Transformation in Bodybuilding and Life

Transformation, especially in this sport, can happen rapidly while simultaneously very slowly. You can choose, in this moment right now, to radically change your lifestyle and this is a rapid transformation if you implement that change and actually make it your daily reality.
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This choice, creates a ripple effect into long term change. It’s the daily choice to commit to the little details that lead to a transformation over not just weeks, or months, but YEARS!
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I’ve come to love this sport and the journey it requires. You build and chisel and test and tweak and it’s not always perfect or a masterpiece. Sometimes, you’re; too conditioned, not conditioned enough, not symmetrical enough, too this or too that. And many people RUN and HIDE from these truths and factors.
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But Isn’t that the name of this game? We are building our bodies. We are facing critique, judgement, praise, and pride. We are given an opportunity to challenge ourselves further every day of the year because this sport is not a one stop shop, it’s a commitment. The body shifts and changes overtime based on how we train, eat, and think.
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Just even looking at these two photos it’s clear that the outcome in gaining more muscle was achieved but now I have to focus on more conditioning and then I’ll have an even better aesthetic next time I step on stage. But if I didn’t accept this or look at it objectively then my emotions would get in the way of me improving!
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If you aren’t willing to grow, to condition, to change something, why are you doing this sport? No one forced you. If you’re not willing to do the cardio, lift the weights, run sprints, eat the food, cut or increase the food intake, why are you doing this sport?
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If you’re not willing to win, lose, or go back to the drawing board and test, tweak, manipulate, and change things just because the result won’t be immediate or because you’ve ‘already done all this’, why are you doing this sport?
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Be in it for what it brings to your life, mind, body, and overall empowerment. If you cannot find peace & satisfaction in the internal wins and game, then how can you celebrate the external wins?

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