The Reality of Instagram Transformations

And like you said, this stuff takes a long time. Instagram has screwed that up for a lot of people because they see these guys that have these fantastic bodies And then I have to tell them look that guy doesn't actually look like that Like most of that's photoshop lighting and angles because I know those people like that guy is a lot smaller than you think Pictures make people look bigger Um, that guy does not have a waist like that or a chest like that. I know him i'm telling you right now It's all smoke and mirrors Don't look at instagram and say I want to look like that person because you don't know how altered that stuff is a lot of these coaches, all they do is eat, sleep, train, poop, and take steroids. So unless you're willing to quit your job and do that, it's going to take you a bit longer than it took them. And you don't know how long somebody has been training, right? You know, I've been training a very long time and we get a lot of people. It was surprising to me at our gym that we opened that a lot of the guys come in when our trainers ask them what they want, they go, I want to look like Luke. I'm like, dude, I'm 42. I've been lifting my entire life. this is gonna, you can do this, but it's gonna take you a very long time. And a lot of them don't wanna hear that. Yeah, I think there's a concept that last time you and I spoke that really resonated with me because, and I tell you guys listening like I came to Luke and Shane eating 1 calories thinking I was a special snowflake that you know if I ate a carb I would blow up because I have a unique physiology different from any human being like ridiculous shit and um they completely transformed everything got have gotten me what you've gotten me ready for like three different wedding dates and then pulled me out of it and like I've maintained my weight and everything like stuff that no one else has been able to do, but you've taught me why. And that's another reason why also you said, and I think coaches should hire coaches to understand what works with you because we as coaches overthink everything. And so last time we spoke, you brought up the concept of training age. And I was like, oh yeah, like my training age, I picked up weights when I was 15 years old, but like it's different when you've tried a zillion different workouts your whole life. And then when I've actually dedicated time to training the way that you guys have me training, it's really only been two, two and a half years. And that really resonated with me because I was like, you know, why I've trained so long. Why haven't I built the physique that I highly covet? It takes fucking time. And I've only been at this theoretically like two and a half years. And that's a brilliant concept that I don't think people understand because they've been doing so many like circuit, like workouts and cardio style, you know, when hit training got really popular and we can kind of segue into the whole hashtag fuck cardio stuff because that's another thing too that you guys teach and you're big on is is aerobic work and this was what 2005 or 6 when the whole industry was like we don't need that we just need to do hit if you do cardio or run a marathon you're going to end up gaining 40 pounds and and all that um but guys consider how long you've actually been following a program and been under resistance because it takes years to build a great physique let alone naturally a great physique. So, you know, take that into consideration. But so like your whole concept with prepping to prep and getting people healthy, aerobically and all that stuff. Talk about that, because that is what a lot of people wanted to hear about. Well, let me let me I want to say one thing about the training age, too, because training age is not a constant. OK, so if you if you stop training for a long time and you get really deconditioned and really detrained, you're going to have to not really start over, but you're going to have to start somewhere in the middle. So in 2013, when I started traveling for Polycon Group, I didn't train for years, not consistently. Because the first year I worked for them, I think I taught over 230 days. So I was constantly jet lagged, and my body had no idea where I was in space or time. I can remember a two and a half or three month period where I think I traveled east and west back and forth over 36 time zones. And after I met Zoe, like I for about two months, I was up all night and sleeping all day because my body was like, where are you? I have Are you still in Australia? Are you back home? I don't know. And I fell into a deep depression. And you know, I started, you know, self medicating with booze and food and, you know, and I could not fix it until I got back on my ADD drugs. And so a lot of people need to understand that when you don't train for a few years, you're you can't just pick up where you were like, I'm not near as strong as I used to be. So I've had to start over again. So now my training age isn't, you know, 34 years, my training age is now back at like two and a half years. And if I want to get really strong again, and get my physique where I want it again, it's going to take me three or four more years to get there. And that's kind of a concept where I was talking on a podcast on Sunday with Gus at lifters league people. He's a, he specializes in getting people really fucking strong. Like he only does powerlifting and he's produced some amazingly strong lifters. He's a world, like a Australian top level power lifter. And these people think that they're going to start training. And in two years, they're going to deadlift 300 kilos. That's not how it works. Like it's going to take you seven to nine years to get to that elite level state, if that's what you want. so if you're going to start having big hairy audacious goals like that you need to understand that you're going to have to put in the work and it's going to have to be consistent it's going to have to be for a very long time in order to get to that that goal