| Ever been fishing?! I mean, ever been fishing and actually caught anything worth mentioning?! Well, it’s simple. Just ensure that you use the right bait, load the hook correctly, cast and then sit and wait. When you feel a gentle tugging, ensure that you don’t just pull too soon and too hard on the line with eager excitement to pull up your new catch and glare straight and close to its face as if to say “a ha...GOTCHA!”Let the line slack a little, give a bit. Form a relationship with that fish. A relationship of give and take. Don’t just create the impression that you only want to take from that fish. Don’t let it think it’s hooked. None of this really matters though, because this article has nothing to do with fishing, and besides, I hate fishing anyway. I would however like to take the same dynamic paradigm of technique described in the afore-mentioned paragraph, re-orientate it to the body-building industry and call it “The metabolic catalyst”. Ever wondered why when you try so hard to stick to your training program, your eating regime and your life in general, you still fail. In fact, it seems as if you just aren’t really developing at all! Well. Perhaps youre trying just a little too hard and need to re-evaluate your relationship with your body. Maybe you need to start seeing it as a two-way experience, just like the fisherman and the fish, and realize that it is not just as simple as dictating to your body, expecting change yesterday, and getting peed off when its already today and there’s no change. Perhaps it’s time to provide a metabolic catalyst, and maybe results will start to break. Try this. Stick to everything you’re doing without the absolute rigidity of super conformity. Every now and again, purposefully break the rules, or more accurately, break the flow. Break the rhythm. Break the pattern. Not too often for this pre-empted “cat amongst the pigeons” must be the exception to the rule. It’s simple. Just as the body needs to receive fat in order to burn it (The 1st primary somatic law governing homeostasis), so can you “bait” your own body by creating a carefully planned “hap-hazard sense of disarray in your meticulously calculated 3 sets of 12 repetitions, your guilt over that little block of chocolate you ate last night, and the many calories which it so wickedly accrued must certainly be enough to disfigure you forever! Oh, and not to mention the shot of tequila worth at least 91 calories. Structure your training. Structure your eating. Structure your life. You got that part right. Just relax a little and give. Give your body the odd treat, whatever it may be, and just so long as its odd and not often, just when your body thinks it can predict your next obvious, usual move...throw a chocolate or a shot of tequila, or whatever you fancy at it, and your body will go reeling into unchartered waters, filled with both content and surprise, just the stuff which will leave you feeling like you’ve lived a little and just the stuff which will precipitate change within your body. |
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