Like any venture, body building must accrue after a certain investment. Incidentally, body building success needs pretty little of finances and other resources, but is pegged, in it entirety, to behavior modification. Behaviors, change and consistency, are the key investment that one has to make to succeed in this world. Body builders must get a good foundation in behavior change and orientation, so as to make body building a lifestyle and not an activity.
Many people join the gym and start out on training. For every 1,00 Americans who join gyms nationally, only 42 of them last through the year. That is a phenomenal rate of failure, a failure so huge that it evokes very pertinent questions. For instance, what ids just so hard in maintaining a body building lifestyle? What is needed to survive the onslaught and stay put in a body building program? What can one do to guarantee success in body building training? Why do all these people, 958 of them at that, fail in sustain a program they must have been very interested in before they started?
The answer lies in behavior. Body building is not an activity that you can keep up with during leisure moments. Body building is not a way to pass time. Body building is not a fortress to nurture relaxation and comfortability. In a body building program, all things are manual and nothing automatic. In this game, there are no remote controls. Everything must be fixed by hand, by might and by consistent application of demanding routines. Body building is not a summer activity. And to make it worse, body building is not a short time endeavor, not a month thing, but a lifetime commitment.
The modern society is so addicted with automatics, that manual application of energy is loathed. The culture of remote controls and automatic everything, has wrecked havoc in our society. Those who join body building, most of them are those who want to exercise and gain automatically. They are not in it to give energy and commit to routines but just to enjoy themselves, spend some time and then go to more important agenda for the day. These are usually the first to drop off. The next group of people is those who want a short time fix, a month or two at most. Yet these same lazy bones, have very grand ambition of how much fat they will loose, how much muscles they will build and so on. After a month and the ambitious projections are not attained, which the never are and never could be, they drop off.
Many other groups of people join body building with misplaced perceptions and all of them fail and drop out of training soon or later. The guys who stay, are the guys who want to orchestrate healthy living into their mundane lives. They want to eat right and exercise perpetually. They are interested in manually tuning the body to perfection of fitness, of strength and of mass. These guys, special as they are, do not seek short time fixes and miracle drugs to get their goals achieved, but they have the time, the patience and the commitment to pursue until they attain real success. In so doing, they make body building a lifestyle, a behavior and more so, a apart of life.
Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.
