Nashville Personal Trainer | The Root of All Evil

Confusion is the root of all evil.

You see, the easiest way to control someone is through sophisticated ways of deception.

That's done by making something simple complicated. Mainly through tricky language.

Rather than just say 1+1= 2, they'll find some way so that it'll take 3 months for a person to even learn that.

And that is something that happens when you start on your body-improvement journey.

You're met with tons of so-called answers to your problem. This person says do this, but this other person says that this thing worked for them, meanwhile this “doctor” is saying recent studies show that that's wrong and that this thing over here is the key. And on and on and on.

Mass confusion.

What happens when you're confused? You fall victim to the evils: distraction, inaction, procrastination, haphazard effort, and zero progress.

I'm all about keeping things simple.

Anytime I read something, I'm figuring out what's the simplified message.

Calories don't count in terms of fat loss.

WRONG. The ONLY way to force the body to burn stored energy (bodyfat) is to create an imbalance between how much calories you put in your body and how many you expend.

There are different ways of achieving this, but nothing will happen until you take in less calories than you expend.

So does that mean all calories are equal?
Nope. For example, if you replace some carbs & fat with protein, it'll lead to a greater weight loss. Why? Because your body burns more energy (calories) in breaking down protein than it does carbs. 

But I've already created a caloric deficit and dropped carbs and still nothing is happening.

Then you may be prone to water retention. This can be caused by the overproduction of the hormone cortisol. Are you stressed out? Tightly wound? Some extra snooze, R&R, dark chocolate, and prioritizng will help this.

What type of training should I be doing?
Your diet should determine what type of training you should be doing. This is a mistake that I've made in the past.

If your diet consists of a large caloric deficit and you're doing high-intensity training, fat loss will be slow and you may even gain. Too much activity with very little calories causes water retention and your metabolic rate drops.

That goes for a lot of cardio too.

So if you like high-intensity training or a lot of cardio, you'll need to either reduce your activity or increase your calories.

If you like dieting hard, too much exercise will be detrimental. Scale it down.

Those are just a few a things that get many people confused. What I'd like you to do is shoot me some things that you may be confused about and I'll try my best to make it plain for ya.

Deal? Cool.

Live easy,

-Rickey