masses about their need to embrace the concepts of responsible nutrition and consistent exercise. We don’t have to quote studies and journals or anything.

People notice the fruit of our actions more-so than our words. As with many things in life, our actions and our lives speak louder than any words we may have to say…ESPECIALLY if our lives (and thus, in the context of this post, physiques) are a physical representation of what we preach!

If you have the lifestyle of training and nutrition, but WITHOUT the physique to back it up (or at least an appreciative amount of work showing in your physique), you are simply pretending to be something that you are not.

Sorry, but it’s true.

Sure, you may have the head knowledge, but you lack the experiential knowledge and understanding that only comes with having done (or in the process of doing) it!

Preaching one thing but not doing it is hypocrisy, whether from a spiritual standpoint or a physical one.

Practice what you preach, fellas…and preach only what you practice, if it is beneficial and works.

And if you would like a road map to achieving the goal of an outstanding physique, check out the Adonis Golden Ratio System. It’s worked for hundreds of men of all ages and physical conditions.

If you are looking for additional accountability, assistance, and coaching from guys who actually have been in your shoes (undergoing their own transformations and maintaining their results over the course of several years), then check out our Premiere Coaching Program.

Lots of guys still talk about “living the lifestyle,” but in fact are only deceiving themselves and others. Don’t be one of them.

Train Hard, Train Smart.

Jason

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

ADONIS ORIGINS: Jason Haynes | Circa 2009-2010

ADONIS LEGEND: Jason Haynes: May 2014

Filed Under: body image, Contest, diet, exercise, Fat Loss Tagged With: actions, adonis golden ratio, Becoming Golden, coaches corner, louder, speak, than, transformation, Weight Loss, words

Change or Remain the Same: Interview w/ AT-12 Winner Richard Geary

June 16, 2014 by Allen Elliott

Here’s the latest post with one of the winners from the 12th Adonis Golden Ratio Transformation Contest.

Richard is definitely “A man on a mission.” With an active lifestyle involving work, family, and coaching it’s needless to say that his time is very valuable to him.

However, Richard explains how his workouts were driving him insane!

Scroll down to read about how the Adonis Golden Ratio system helped Richard get his “Workout Sanity” back, but first, check out his AT12 Pictures:

Richard Geary – AT12 – 8th Place – Front Before/After Photos

Richard Geary – AT12 – 8th Place – Transformation Image

Richard Geary – 8th Place – Side Before/After Photos

Richard Geary – 8th Place – Back Before/After Photos

Richard’s Transformation Essay:

I bought the Adonis Golden Ratio (AGR) system looking for a program that “fit” into my lifestyle. I consider myself a family man, having been married for 16 years with 3 children. I also coach multiple traveling sport teams in addition to the “occupational travel” for my sales job.

I like to work out, but have been stuck in a “rut” doing the same things and expecting my body to change. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

So I guess you could say I was going insane when I bought the program. What I found with the AGR system is that it delivered above and beyond my expectations. This system allows me to be able to get in and out of the gym quickly and efficiently.

I can access all the content from my smartphone which is ideal for how mobile I am. The nutrition program has guided me to what my body needs to stay lean. No doubt, the diet is the most important part of the program. It takes discipline and persistence.

The workouts started out very challenging with a bunch of exercises I had never done before. I was skeptical at first, but was able to maintain size even though I lost inches in my waist.

I am still working toward my ideal Adonis Golden Ratio measurements, but I believe I will achieve that goal soon. With multiple programs to give variety, along with a final phase program, you have given me the tools I need to FINALLY succeed.

Thanks for making a great program!

Editor’s Note:

Hey Richard,

I enjoyed hearing that in your active lifestyle, you still placed a priority on working out. Glad to know that you stayed the course and hung on long enough to overcome the frustrations of not seeing results until you were able to discover AGR. You provided some very valuable feedback on how you have made the AGR system “fit” into your lifestyle and were happy to hear you’ve had such a positive experience. Enjoy the journey and keep pushing towards your “Golden” A.I. measurements. Congratulations on your transformation!

your brother in Iron,

Allen Elliott | Adonis Transformation Coach

Filed Under: body image, Contest, diet, exercise, Goals, Physique, Sage Advice, Transformation Tagged With: adonis index, Adonis Index Contest, Adonis Index Transformation, Adonis Physiques, AT12, AT12 Contest Winners, Richard Geary

Re-Birth: Interview w/ AT-12 Winner Tyson Harker

June 9, 2014 by Allen Elliott

Here’s the latest post with one of the winners from the 12th Adonis Golden Ratio Transformation Contest.

