The 6 elements: Pillars of Success

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IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH, PHYSIQUE, AND BECOME AN OUTSTANDING SHOOTER “YOU HAVE TO DO IT BY YOURSELF, BUT YOU CAN’T DO IT ALONE”

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The 6 elements: Pillars of Success

“Do you have ALL of the FIRST FOUR elements in place yet?

You see, there is only one true solution to obesity and body fat problems – you have to use a total lifestyle approach that addresses every cause of the problem, across every area of your life.

Put all 6 elements together and you’ve handled the real causes. You rip out the weeds of obesity from the roots and those problems never grow back as long as you keep it up.

Everything else – the pills, the diet fads, the starvation – all those quick fixes are just band aids that temporarily cover up the symptom, while the source of the real problem is STILL there!

So, where should you start? Simple, with the first 4 elements:
1- Nutrition
2- Weight Training
3- Cardio Training
4- Mental Training
5- Personal Development
6- Passion & Love

Nutrition sits on top of the list for obvious reasons:

You can’t out-train a lousy diet. You could burn an enormous amount of calories in training, but it’s ENTIRELY possible to only break even or even blow past your calories burned if you’re indulging in calorie-dense junk food.

Even if you do have your calories set properly, it’s not just a matter of calorie QUANTITY, your success is also a matter of calorie QUALITY!

That means whole, natural food, not packaged, processed, artificial, refined junk.

If in doubt, start improving your eating habits as your first priority. It will pay the greatest dividends for the small effort you invest. For greater success in following your nutrition plan, just add the 5th & 6th elements!

Weight training is second on the list – YES, above cardio. Sorry, but aerobics alone don’t cut it. In fact, if you could choose ONE form of training to start with, it would be weight training or at least some type of resistance training (body weight resistance, or other weight resistance works too).

Why? Well, most people don’t realize that weight training burns a ton of calories, sometimes more than cardio.

Weight training also helps you maintain your lean body mass while your calories are in a deficit for fat loss. You almost always lose muscle when dieting without weight training. Bad news, because lean body mass is a major driver of your basal metabolic rate.

If you don’t have the SECOND ELEMENT in place – start now! And once again, adding the 5th element only makes this element work better as well.

Cardio training is the THIRD ELEMENT and yes, it is important. It helps burn more calories above and beyond what you burn during your weight training, and the health benefits are endless.

So, if you want to burn off fat and stop feeling winded just climbing a flight of stairs – be sure your training regime has BOTH types of training – cardio and resistance.

The FOURTH ELEMENT is mental training.

You probably realize instinctively, if not from direct experience, that your mind is powerful.

What most people DON’T realize is that almost all your behaviors are activated subconsciously. You are literally running on autopilot every day – for better or worse.

What determines your automatic behaviors (also known as habits), positive or negative, is the programming in your subconscious mind. You started getting programmed as a young child through your parents and social conditioning.

You continued to program your own mind by what you put in it, or allowed to be put in, based on your environment, culture and social affiliations.

Negative mental programming causes self-sabotaging behavior like skipping workouts or binge eating. It also causes fierce, unstoppable motivation, healthy eating and disciplined training.

The difference is all about what’s in your head and what you’re putting in your head every single hour of every single day.

The good news is, your brain is like a computer and it can be reprogrammed with “mental training” techniques such as visualization, affirmations, goal setting, vision boards, visualization photos, audios and many others.

So there you have it – a quick crash course in the first FOUR ELEMENTS.

One reason so many people fail at their fat loss, health and fitness goals is that they are missing one of these four elements.

In fact, the classic approach to is to pick just ONE THING, put it on a pedestal and call it the magic solution, or to pick one thing to blame obesity on, and call that thing the bad guy.

That “one thing is the problem” approach is a prescription for disaster.

The only true solution is a holistic one that includes all four elements, which hold you up like pillars or legs of a chair. Pull away one, and you’re wobbly; pull away two and you collapse.

When you have all FOUR in place and then you add the FIFTH ELEMENT, you are successful “PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT” add the SIXTH ELEMENT and you are ROCK SOLID “PASSION & LOVE” Have passion and love everything you do.

Diet alone won’t do it. Exercise alone won’t do it. Setting goals, visualizing and watching The Secret 100 times WONT DO IT.

Put all the pieces together. That does it.

“Don’t join an easy crowd, join a successful crowd where the expectations are high and the payoff is great.”
-Mr. Jim Rohn, Success Philosopher