Happy New Year!
Time to get serious. Time to burn fat, build muscle and transform your body.
I know you’re pumped to get going. Gyms are packed all January. Seems everyone is in there working of their holiday indulgences.
Before you set your 2014 transformation goals don’t skip this critical step. Without out it, chances of success drop like a weighted fishing line.
I find it amazing where you can find lessons and the secrets to life’s problems.
The other day I was thinking about what it takes to burn fat and build muscle. Maybe it was this video that got me to thinking about how people can make incredible body transformations.
Watch and see for yourself how this guy changes his body and his life.
After seeing this it got me thinking. Why is it that some reach their goals, while others don’t. It’s not really the starting point that’s the problem. You see that in the above video. If anyone would expected to fail, I would expect it to be him. Just look where he started. He’d given up. He had a bad back. Bad knees. He couldn’t walk without the aid of crutches. Something he was told he’d always need. For 15 years doctors had been telling him that.
But he lost the weight.
As I thought more about his success and what the secret to successfully burning fat or building muscle was, my mind started to drift. Somehow I ended up traveling back in time. To a simpler place. To a time long, long ago.
I got to thinking about my summers as a skinny little runt who loved to play outside.
I grew up in the sticks, so it was perfect for this. It wasn’t quite the country but close.
Not much around but lots of trees, water and wilderness. Great for building forts, swimming, fishing, and exploring. But not much else.
I was about 5 or 6 when (more…)