Your Own Expert

If a big fat guy who looks like he has spent three years living in The Land Of Donuts approaches you with fat loss advice, here’s my own advice:

Don’t listen. Pat him on the back and say “My friend, if I get extremely hungry and can’t figure out how to get my stomach to stop aching, I’ve got you on speed dial.”

There are a lot of them. They make the same promises and they all want your money. They do not practice what they preach, but still think you should listen to them. Why anyone would do this is beyond me.

Now, being overweight does not diminish a person’s worth. Neither does being physically weak or having zero interest in lifting weights or strength training. But pretending to be an expert in areas that you obviously are not competent in, and taking money for your expertise is…well, I’m not going to get too Calvinistic and call it a sin, but I think we’re in the ballpark.

I have heard fat trainers say “I have a moral obligation to help people because America is less healthy than it has ever been.” Okay, sure, but why not help yourself while you’re fixing America? Why not do what you want me to do and help bring those obesity stats down?

This stuff is simple. Losing weight is not complicated. Lifting weights is not complicated. So if someone claims to be an expert but is obviously not following the simple procedures that would get themselves the results they say they can get you, why should you pay any attention or money?

Not an expert on you

I am not a fat loss expert, although I look like one

I am not a strength training expert, although my numbers might convince you otherwise

I am not a kettlebell expert, although you might argue with me if we were throwing the kettlebells around together

An expert on me

But I am an expert when it comes to my own fat loss.

I am an expert when it comes to my own strength training.

I am a kettlebell expert when it comes to increasing my own numbers.

I am an expert in my own health and my own progress.

Truth

My great grandmother used to believe anything that was in a book. If it’s in a book, it must be right! And bless her heart, she could believe everything simultaneously. Her opinions shifted every time she read a new book. She could read the Bible today and Christopher Hitchens tomorrow and think they were equally true, although they are antithetical.

Talk is cheap. So are the words in a book unless they are being applied by the author. Producing a product these days isn’t going to break the bank either. None of these give a person any credibility. What can they actually do? Can they get the results for themselves that they say they can get for others?

If so, then why haven’t they?

Because they are the real life equivalent of the fat loss spam comments I get thousands of every day. They promise something they can’t deliver for themselves and they do not deserve your trust or money.

One of my favorite things about working with this team is that there are no posers. Everyone can back their words up. Everyone makes progress. Every single day.

It is because we are each becoming our own experts, and we get better at it every single day.

Save your money and invest in you.

Josh