Are You Training For Purpose?
When it comes to exercising, most people are doing it completely @$$ backwards.
They don’t know what they’re training for, they pick exercises that have absolutely no meaning to them in regards to what they want, and they do them carelessly without any thought as to why they’re actually doing them.
Don’t let this happen to you!
I want you to do something the second you’re done reading this post. Actually you know what, just do it right now after I tell you what it is – it’s THAT important.
Here’s what I want you to do.
Get out a piece of paper, a few notecards or something like that…and I want you to write down your top 3 reasons why you’re training.
Then, narrow that down to your absolute top reason you’re trying to lose weight, gain more muscle, get stronger, or whatever other reason you’re getting in better shape for.
For example, here are mine.
1) Be “semi-ripped” so I can look good for myself and feel muscular, but not be too muscular because I don’t like how it looks when you can see every single muscle in my body. I don’t care about looking perfect, I just want to look “great”. I’m not the kind of person who will purposely not drink water before going to the beach because it would supposedly make them look more ripped (I actually heard of a few people doing that in a bodybuilding forum – and started questioning my own sanity just for being involved with that forum – obviously I’m not anymore).
A little sub-category of this would be to look great for my fiancée, because, well, it’s hard to keep up to how gorgeous she is 
2) Be able to keep a high level of strength even if my body is telling me no. Although this wouldn’t be a goal for the majority of people, I love the feeling of pushing myself to my limits and watching myself conquer barriers I didn’t think I could conquer.
3) Increase my strength in basic movements – Right now I’m also into doing some basic power lifting movements. I’m naturally a very weak person who puts on fat relatively easily, so this is a challenge for me. I wish I had better genes, but I got dealt a pretty lousy hand with genes in life so instead of complaining about it and giving up like most people, I simply push myself a little harder to get what I want. It’s the same for increasing my strength. And it seems to be working pretty nicely – the last time I deadlifted I deadlifted 310 pounds at 155 pounds, so that’s not too bad for a person who doesn’t deadlift very often.
Ok so there are my top 3 goals that I’m working on right now, so the next step is to look at my current workout program and figure out whether or not that program is going to help me increase all 3 of these goals.
So what I’m doing right now is doing high intensity interval training with some powerlifting movements such as a squat and press, shrugs, hang and cleans, and a few others. I’m doing all of these very intensely and not allowing myself to rest as much as I should between sets.
So is that helping all 3 of my goals?
#1 – It’s helping me keep the body I want because of it’s high intensity, along with my nutrition program I’m following (which is relatively the same all the time).
#2 – It’s helping me utilize a high level of strength even if I’m tired because the way I’m exercising now allows me to “train” my muscles to exert huge amounts of force even if I don’t have much wind left in me. In other words, I’m training my anaerobic capacity.
#3 – I’m also increasing my strength because each time I workout I aim to either increase an extra rep, do the workout in less time, and/or add more pounds to my lifts.
Ok so I’m easily hitting all 3 of my goals right now, but what if you’re hitting only 1 or 2 out of your 3 main goals, what do you do?
Well, you can either change your workout program so that it allows you to hit all 3 goals, or you figure out what your #1 goal is and work towards that. I recommend going for your #1 goal because it’s easier to focus on 1 goal at a time instead of 3.
Ok so if you’re still reading and haven’t written out your top 3 goals that you want to achieve with your exercise/nutrition plan…I want you to do that RIGHT NOW. Seriously, I don’t care if you’re at work on your lunch break, or even if you’re at work and should be doing work (although don’t get in trouble!).
Write them out right now and if necessary, change your workout program to fit your top goal – or all 3 if possible.
Then come back here and let me know how it works for you!
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