Identifying your Weaknesses

The old saying you’re only as strong as your weakest link, is by far one of the truest statements ever made. I was talking to one of my interns last night, who is powerlifting for us and we were talking about the program I have them on and why it’s so important to identify your weaknesses and build on them.


Most people come to the gym and do what they like to do, what they are good at because of their ego they will never achieve their maximum potential. Once they figure out that it’s their weaknesses they need to strengthen and not their strengths their numbers jump through the roof. Now how does this pertain to you and your goal to lose weight?

Most people who want to lose weight come to the gym and expect that the one hour a day 4 days a week you spend with them will be the magic formula to success. They get up and go to the gym because they enjoy it; it is their release for the day and their second family, it’s what they are god at when it comes to weight loss. So for going to the gym to most people is their STRENGTH and their WEAKNESS is what goes on outside of the gym. You have to understand that in order to achieve your goal 80% of the work you do is done outside of the gym, not inside. So when you spend time in the gym you are working on 20% of your goal, but because you enjoy it so much that’s where you put most of your effort into.

Now if I want to get better at something I am going to attack the 80% not the 20%. So if you just focus most of your effort on doing everything you can to work on your weakness which is 80% of your work for your goal, than you will achieve your goal that much faster. Focus on your weaknesses in order to make your strengths stronger, the better you do outside of the gym with nutrition, cardio, sleep, and supplements the better you will perform inside the gym and the better the results.

Go home tonight and really think hard about your weaknesses and how you can make them your strengths and don’t worry about anything else and just see what happens then. When I started doing this instead of training the stuff I enjoy my strength gains went through the roof and they are still going up as we speak. Work on your WEAKNESSES and NEVER plateau again.