Along contest AT-12 life threw a very interesting curve ball at Tyson. As he was striving for the birth/transformation of his “brand-new physique” he was also accompanied with a new addition to the family. Nevertheless, Tyson continued the challenge and overcame the countless sleepless nights and many other “time-consuming” activities that come with raising a “new-born.” He not only successfully completed the 12 week challenge, he actually saw some dramatic results!

Scroll down to read Tyson’s transformation essay in his own words, but first, check out his AT12 Pictures:

Tyson Harker – AT 12 – 9th Place – Front Before/After Photos

Tyson Harker – AT12 – 9th Place – Transformation Image

Tyson Harker – AT12 – 9th Place – Side Before/After Photos

Tyson Harker – AT12 – 9th Place – Back Before/After Photos

Tyson’s Transformation Essay:

This contest proved to be a very interesting 12 weeks in my life. My wife and I welcomed a new member into our family in July and we were still in the throws of sleeplessness during the beginning of AT12.? There were times I questioned why I started a contest under such duress but I never skipped a workout and continued to push through the tiredness. Eventually the nights got better and my workouts got stronger.? My workouts consisted of Adonis Golden Ratio (AGR) Category 3 training with AGR Category 1 nutrition guidelines. It was a mix that I felt proved to be quite successful. After all AGR is all about adaption right?

I followed the Reverse Taper Diet (RTD) throughout the course of the contest and was amazing at the simplicity of it and its overall effectiveness.? A big take-away I learned was to eat for the week and not the day. I feel like this was my biggest catalyst for success as I was able to plan my weekends for social events and times with my family knowing that during the week I could be strict with my diet. When I did this, the weight and inches fell off.

I look in the mirror and for the first time in years of training, I can actually see a difference. My shoulders are wider, my waist is smaller and I feel I actually look “good”. The biggest pay-off has been in the way my clothes fit. There is just something “rewarding” about putting on a pair of pants that doesn’t quite fit like they used to.

Editor’s Note:

Hey Tyson,

Major kudos to you for completing contest AT-12. Also, congratulations on the new addition to your family. You had plenty of reasons to “bow out” with all do reason. But you chose to stay the course. Another great example of one’s will and desire to improve. It reminds me of a quote, “Change is inevitable, progress is optional.” Thanks for raising the bar one step higher in the “AGR community” and being an “excuse-eliminator.”

your brother in Iron,

Allen Elliott | Adonis Transformation Coach

Filed Under: body image, Contest, diet, exercise, Goals, Physique, Sage Advice, Transformation Tagged With: adonis index, Adonis Index Contest, Adonis Index Transformation, adonis index transformation contest, Adonis Physiques, AT12, AT12 Contest Winners, Tyson Harker

Simple is not Easy: Coaches’ Corner w/ Jason Haynes

June 6, 2014 by Allen Elliott

Discover why…

I don’t know if maybe I subconsciously intended to have another blog about what some people may call “semantics,” or not. Maybe on some super-ultra subconscious level my English-teacher brain is working out some frustrations about proper usage of words, but I can assure you who read this blog that this week’s topic is not driven by some conscious-minded need to correct peoples grasp of the English language.

It was not my intention to follow up last week’s blog with another similar one. At least, it wasn’t my intention when I wrote last week that I would follow–up with a similar topic this week.

Yet, here we are again, but this week’s topic is the difference between simple and easy. Again, the two topics are oftentimes used interchangeably, yet there ARE major differences between the terms.

For the context of this blog, let’s define them as:

Simple: the opposite of complex. Not complicated.

Easy: requiring minimal or no work or effort, free from pain, comfortable

As you can see, both of them do have different meanings. See, something can be easy but not simple as well as simple but not easy.

Let’ take eating, for example. The process is easy for us…find food, eat food and the body takes care of the rest. It actually requires minimal work or effort on our part and is actually designed to be a pleasant experience. We can do it whenever or wherever we choose, and we can do it with a variety of foods in a variety of situations and contexts.

However the process of digestion and all the little processes that our body has been designed with to absorb nutrients and eliminate wastes (thereby keeping us alive and fueling our body)…that is NOT simple.

Quite the opposite, it is amazingly complex. Easy, but not simple.

In a similar way, something can be simple, but not easy. I dare say that many of the things we aspire to do or be can fall into this category. For example if you want to learn a language, the process is simple: study, memorize, and practice…then rinse and repeat as many times as needed. The actual method and “path to achievement” is simple. The actual study, memorizations, and practicing however…now THAT is not easy. One must put in literally hundreds of hours (if not thousands or even tens of thousands, depending on the language) in actual book memorization, listening practice, pen-and-paper writing, and face-to-face speaking time in practice in order to achieve the goal. Yet the actual “roadmap” to how to do it is quite simple and basic: study, memorize, practice.

