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Building Muscle is Easy When You Have This When you step into the gym and those gym doors close behind you, what do you do? Are you prepared to lift weights and workout? Do you take a log book to the gym with you? How much weight did you lift last time? How many reps did you do? Surely, you have a plan to improve on the previous workout. If you want to build muscle, you better plan on getting better and making progress each and every workout. If you don't give your body a reason to build muscle, it's just not going to happen... If you don't push yourself, your body has no need for improvement. Prove to your body that it needs more muscle, and you'll get it... Do you think it's easy to improve every workout? Do you think you can just step into the gym and get better each and every workout? No, it isn't easy. Weight lifting is a war against the weights. You must develop a certain strong and powerful mindset to get better. If you want to make progress each workout, build muscle each workout, and get the body you've always wanted, you need to listen up. Don't do what I did and waste years and years of time. You MUST develop a warrior mentality each and every time you step into the gym. Seriously. A warrior prepares for battle. A warrior takes the battle seriosuly and lets nothing get in his/her way. When you step into the gym and those gym doors shut behind you, you have now entered the battle arena. It's time to turn the no BS switch on. It's time to get your log book out. And it's time to beat your previous numbers. Is weight lifting difficult? Hell yeah it's difficult. It's tough to fight the weights every workout and come out victorious. The real warriors will come out of that gym knowing they did everything possible to build muscle. And your body responds by giving you more muscle for the next battle. During each and every set you perform there will come a time in which you must make a decision. Your mind will be telling you to stop. Your mind will tell you that this is just too much to handle. The truth is: Your body can do more. If you stop when your mind tells you to stop, you'll never build muscle. Would a warrior stop the set? Hell no... A warrior will never quit. A warrior will press on when the going gets tough. A warrior will fight hard and love every second of that fight. A warrior will laugh in the face of defeat and will never accept a loss. No matter what, a warrior will win. You know what? You have a warrior inside of you just dying to get out! I guarantee you find him/her very soon. Remember this article as your walking through the gym doors. As those doors close, BAM!!! The warrior inside of you has just emerged. Now go win that battle! Trying to Get Fat? Try A Weight Loss Diet Have you ever attempted to lose weight before? If so, it's a safe bet that you wanted to look better or feel better. Am I right? I'm actually tired of hearing about people trying to lose weight. When I eat healthy all the time, co-workers and friends always ask, "Trying to lose weight?" And that's just because I don't take the donut or piece of cake they offer. That's how the general population is programmed now. If you try to eat healthy, people think you are trying to lose weight. Yet, weight loss is not even important! When people attempt to lose weight, they don't even care what type of weight they are losing as long as the number on the scale decreases... and that is SAD. Weight loss comes in the form of water weight, muscle mass, body fat, or any combination. The majority of the time -- People end up losing more muscle mass than anything else. And that is not good -- Yet, people believe they are successful because they lost weight. I've got news for you. The number on the scale is NOT IMPORTANT... Why are people so obsessed with their body weight? Because the world has programmed everyone to believe they need to lose weight. Don't get me wrong -- Many people need to decrease body fat, but most have no idea how to do it correctly. You must focus on losing body fat and NOT body weight. Muscle loss is bad. When you lose muscle, your metabolism slows and you must eat less food to simply maintain your current body weight. When you start to eat more food, you'll gain weight fast and that weight will come in the form of body fat. Lose muscle mass and in order to lose more weight, you'll have to eat less food. You then begin to eat smaller amounts of food in order to lose more weight -- because that's what everyone tells you to do. When you do this, you have a greater chance of triggering the starvation response from your body. When the starvation response is triggered, the body holds onto body fat stores and burns muscle for energy. Why? Because it has nothing else to turn to for energy because you aren't giving your body enough food! Threaten your body and lose! Body fat is reserve energy and the body will hold onto it because it believes it is being threatened. The human body is made to survive and that's why it will begin to burn muscle for energy and hold onto body fat when threatened. People who starve themselves lose weight and they are happy. What they don't know, though, is all of that weight loss came in the form of muscle mass. And that is losing the war my friend. When you decide to lose weight with some low calorie diet program, you've told your body that it's okay to burn your precious muscle mass and eventually replace it with more body fat. You end up in worse shape than ever before. You feel bad and look bad all due to some weight loss program that was supposed to help you -- instead it did the exact opposite. So, all of those weight loss diets out there are only hurting you. If they worked, wouldn't you see many more healthy, lean, and fit people walking around? Instead, the world gets fatter each and every day. And you can give all the credit to those weight loss programs that are supposed to be helping you. So what are you supposed to do then? Instead of focusing on weight loss, you should be focusing on building muscle and burning body fat. Then, you'll get the body you want. Your body will look better and you'll feel better. No one cares about that stupid number on the scale. You don't carry a scale around and say, "Look what I weigh!" People look at your body -- not the number on the scale. So start building muscle and burning fat and STOP worrying about weight loss. The simple solution -- Start lifting weights, eating healthy ALL THE TIME, and doing cardiovascular exercise. Those are the keys to burning body fat and building muscle, and that should be your real goal if you want to look better and feel better. Here's How You Build a Lean, Mean, Muscular Body Who knows how to get a ripped six pack and a muscular body to go along with it? Do you? Building muscle and burning fat is a huge mystery to the world. People are unhealthier and fatter than ever in today's world. Let me tell you how to fix the problem... If you're serious about getting a lean and muscular body, you need to do these 6 things: 1) Weightlifting The purpose of weightlifting is to build muscle and strength. If you're lifting weights to burn calories, you've got it all wrong. Lift weights to get stronger and build muscle. When you do, your body will begin to transform. 2) Nutrition and Diet The purpose of food is to fuel your body. Food is NOT for pleasure. If you think you have to have sugary and fatty food like cakse to survive, then you need some serious help. Stop treating your meals as pleasure time, and your body will begin to reward you. What's more important to you? Your health and life OR pleasure food that kills you. 3) Cardio Exercise Aerobic exercise is VERY important to your health and your appearance. Aerobic exercise helps prevent fat storage and burns fat directly from your body. As you build muscle, your body becomes accustomed to your heavier body weight through cardiovascular exercise. 4) Rest and Recovery This is crucial to your success. You must recover properly from your workouts. If you aren't you will overtrain and never make progress. You've got to rest, decrease stress levels, eat enough of the right foods, drink enough of the right liquids, and those are just a few of the vital steps you must take to recover properly. You don't want underestimate what I say concerning rest and recovery. You don't want all your efforts going to waste, right? 5) Making Adjustments The same workout, same diet, same everything WILL NOT work for each and every person on the face of this Earth. What does that mean? That means you have to make adjustments to a program in order for ANY program to work optimally for you. If you keep track of your results and measure the correct information, you can make the necessary changes on a weekly basis so you aren't wasting any time getting the body of your dreams. 6) Planning and Programming Your Mind You must plan to be successful. If you aren't setting goals, visualizing those goals, and rewarding yourself when you meet those goals, you aren't making optimal progress. You've got to plan and set goals. When you do, you'll stop sabotaging yourself. The results are amazing when you actually learn how to get your mind to work with you and never against you. You can practically achieve anything you want! So, those are the 6 steps you must take in order to build a lean and muscular body... Implement all of the above correctly, and your results will be so fast that you'll be smiling each and every day. This stuff really works. I've developed an entire muscle building and fat burning program that incorporates all of the above 6 steps. You'll want to see this as it guides you step-by-step to that lean and muscular body you've always wanted. See the link below to get instant access to this program.