Humble Beginnings lead to great things..

          When was the last time you worked out??? Can you do a pull up? How about a pushup? As we age and get busy with life we don't think about working out and exercising as one of our main priorities. It is one of the best things you can do for yourself. One of the main reasons that we don’t exercise is the lack of MOTIVATION. Everyone has an extremely busy life dealing with things like school, work, social life, family and friends but that’s no excuse not to find a way to work out during a busy day.  I am a full time student, I work 30+ hrs a wk, Have a passion for all different types of exquisite food and like everyone else i love to have fun. I still manage to get into the gym 2-4 times a week. It wasn’t always like, about 4 years ago I decided to join a gym for the first time in my life. The experience changed my life, It is a habitual part of my everyday life now. I might not work out every day but when I do workout, I train very hard and challenge my body.My main goal for creating this blog is to share my knowledge and motivate others to get healthy, get fit, get shredded and feel amazing. I want to educate people in dieting, supplementation and finding the right workouts to do. Every little bit counts, it just takes that effort and motivation to push past the starting point and get the dumbbell rolling.

          As i stated earlier , I didn't always have a passion about being healthy and fit. When i was growing up my parents were very restrictive on the amount of junk food that they allowed my brother and I to have. So any chance I got, I would eat all the candy, desserts and fast food I could get my little hands on. As a kid we think fast food is amazing, I mean who doesn't like it. Its delicious, cheap and made to be consumed immediate within a few minutes but we don't know any better. We have no idea what negative effects it has on us, we just know that it is a quick meal. What's horrible these days is a lot of parents are giving their children fast food because they are too busy working or involved in many other things in life. Fast food becomes their first choice to feed their children because its fast and they know their kids will eat it. I want to encourage parents to change these habits. Many people eat fast food for a few reasons, they don't have time to cook, don't know how to cook or they just don't care what they consume. I've learned that cooking your meals ahead of the time for the week is very important in managing what you eat on a daily basis. If food is prepared ahead of time then you don't need to think about what to eat and you know that there is food in your fridge ready to go. 

          Being healthy and eating right doesn't mean that you don't get to indulge in the wondrous joys of food. You just need have a little will power, cheat meals are actually very beneficial. Having a cheap meal once a week can help make your metabolism work. Eating clean is great but after your body gets used to it, its not as efficient. By throwing in those cheat meals it makes your metabolism work to burn off those calories.  After dieting for a while Ive realized that life is too short to not eat what you want, the trick is to not do it all the time. Combining healthy eating/dieting with the right workouts will lead to results. The trick is to find that consistency, I think my biggest pet peeve about the gym is when the new year rolls around and people say they are going to work on becoming healthy and being fit. They try to continue their bad eating habits and just start going to the gym. Then two weeks later if they make it that far, they decide they aren't seeing the results they want so they quit. Being an avid member of my gym, I see this all the time, I am not looking down on them because they did give it a try but that try wasn't good enough to get results. To get results you have to work hard, change your habits and keep things consistent. I push but I don't topple!