Guy walks into a gym, purchases a gym membership, everyone in that gym squats over 500 pounds. He says, I want to squat over 500 pounds so the trainer says "you've come to the right place". "What do you squat now?" Guy says "my one rep max is 310 pounds" and so the coach says "awesome, that's a great start" here is your plan, for this cycle your goal is to get to 350 pounds (notice how the coach didn't just say, get under 500 pounds and let's give it a shot).

The guy comes in ... to the gym the next day, trainer sees him and says "hi" and gives him his progression. Guy is like "cool, and then goes out for a 3 hour run". Trainer is baffled but let's it slide. For a week this happens and the trainer then says "I don't get it, you said you joined this gym to squat 500 pounds, see Jimmy over there, he just did that for a double, why are you running, I don't get it".

Guy then comes clean "honestly when I did 310 it was like a quarter squat and it scared me big time to do that weight, so when you gave me my progression it all hit me, this is going to take a lot of work." Trainer says "yeah, Jimmy came in just like you 4 years ago, it took a while for him to get his house in order as well, he actually went two years before he PR'ed, we had to work through a few life issues but he got those figured out and now look at him". "I still don't get it though, why are you running?"

Guy doesn't really know how to answer the question so he just tells the trainer the truth. "Honestly I have always ran, it's just easy, you walk out the door and BOOM". "It's a comfortable place for me".

Trainer then says "right, I love running too but you don't squat 500 pounds running, this isn't even a running gym". "You do know squatting 500 pounds is difficult and it's going to take a lot of work right?" "The good news is that if you can run for 3 hours you are no stranger to work, so that will help you". So here is the question "DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SQUAT 500 POUNDS or do you want to pretend that is your goal?"

Squatting is a metaphor for the way people seek optimal body composition and why almost no one succeeds, in fact, most people jump from gym to gym to follow the metaphor "pretending" that they really want to solve difficult problems but they always snuggle up to their comfort place. Simply said, if you have big goals you have no idea what you need to change going into it and you have to be committed to finding those "truth's" otherwise you are just pretending. Which is fine, that's the way a lot of people start but if you pretend without action you are just wishing and no one squats 500 pounds wishing. It takes hard work. wedding dresses for broad shoulders

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