What is the best advice you ever were told/read when it comes to fitness?

RustyCat

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Videos by Mateusz M from YouTube "Believe", "Why Do We Fall", 'Dream", or 'Unbroken". It lights a fire in me that gets me motivated to take on anything.

It's a little OT, but some of the best snippets I've heard are in there. That, and Arnold's "6 Rules to Success"
 
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Duck Off

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Understand your goals and simply just "be better".

To elaborate: I was like many, I envied those with "Hollywood style" physiques. However, the question I was asked was "are you ready to spend hours in the gym and have a very strict/clean diet?

That all kind of hit home for me. I didn't/don't want to be an unhealthy fatass, but I didn't (honestly more like couldn't due to family) want to spend hours in the gym a week. And I didn't want to completely give up my favorite foods. I found a good mix, and although I'm not completely happy with my physique. It's a good mix between in shape and enjoying a lifestyle I like.
 
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Captain Bowie

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"Everyone starts somewhere". Really a simple one but one I heard when I started a few years back and now something I tell all my friends when I hear "I want to start working out but I'm so out of shape".

To the bolded, isn't that a perfect reason to start working out?
 
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LarKing

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To the bolded, isn't that a perfect reason to start working out?

Yes but when people are out of shape and don't know what to do to healthily get back in good shape, it can be daunting to attempt. I seem to get the question all the time of "can you help me eat right and get in shape" since I study nutrition and work out on the side, only to see their interest fade in the next few days simply because it can seem like such a huge task when you're starting off.
 

KapG

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I get down on myself sometimes with regards to my physique. What keeps me going is to remind myself that Rome wasn't built in a day. Keeps me grounded
 

kanuck87

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Understand your goals and simply just "be better".

To elaborate: I was like many, I envied those with "Hollywood style" physiques. However, the question I was asked was "are you ready to spend hours in the gym and have a very strict/clean diet?

That all kind of hit home for me. I didn't/don't want to be an unhealthy fatass, but I didn't (honestly more like couldn't due to family) want to spend hours in the gym a week. And I didn't want to completely give up my favorite foods. I found a good mix, and although I'm not completely happy with my physique. It's a good mix between in shape and enjoying a lifestyle I like.

This is really solid advice and something I'm coming to grips with now. It just takes too much effort and discipline to achieve that "dream" body. Not to mention, just like weight loss, that journey doesn't end when you reach that point of getting that "dream" body. You still have to work hard to maintain it and I just don't care enough over the long-term. Like you said, I'm just happy with not being overweight. Also, what's the point of having a rocking body when it's just going to be hidden underneath a shirt 10 months out of the year? :laugh:
 
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ColePens

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2 things:

1) Make it a lifestyle change, not a diet or strength regimen. Once I altered my lifestyle, it was the best advice I ever heard.

2) Never, ever, ever sacrifice a number over form. Form will give you better results than trying to chase a number with bad form.
 
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Zaddy

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Don't compare yourself to others. You're only competing against yourself. That's probably the best advice I could offer.

Also, do whatever works for you. Don't listen to other people saying that their way is the only way, or that there's only one correct way to work out. Do what feels right for you and what makes you happy.

I recently started incorporating more dynamic exercises into my training program and just in the last couple of days started putting more focus on calisthenics. It has really reinvigorated my training.

I was getting pretty fed up with just lifting weights and started to struggle a bit with motivation, but now my training is fun again and it's really cool to challenge yourself and try and get better and master certain movements, instead of, as in lifting, just adding more weight or doing more reps.

It has also really strengthened my core, which is useful in every aspect of life, and hockey in particular, so that's another benefit.
 
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Captain Bowie

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Don't compare yourself to others. You're only competing against yourself. That's probably the best advice I could offer.

Also, do whatever works for you. Don't listen to other people saying that their way is the only way, or that there's only one correct way to work out. Do what feels right for you and what makes you happy.

I recently started incorporating more dynamic exercises into my training program and just in the last couple of days started putting more focus on calisthenics. It has really reinvigorated my training.

I was getting pretty fed up with just lifting weights and started to struggle a bit with motivation, but now my training is fun again and it's really cool to challenge yourself and try and get better and master certain movements, instead of, as in lifting, just adding more weight or doing more reps.

It has also really strengthened my core, which is useful in every aspect of life, and hockey in particular, so that's another benefit.

This is so true. I keep that in mind when people scoff at me when I say I eat few carbs or don't eat breakfast ever. But it works for me so I don't really care.
 
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Mrb1p

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Don't compare yourself to others. You're only competing against yourself. That's probably the best advice I could offer.

Also, do whatever works for you. Don't listen to other people saying that their way is the only way, or that there's only one correct way to work out. Do what feels right for you and what makes you happy.

I recently started incorporating more dynamic exercises into my training program and just in the last couple of days started putting more focus on calisthenics. It has really reinvigorated my training.

I was getting pretty fed up with just lifting weights and started to struggle a bit with motivation, but now my training is fun again and it's really cool to challenge yourself and try and get better and master certain movements, instead of, as in lifting, just adding more weight or doing more reps.

It has also really strengthened my core, which is useful in every aspect of life, and hockey in particular, so that's another benefit.

I think that science should not be ignored.
 
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