What Is And What Is Not An “Awesome Approach”

I have often received emails, read posts online, etc., about people saying something like, “My diet was pretty extreme *insert description here* and I did a lot of cardio *or whatever*, but it worked awesome, and I looked great!”

Here is my take on this …

No, it did not work awesome.

How do you look now? The same? Listen, if it was an awesome approach to getting in shape, you’d still look the same now would you not? An “awesome” approach to getting lean is an approach that not only is sustainable and maintainable from an adherence standpoint, but also sustainable and maintainable in terms of your body fat, bodyweight, conditioning, emotional health, etc.

That is an awesome approach!

If you get in good shape, but can’t stay in good shape (note, we’re not talking contest conditioning here as that is neither sustainable NOR healthy), can’t continue to comply and adhere to the programming that took you there, well, this is not an awesome approach at all.

Again, if it were, you would not be back out of shape.