To lose fat, one must think. One must exercise their brain to change their
body and reach their weight loss goals. If you have a plan, you'll succeed. But
if you go in the gym and "wing it" everytime, you'll make no progress
month-in and month-out. If time keeps on passing without any changes in your body,
then you have to try something new.
Everytime I workout, I see the same people doing the exact same exercise routine
in the gym. They go through the same machines in the same order using the same weight
each day. Then they go to the same piece of cardio equipment and use the same level
as yesterday and go at that same slow pace as always.
And do you know what I see the next day?
The same old physique on that same person. No change. Next week? No change. Same
workout, same body.
Because they aren't thinking. And no one is thinking for them. They don't have a
good trainer, or a good program, or a good idea about what they should be doing
in the gym. They've heard that "cardio" is good for them so they go to
the gym and try out a cardio machine.
But they just get on it and "go", mindlessly. Maybe they throw in some
weights. Maybe not. They don't really know how to do weight correctly anyways. And
so it goes on and on, week after week. Until they just give up and quit.
And you see the same thing on the street. You see the same people running the same
slow route around the neighborhood, getting the same (read: zero) results from their
"same old-same old" jogging routine.
I've always believed that beginners to fitness take up jogging because its easy.
And I don't mean easy on the body, because we know it takes some effort.