Follow up

Further to yesterday's post Dietary Habits, check out the new T-Nation article. Specifically the part about trying to out-train bad diets. Also after taking a look at the exercise program that is suggested to be able to out-train your diet, I think I'd rather just eat properly.

Dietary Habits

It's often said that you can't out-train a bad diet. Now there may be some people with the right genetics that don't need to worry about their diet but in general I agree. I would ask why you would even want too though? If your best results come from a mix of great training and diet, why settle for less than the best?

People always look for short cuts and the easiest option but in this instance I don't think that trying to out-train a bad diet is the easiest option. Sure there are instances where it is easier to pick bad food options but the training ramifications don't make it a short cut at all. Justification for poor food habits can only lead down one path, further poor food habits. Break your poor food habits one at a time. It takes about three weeks to break a habit. Pick one thing that you do poorly and eliminate that habit for three weeks and you'll find that you won't even want to get back too the bad habit.

Once your poor diet habits have been broken and hopefully good, new habits formed you might even find that the small amount of time you have available for exercise does allow good progress to occur. As long as your exercise intensity stays high, your improved dietary habits will give you better results than any additional exercise will.