Fail

Want to make faster progress towards your goals of better performance, body comp, and more muscle?

Me too!

Want to know one of the main keys?

Of course, shut up and tell me already.

Here you go:

“Fail forward as fast as possible.”

Yep, fail.

Not as in taking each and very rep to beyond failure to impress Mike Mentzer’s ghost and make Arthur Jones proud, but failure as in “hmmm, maybe this was not the best XX (insert program, supplement, macro ratio, mindset, warm up, etc).”

There is a catch to this mad method though…

…keeping the cost of each failure low enough so that you learn.

While you are “failing,” feedback is critical.

Think of the vibrating tracks alongside the roads that make your car buzz if you run over them. They are providing feedback – at a low cost- that you are going off track.

Same idea here.

Swap “failure” in your brain for “feedback.”

Learn from failure, then go again.

You will make light years of progress compared to the alternative – stuck in info collection stage without action.

Fail forward as fast as possible.

Rock on!

Dr. Mike T Nelson

PhD, MSME, CISSN, CSCS Carrick Institute Adjunct Professor Dr. Mike T. Nelson has spent 18 years of his life learning how the human body works, specifically focusing on how to properly condition it to burn fat and become stronger, more flexible, and healthier. He’s has a PhD in Exercise Physiology, a BA in Natural Science, and an MS in Biomechanics. He’s an adjunct professor and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. He’s been called in to share his techniques with top government agencies. The techniques he’s developed and the results Mike gets for his clients have been featured in international magazines, in scientific publications, and on websites across the globe.