New Guidelines From “The Experts”

If you’ve read the article on Yahoo! that I talked about the other day… then you’ll know that “the experts” have come up with new guidelines for minimum exercise requirements for healthy individuals.

Funny how these guidelines are starting to look more and more like the type of exercise that myself… Craig Ballantyne… and Tom Venuto have been talking about for years now.

And no, I’m not trying to get into the “I told you so” type of situation.

No, in fact… I think “the experts” had a noble reason for their recommendations in the past.

Their reasoning… if we can just get people to do SOMETHING… it will be better than doing NOTHING.

Unfortunately, this line of thinking has proven to be false… and here’s why.

The people that just aren’t ever going to try to get a little healthier… well… it just doesn’t matter WHAT kind of plan you put in front of them… no matter how easy it is… they still aren’t going to do anything.

Counter that with the people that ARE going to try to better themselves:

When they exercise according to “the guidelines”, they tend to get frustrated at the lack of results.

I’ve seen it time and time again.

Look, if you’re not pushing your limits… taking yourself to another level all the time… you’ll never see the results you desire. This also applies to LIFE in general as well. Stretch your boundaries… try a new program… do something you’ve never done.

And for heaven’s sake… get off the hour long treadmill runs and cardio only workouts.

You’re only spinning your wheels.

As an aside, check out this cool video from Craig B… the author of Turbulence Training… showing you Glute/Ham raises. Seriously, you need to try this… it’ll work your hamstrings like the devil