Summary: Today we have an interview with Ross Goldsack who won the Open category level 1 in the latest Adonis Index Contest. Check out his pictures: Ross looks great and he was really happy with his look and how the pictures turned out. Here's one more: Ross has a very common story and experience with fitness. A few years ago he decided to work on his physique and started going to the gym with his buddies and also started consuming fitness information, mainly the fitness magazines. The workouts became a habit and he was really enjoying them. And like everyone else in this position he naturally wanted to improve, so he progressed into reading bodybuilding magazines and started reading more about various ways to build more muscle and lose fat. However, he felt victim to the traditional fitness advice and made a lot of mistakes. Let's discuss a few of them. Mistake No.1 Consuming Lots of Fitness Information Fitness industry is full of companies making billions in revenue. The goal isn't to get you in shape though. The goal is to continuously have you buying their products. And as a result, you start to feel that you absolutely have to get the new magazine, full of the latest tips that nobody knew about four weeks ago, or the new "functional workout" protocol, or the new protein supplement that just came out promising those amazing gains in the first three weeks... and we could go on and on. If you have been in this industry for a while, you are probably overwhelmed by all the fitness information and various approaches. At this moment you should take a completely different approach. You should detach yourself from the fitness industry and focus on doing the simple things that will get you the most results. Mistake No.2 Comparing Yourself to Bodybuilders One of the biggest mistakes Ross made at this early stage of fitness, before finding Adonis Index, was going through the bodybuilding magazines and comparing himself to the photos in them. The issue with this magazines is that they are full of pictures of professional bodybuilders. With the transformation contests here at Adonis Index, you'll get pictures that can be compared with fitness covers, because we give advice on how to make yourself look bigger or leaner by posing, show more muscle definition with a tan or water deplete. However, comparing yourself to bodybuilders is a bit ridiculous if you are not willing to take the "extra" mile. Yes, that would mean taking steroids. If you are not taking anything beyond supplements, why are you comparing yourself to guys, who inject themselves with stuff you have never heard about and in a dose that would scare off a horse? Mistake No.3 Doing the Bulking & Cutting Stuff A few years back Ross got caught in the conventional bulking and cutting approach. Ross got to a point where he would weigh about 210 pounds. He could fill out a large shirt, but still not have the look he desired. Like he said, he looked like crap. He was feeling bigger, but fatter. And no surprise, because what he gained was all fat, he was basically trying to eat his way up to bigger muscles, which is a bit ridiculous and biologically impossible. There is nothing wrong with being big in a shirt, but most guys will probably prefer looking good shirtless than in a shirt. So, what will it be shirt on big and shirt off fat or shirt on fit and shirt off ripped? Make a choice. FYI when Ross did the cut down and lost the fat, he lost the exact amount of weight he gained during the bulking phase. So, he went through the misery of gaining fat and losing it again all for nothing, muscle mass as we would expect did not change at all. What's the point of that? Slowly Re-Focus on Building a Natural Body After finding Adonis Index through Eat Stop Eat, Ross started listening to all of the podcasts and reading every article at Adonis Index he could get his hands on.
