Summary: Today we bring you an interview with Kerry Hopkins who placed 6th in the latest Adonis Index Transformation Contest. Check out his pictures: Kerry started working out when he was 16. However, his workouts lacked any structure and it was just about working out rather than really training. And there is clearly a difference between just showing up in the gym and lifting some weights compared to going there with a specific goal, a good workout plan, and training with some dedication. Unfortunately most guys in the gym usually end up chatting with other people, boosting their ego on the bench press and pumping their 'mirror muscles'. For Kerry it was always about doing just a few sets here and there two times a week. And after a while due to a lack of motivation he stopped going to the gym all together. ...Then He Found Adonis Index For about a year Kerry was reading all the blog posts and listening to all the podcasts here at the Adonis Index, because he loved the science behind it and the simple approach. Everything made sense to him. However, it still took him a year to really get on board and take action. It wasn't until he saw some previous contest winners that he realized he needs to take action...just reading about this won't be enough. And this is really important, if you don't take action based on what you read about then you can't expect any results, can you? Let's make a quick test. Do you know when you've actually learned something? Little hint, learning is not just accumulating knowledge. You haven't learned anything if you can just cite pages from a book, it's when you change your behavior and take action on that knowledge. You learn when you change your habits, take action, start acting differently and put the theory in practice. After a year of working out Kerry noticed that not much had changed, so he decided to take action. He tried the contest and was unsuccessful due to a few set backs, he didn't even bother submitting pictures, because he knew he didn't change. He made several mistakes like following the advanced Adonis Index workout the Triple Stack while he was on a very low calorie diet. As a result he got burnt out after a month. That's when Kerry learned that you can't pull off a big caloric restriction when you are already pretty lean while following a really challenging and tough workout. He decided to get back to AI 3.0, which he found worked the best to cut and build at the same time. Kerry fasted once or twice a week, had just a coffee in the morning maybe with a piece of chocolate. Later on he would eat half of the dinner with his family and that would be it for the day. And then on the weekends since it was easier to overeat while he was out eating and drinking with his friends, he would eat back up to maintenance. He just didn't want to sacrifice his social life, so he decided to save his calories during the week and enjoy his weekends with his friends. The point is to have a social life and still look good. Then after 12 weeks he took the after pictures and just couldn't believe what he saw. And here's the thing, in a mirror you can see some new lines and may notice some improvements along the way. Day to day you will seem to look pretty much the same and it's hard to tell how much you've really changed. However, when you put the before and after pictures side by side that's when you can actually see a big difference. Kerry is around 9% bodyfat (just a guess) and like he said the model body doesn't seem unattainable anymore. It's just about building a bit more muscle. As long as he is consistent with the workouts the muscle will continue to come. Since he still has juvenile muscle growth on his side he can build some significant muscle mass over the next few years. Luckily for him he found Adonis Index early on in his life and was spared all of the crap like bulking and cutting,
