Go from Man Boobs to Muscle

If your attitude is in a slump, or you're feeling lost in your health or workout routine, then most likely your body will reflect that slumpiness from a lack of motivation. So here are 7 tricks to get your mind on the right track so that your Man Boobs get stomped and you begin to build muscles.

Your Mind loves images to form a framework for how you work, live, and enjoy your life.
Here, I will use my favorite analogy of a conductor and train:

1) Know your Destination (Destination, Tangible "goal" or reward)
2) Know your Starting Point
3) Create a Map and Lay down the track
4) Visit Towns along the way to Refuel and measure progress.
5) Have A Committed Conductor to make sure you get there
6) Action takes Belief. And You can't achieve without Belief.
7) Learn along the way. (Conductor Logs in Notes).

1) Know your Destination:
Without an image of a destination or goal or rewarding event, then you will never get there. Your brain is set up in a way that if it decides it needs to do something or get to somewhere then it will do it. This needs to be a tangible and easily understandable event.

If you need to get to timbuktu, because the love of your life needs you there badly, you'll find a way to get there, because you will have formed the image in your head, and that goal will develop itself until you see it through. Have a simple goal, like seeing your pecs pumped and ripped without Man boobs. The more ingrained the positive goal is the more likely it is you will get there.

2) Know your Starting Point
in order to know how you will get to your destination you need to know where you are starting from.

Do some research about where you are with your body. What is your current weight? Are you considered overweight, or obese based on your Body Mass Index (BMI). How many calories do you burn normally to keep your weight? How many calories do you need to lose 1 or 2 pounds a week? What do you need to do in order to build muscles and lose those man boobs. Start where you are, and go from there. Learn more about yourself along the way, let go of the extra baggage that's been dragging you down, so you can speed faster down that track.

3) Create a Map:
To get that positive goal ingrained you need to also lay down the track to get there.
Create weekly plan on how to get there. Use or create the Monday through Sunday exercise routines for yourself on a simple 1 page sheet.

4) Have Towns to visit along the way to your Destination - Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly Milestones:
Your track needs to have towns to visit to refuel, to reassess whether you will meet destination time, and if you need to change direction because of certain unavoidable blocks in the road.

For diets, keeping track of your daily calorie count is done every 1.5 to 2.5 hours where your meals are evenly spaced. 6 Meals a day are great to keep track mentally where you are at with your over all weekly and monthly plan. There is very little guessing throughout the day, and you don't need to starve yourself, and binge with just 3 meals. With the 3 meal plan you are bound to get off track and abandon the destination altogether.

5) Commitment & Belief:
The conductor of the train is the man with the plan, vision, and is charge of getting everyone there to the destination on time and safely. Everything rests with Your Conductor, so he needs to make sure he beats each of the caloric goals for each meal, and he makes sure that come rain or shine your body, or your engine, is getting the workout it needs to propel you on the track. Without the conductor having a commitment and belief it can get to their goal, then you just have train employees doing nothing, passengers getting restless, and your train rusting away on the track.

6) Believe, However Small, and Achieve.
Start the engine, even if slowly, and give yourself the momentum through hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly commitments spoken through small actions, and you will cruise like an unstoppable bullet train on a mission.

What will help you achieve your destination? Like a conductor has a vision of seeing his passengers hugging their children or kissing their girlfriend at the the end of the line, you must have a vision of satisfaction of having exactly the body you will be proud of. Think of a particular person who has a body you would like. Now put that vision in the back of your head, and get out of your head about it. As you just keep doing it in a routine you and your body will gradually move towards that goal.

7) Learn Along the Way and Take Notes
Even a train on rails almost never gets everything right 100% of the time, even though its logged thousands of trips. Life happens along the way, passengers, cargo, even traffic problems occur. A Conductor like any captain on a ship will take notes, no matter how small, along the way. For us, that means, when you are counting calories that you take notes of what you ate, or if you have a workout routine that you jot down how many reps or sets you did for each exercise. Have a workout sheet for each day you work out, and a Calorie sheet for each day you eat. Your Mind and Body will start understand how important these activities are for you and will step to meet your goal.

Finally, build time for about 20 minutes a day to read and plan your weeks worth of eating and weight lifting. Each time you do you may find that you will be motivated to commit to continue your regimen of losing fat and packing on muscle towards your ideal body.

You've got some basic information for anyone to get started shredding fat and packing on muscle just from this site, and resources I've point out to. The next step is to just start. You don't have to have an encyclopedic knowledge about everything, just experiment and experience the action. You body will get it that you want and need to take action, and with time it will follow you to get the job done. Just do it. Besides, everyone is so self-absorbed i can assure you, you are the last on their mind about what you are doing, But when you are losing weight and and stacking a nice healthy bod, you'll get their attention in a whole other way.