What REALLY works...

Everyone is looking for what really works to get rid of that "tummy" or "thunder thighs" get a "really nice ass". I'm gonna break it down for ya.

Nothing really works by itself. You can train your heart out, do the most brutal workouts known to man, but if your still eating pizza every night or rollin through the drive through for lunch you wont see diddly squat.

Most of us have tried to do just one or the other. Either we count calories, carbs, or fat and we have no energy to workout. Or we workout for 2 hours a day and get so damn hungry we cant see straight and wanna ram the car in front of us outta the way of FOOD! There might be some people out there who have a great relationship with food...not me! I love food all kinds, but most of it my body hates and it shows me by bloating up like a beached whale or making me go into a food coma. So through the years on my journey to become fit I have tried just about every diet there was to try to accomplish low body fat and I have just about killed myself on the other end with workouts to achieve a rock hard professional volley ball player ass. I'm still not perfect and I don't expect myself to be anymore, that's OK. But along the way I have found that there is NO short cut. You see it's really a simple solution as to "What really works" but it's HARD!

Because it's hard is why we aren't all in movie star shape. Here's what it takes...

-Commitment- You have to commit to yourself first, decide what your goals are, then announce it to the world! If you want to wear a size 6 then commit to it! If you want to run your first race, do a triathlon, take a vacation and wear your first bikini since you were 12 then DO IT! You really can do it. Believing you can is probley the hardest part of your goal.

-Accountability- Find someone or a few someones to be accountable to. Did you make all your workouts this week? Did you eat on plan this week or today even? Report it back to them so they can give you a high five. Or if you didn't they can call you out on it and help you get your head back in the game.

-Workouts- What's your style? Having someone there to tell you what to do next, do 5 more, push harder, go further? Going at it alone with your ipod on in your zone? Find what you hate/love to enjoy and go at it 3x a week, and when you are there GO FOR IT!!! "Go big or go HOME!" Be consistant, make it your YOU time.

-Supplements- It's impossible to get all of your nutrients from food these days. Maybe if we all lived in "Little House on the Prairie" days we could but lets face it we live in a world that doesn't even serve healthy food to our kids at school. :(

-Hydration- Yep good ol water. Don't buy into the hype about sports drinks and vitamin water...phooey on those crap ass companies who try to trick us into BUYING fricken WATER with CALORIES! You need to drink AT LEAST half your weight in water. Or 1 liter per 50lbs. Yes you will pee a lot at first but look at it as flushing your body of all the toxins hiding out in your fat cells. So quit your bitching about going to the bathroom all day. You wanna get fit you gotta drink your water period.

-Food- Ahhhh here we go. Yep 80% of your success is diet. I use the word "diet" loosely. This is ENTIRELY true. But the "diet" industry has us so messed up in the head we can't figure out which way to tip the food pyramid! I'm telling you I have tweaked every diet there is and NOTHING works like Paleo or Primal eating. Is it all you can eat of every food group? No. Is it counting points? No Is it weighing food? No. It's freeeeeedom from all that! The rules are simple, but you have to read up on it. I love The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf. He explains it will some science and humor. (Robb Wolf has no clue who I am & I dont get anything from giving his book props)

So ya see it's simple but not at all easy.