5 Reasons Why You Are Skinny And Not Muscular

by Caleb Lee

I’ve been working out since I was 5 years old through martial arts. Plus I started doing hard-core strength and conditioning routines since I was 12. Thus, keeping in shape wasn’t really a problem.

But I meet people who don’t look the way they want, and every time they open their mouth, it’s like hearing the same stories over and over again. That’s why I am writing this post, if you are

* A lean guy who has trouble building muscle mass…

* Fat and think you can’t lose the weight

* “skinny fat” where you have no muscularity, but you’re just skinny

Then I can guarantee you are this way because of one of these 5 things:

Reason #1: You Don’t Have Specialized Knowledge

* You don’t have any idea on how to build up strength.

* You have no idea how to watch your weight.

* You don’t know how to eat clean

* You don’t know how to cook, as a result, you barely eat fast food as well as food in a packaged form.

* You don’t know which training program is best.

Knowledge is always the first step. The first thing you need to realize is how your body works, how proper nutrition and exercise changes the animal - then you discover how to make it do what you want it to do. In your case: change your physique for the better-build muscle and lose fat.

That’s why you’re here. I will give you the know-how you need. Though it’s up to you to use it. Knowledge is NOT power, only APPLIED knowledge is power.

Reason #2: You Are Lazy

* You know how to build muscle but you don’t want to put in the work.

* You know how to build strength, yet you think it’s “tiring”.

* You know how to burn fat, but you make excuses like “I don’t have the time!”

* You know how to eat nutritious, but then it’s easier to eat convenience food and food in a packaged form

I’m a huge fan of being what I call idealistically lazy. In other words, I seek the very best methods (specialized knowledge) to gain the greatest results I want in the smallest time. For this reason, I get in, get it through, and quit. You must DESERVE the right to be lazy.

You can read every book on the planet about building muscle and losing fat, but if you never start exercising and eating clean then you’ll never get ANY results. You have to take action. Don’t be afraid of failure, the most successful people realize that their entire life is one big mistake!

Reason No. 3: You Recognize Yourself As “Skinny” or “Fat” or “Not Muscular”

* You think of yourself as “skinny, fat or not muscular” instead of as what you want to be

* It doesn’t bother you much that you’re this way anymore

* If you truly cared enough, if it worried you enough, you’d change

* You’re AT EASE with your look

Being fat or out of shape is considered normal these days. It wasn’t always like this. We used to be hunters and if you weren’t in shape-you were dead-end of story. During the industrial age everyone survived on hard physical labor, everyone was in shape and athletic.

You were considered “sickly” if you were thin and not beefy or laughed at for being flabby. You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself but don’t just say “this is just the way I am”. You can turn out to be whatever you want to become and achieve things you never thought you could achieve if you’re fed up of your present situation and want to change bad enough.

Reason #4: You Think Gaining Muscle and Burning Fat is hard

* You accept terms like “hardgainer” and relate them to you

* You don’t get results in 2 weeks, so you quit

* You leaf through books and magazines that point out “battling the bulge” like it’s hard

Building muscle isn’t all that difficult. If you’ve always been lean, try to get strong. Your body HAVE TO adapt by building muscle to help you get stronger. It’s the way your body works.

Losing fat isn’t hard either. You eat clean and you stay active. Anyone who says they can’t find 12 minutes a day 3x per week to lose fat is lying to themselves.

Reason No. 5: You Are Not Persistent Enough

* You haven’t said “hell or high water”

* You haven’t told yourself “failure is not an option”

* You haven’t made up your mind yet that “this is the year I get this sh*t handled!”

The fact is: you can build muscle, lose weight, and transform your body pretty well using ANY workout routine and nutritional program. That’s the reason why there’s so many of them out there. The key to success (ANY success) comes down to 2 things:

2. Make a decision that you’re going to go for it and

2. F*cking Do it NO MATTER WHAT

I used to train with methods I wouldn’t use now. They’re not “proper” but it WORKED because I refused to take failure as an option. If you too develop the “do or die” attitude, you can achieve anything.

I will give you the understanding - or you can see it wherever. I like to think that I know the most immediate, coolest, very competent methods to make it - though you can acquire the knowledge you need from anybody. Besides you don’t need to be all that “positive” in your thoughts. Just come to a decision to go for it as well as look for means to get it through.

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