The ultimate sacrifice you must be willing to make if you are to succeed in your fitness & nutrition goals

My brother, Omar, and I used to be couch potatoes  but motivated each other to achieve our goals! 

Ok I lied, the title of this post not only applies to succeeding in your fitness and health goals, but for every other goal you have in life. Accept my apologies for being brutally honest in this article but truth is we often worry too much about the now and make the mistake of letting it affect our future goals. 

I am talking to every person out there who is too shy to go to the gym because they are overweight, to the person who is worried they will make a fool of themselves in the gym, to the person who is afraid of failing and especially the person who gives in to drinking alcohol excessively with their friends when they are trying hard to lose that last bit of fat. It can also be the struggling individual with a sweet tooth but also a strong desire for losing weight, or the self-deceived person who wants to live long enough to watch their children grow but won’t give up smoking. Lets not also forget those of us who lie and cheat for short term pleasure and end up affecting our long term goals with loved ones. In every one of us you will find some form of that struggling scenario.

For you to achieve your fitness and health goals (and any other goals) you MUST be willing to sacrifice who you are now for who you want to become. I will give you a moment to let this sink in………… You need to sacrifice who you are now for who you want to become! That means letting go of the fear of being judged in the gym, letting go of the fear of failing, letting go of the fear of not looking “cool” enough in front of your friends.  We tend to hold on and worry about things that will not matter to us in the long run at the expense of what we really want to achieve.

Once you accept that you need to sacrifice who you are now for who you want to become then all you need to do is implement what you already know, which is basically to keep on fighting. I have heard this in a motivational speech before and it has stuck in my mind since: “the winner and the loser have both failed, the difference is that the winner gets up and does it again”. Every single time you fail, coupled with your desire to succeed, will bring you one step closer to success. Do not be afraid to fail, embrace it instead. Now take this and apply it to your fitness and nutrition goals. Act like who you want to become and you will be it! Trust me on this: down the road when you become what you want to be, you will only smile and laugh at the past, but first you must get there. I am still doing it, so can you! Let us do it together.

Grab a pen and paper.
Write "I am ready to sacrifice who I am for who I want to become"
Remind yourself of who you want to become.
Hang it up somewhere you will see everyday
Now try
Fail
Try again
Smile, you are there! Welcome! 

Speaking of failure, my next post will focus on achieving safe muscular failure in the gym to strengthen/grow/tone your muscles super fast! Don’t miss it.

Love it, or use fitness and nutrition to change it!

Mohamed