By Dave Chesser
Yesterday saw the publication of the first training plan I’ve written for the public on 17Fit and I need to address who should do plans and who should not.
I get it – a lot of people go to gyms to play around and if that’s what people want to do then that’s fine. A lot of people go to watch TV, play on the machines, use the sauna, etc. In fact, most of the people that join don’t even go and that’s fine, too. I have no interest in talking to folks like that because I have nothing to say to them. They aren’t my crowd and training plans are wasted on them.
However, people that look at Formosa Fitness and see that we have women that do pullups and deadlift 100kg eighteen times from the ground and wonder how we do it should look at the training program I wrote yesterday. That is how we do it. People that see our members compete in the Tactical Strength Challenge and wonder how those people were able to do that should also look at the plan because all of our members that joined the competition were on a plan like that.
One of the biggest problems I see in the fitness community is the disconnect between fitness goals and workouts. Apparently people want a certain fitness result then they go into the gym and do random nonsense in hopes that they will eventually get there. It’s like starting at the bottom of the map and wandering all over the map until you reach your destination. That’s insane. Why not just plan out a route to get there? Would you try to bake a chocolate cake without a recipe?
This is one reason I watch videos of people lifting and we don’t see a lot of people getting stronger. How many female fitness celebrities do you see squatting or deadlifting an empty bar? Most of them, right? Why aren’t they getting stronger? Where is the progression? They’re giving you advice on fitness but where is the proof that their methods work?
The difference between people that are making steady progress and those that are not is usually due to a lack of a training plan or sticking to one.
Publishing the training plans is my attempt to help those of you outside Formosa Fitness that want serious results. I understand that you aren’t hearing this advice from many other people in the community and that’s fine, too. Hopefully in the future more people will catch on and some of you will lead the way. If that’s you, then you’re my kind of athlete and I hope you find our stuff useful.
So the choice is yours. If someone just wants to play around then that’s fine but if you’re serious about getting fit then it’s time to get serious about what you’re doing. I hope you find the plans useful and we welcome your questions. Have a great weekend.