Built By Discipline Not By Novelty
The problem is that most in person and online training isn’t for results, it’s for keeping people entertained. Flashy movements, the latest fitness fads, and random work disguised as intensity. It is eye catching, but it doesn’t build anything real.
The Hidden Cost
You start training for variety, not results. You get bored easily and don’t pursue mastery. You get sore once in a while, but you get nowhere, and wonder why. And people blame themselves when they aren’t motivated. There isn’t much to show for the effort and there are no clear long or short term goals, ways to measure progress, and the timeline is indefinite.
Here’s what gets marketed:
If you do enough random workouts hard and often enough, eat some perfectly calibrated diet that no one can actually follow, and push through exhaustion, then you might end up looking fit. You have to burn every calorie of stored fat through hard exercise. Results not typical* is a common disclaimer for a reason.
Here’s what actually works:
Three days per week, strength train the whole body hard enough to build muscle, but not so hard that you don’t recover. Make the lifts look great, don’t check out mentally and do a bunch of sloppy, uncoordinated reps. Keep the exercises and sets/reps consistent. Forget the nonsense of “confusing” or “shocking” your muscles. Focus on gradual improvement in a few key areas that you can track. Take 48 hours between those sessions. On the other days move for 30 to 45 minutes, but no so hard that it will interfere with recovering from your strength sessions. Eat three balanced meals a day and aim for at least seven hours of sleep most nights.
You get the feedback of actual visible improvements, actually getting stronger (which is far more engaging than endless variety), feeling better, and the process doesn’t feel like running headfirst into a brick wall.
The Standard
Strength training demands structure, discipline, and consistency. It’s about showing up even when you don’t feel like it.
Just doing hard things with no clear goal and no idea what the outcome of that work isn’t discipline. Immoderate exercise is not the answer to an immoderate lifestyle.
Don’t keep trying to prove that you can eat, drink, or function while sleep deprived like you did when you were younger. If you’re over 40, then those bills have come due, and with interest.
You don’t need ever changing variety, you need a new level of focus. It’s about doing the same work, better, deeper, with more intent. That’s where progress lives.
This kind of training doesn’t just change your body. It sharpens your thinking and it builds discipline that you can carry into everything else. You become harder to shake, distract, or break.
The work can be scaled up or down depending on your starting point.
If you’re new to this or have been away for a long time, then you might only need to strength train for about 30 minutes, three times per week. If you’re more experienced and have been consistent, then you’ll need about an hour three times per week.
Move for 30 to 45 minutes in ways that don’t get you sore or tired on the other days.
Eat like an adult and get enough sleep.
That’s all most people need.
If this resonates with you – good. That means you’re ready to build something with intent. Now it’s time to get started. Email me at 513fit@gmail.com
