Choose your own adventure!

.....Do you take a left and head into the fiery pit of despair, or do you take a right and battle a fierce gorilla ape bear man type creature that will cause you intense bodily harm?  Oh how I miss those books!

Life has many incredibly tough choices.  Most of which have positive and beneficial impacts on our lives while others negative or destructive.  Almost daily I'm asked for advice on a myriad of topics.  Most questions come at me formed like this

"Hey Big Will, I want to get ripped and lean while also putting on muscle"  Or " I want to put on X amount of muscle while losing weight"

Both questions are almost identical just worded differently.  I've seen many a athlete struggle with these questions and others like it. Trying to chase the ever elusive "get big and cut" oxymoron has placed people in a workout limbo. 

My advice is simple.  Choose your own adventure.  If you want to lower your body fat, gain muscle size and bone density, train for a specific sports event or whatever the case may be choose and set a goal first.  It will be much easier to produce trackable and visable  results to either bulk up first and slim down or slim down first and then bulk back up.  It's a matter of setting a goal, planing a diet and regime around it and sticking too it.  As soon as you deviate caloricly or from your training regime you will be in the same turbulent cycle you were before.  Not losing weight and not getting too much bigger just hitting a plateu.

So make up your mind ladies and gentlemen before you waste your time and money, both of which are important to you I'm sure. 

Define your goal. Plan your goal. Reach your goal.