I have been on a strong workout and fitness plan since May 2012 now. I wanted to create a thread where I could discuss my path to success and how it relates to a fastlane plan to hopefully inspire someone having trouble in fitness and in the fastlane process to hopefully find the same motivation that I did. I am working on fastlane progress currently and am not quite there yet since I just started, so was hoping since I've had success in fitness to give back something to this community that has given me great information so far.
Background on me: I have always been athletic and have played a lot of sports growing up. I am 27 years old and in May of last year I was 217 lbs. At my height of 5'9" 217 is very obese. Currently 13 months after, I weight 153 and am in great shape and 64 lbs lighter.
I wanted to create this post to show how my process and success can be a great precursor to anyone trying out the fastlane road. If you are struggling with staying on track building the business, you can try and use your fitness as a motivation to keep everything moving forward in your life.
I read a great book that keeps me motivated in this area. It is called "Die Fat or Get Tough: 100 ways fit people think differently than fat people." The book is brutally honest but it is very to the point. It shows just a slight tweak in the mindset behind something is all you need for success. The book was written by Steve Siebold who also writes about 100 ways rich people think differently, and I've read both and they are almost identical in terms of thinking.
My steps to fitness: Eat healthy foods and exercise to burn the same amount of calories that you take in. This will keep you the same weight. Eat more and you will gain, less and you will lose weight. That is all there is to it.
Disclaimer: I am no dietician or fitness expert so please consult with a doctor before starting any workout routine. What worked for me may not work for everyone.
I have noticed that once you are in shape, cheat foods probably help the metabolism in that it forces your body to move quicker and burn everything off. When starting out, you must stay strict to the diet. As they say, it takes 30 days to build a habit. Once the eating is a habit, there is no thinking involved. You just eat. I have 3 slices of pizza every Friday night, and Saturday when I wake up, since this is my cheat day, if I happen to check the scale, I've probably lost weight on Sat morning.
There is no need for Cardio if you'd rather just lift weights, as I've lost 64 lbs and probably in total the last 13 months have done 2 miles total of a run in 13 months. I was just lifting weights which are actually better for your metabolism anyway. Everyone thinks that you need to run tons of Cardio to lose weight.
Now to how this relates to the Fastlane:
Starting up you think it will be impossible to have any success. You are too fat or too lazy to even want to start (which I hope since everyone is building towards something here, this isnt the case) and you think you will hurt yourself because it's too much to start. Then you see that the failures on the road to success actually give you great indicators of where you need to change.
-You arent losing enough weight (change up the food in take and test different foods to see how your body reacts)
-You arent liking the healthy foods (try different healthy foods)
-You arent gaining the muscle you'd like ( Change the weight and increase your weight)
The failures give you a much greater indicator of what you need to change than the success does. The success causes a plateau where you know everything is working but you aren't really sure which part of the success is making you lose the weight or gain weight or whatever.
When you start, if you deviate from the plan, it is huge consequences. When you are first starting the business if you are not fully invested, then you are getting ready to fail. 99% compliance on the diet or on building a fastlance business will not let you have success. The 1% to get to 100% is why only 1% of the population are millionaires and own most of the wealth. (I can't take credit for that, this is from Steve Siebold's book)
Once you have everything built, then small tweaks don't have that large of an issue, just the same as in fitness, once you have everything set, small deviations don't really effect what you are doing. You don't want to go too far, but small ones done with thinking about it does work.
Planning 2 weeks in advance that I'm going to have this as my cheat day is much different than someone seeing a huge cake in front of them and just chowing down and not being able to stop. I was planning that logically, the other person was eating emotionally to fulfill a need.
The fastlane has to be seen as a logical approach, just as dieting and exercise needs to be. I change this on my site because of the research performed and this will increase traffic by 10% from what I've seen. I eat this healthy food for this week and looking at the ingredient page and seeing it has this, I know I will gain x% of muscle the next few weeks because it is an overload of protein or whatever the case may be.
Being committed to the diet means to not waver at all, and to be committed to the fast lane means to not waver at all. This is why most of the population calls people who are successful in business or fitness to be obsessed and anal about specific items. Most people try to go through the diet without a plan, just like they go through life without a plan for financial success or happiness.
I can go on all day but I think I've written enough for now. Hopefully this post will inspire someone success in fitness which leads to the Fastlane. As MJ says, without health, nothing else matters in this life. That's why I feel this is a first priority and then getting your mindset right for the fitness is the exact mindset you need for building a business and having entrepreneurial success. People who beat the fitness game think they can win at any other game in life, as the fitness game seems impossible to beat for certain people.
