Lean and Hard

It would never happen, but I wish fitness product ads would all have to have a big warning on the screen. Something like, "Please know that this product will NOT make you look like this model we paid to promote it. EVER!"

You can't get chiseled abdominals by using that gadget for only 10 minutes a day. Maybe 2 hours a day would do it in a year, but then you'd probably get a hernia.

These models got to look the way they look only by lots and lots of exercise, and some pretty serious portion control along with it. Believe it. And you can look like that too, assuming you're also 25 and willing to devote yourself to fitness and healthy eating.

When we see people who look good - I mean trim, strong, energetic - it's easy to assume they're just lucky that way. Don't believe that. They don't look that way by luck and great genes. They look that way because they're careful about what and how much they eat, and because they stick to a good exercise regimen.

The cool thing about all this - the fact that it's not about luck or good genes - is that you can do it too.

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