Ep3: Three Princples of Success as It Could Apply to Bodybuilding

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Sometime ago I ran across a list called The Three Principles

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of Success by Jimmy D Brown.

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Now, who is Jimmy D Brown?

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Is he a famous bodybuilder or a workout guru or what?

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No.

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Jimmy's actually an internet marketer that helps you run your business.

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Now, when I first wrote down these three principles of success, I

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obviously was applying it to my business and how to run it successfully.

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Make sure that my customers and people who listened to this podcast got as much out

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of it as they could try to get structure.

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So all these principles of success were geared towards

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business when Jimmy wrote them.

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But I did take notes and when I started looking at this list over

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and over, I started to realize, hey, these three principles of success.

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Obviously it was geared towards business, but it could be three principles of

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success for bodybuilding and fitness.

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So here's what I want you to do.

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Now, a lot of you listening on the podcast, have it on your

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iPods or some different type of a player maybe in your car.

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If you're listening at your computer though, or you listen to

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this later and you do have a pen and paper and or a pencil handy.

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I want you to take notes because I took notes, and trust me, when you look

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at this on a piece of paper, a single piece of paper, it will make a massive

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difference in how you achieve your bodybuilding and fitness and health goals.

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As an update, you can use whatever note taking system you like

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as long as you can remember this later.

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I can't believe I said pen and pencil and paper.

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Now back to the show.

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Now, I know that when Jimmy wrote this, he was talking about business.

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But business is just like bodybuilding.

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And I mean by that, there are principles, there are rules, there are fundamentals

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you can follow, you can get organized.

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There are things that will derail your business.

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There are things that will derail your fitness quests.

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If you write down these three principles and start applying them to what you're

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trying to achieve today, you'll be amazed.

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Now here's what I'm gonna do.

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I'm gonna go very slowly over each principle and the bullet points.

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I'm gonna expand on the bullet points, but what I want you to write down

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is just those bullet points and what you're gonna have at the end result

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is just a very simple short list.

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And if, of course, if you need any, want to go back and listen to

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this particular podcast to get the gist of those bullet points, you

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welcome to do so let's get started.

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Three principles of success.

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The first principle is the principle of effort.

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Take action.

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That's your bullet point there.

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Take action.

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A lot of times when bodybuilding and fitness and you start to talk

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to people about what they should do, there's so much information out there.

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They almost have a mental overload.

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They have no idea where to start.

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They don't even know which training program or how to eat.

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Taking action moving forward in some capacity, no matter how small is movement.

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So you wanna start taking action.

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That's also applies to any type of a business or just about thinking

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clearly, writing clearly how to write a memo, how to write a

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note, how to start doing anything.

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The hardest part is actually taking action.

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In fact, my own personal experiences.

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It's very difficult for me to create a budget.

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I can talk about a budget.

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I can tell you why I need a budget, but I cop out and make an excuse.

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The one thing that I've never done is actually sat down

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and taken the first step.

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So the principle of effort, the first bullet point, take action.

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Take your best shots in life.

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Now that just applies generally across the board.

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Give it your best.

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Give everything that you can.

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When you go into the gym, when you start thinking about fitness, when

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you read up on this, when you listen to podcasts, when you go search out

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for more information, whatever you're doing, take your best shots in life.

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Keep that in mind.

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Your number one opponent to this principle is discouragement.

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And that's actually.

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In business, it applies there, and I certainly think that you understand that

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it applies to health and fitness as well.

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Your number one opponent is discouragement.

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So many people get very discouraged when they don't see immediate

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changes, they don't see the results fast enough, or you start hitting a

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plateau and they start coming slower.

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You're not getting what you want.

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You have an injury.

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You get very discouraged.

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I had a shoulder injury from snowboarding.

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I was very discouraged that I couldn't work out my shoulders

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and do some of the workouts.

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But the number one opponent for this principle of effort is discouragement.

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The second principle is the principle of focus.

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So swing for something specific.

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That's your bullet point there.

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Swing for something specific.

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Now, this will come across in another bullet point, but when we're talking

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bodybuilding and fitness, when you wanna swing for something specific,

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when you know what goal you wanna achieve, specifically, not just some

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lofty goal, I wanna lose weight, I wanna gain a hundred pounds.

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You wanna lose five pounds in a given month, lose five pounds of fat.

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I want to be able to bench press 315 pounds in 12 weeks.

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You can start to see that when you start talking and thinking on a very specific

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goal, you can get very focused and very narrowed and achieve that goal when

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you start talking in generalizations.

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I just wanna get big.

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I just wanna lose weight.

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What does that mean?

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Who knows what it means?

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When you wanna swing for something specific, it can mean anything

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in this particular industry, but make sure you know what it is

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that you're trying to accomplish.

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And of course, you can definitely go in cylindrical cycles.

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You can bulk, you can cut, you can do whatever you wanna do,

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but swing for something specific.

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Now your number two opponent for the principle of focus is distraction.

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Distraction because impatience.

