I had nothing to lose. If it didn’t work, it didn’t matter anyway, because I knew in my heart I wouldn’t go to the beach house; if it did work, I had stumbled upon something incredible.
The following morning, with zero sleep and a frenzied desire, I hit the gym and tried the first workout.
I thought of many methods, and having tried them all, I knew they all worked. Some worked better than others, but none worked well enough, or fast enough. I knew from experience that all these training programs had downsides . One was only good if I was already pretty lean. One worked okay but caused a lot of muscle and strength loss, which I wasn’t ready to sacrifice. Another worked well but took longer than I had to see results. Then I had a crazy idea: That night, instead of sleeping, I dreamed up a program that incorporated the best aspects of all of these methods.
Over the course of the evening, I started to think about everything I knew about fat loss and training , and all the different programs I’d written and read over the years.
(I was, however, awesome at procrastinating.) I didn’t realize it at the time, but not returning that phone call was a decision that completely changed my life, the way I look at fitness and fat loss, and even my approach to training my clients.
I felt incredible. I knew I was onto something BIG, something radically different . For the next week, I was so wrapped up in the program and the results I was getting, I had almost completely forgotten about the party.
At the end of the week, my friend called again. This time, I picked up. I told him I’d see him at the party. And I spent the interim creating, developing, testing and ultimately perfecting the workouts that would become the Final Phase Fat Loss training protocol.
I took everything I tried, and I MADE IT BETTER. I used the strength of one program to cancel out the weakness of another . I knew I had something special. There was only one thing left to do: test this bad boy out. And this seemed like the perfect time. I only had 6 weeks, and I knew with 100% certainty my typical fat loss training was NOT going to cut it.
Through this experience, I learned two very important lessons: 1) It doesn’t matter what your reason is.
Six weeks later , I got to the beach house and was greeted by the astounded stares of people who couldn’t believe I was the same guy they used to know.