Personal Trainer Confirms that Fitness Industry Leaves You with More Questions than Answers

Summary: Today with have an interview with Blair Baxter and he placed 5th in the latest Adonis Index Transformation Contest. Check out his before and after pictures: Blair is a personal trainer and in the interview he says that he's probably let a few people down, because he has given advice that he now understands was useless. He openly admits the fitness industry is pretty pathetic and leaves us with more questions than answers. He always thought that he needed to eat every three hours or his body will go into a starvation mode. It's an irony that at college he pretty much understood how the body works, when he wanted to lose fat, he just cut out the calories and instinctively ate less. Without any nutritional courses he knew that it's just about calories in and calories out. Later on when he started following the fitness magazines he got mislead and bought into the whole bodybuilding lifestyle. Blair's Experience with the Adonis Index Being a personal trainer made the decision to start following the Adonis Index workout a bit tough. Blair just wouldn't want to follow a different training routine, after all he was fully capable of designing his own effective workout. He would follow the Eat Stop Eat and Anything Goes Diet principles, but not the workout, he felt like it wouldn't work and he knows better. He was predicting that his shoulders would hurt, that it would not help him build any more muscle mass and it seemed too complicated to him. He was just sitting at his gym and finding excuses why he didn't want to follow this training program. It took him a while to get his mind over the fact that he is going to do somebody else's program and not change anything. But Blair saw the pictures of the previous contestants and he knew that if this worked for so many guys before him, it would work for him too. So he decided to put his ego away and just try it for three months. Blair said that he works out not because he likes working out, but because he likes the results. However, in the past he was usually jumping from program to program every month. For the first time he was able to stick to one program alone and finish it. The basic Adonis Index program changes so often with so much variety because more variety and change keeps the program interesting and helps you to stick to it for longer periods of time. Make no mistake, this is completely by design. We know that most people have a very short attention span with their workouts and half the battle with designing a good workout is keeping you interested in it long enough to see the results. If You Want to Show the Work You've Done in the Gym You Have to Eat Less Blair was amazed by the results of just eating less, his muscles were actually starting to show up. He always thought he is supposed to just bulk up otherwise he would lose muscle. Now he was doing exactly the opposite and surprisingly enough, it worked. In reality the muscles were always there, but covered by fat. In the past there were a few attempts to lean out, but after a while he would always think that he is getting too small, so he would start bulking again. Now he has quite a different perspective. Here is how he put it: "When you feel like you are getting too small and you are almost there you have to keep going". And that comes from somebody who spent a good chunk of his life bulking up. The permission to be light seems to be a big challenge for most guys, especially for those not used to being lean and light. But truth to be told, no matter how it feels or what you now think, being big and heavy doesn't equal being a bigger man, that is not how it works. And while Blair was afraid that he will disappear if he drops a few more pounds, he persisted thanks to support of his friend that got him to Adonis Index in the first place and got himself a fine placing in the transformation contest. It may not make any sense to you now,