Background on me: I have always been athletic and have played a lot of sports growing up. I am 27 years old and in May of last year I was 217 lbs. At my height of 5'9" 217 is very obese. Currently 13 months after, I weight 153 and am in great shape and 64 lbs lighter.
I wanted to create this post to show how my process and success can be a great precursor to anyone trying out the fastlane road. If you are struggling with staying on track building the business, you can try and use your fitness as a motivation to keep everything moving forward in your life.
I read a great book that keeps me motivated in this area. It is called "Die Fat or Get Tough: 100 ways fit people think differently than fat people." The book is brutally honest but it is very to the point. It shows just a slight tweak in the mindset behind something is all you need for success. The book was written by Steve Siebold who also writes about 100 ways rich people think differently, and I've read both and they are almost identical in terms of thinking.
My steps to fitness: Eat healthy foods and exercise to burn the same amount of calories that you take in. This will keep you the same weight. Eat more and you will gain, less and you will lose weight. That is all there is to it.
Disclaimer: I am no dietician or fitness expert so please consult with a doctor before starting any workout routine. What worked for me may not work for everyone.
I have noticed that once you are in shape, cheat foods probably help the metabolism in that it forces your body to move quicker and burn everything off. When starting out, you must stay strict to the diet. As they say, it takes 30 days to build a habit. Once the eating is a habit, there is no thinking involved. You just eat. I have 3 slices of pizza every Friday night, and Saturday when I wake up, since this is my cheat day, if I happen to check the scale, I've probably lost weight on Sat morning.
There is no need for Cardio if you'd rather just lift weights, as I've lost 64 lbs and probably in total the last 13 months have done 2 miles total of a run in 13 months. I was just lifting weights which are actually better for your metabolism anyway. Everyone thinks that you need to run tons of Cardio to lose weight.
Now to how this relates to the Fastlane:
Starting up you think it will be impossible to have any success. You are too fat or too lazy to even want to start (which I hope since everyone is building towards something here, this isnt the case) and you think you will hurt yourself because it's too much to start. Then you see that the failures on the road to success actually give you great indicators of where you need to change.
-You arent losing enough weight (change up the food in take and test different foods to see how your body reacts)
-You arent liking the healthy foods (try different healthy foods)
-You arent gaining the muscle you'd like ( Change the weight and increase your weight)
The failures give you a much greater indicator of what you need to change than the success does. The success causes a plateau where you know everything is working but you aren't really sure which part of the success is making you lose the weight or gain weight or whatever.
When you start, if you deviate from the plan, it is huge consequences. When you are first starting the business if you are not fully invested, then you are getting ready to fail. 99% compliance on the diet or on building a fastlance business will not let you have success. The 1% to get to 100% is why only 1% of the population are millionaires and own most of the wealth. (I can't take credit for that, this is from Steve Siebold's book)
Once you have everything built, then small tweaks don't have that large of an issue, just the same as in fitness, once you have everything set, small deviations don't really effect what you are doing. You don't want to go too far, but small ones done with thinking about it does work.
Planning 2 weeks in advance that I'm going to have this as my cheat day is much different than someone seeing a huge cake in front of them and just chowing down and not being able to stop. I was planning that logically, the other person was eating emotionally to fulfill a need.
The fastlane has to be seen as a logical approach, just as dieting and exercise needs to be. I change this on my site because of the research performed and this will increase traffic by 10% from what I've seen. I eat this healthy food for this week and looking at the ingredient page and seeing it has this, I know I will gain x% of muscle the next few weeks because it is an overload of protein or whatever the case may be.
Being committed to the diet means to not waver at all, and to be committed to the fast lane means to not waver at all. This is why most of the population calls people who are successful in business or fitness to be obsessed and anal about specific items. Most people try to go through the diet without a plan, just like they go through life without a plan for financial success or happiness.
I can go on all day but I think I've written enough for now. Hopefully this post will inspire someone success in fitness which leads to the Fastlane. As MJ says, without health, nothing else matters in this life. That's why I feel this is a first priority and then getting your mindset right for the fitness is the exact mindset you need for building a business and having entrepreneurial success. People who beat the fitness game think they can win at any other game in life, as the fitness game seems impossible to beat for certain people.
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