What I want to touch are some common reasons you may not have considered.

1. You are too smart for your own good.

This is a biggie.

I can’t count how many discussions I’ve had with guys who seem to know more about gaining weight than I do.

They are asking me about studies and training techniques that I’ve never even heard of, lol.

Great, I’m not an encyclopedia, but that doesn’t explain why they all weigh less than a buck 25. It’s one think to “know” and but an entirely different thing to do!

Listen, you may certainly be smarter than that huge, buff guy in the gym, but hey… he’s huge and buff, which is what you want so maybe you can learn something there.

Getting bigger is not brain surgery. In fact, many a guy has gotten huge without being the sharpest tool in the shed! Why? Because they can follow basic instructions and they won’t over-think.

2. You over-analyze and second guess.

It’s good to want to know the details and specifics before you begin a program, but don’t let it control you to the point where you do nothing. It’s called “analysis paralysis” and is simply an excuse for not getting started.

3. You overestimate the need for variety in eating.

Don’t like the idea of eating the same foods everyday, day in an day out? Sorry, but suck it up.

Pretty much everyone I know who has tried to create a varied muscle building diet where they eat constantly changing meals each day ends up quitting. On the other-hand, most of those I know who have been successful in building muscle (and losing fat for that matter) end up eating the same boring things each day to achieve that success.

It’s great to have a fancy meal plan with tasty recipes and complicated meals, but a huge part of your success hinges on you actually being able to follow your program.

It’s a huge task to eat more calories. That alone takes work and planning. Now, when you add the element of switching foods each day you make it exponentially more difficult and ultimately doomed for failure.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for switching out foods such as eating fish instead of chicken or trading steak for turkey. Nice and simple. But if you are wanting to cook some long drawn out recipes on a daily basis, it just won’t happen unless you have a personal chef.

4. You overestimate the need for variety in your training.

It’s definitely fun to switch workouts. Heck, pick up a magazine and you are bombarded with the message of “variety”. “You need variety in your workouts”. “If you aren’t gaining, you need to switch it up”. I’m sure you’ve heard all this before.

Now, I will make this quick — if you’re relatively new to training, lack of variety is NOT why you aren’t making progress. In fact, you shouldn’t be switching anything until you have a good strength foundation and some solid reasons to switch. Just wanting to “because” is not a reason.

5. You look too far ahead.

Let’s face it, losing fat or building muscle is a long term commitment and requires some definite work, but don’t discourage yourself before you even begin. If you look at all that you have to do you can easily talk yourself out of it.

It’s like the old saying “how do you eat an elephant?” Of course the answer is one bite at a time. The same goes for losing weight, building muscle or learning to fly an airplane.

So I propose you do this — break your task into smaller weekly goals and then focus only on what you have to do today. Don’t think about next week or next month. Just today.

6. You lack of confidence in yourself and have over-confidence in strangers.

I have a saying on my forum “Don’t let your success or failure depend upon affirmations from strangers”. That simply means don’t let others determine if you will succeed or fail.

Negativity is infectious and all successful people I know avoid it like the plague. Don’t let others discourage you from YOUR plan, YOUR goal and ultimately YOUR success. This holds true for gym acquaintances, coworkers, friends, family and especially internet know-it-alls.

I’ve been teaching guys how to gain weight for almost 11 years. If there’s one piece of advice I can give you that will determine your success or failure is — GET STARTED NOW.

Don’t wait.

Don’t wait until your schedule is less hectic.

Don’t wait until you get a training partner.

Don’t wait until you have the perfect workout and diet.

Don’t wait for everything to fall into place… it never will.

Every second that ticks away without you going for it, is taking you farther and farther away from achieving your goal.

Do something NOW!

Everything else will fall into place as you go along.

When I first started my journey to build more muscle, I had an outline of what I needed to do. That’s it.

What I realized is that as I went along, things that were “fuzzy” started to crystallize and become more clear.

In fact, I learned some great lessons and valuable information that turned into my detailed, step-by-step muscle building program called Gaining Mass!

You can get more info at http://fastmusclegain.com

Here’s what former Green Bay Packers Defensive Back Fred Vinson had to say about the Gaining Mass! program.

I 1st bought Anthony Ellis’s skinnyguy workout program back in 2003 when I was recovering from a 2nd acl tear. His program helped me get back to my playing weight and I returned to the NFL stronger and faster than I was before my 2nd knee injury…I gained about 15-20lbs which is huge for a small like me.

He also goes on to say:

Now that I’m retired, I haven’t worked out in about 5 yrs and I recently joined his online program. There’s a ton of very useful information that anyone that has the desire to gain muscles mass can use.

I’m excited about the new online program and I look forward to gaining all the muscle mass I’ve lost since I retired.

This program rocks!”

Listen, everyone wants more muscle.

Everyone wants to be healthier and stronger.

Everyone wants a great body… BUT not everyone gets started. That is one reason so many people fail to reach their goals.

It’s 2010, what are you waiting for?

AE

I want you to know that it is possible.

After years of trying, I managed to gain over 30 pounds of muscle!

And I did it without steroids or drugs.

If you’ve ever been called skinny, weak, pencil neck, little or puny — bookmark this blog because help is on the way!

If girls don’t notice you because you are not big, ripped with a six pack like other guys — bookmark this blog — help is on the way!

If you’ve ever been intimidated by larger guys with huge biceps and thick necks — bookmark this blog — help is on the way!

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