Summary: ----------------------------------------------------------<br> ○ Ask Me Anything: An Open Discussion with the Coach ○<br> ----------------------------------------------------------<br> <br> Scott takes questions from his audience about workout program design, food and eating issues, fat loss, and other fitness-related topics.<br> <br> <br> ○ Highlights form the Discussion ○<br> <br> • Workout journals: People tend to record the wrong things. Record quantitative biofeedback, not quantitative such as weights, reps and sets. Numbers of reps and sets won’t be meaningful six months from now.<br> <br> • Treat your workout journal like a diary. Record things like energy level, workout felt easy, workout felt hard, etc.<br> <br> • Workout journal including just reps and sets would be like a diary that includes facts only, such as got up at 6, brushed teeth, went to work, etc.<br> <br> • Supplements aren’t necessary if you’re eating healthy. This is well documented in the medical [and nutrition] research.<br> <br> • When training for physique, designing a program around what produces the best pump makes sense.<br> <br> • Don’t think about what you’re not supposed to think about. Telling yourself “Don’t think about zebras” only makes you think about zebras. Thinking about dealing with a food issue only makes you think about the food issue.<br> <br> • Focus on what not to think about only makes you think about it.<br> <br> • “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.”<br> <br> • The scale doesn’t tell you what’s actually going on with your body. Scale weight loss could be from water weight loss, for instance. The mirror doesn’t lie.<br> <br> • Fitness lifestyle should be fun. Ask, “what is this lifestyle doing for my life, or what is it doing to my life?” Fitness should be a lifestyle, not a life.<br> <br> • Motivation is like an unseen muscle: it requires exercise [and discipline.]<br> <br> • Appetite suppressants are a bad idea. They interrupt your body’s biofeedback.<br> <br> • There’s no need to go to the gym twice a day. More is not always better.<br> <br> • The Hardgainer Solution is an excellent program for physique trainees who travel, as well as trainees over 50.<br> <br> • Caffeine pre-workout is a good idea and well documented in the literature.<br> <br> • Getting ripped isn’t a result of a workout program; it’s a result of diet strategy. But you have to feed metabolism. You can’t out-train a poor diet.<br> <br> • Accept challenge instead of fighting it. How you meet resistance determines outcome.<br> <br> ----------------------<br> LINKS & RESOURCES<br> ----------------------<br> <br> https://scottabelfitness.com/ebooks/abel-approach/<br> <br> https://scottabelfitness.com/ebooks/hardgainer-solution/<br> <br> https://scottabelfitness.com/ebooks/physique-after-50/<br> <br> https://scottabelfitness.com/ebooks/beyond-metabolism/<br> <br> https://scottabelfitness.com/ebooks/understanding-metabolism/<br> <br> https://scottabelfitness.com/ebooks/metabolic-damage/<br> <br> https://scottabelfitness.com/ebooks/cycle-diet/<br> <br> <br> Follow Coach Scott Abel:<br> <br> Main Website<br> https://scottabelfitness.com/<br> <br> Facebook<br> https://www.facebook.com/CoachScottAbel/<br> <br> YouTube<br> https://www.youtube.com/user/scottabelcoaching<br> <br> The Cycle Diet Program<br> http://thecycle.diet/<br> <br> The Hardgainer Solution Program<br> http://hardgainersolution.com/<br>
