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This year is your year and these 18 tips will help you make 2018
your best gainz-making year yet! Read on to learn what you
have to do to succeed this year!
If you’re one that wants to make 2018 THE year of YOU, then these 18 tips are essential
so keep reading.
This is more than legal jargon – it's legit advice. You want to know if something is wrong
sooner so you can treat it faster.
Make that time work for you and help you reach your goals. Follow and be friends with
positive people and those awesome folks you look up to in the industry. While you’re at
it, follow M&S on those platforms too.
Take that camera on your phone and set it up to take a selfie or shot of you standing
facing forwards and of your back. Do this every week on the same day around the same
time and make sure the lighting is similar.
You can literally watch yourself change over the course of the year. If you don’t see
results, then you know you should change things up.
If it’s strength, it could be by doing occasional max tests. If you want to achieve a certain
size, do measurements every few weeks. You can use the scale, clothes sizes, or
whatever number motivates you the most.
As long as it motivates you and you work to make that number go in the right direction,
that’s what matters.
5. Stay Organized
This isn’t just about your fitness but your overall life. It’s much easier to get through your
day and accomplish your tasks if you go about it in an organized fashion.
Write out your list of tasks, set appointments on your calendar, and go through your day
without feeling a sense of chaos. With everything else addressed, you can take on your
training with a clear mind.
Rest is the biggest aspect of your recovery and improvement. If you’re tossing and
turning before dozing off, it will take a toll. If your mattress isn’t comfortable then you
need to make the first big investment of your year in a new one.
Most people think they need to take product “X” or knock out more reps when in reality
they just need a couple more hours of comfortable rest.
Fitness is about much more than the time you’re in the gym training. If you don’t take
your recovery seriously, you won’t reach your full potential, period. Whatever your budget
allows, do it.
So drink the bulk of your water early in the morning. Start with 16 ounces every hour for
the first four hours you’re awake. This is already a half gallon before noon if you get up
early enough.
Drink the rest up until the early evening so you can go the rest of the day without having
to force more in.
If your nutrition isn’t on point and you’re not training hard, then you’re literally wasting
your money because they won’t be as effective. Don’t just buy what’s trending. Make
sure what you get will help you reach your goals.
Unfortunately, our digestive systems don’t work that way. Taking our time to eat means
those nutrients will be processed properly so there is less of a chance that we’ll be
bloated, stuffed, and we won’t eat excess calories which would get stored as bodyfat.
This is what you should be doing. Most of you reading this have smartphones with
cameras. You can critique your own form, see where you might be struggling, and you
might even motivate yourself by seeing how you train from a third person perspective.
There are advantages to it. You can either have a partner film you when you don’t need a
spot or set your phone up at a solid spot.
Meditate
13. Meditate
For all the obvious reasons, fitness is perceived as being physical but a true master
knows that the body follows where the mind goes. Getting your head right will go a long
way in making each workout a great one.
Even if it’s for a few minutes, take time to sit in a quiet room with nothing on and clear
your head. The only thing you should be concerned with is concentrating on nothing. Sit
or lie comfortably and relax.
Once you’ve done this for the amount of time you can commit, the workout will be better
because you can focus.
Work on preparing everything from head to toe whether it’s light reps, cardio, stretching,
or all of the above. If everything is functioning correctly and you’re not feeling tight, then
you can attack whatever you’re focusing on with full and clear intention.
You might not be able to do a full split but you should have no problem touching your
toes or achieving a full squat position. You should also be able to fully rotate your arms
without feeling pain as well as reaching straight up over your head.
One day a week devote a workout to that weakness and find a way to challenge yourself
to improve. Do you struggle with pull ups? Commit your next back workout to doing 200
of them. Legs not that great? Do a 30-40 set workout to blast them. These are just
examples of course.
There are other ways and you can find your own strategies to attack your blemishes.
Watch powerlifters approach the platform. There’s one way they do it every time.
To be more comfortable and maximize your chances of making the set count, you
should prepare and approach the weight the same way.
I don’t care how hard you’re struggling, how many plateaus you face, or what goal you
keep coming up short on. The only sure fire way to fail is to quit. As long as you push on,
you have a chance.
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Thanks to everyone at M&S for sharing this one. If you read this and are so inclined, let me
know what your 2018 plans are. Whatever they might be, may you make this year a great one.
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Plans for 2018? To get back into training after a LONG 11 month layoff, due to work-
induced tendonitis in both elbows. Finally got the all-clear from the doctors, so I was
back in the gym yesterday. Lost a lot of strength, as you can imagine, but it felt so good
to be back at it!
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