5 Reasons Why You Are Skinny And Not Muscular

I‘ve never had to worry about how I look. I’ve been training in martial arts since I was 5. I started doing hard-core strength and conditioning routines since I was 12 years old.

But I meet people who don’t look the way they want, and every time they open their mouth, it’s like hearing the same stories over and over again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are…

• Skinny and think you can’t put on muscle…
• Fat and think you can’t lose the weight…
• “skinny fat” where you have no muscularity, but you’re just skinny…

Then I can guarantee you are this way because of one of these 5 things:

Reason #1: You Don’t Have Specialized Knowledge

• You don’t know how to build strength.
• You don’t know how to lose fat.
• You don’t know how to eat clean
• You don’t know how to cook, so you only eat fast food and food out of a box.
• You don’t know which training program is best.

Knowledge is always the first step. The first thing you need to realize is how your body works, how proper nutrition and exercise changes the animal — then you discover how to make it do what you want it to do. In your case: change your physique for the better–build muscle and lose fat.

That’s why you’re here. I will give you the knowledge you need. But it’s up to you to apply it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.

Reason #2: You Are Lazy

• You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to put in the work.
• You know how to build strength, but you think it’s “too much work”.
• You know how to burn fat, but you make excuses like “I don’t have the time!”
• You know how to eat clean, but it’s easier to eat junk food and microwave box food

I’m a big fan of being what I call ambitiously lazy. That is, I find the very best ways (specialized knowledge) to get the maximum results I want in the minimum time. So I get in, get it done, and get out. You have to EARN the right to be lazy.

You can read every book on the planet about building muscle and losing fat, but if you never start exercising and eating clean then you’ll never get ANY results. You have to take action. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their entire life is one big mistake!

Reason #3: You Accept Yourself As “Skinny” or “Fat” or “Not Muscular”

• You think of yourself as “skinny, fat or not muscular” instead of as what you want to be
• It doesn’t bother you much that you’re this way anymore
• If you really cared enough, if it bothered you enough, you’d change
• You’re COMFORTABLE with your appearance.

Being fat or out of shape is considered normal these days. It wasn’t always like this. We used to be hunters and if you weren’t in shape–you were dead–end of story. During the industrial age everyone survived on hard physical labor, everyone was in shape and athletic.

You were considered “sickly” if you were skinny and not muscular… or ridiculed for being fat. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself but don’t just say “this is just the way I am”. You can become whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve… if… you’re sick and tired of your current situation and want to change bad enough.

Reason #4: You Think Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is hard

• You accept terms like “hardgainer” and apply them to you
• You don’t get results in 2 weeks, so you quit
• You read books and magazines that talk about “battling the bulge” like it’s hard

Building muscle isn’t all that hard. If you’ve always been skinny, try to get strong. Your body MUST adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.

Losing fat isn’t hard either. You eat clean and you stay active. Anyone who says they can’t find 12 minutes a day 3x per week to lose fat is lying to themselves.

Reason #5: You Aren’t Determined Enough

• You haven’t said “hell or high water”
• You haven’t told yourself “failure is not an option”
• You haven’t made up your mind yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”

The truth is: You can build muscle, burn fat, and reshape your body using just about ANY exercise routine and nutritional program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) boils down to 2 things:

1. Make up your mind you’re going to do something and
2. F*cking Do it NO MATTER WHAT

I used to train with methods I wouldn’t use now. They’re not “proper” but it WORKED because I refused to take failure as an option. If you too develop the “do or die” attitude, you can achieve anything.

I will give you the knowledge — or you can get it elsewhere. I like to think I know the fastest, smartest, most efficient ways to do it — but you can get the knowledge you need from anyone. And you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thinking. Just make up your mind to do something and find a way to get it done.

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