The Secret To Making and Sticking to YOUR Physique Goals in 2026!!!!
Ah man, this time of year again lol. The time of year where we reflect and look ahead to the new year. And many of you all will be either trying to get in shape for the “who knows how many times” or taking your progress to another level. Either way, what I am about to share will be applied to both groups. The number 1 mistake that too many make when trying to stick to any program is what I like to call “the kitchen sink method” approach. In a nutshell all this means is that they try to change every single thing that they have been doing, all at once and do a complete 180!!! THIS DOES NOT WORK!!!! Think about it, did you get to where you are now at once or was it a gradual progression over time? If I was a betting man I would say the latter. At one point you were in shape, worked on a regular basis, and had some decent parameters as to what and when you were eating. Then life got in the way and disrupted that, and trust me I have been there, I just knew how to manage because this is a part of me that I simply cannot let go.
You got married, had kids, got involved in your career and slowly priorities shifted to where you just neglected your physical health!!!!! But again this was a progressive thing that occurred over years. You went from going to the gym 4-5 times a week to missing days here and there to completely stopping!!! You went from eating decently well, to skipping meals to completely eating like garbage. You went from enjoying other activities in life, to slowly getting away from them and using the excuses “I don’t have time or I just got out of it”. To that I say fucking bullshit, you just let yourself go and that is not an excuse. But the good news is we can all get ourselves back with the right approach. It comes down to first not succumbing to the kitchen sink approach lol.
What I mean by this here is trying to change every single thing at once, where it is so far away from your current norm that you simply cannot sustain it. So lets say that you have stopped going to the gym and you commit to getting back. Instead of saying I am going to go to the gym everyday, commit to just 3 days a week and THAT IS IT!!!! It is very realistic and maintainable to stick to 3 days a week. Then after a month of doing that add just 1 extra day to your routine. This makes the chunks very realistic and manageable and sets you up for success over the year.
Now lets talk about diet here. Again at one point in time many of us had some sort of structure (in a traditional sense) comprising of your standard 3 meals a day, Then again life got in the way, things changed and now here we are. Skipping breakfast, eating a shitty lunch and gorging for dinner or skipping all together before doing it all over the next day. The very first step for 90 percent of people is pretty simple. Instead of thinking that you are magically going to change habits overnight, just start by eating breakfast!! I do not care what it is, just start with that. I get it, you are not hungry and why should you be. You haven’t given yourself a reason to use that food. But we need to sort of force the body into gear. The easiest thing we can do is start by just doing a shake. Simple, effective and gets your body in the habit of getting things kick started in the morning. Do not change anything else diet wise, just start by eating breakfast or in this case a shake. And after a few weeks on this, change just 1 other meal. So say lunch is typically take out or whatever you can get your hands on, start by eating a more balanced lunch. Something like some chicken and a baked potato or a salad with some chicken or turkey will do just fine. Then after a couple weeks on this we can change dinner.
So you get the point here, instead of trying to make all these damn changes all at once, which many people do and fail to maintain, we are changing just 1 thing at a time and allowing our body to adjust to the change before moving to another change. Slow and steady will not only win this race, but also keep us in the race for the long haul and lead to lasting change. So lets crush these goals in 2026.
BEYOND JUST BODYBUILDING!!!