Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews - You Can't Mess This Up

Episode Date: January 11, 2021

This episode is part of a monthly series that I have dubbed “Motivation Monday.” (Yes, I know, very creative of me. What can I say, I’m a genius…) Seriously though, the idea here is simple: One Monday every month, I’m going to post a short and punchy episode that I hope gets you fired up to tackle the workouts, work, and everything else that you have planned for the week ahead. As we all know, it’s one thing to know what you want to do, but it’s something else altogether to actually make yourself do it, and I hope that this series gives you a jolt of inspiration, energy, and encouragement to get at it. So, if you like what you hear, then make sure to check back for the latest and greatest installment. Want free workout and meal plans? Download my science-based diet and training templates for men and women: https://legionathletics.com/text-sign-up/a

Have you ever garbaged down enough food to trank a girthy buffalo and then fretted that you've botched your diet? Have you ever skipped a workout or two or five because of injury, travel, or reasons best known to the dreadlord Cthulhu, and then despaired that you have derailed your progress? Have you ever wanted to just pack it in because despite your best efforts in the kitchen and gym, you felt like you're trying to swim upstream in a river of jello? Of course you have. We all have. And here's the thing. None of that actually matters because you can make every mistake imaginable without screwing this fitness thing up. That's right.

You can blow past your calories time and again without blowing it. You can miss scores of workouts without wrecking it. You can stray through the sunless streets of slumptown without spoiling it. In short, you can fail over and over in fitness and still succeed. How? The only way to lose at this game is to strike your flag, to give up. That is the big secret. No matter how many times you tumble off the wagon, so long as you clamber back onto it

and clatter onward, you can't mess this up. Because fitness is not a contest with winners and losers. There are no deadlines or duels or distinctions or demerits. Fitness is like love, laughter, learning. It is a wellspring of health and happiness to pursue purely for its own sake. of health and happiness to pursue purely for its own sake. Fitness isn't fleeting. It is forever. So spit out the saccharine fruits of short-termism and delight in the realization that you have all of the time you need to find your feet and your abs. All right, well, that's it for this episode. I hope you enjoyed it and found it interesting and helpful. And if you did, and you don't mind doing me a favor, please do leave a quick review

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you can email me if you have positive feedback as well, or if you have questions really relating to anything that you think I could help you with, definitely send me an email. That is the best way to get ahold of me, mikeatmuscleforlife.com. And that's it. Thanks again for listening to this episode, and I hope to hear from you soon.