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Changing Your Look Changes Your Game

January 18, 2010 by

Making a real change in your life requires 3 main factors

1) Goal

2) Deadline

3) Reward

Every “to do” list and idea that you come up with is just a dream without a clearly stated goal. Setting goals that are too far off in the distance don’t help create any momentum and leave you wishing and dreaming about ‘some day’ when it’ll all happen for you.

The goal most be achievable, within site, and clearly defined…and the most important factor to bring a goal to life is setting is a deadline. Without a clearly defined deadline a goal is meaningless.

Finally a goal must always be linked to a reward (otherwise what was the point of setting the goal in the first place)

In todays podcast we’ll talk about the goal of changing your body and the rewards that follow.

As you see your body change you will also notice people changing the way they react to you. This change is profound and you will also notice that you must also change the way you act.

You’ll learn all of this while we profile one of our transformation contest winners Tristan Creswick 3rd place overall.

We’ll discuss:

1. How your look changes your inner game

2. How your look changes what you will and won’t do

3. How your look changes how people act

4. What it takes to change your body

5. How low calories really have to go for effective weight loss

6. Social and psychological changes that come with a better body

John

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Can You Eat Your Way To Bigger Muscles?

January 11, 2010 by

Browsing the fitness section of the magazine stand will reveal dozens of headlines that seem to be the answer to your fitness and dieting questions.

I went to my local book store and browsed the fitness magazine section. Here is a sample of the headlines I found:

“709 Tips to get you  Jacked”

“Get abs you’ve always wanted in less than 1 hour per week”

“16 Rules of fitness you MUST follow”

“Low carb diet risk”

“9 Biggest training traps to avoid”

“15 Foods that fight fat”

“78 simple ways to swap flab for brawn”

This is just a small sample of all the headlines I found.

It would probably take you the entire year to implement all of the “rules” and “tips” in these articles…and these are just the articles I found in the January issues! There are 11 months of magazines with “tips” “rules” and “tricks” to go for the rest of 2010.

This is an example of how the fitness/diet industry has to keep you guessing and thinking that you’re missing something important. All of this is in an effort to get you to buy this months magazine with the promise that you’ll find the right tips to get you the results you’re looking for. And of course, next months issue will have just as many tips tricks and secrets.

Within this ongoing flood of tips and rules is the dogma of eating to get bigger muscles. This is one of the most persistent fallacies of the fitness industry.

In this podcast we will deconstruct fitness headlines and get to the bottom of the eating to get bigger muscles fallacy.

John

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Diet, Workout, Health? What Defines You?

January 4, 2010 by

There are many ways you can be defined, some of them you can’t control like your height, age, race, where you were born. But there are many other things that you CAN control, like your career, education, how you conduct yourself in your relationships and your body shape.

When it comes to influencing the look of your body things like your workout and your eating pattern are simply tools and not a definition of who you are, but the health diet/fitness industry try to convince you to define yourself in these terms.

With a closer look you will realize that terms like “health” “nutrition” and “fitness” have no meaning without the specific meaning you give to them. Each one is a personal definition that you alone should make.

In this podcast we’ll discuss:

1. The definition of Health

2. The definition of Fitness

3. What defines you

4. How the ‘health and fitness’ industry uses ambiguity to sell you things you don’t understand

As long as you allow someone else to define each of these terms for you, you’ll always be susceptible to another new diet or fitness marketing fad.

Define yourself.

John

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Gaining Weight vs Gaining Muscle

December 28, 2009 by

Gaining weight can be the result of adding muscle mass, fat mass, or water weight (in various forms).

Many guys who are interesting in ‘gaining weight’ are actually interested in ‘gaining muscle’ and they assume additional muscle will translate into a heavier bodyweight. But how do you know for sure how much muscle you can add to your body and how much weight you could possibly gain?

Factors to consider include:

Age

Somatotype

Height

Years of training experience

The genetic material of your body is the most basic starting point and will tell most of the story as to how much ‘weight’ and ‘muscle’ you can gain.

In this podcast we’ll discuss:

1. Weight gain vs muscle gain

2. Why anyone wants to gain weight in the first place

3. The difference between how you look with a shirt on vs with a shirt off

4. The relationship between how much you weigh and how you look at that weight

5. The normal fluctuations you can experience in bodyweight on a day to day basis.

John

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Grown Man Game (with Scot McKay)

December 18, 2009 by

We get lots of questions on a day to day basis from professional guys that are looking for a “grown man’s” approach to dating and/or relating to the opposite sex…

… and, of course, we listened.

Let me introduce my good friend, Scot McKay.

McKay is a guy that you want to listen to as his approach to dating and marriage is as “mature” as it gets. No games, no gimmicks… just hard hitting advice that hits the CORE of who you are.

No matter if you’re married, have a girlfriend, or are just plain single… the words that flow out of his mouth will resonate with any man that’s over 25 years old.

So give this a listen.

In this podcast, we discuss McKay’s new project… called “Chick Whispering“… and how to understand what quality women REALLY want in a GROWN MAN.

You won’t be disappointed.

Stay cool,

Brad

p.s. Check out McKay’s Chick Whispering… he’s got some really cool knowledge you’ll get a lot out of, no matter your situation.

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How an Adonis Index Workout is Designed

December 14, 2009 by

At a glance, most workouts look very similar, with a bunch of numbers and words on a page. But if you take a closer look, there is much more than meets the eye to a well designed workout.

Some of the elements that should be in a well designed workout program include:

-Macro, meso, and micro-cycled periodized intensity volume and frequency.

-Balance stimulus throughout all major muscle groups.

-Progressive overload.

-Periodic overreaching to overcome plateaus in strength.

-Combination of strength, hypertrophy and strength endurance training.

-Specific rest intervals and exercise ogranization.

There are other components, but these are some of the major ones and in today’s podcast, we’ll explain how and why we put them into the Adonis Index Workouts.

John

p.s. This discussion not only applies to the core Adonis Index Workout, but all of the other workouts in the AI curriculum as well.

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