3 Simple Steps to Successfully Work Towards Your Goals

With January 1st fast approaching, I want to share the 3-step approach to setting goals that has helped me over this past year. We’ve all been there - we set goals, we try our best for a few weeks and then we give up because we get frustrated. It’s happened to me too - a lot. But something changed during the summer of 2019. I finally acknowledged that my success depends on how consistently I can do the things that I need to do on a DAILY basis. Let me share how I arrived at this realization with this 3-step approach.

Life, Nutrition, TrainingTheodore LimDecember 26, 2019goals, goal setting, new years resolution, new years, life, training, nutritionComment

Building Strength Podcast #69 - Coach D / Is a Calorie Deficit the Magic Pill You've Been Looking For?

Show Timestamps:

2:30 - Lessons We’ve Learned From Leaning Out

13:00 - Defining Food Volume and Explaining it’s Importance

21:00 - Protein Intake MATTERS

26:30 - “Does a bigger calorie surplus equal faster muscle growth?”

36:00 - A Brief Technical Difficulty

39:00 - It’s a Long Term Game

42:00 - How to Calculate Your Maintenance Calories and Protein Requirements

48:00 - Experience > Theory

51:00 - “How can you eat (insert donuts or ice cream) and still be so lean?”

58:00 - Food is Meant to be Enjoyed

60:00 - Another Technical Difficulty. Thanks for Listening!

Building Strength Podcast #65 - How I'm Getting Leaner / How to Create a Mobility and Stretching Routine

Show Timestamps:

1:00 - Intro

5:40 - Book Recommendations

12:00 - How I’m Getting Leaner

30:00 - How to Create a Mobility and Stretching Routine

Nutrition, PodcastTheodore LimAugust 10, 2019nutrition, leaning out, mobility, stretching, podcast, building strength podcastComment

Building Strength Podcast #63 - Lessons Learned From Tracking Macros

Show Timestamps:

1:00 - Intro

2:30 - Asking for your help :)

7:00 - Lessons learned from tracking macros

14:00 - Food volume is key

20:00 - Weight will fluctuate

27:00 - How to calculate your starting macros

37:00 - Business for Unicorns

Nutrition, PodcastTheodore LimJuly 15, 2019building strength, building strength podcast, podcast, macros, iifym, nutritionComment

Building Strength Podcast #62 - I Hired My Friend / Talking About Body Image

Show Timestamps:

1:00 - Intro / Show Breakdown

5:00 - Theo’s 6-Week Nutrition Challenge

17:00 - Hiring my Good Friend, Coach D

23:00 - My Mental Health in May

28:00 - Breaking Down Body Image

Building Strength Podcast #58 - On 'Cheat Meals', Variety in Your Diet and Theo's Standards for a High Quality Meal

Show Timestamps:

2:00 - My gameplan for April

3:30 - What is a high quality meal?

8:00 - It’s all about compliance and sustainability

14:00 - On cheat meals

Podcast, NutritionTheodore LimApril 8, 2019podcast, building strength, building strength podcast, training, nutrition, lifeComment

Building Strength Podcast #57 - Principles are Few, Methods are Many

Show Timestamps:

1:00 - Prioritize and focus on principles - not methods

3:00 - Is a body part split more effective than push, pull, legs for gaining strength and mass?

10:00 - Training principles that I focus on for myself and my clients

Building Strength Podcast #55 - Theo's Favourite Exercises for Overall Health / Mastering the Basics / Introducing Movement Variability

In this episode, I answer some questions regarding my favourite exercises for overall health and I share my philosophy and outlook on nutrition and movement variability and how that affects our performance inside and outside of the gym. I also share what I learned as a coach by having my clients push heavy ass sleds back and forth last week. Lastly, I talk about the importance of mastering the basics when you’re a beginner in the gym and how that will help you build a strong foundation so that you can continue to make progress for years to come.

Building Strength Podcast #53 - Managing Recovery to Optimize Performance in the Gym and in LIFE

In this episode, I share how I recover from my training through proper programming, sleep and nutrition. I dive into the importance of sleep and how it affects my performance in the gym but more importantly - outside of the gym. I also talk about what I’m currently doing for my training and how I am managing my recovery throughout the week.

Building Strength Podcast #52 - The Minimalists Guide to Meal Prep

In this episode, I share my experience with meal prepping and what I’ve learned over the last 8 years. Over the last 8 years, I’ve teared down the process to make it as efficient and effective as possible. This episode is for those who are looking to shake up their meal prep process or even for those who are looking to start cooking for themselves but don’t know how to begin.

Podcast, NutritionTheodore LimJanuary 25, 2019meal prep, nutrition, food, macros, micros, whole foods diet, podcast, building strengthComment

Building Strength Podcast #51 - Building a Power Physique with Coach D

In this episode, Coach D (@powerphysique) joins me and proceeds to drop knowledge bomb after knowledge bomb regarding training, coaching clients to successful transformations, how neurotyping has changed the way he trains and his biggest piece of advice for aspiring lifters and coaches. Do not sleep on this episode. I knew D was going to come on here and crush it and that is exactly what he did.

Losing Fat and Leaning Out - 3 Things You're NOT Doing

Our minds are unreliable, emotional and inconsistent. Numbers, statistics and photos provide hard, objective facts. As always, the best time to start was a year ago. The second best time to start is now.

Nutrition, LifeTheodore LimNovember 9, 2018nutrition, fat loss, measurements, pictures Comment

Consistency - The Most Important Aspect

The most important aspect of training is very simple. It's not the amount of weight you do. It's not the sets and reps that you do. It's not the program you're on. It doesn't even matter if your coach is the best or just average. The most important part of training is your consistency.

Training, Nutrition, LifeTheodore LimNovember 9, 2018consistency, training, nutritionComment

Majoring in the Minors - Are you Making this Mistake?

Majoring in the minors is a very common mistake that we've all made in the past. It is a crippling mistake that can set us back or even prevent us from even getting started. Basically, majoring in the minors means that we're worrying about the things that don't really matter - yet.

Life, Nutrition, TrainingTheodore LimNovember 9, 2018life, training, nutrition, big picture Comment

Losing Fat - Do your habits match your goals?

As a coach, I get a lot of questions regarding how to make progress in the gym and also out of the gym. The most common questions always focus around losing fat. Everyone wants to lose fat and I totally understand.

Nutrition, LifeTheodore LimNovember 9, 2018fat loss, losing fat, weight loss, keto, nutrition, habits, goals, intermittent fasting, detox, whole foodsComment

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“The best time to start was a year ago. The second best time to start is now.”