Day 15: The Real Work Begins

Day 15: The Real Work Begins by Nick Mitchell

After the first week of miraculous progress Joe’s progress has slowed down to an impressive, but slower, pace.

You too should expect a similar pattern when you follow the fat loss focused programs in The Ultimate Transformation Guide (muscle building progress is usually slower, although I’ll get into the specifics of that a bit more in a later entry). Joe has been losing about 1 mm a day of skin fold thickness from his supra iliac (love handles) and that continued for about the first 12 days of the plan.

To put it into perspective that’s not 1mm a day of his waist circumference, it is the sort of progress that could take an obese man to be cover model ready in a matter of weeks. Which is clearly impossible.

What you need to get your head around, because so many times with UP transformations people just do not get it, is that progress is not ever going to be linear. What I am doing with Joe, and what you will do if you properly follow all the workouts, lifestyle advice, and diets / meal plans, is to make some radical improvements in all the areas necessary for improving your body composition, be it fat loss, muscle building or as we are aiming for with Joe a combination of both factors.

Rapid and calculated changes to what controls your body composition will almost always result in rapid changes to your actual body. I know that this sounds a bit obvious but based on my social media feed every time we post one of our results up it does seem that a lot of people don’t get that fact (or choose to disbelieve it because it sheds a harsh light on their own inconsistent / uncommitted / misguided efforts).

We have taken Joe who has been failing to tick many of the boxes necessary for optimal health and physical appearance:

Diet – inconsistent feeding such as skipping breakfast and even lunch, too low in protein, alcohol, minimal fibre.

Lifestyle – he doesn’t party but he does work too much. And his sleep is horrible and has been an issue for all his adult life.

Exercise – a gym session anywhere between once a week, to once a month.

Do any of these problems sound familiar to any of you?

If we were to add up all the possible things that Joe has been doing wrong we might have 100 boxes to tick. Embarking on the UTG program means that right away we are ticking a huge number of boxes, and if Joe is prepared to go all in and radically change his habits, then by ticking ALL the boxes he is going to make stellar progress.

But eventually that rate of progress will always slow down as his fat cells shrink his cardiovascular system becomes fitter and more efficient, and his muscles grow stronger. This is because out bodies adapt (positively or negatively) to (good or bad) stress, and over time we get used to that stress and the adaptations slow down.

That adaptation and the preventing of newbie muscle gains slowing down too painfully is one of the fundamental premises of this new program, as we incorporate specialization and maintenance programs into the workouts in order for you to keep on progressing as fast as possible.

Watch out over the coming weeks as we crank things up with some extra special routines to help Joe become cover model ready, and learn how to implement them when the book comes out at the end of this year.

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