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This could be a bullet point too.

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Impatience is the forerunner to failure, and the other bullet

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point is you need to gain momentum.

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Now, let's go back to the impatience.

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What is impatience is the forerunner to failure?

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What I've seen a lot of times in my bodybuilding forms,

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people are very impatient.

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About swinging for something specific.

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They get distracted and the first thing they wanna do is either take

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illegal drugs, pro hormones, steroids, supplements, liposuction, crazy training

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programs to gain weight to, to gain muscle, because they're impatient.

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They simply can't wait for this to happen.

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They're getting discouraged.

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Because they're not seeing the results fast enough.

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They're getting impatient.

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They're willing to try almost anything, whether it's safe or a

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fad diet or whatever that you can think of, when you start getting

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impatient, you can already see.

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That's the forerunner to failure and that goes, especially in

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something like bodybuilding and fitness, where it is a lifestyle.

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It's something that you want to do for a very long time.

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I hope I'm right for most people listening to this podcast.

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That when you start to get impatient, you get discouraged.

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You start making the wrong choices and the wrong decisions.

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So you've got to focus.

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And that's why when you go for something specific, it's much easier to target

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and narrow down your thoughts and you research and whatever else you're

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gonna do, rather than all these generalizations and all this information

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that could be going around in your head.

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Now the other bullet point was you need to gain momentum.

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When you start getting focused and you start going through, so something very

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specific, and you start taking action and you start gaining momentum and you

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start moving, talk to an experienced, advanced bodybuilder, and you'll soon

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find out that once they start working out, they start knowing the body.

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They start understanding more and more exercises, how to do it, getting

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excited about going to the gym.

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That's momentum.

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All of a sudden they get injured, they get sick, they're outta

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the game for a couple weeks.

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They take a vacation.

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Guess what?

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They still have that momentum behind them, so when they come back or recover

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from the injury, they're ready to go.

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What happens when you don't gain a lot of momentum is you start

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to do something you're impatient.

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It's a little bit half-assed on the way.

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You don't really have the momentum behind you.

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You get distracted.

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All of a sudden you fall off the bandwagon.

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You're not doing the proper eating habits again.

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You're not going to the gym.

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Something's distracted.

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You didn't have that momentum behind you to keep you going, so

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you need to gain the momentum.

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Now, the third principle is the principle of reason.

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Make an informed decision.

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Now, of course in business you can understand, oh, make an informed decision.

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Sure, but what does that apply to?

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Bodybuilding, fitness or business or whatever, make an informed decision.

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I've talked several times in this podcast.

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I use supplements, whatever supplement is available legally to my advantage.

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If I've researched it and it's something that I want to take,

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then I'll take it however.

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Key word being researched.

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So make an informed decision.

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Now, whether it's doing something like a training program, taking a supplement,

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starting a new style of diet, calculating your calories, whatever the heck you're

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going to do, make an informed decision.

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It also applies to buying a car, buying a house.

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In other words, if you're going to go out and you're gonna take a supplement,

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you're gonna try a new training program.

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Go out and do what you can to research.

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About that.

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Find out the ingredients in the supplement.

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Find out what other people have said.

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Call the company if you have any questions on how to take it or

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if it interacts with a particular medication that you're taking.

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Whatever you want to make uninformed decision.

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You don't wanna just find something in a magazine, see the guy flexing, or

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the woman who's got super ripped abs and decide that's for you, and just go

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buy it and then figure out you didn't like it, or it made you feel bad.

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So you wanna make an informed decision, because that's part

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of the principle of reason.

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The second bullet point is, what should I focus my effort on?

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That applies to anything, but again, when you're talking about health and fitness,

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what should you focus your effort on?

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So what goal are you going to pick?

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Because in the second principle, you were swinging for something specific.

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Now you've gotta figure out what should I focus my effort on?

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I've talked.

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Several times about people who want to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.

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They really wanna know if it's possible.

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Now, sure, it technically is possible and that's really the

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answer they want to hear 'cause they wanna do both at the same time.

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But if you go back and you think about this bullet point, and if you're

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really writing it down on a sheet of paper and you keep looking at that,

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what should I focus my effort on?

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You've gotta figure that question out.

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Because you'll be a hundred times more efficient when you pick a single goal

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and you swing for something specific.

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I hope you can see them using the things in these principles of success is to

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go back to make you understand that you definitely want to focus and go

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for certain goals because you will be more efficient if you wanna get in the

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best cardiovascular shape of your life.

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Do you wanna keep pumping really heavy weights, doing a little bit of cardio

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and some jogging and some running?

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Or do you really wanna make an informed decision, focus in on how

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to get in the best cardio shape of your life and then go right for that?

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It's just like when you think of a professional athlete, a marathon runner,

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they're very specific and they're very focused on what they want to do.

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All of their training, all of their eating is around a single objective.

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And so they're very good at what they do.

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In other words, if you took a marathon runner and you asked him to do a 400 yard

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sprint, he wouldn't do very well at all.

