3 Quick Fitness Principles Every Beginner Should Master

Building foundations for your fitness, health and wellness can be a pretty frustrating and confusing process for many. And lets be honest, the main stream fitness media marketing strategies aren’t doing anyone any good when it comes to sustainable long term results based practices.

Here’s why even the pros can get fooled with enticing promises when it comes to achieving a goal in record time, and what actually matters when it comes to your fitness and achieving your goals.

Misguided Novice Mistakes In Fitness

I was standing in the aisle at the nutrition store staring a hole through the label of a bottle that read Amino Acid 500. I knew I was stuck, stalled out, I had plateaued. No fat loss or strength gain in months. Maybe this was the missing link. Maybe this was the secret ingredient that my fitness plan needed.

At 18 years old I had only a few months of experience in fitness, but the one thing I knew was that nutrition stores held bottles of “stuff” that promised massive slabs of muscle tissue…and evidently that “stuff” was very, very expensive…

The owner of the store stood beside me rambling something about how “the muscles are made up of amino acids, so if you just take these pills…”

But what really got me was that glossy label. Cool looking. Had a little grid like pattern behind the words. So glossy. Looked legit.

I said, “I’ll take em’”…

The False Promise of a Quick Fix in Pill Form

I ate those little pills for quite some time with no real results – and I remember the utter disgust I felt about dropping a Hamilton and a Jackson on a bottle of garbage. Little did I know that I could have bought $30 worth of meat and fared far better. But meat is boring though.

Often we overlook the simple things for the complicated – because the complicated is so much freakin’ cooler. We overturn what seems too simple because it seems so, well, simple. $30 worth of meat might have built more muscle, but it didn’t have that little grid like pattern on the label…

Later in my journey towards a great physique I found out that “simple” and “consistent” are the most powerful (and underappreciated) words in fitness.  You don’t need any fancy gadgets, pills, or a crazy workout program to get fantastic results – what you need is to go back to the basics.

The 3 Basic Principles of Fitness Success

So you’re probably wondering what these basic principles are – and I’m about to tell you. But I want to make something clear, there are no fireworks here, no crazy revelations, no “800% greater fat loss” stats, and most certainly no grid patterned labels.

There is only truth.

Actually, writing this makes me wish I would have known this info when I was 18 years old. I was lost man, lost! You really are lucky you know, with the Internet and all. OK, OK, I’ll shut up now.

Without further ado here are The 3 Basic Principles of Fitness Success:

#1 Take in the Correct Amount of Calories for Your Goals

If you want to get lean and fit there is no bigger principle to master. Controlling the amount of food you take in on a daily basis can change your appearance more than anything short of a face transplant (and I’m not even sure that exists).

Studies have shown that total amount of calories per day is more important than any other factor – including meal frequency