C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

  Some Thoughts on Training and Eating      When it comes to “getting in shape,” the average gym-goer tends to go about it wrong.  Man.  Woman.  Doesn’t matter.  The problem typically made is that they train “tough” and they also eat “tough.”  By this, I mean that one usually starts doing a hard-as-hell, bust-your-ass workout plan combined with a dietary regimen of very little calories.  Oh, this works.  For the short term.  Until it stops working completely, not to mention the fact that it’s mind-numbingly painful.      You can forgive the “average” person, I suppose.  They probably watched too many episodes of that god-awful “Biggest Loser” show, where such tactics of pain-as-progress were put on the television for the world to see.      But when you train big and eat little , you’re doomed to fail.  Training a lot and eating a little is the primary reason, I have a feeling, that most people don’t succeed at their fitness goals.  At least, not in the long term.      I’ve said it bef