To hell with your excuses

    Excuses are excuses. Even if you have the ability to make them sound "smarter" they are still not warranted. For example, there is no difference in saying "my body just cannot lose fat" or "i am an endomorph, i cannot do anything about it" although on first blush the latter sounds more reasonable.

    I used to be a proponent in making excuses, but as i learn from making countless mistakes and self searching (eee poyonya) i find that the only one to be blamed is not your ancestors (for the genetics), your friends, or your family members. It is yourself. You can make a choice. I used to blame my rare case of crooked fingers to my lack of grip strength when i deadlift. I just used it as an excuse and jmped to conclusion that I am just not cut for deadlifting. Then i realised whining did not get me anywhere, so i decided to fix it. After doing plate holds, kroc rows, and thick bar lifts my grip strength did not hold me back anymore.

                                   I actually googled images on "self searching" and this came up


    So what if you have a great tendency to be fat compared to your skinny ectomorph friend that you envy so much? Too bad, monitor your food intake. So what if you do not have the flexibility to squat? too bad, get flexible. So what if you cannot bench heavy because you have weak triceps? Too bad, do more tate presses and close grip bench presses. Take these incapabilities as warnings that something is wrong with your body and you have to do something about it. This is definitely a good thing. You will know your body better and you will find out what works for you and what doesn't. It is called self experimenting. Anthony Mychal wrote a great post on this one. Compare yourself to those who are blessed with awesome genetics (envy put aside, and i do not mean all of them, but ALOT of them) who never had to go through all these mistakes or being called off by any of the alarms mentioned above. They have very few mistakes to learn from.

                                      Too bad you do not have the same genetics as this dude

    Okay enough ranting(Sabar Yannick, sabar). The point is, suck it up and live with it. If you have to do extra work, do not complain about it. The measure of how much you want something is determined by your actions. If you are just complaining without doing anything, i take it as you do not want it that much.