Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

BEYOND BRAWN
23.5 Once you have a well-thought-out idea, give your all to making it bear fruit.
Have no time for any criticism and nay saying others may pour on you.
Realize that making your idea bear fruit necessitates overcoming obstacles,
and being persistent and oh-so determined. e satisfaction from achievement
is not only in the end result, but in the journey.
23.6 ose people who realize out-of-the-ordinary achievements are regular
mortals like the rest of us. But they grabbed their good ideas and invested
whatever was needed to make the ideas bear fruit. We can all do this.
Achievement has much more to do with belief and sheer determination than
talent and academic qualifications. ere is a lot more than a grain of truth
in the adage, “Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”
23.7 You can make at least some of your dreams come true. Even huge accomplishments
are achieved by notching up lots of little accomplishments. But
you have got to start, NOW! Life is in short supply and the years quickly slip
by.
23.8 Start with your own training program. Having read this book you will have
clicked, theoretically, with the value and effectiveness of hard work and progressive
poundages on abbreviated routines of basic exercises. But will you
give your all for a few years to such abbreviated training programs?
23.9 Imagine that food supplements had never been invented, and that there were
no bodybuilding drugs and no equipment innovations beyond the basics of
what a home gym needs. en, with the unswerving application of what this
book teaches, this “primitive” situation would deliver umpteen times more
progress for the masses than what is actually being delivered today, despite
the plethora of supposed and even actual advances.
23.10 Do not waste chunks of your life before finally learning this truth. So few
people learn it, and nearly all who do must first waste years, if not decades of
their lives. What usually happens is people assume resistance training cannot
work for them, and thus give it up.
23.11 Really get into your training and see how much you can do to make it more
productive, enjoyable and rewarding. Get each day right, again, and again,
and again. en you will get the weeks right, and the months. And then you
will really start to get somewhere. Become the master of your time, and your
life!
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