Consistency, Consistency, Consistency
You want to get in better shape and redesign your lifestyle to be healthy and strong for the next 30+ years. But it’s not easy. There are setbacks of all kinds:
Accidents
Diseases
Binges and going back on your promises
Outside influences
Time squeeze
Other commitments
These are understandable. They get in the way of many plans. But they will destroy your chances to be healthy and strong in your 70s, 80s, and 90s, simply because you can’t “make it up later.”
Let’s say you’re in your 50s and you enjoy some activity, like running or pickleball. After reading Peter Attia’s book and my previous messages, you understand that you are not protected against the things most likely to crush your quality of life later. So you start on a plan to build muscle.
Muscle building works like this: you stress and tear the fibers of your muscles. Over the next two days, the muscle takes protein from your blood and rebuilds even stronger, because it’s preparing for future abuse. By day three, that rebuilding process is over. If not used, the muscle begins to relax and atrophy. Within about ten days, the muscle is back to where it was before you stressed it. The only way to build muscle is to re-stress it before it starts to give up the previous gains.
This means you need to re-stress every muscle you are trying to build on a 3-4 day rotation. You can do it every other day or every fourth day, but for most people, every third day is optimal. If you get to day three after a big workout and you have some emergency that keeps you out of the gym, you must mentally plan to get back in the next day without fail. If you let yourself go past four days even once, you’ll probably do it again, and then you’re just throwing away your hard-earned gains.
That’s why I say the number one factor is consistency, and it really does take a full year to set up your schedule, your stretching, and your routines so you can build in years three and four. Want to go faster? You’re asking for injury, setbacks, and disappointment.
Consistency is the key. I can help you build that foundation and make those gains, so you make the best use of your time and you build your schedule around your current and future health. Sign up for your first call and let’s put that foundation in place.