This is the one eternal law of fitness posting:
If you post a question or share an opinion about how to eat better, train for results, or live a healthy life, you will be inundated by a tsunami of opinions on what you must, should, ought, and have to do.
Everybody knows everything. Eat meat, never eat meat. Do more cardio, never do cardio. Gotta do high reps and low weight. Never do more than three reps. Train with a split. Only full-body works.
You know what I notice about the horde of know-everythings?
They know everything except how to make results happen.
A quick scan of profile pics reveals less than convincing real-life outcomes from all this knowing.
I’m not one to require a “poast fizeek” check for solid wisdom. Even top IFBB pros run the gamut from sharing hard-won sage advice to “potato”. Looking the best is no guarantee of having the best insights and wisdom.
But you can easily tell a brainless ranting parrot from a deeper mind who has worked from experience and given due consideration to what that experience means.
Part of that is having some track record to show off. There’s all kinds of reasons why people won’t look like 22 year old natural athletes fresh out of a D1 program. I sure never did. I had to work my rear off to get everything I ever got, and even then the results are at best middling compared to what Mesomorph Giga-Chad achieved with half the work and a fraction of the time.
Absolute results and relative outcomes are two different standards.
I’m as impressed by someone who creates a real change against adverse circumstances (including “bad genetics”) as I am by the best-of-the-best Top Gun physiques.
Which is to say, if a body looks like they never said “no” to an all you can eat buffet, they probably don’t know as much as they believe.
Knowledge, information, and facts are not nearly so important as the nerds and weirdos online make them out to be.
Fine, know stuff. I sure do. Just don’t assume that knowing is equivalent to doing, and to achieving real results.
Information is abundant and therefore its value approaches zero.
The execution is what makes the difference.
Action, action, action.
Are you acting, or are you letting the facts get in the way of getting the job done?
Matt Perryman