Jake, my training partner and I were wondering why some people have more success than other even when they’re using the same diets and exercises.
Clearly the problem isn’t the routines, and it most likely isn’t anything to do with each person’s body as many people succeed and many people fail.
So there must be something that all the successful people are doing that the unsuccessful people aren’t doing. We struggled with this question for a while until I heard Jake say one word that made all the difference… “ritual“.
This made a whole lot of sense to me. Every time I did a contest I had a set of rituals I went through for my contest diet. There were monthly weekly and even daily rituals that I put in place to mark the beginning middle and end of my contest diet.
Even with a good nutrition program and exercise routine in place I still needed rituals to stay on track, stay motivated and set my lifestyle and mind in a mode that pulled me towards my goal. One of the rituals I followed was my morning breakfast routine of a shake and oatmeal along with a multi vitamin and a fat burner.
I don’t know if any of this stuff really made a huge difference to my body, but I know for sure it did for my mind. This morning breakfast ritual set the tone for my entire day and put me in the mindset that “I am going to have less fat on my body by the end of this day than I do right now”
And honestly I’m not so sure I would have ever got in shape without starting each day like this.