Over the course of several years interacting with guys on the AGR forum, I see that oftentimes there is a misunderstanding about the difference between something being simple and easy when it comes to earning an outstanding physique. Somewhere, somehow, there is some kind of great disconnect that many guys (and probably ladies too, but we don’t get many of them around the AI forums) fall into; and that is that just because the AGR System (especially when coupled with Eat-Stop-Eat and the Anything Goes Diet) is designed to be as simple as possible, that it is also easy:

…that somehow, it is magic and there is minimal effort or even willpower and determination involved in it.

This could not be further from the truth!

Look, the concepts are simple: if you want to lose fat, eat less and exercise more. If you want to gain muscle, eat a LITTLE bit more and exercise with intensity. If you want to do both, then that is simple too: eat less and exercise with intensity.

Simple? Yup. The actual “how to do it” is simple!

Easy? No way, dude.

Let me restate our working definition of “easy,” as a reminder: “requiring minimal or no work or effort, free from pain, comfortable.”

Eating less calories IS uncomfortable especially during the first week or two as your body is SO accustomed to eating as before that it actually goes into outright rebellion in order to tell you that something is missing! The following headaches, dizziness, stomach growling, mood swings, and all these “fun” kinds of things that happen as our body deals with it’s food withdrawal is certainly not comfortable or pleasant. In the meantime (and even for a time afterwards), we have to fight to not give in to those cravings and to continue forward with that plan (the simple plan of not eating as much)…and that certainly requires work and effort!

But if you don’t do these things…you won’t lose fat. Period.

Training intensely IS uncomfortable especially as we start to drip sweat and start to fatigue. As muscles start to burn with acidic agony yet we still have 7 reps to go in those oh-so-hated sets of 21’s of triple raises. (Side note: John Barban is a sicko to put sets of 21 of those into the program…I mean, a total of 63 reps for a single set for shoulders????) Yet, we push on through the agony, even as the pain continually builds up more and more until we get to through that 21’st rep. We growl in a strange mix of pain and relief as we violently shake out our arms after nearly hurling the weights through the floor.

That is CERTAINLY not “free from pain,” or “comfortable” or “requiring minimal or no work of effort,” is it?

How about those sets of 5? Pushing those last reps as we grit our teeth so hard that it feels as though we will crack our teeth like some kind of old cartoon, our arms shaking as if we are have lost total motor control, and our eyes squinting so tightly so as to see the world as a blur.

Serious effort there, fellas. It is, and should be, a far cry from easy.

But if you don’t work hard and push yourself…you won’t build muscle. Period.

See, just because John Barban designed the AGR Systems to simply give you the best results in the shortest amount of time possible, that does not mean it’s easy to do. It requires work, dedication, consistency, sacrifice, sweat, and discomfort…lots of discomfort and effort.

And whether you choose to use the Anything Goes Diet or Eat-Stop-Eat, that does not make it easy to diet. Surely, they are VERY simple to understand and to put into practice, but the actual WORK associated with DOING it is NOT easy at times.

Staying consistent in both training and diet, tweaking them, and not falling off track is simple in concept and “on paper,” but it is not EASY, which is why we have Adonis Premiere Coaching to help you with your struggles!

Don’t fall into the trap, people! Just because the concepts and the methods of training and nutrition are simple…they are NOT easy! You simply CANNOT achieve an outstanding physique by not putting in the work and the sacrifice. Yes, with AGD, ESE, and AGR we provide the simplest ways to lose fat and gain muscle quickly. Yes, these methods minimize lots of uncomfortable and simply “unfun” factors normally associated with the process of losing fat and gaining muscle.

However, YOU MUST STILL WORK HARD at it!

It IS NOT easy. I know. I’ve been there.

But once you accomplish the goal, it does become easy to maintain…easier and more enjoyable than you can possibly imagine.

I know that too…and am doing that now.

Simple is not easy. Get over it and get ‘er done.

Until next time,

Train Hard, Train Smart.

Jason

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ADONIS ORIGINS: Jason Haynes | Circa 2009-2010

ADONIS LEGEND: Jason Haynes: May 2014

Filed Under: body image, Contest, diet, exercise, Fat Loss Tagged With: adonis golden ratio, Becoming Golden, coaches corner, Easy, Simple, transformation, Weight Loss

You’re Fit For A Reason: Interview w/ AT-13 Winner Stuart Barton

Stuart’s Transformation Interview:

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Victory or Regret?

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Coaches’ Corner w/ Jason Haynes

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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Change or Remain the Same: Interview w/ AT-12 Winner Richard Geary

Richard’s Transformation Essay:

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Re-Birth: Interview w/ AT-12 Winner Tyson Harker

Tyson’s Transformation Essay:

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Simple is not Easy: Coaches’ Corner w/ Jason Haynes

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