I have a crystal ball.
And thanks to my magic crystal ball, I can tell whether you’ll make amazing progress in 2012… or whether you’ll end up wasting the year.
I don’t know you personally. I don’t know if you’re reading this in the morning, at lunch or at night. I don’t know your goals, your injuries or your personal information.
But I can accurately PREDICT what’s going to happen in 2012 for you.
And it’s all based on your answer to the following question:
Will you compete?
You see, something amazing happens you sign up (and pay up) to compete. For one, you’ve now got a deadline. You know without a shadow of a doubt that you’ve got to be ready to go on a certain date and a certain time. Deadlines make goals happen.
You’ve also now got a purpose. A clearly defined goal. This will prevent you from attempting to accomplish too many things at once. For example, if you are scheduled to compete in a powerlifting competition in the 168-pound weight class and you currently weigh 185 pounds, well then you know you need to lose weight and you won’t be tempted to switch gears and try to gain weight until after you’ve accomplished your first goal.
Finally, competing helps you accomplish goals faster. For some reason, competing seems to compress the amount of time it takes to accomplish a goal. It makes your training (both before AND after) the competition more effective. A few years back I competed in my first powerlifting meet. I made a ton of progress before the meet. But oddly enough I made even more progress in the months AFTER the meet.
It doesn’t matter what you compete in. Just compete. Sign up for something: a powerlifting meet, an olympic lifting meet, a bodybuilding contest, an MMA fight, a 5k, an arm-wrestling contest. It doesn’t matter. Pick SOMETHING, sign up and compete.
You’ll thank me.
Matt Marshall
Author of How To Build A Classic Physique
