The secret to lean muscle, strength, health, and more

So listen to my mantra …

“Be what it is, not what it isn’t. People who do this are the happiest of luck.”

I learned this at 5 years old from a cartoon called “Tooter Turtle” in 1964. You see the tooter, the turtle always wanted to be something that he was not, so he would go to Mr. Wizard (a lizard) who had the magic to change. Tooter’s life to some other destination, usually sending him to the past and various places.

When Tooter’s journey finally turned into a catastrophe, Tooter cried out for help with a shout of “Help me, Mister Wizard, I don’t want to be X anymore!” where X was the destination Tooter had entered. Mr. Wizard would then rescue Tooter with the incantation, “Twizzle, Twazzle, Twozzle, Twome; it’s time for him to come home.” So Mr. Wizard would always give Tooter the same advice: “Be what it is, not what it isn’t. People who do this are luckily the happiest.”

You see, I’m on a ton of newsletters on muscle building, bodybuilding, fat loss, weightlifting, and health. I get at least 25 to 30 of these every day. They are all the same. They offer you these promises … The “Trick to lose fat fast or lose weight”, or “Genetics don’t matter” or “Super supplement is better than steroids” kind of thing. Many of these people selling this nonsense never got much training or progress. Even more deceptive are the street vendors selling these programs, who have attractive physiques (they may even be in their 40s and 70s) and are taking pharmaceutical drugs.

Listen to me, it’s not complicated. I do it all in my two-car garage and I also do it with thousands, maybe millions of other people. There have been men who have won the Mr. America and Mr. Universe titles and trained with a partner in a garage or basement or in a YMCA that had dumbbells, barbells, maybe a power rack or just a squat rack. Nothing special, just the basic exercises with constant progression and perseverance.

The point I am making is this.

I get a lot of emails from guys and girls who want to look like someone they follow on YouTube or Facebook or some other form of broadcast or social media. They are in awe of the lean, strong, and muscular physique they see in this person and want to build the same physique themselves. They buy the program or membership and try only to fail, why? Because they followed a faulty weightlifting and diet program. The creator of the show never used the program or, if he did, he also took steroids or testosterone or one of the many recreational drugs used to build lean muscle and burn fat.

Learn to be a leader, not a follower. Follow your instincts and not your emotions and you will be a leader and success will be you!