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Or if you take one of the world record 400 meter distance runners, and you

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ask him to go ahead and just run a 26 kilometer or 26 mile or whatever have

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you, long marathon, you realize that, hey, they didn't place in the top 10.

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Why not?

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Because they weren't training for that specific goal.

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They were very focused on what they needed to do, and that

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was sprinting and quick starts.

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And a marathon runner is cardiovascular and endurance.

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So the same applies to you.

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What are you trying to do?

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Do you wanna get lean?

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Do you wanna lose some fat?

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Do you wanna bulk up and build muscle?

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Do you just want to generally be in shape?

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Once you understand exactly what you want to do, you can really focus and fine

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tune your efforts to achieve that goal.

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Now here's a great one, another great bullet point

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under the principle of reason.

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It's not how to use your time, it's how to best use your time.

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Think about that.

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You have 60 minutes to go into the gym.

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It's not how to use your time, it's how to best use your time.

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So when you find training programs or whatever you're doing, if you have 60

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minutes to go in the gym, How can you get the most work done in that 60 minutes?

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Now, there's other people that are going to the gym and

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they're just using your time.

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They're using time.

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Hey, I was in the gym for an hour today.

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They're just doing that first part.

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They're just using the time.

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If you go in and you super set and you have a stopwatch with you, and you have

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a written workout plan of what you're gonna do, how many sets, how many reps

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you're trying to achieve, what weight you're going to use, I print my workouts.

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I print my workout every time I go into the gym.

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And why?

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Because it's how to best use my time.

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As an update, I use apps nowadays to track my workouts that include

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some type of progress even if it's just adding 5 lbs to the bar.

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When I go into the gym, I know exactly what I wanna do.

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I've got a stopwatch and I can do a whole lot of volume and a whole lot of reps,

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and a whole lot of work in 60 Minutes.

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The other guy next to me, he's using his time.

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He was in the gym for 60 minutes too, but he was taking more of a rest, and

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he was being a little more chatty.

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So think about that.

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The principal reason, it's not how to use your time.

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It's how to best use your time.

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So there you have it.

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The three principles of success by Jimmy D.

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Brown, who is an internet marketer by the way, and he was talking about

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how to apply this to your business.

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But I see no reason why you can't apply this to bodybuilding and

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fitness because to some of you, like it is to me, it is my business.

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So if you were able to write these down and at least go back and maybe give this

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podcast a second, listen to, and you're looking at these right in front of you,

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you'll start to understand exactly how you can quickly and easily achieve your goals.

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And the reason that I say that is because if you are focusing on effort

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and you've got your focus down and you've got your reason down, You start

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to swing for, things that are specific.

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You know what you need to focus on.

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You've made informed choices and decisions.

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When you go to the gym, it could be 45 minutes.

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You are best using your time.

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You're not just going in for 45 minutes and doing some stuff.

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You're going in there with a plan.

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It's very easy to print off a workout before you go to the gym, even if it's

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not the best workout in the world.

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If you've printed it off and you have it in your hand.

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Trust me, it will make a world of difference to how quickly

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and efficiently you can move through and what you can get done.

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In fact, it was funny.

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I came back from vacation just recently and I didn't print off my workout.

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I, when I come back from vacation, I out at about 60% intensity,

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so I didn't want to go too hard.

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And I went into the gym and I was just doing some stuff.

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Literally I just was gonna work shoulders and triceps, but I didn't have a plan.

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So I was just doing some stuff.

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I just wanna get back into it.

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And one of my friends came up and he is like, Hey, what's up man?

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Where's the sheet?

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Where's your workout sheet?

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You don't know what you're gonna do today if you don't have that sheet now.

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He was right.

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He was absolutely right.

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I didn't know what I was gonna do now.

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I was coming back from a break, and so really I didn't have a plan.

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I just wanted to generally just get back into the swing of things.

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And I didn't wanna go very hard, but he's absolutely right.

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I don't know what I'm gonna do if I don't have that sheet in front of me.

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And so for you, if you're focused and you're swinging for something specific

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and you take action, Just one of the small things you can do is make sure

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that you've got a printed workout.

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When you go to the gym, it will make a world of difference and all you have to

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do is find a workout that you like to be anywhere on the internet, whatever.

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Try something new and the first thing is take action.

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And you know what take action is in that particular regards, whatever

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operating system that you're using, it's called the print function.

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That's your take action.

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That is as hard as it has to be.

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When you print your workout off and you take it to the gym, you have taken action.

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You are defeating the number one opponent, which is discouragement.

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And you're also gonna defeat number two opponent, which is distraction, because

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now you've got a plan in front of you.

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And when you have a plan, that usually gets discouragement.

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And when you have a plan, it also helps to eliminate distraction.

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So the simple part of taking action in that example is just the print key.

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That's all you have to do.

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Now if you have any questions for this podcast or maybe one of these principles

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didn't make sense to you, you can go ahead and send me an email to Marc.

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That's m a r c.

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It's Marc with a C at.