Sal DiStefano

where maybe you were in shape a couple of years ago and you stopped or you haven't worked out for six months or whatever. And you're like, okay, in 90 days, I want to get back into incredible shape. Month one looks like this. The first 30 days looks like this. Number one, you got to start slow. You wanna start slow because you haven't been working out.

And the fact that you haven't worked out in a while means your body's gonna respond pretty rapidly to almost any proper stimulus. And more than that is gonna compromise your body's ability to adapt. Really what you're trying to do is you're trying to maximize adaptation and minimize recovery time. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to send the signal that maximizes the adaptation process.

And the fact that you haven't worked out in a while means your body's gonna respond pretty rapidly to almost any proper stimulus. And more than that is gonna compromise your body's ability to adapt. Really what you're trying to do is you're trying to maximize adaptation and minimize recovery time. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to send the signal that maximizes the adaptation process.

And the fact that you haven't worked out in a while means your body's gonna respond pretty rapidly to almost any proper stimulus. And more than that is gonna compromise your body's ability to adapt. Really what you're trying to do is you're trying to maximize adaptation and minimize recovery time. What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to send the signal that maximizes the adaptation process.

And in the first month, what I want, I don't care what your goal is, whether it's to build a lot of muscle and strength or burn a lot of body fat, month one should be about building. Because building muscle, look, if your goal is to build muscle, that's obvious. But if your goal is to burn body fat, it doesn't seem so obvious. Why should I build muscle in the first month?

And in the first month, what I want, I don't care what your goal is, whether it's to build a lot of muscle and strength or burn a lot of body fat, month one should be about building. Because building muscle, look, if your goal is to build muscle, that's obvious. But if your goal is to burn body fat, it doesn't seem so obvious. Why should I build muscle in the first month?

And in the first month, what I want, I don't care what your goal is, whether it's to build a lot of muscle and strength or burn a lot of body fat, month one should be about building. Because building muscle, look, if your goal is to build muscle, that's obvious. But if your goal is to burn body fat, it doesn't seem so obvious. Why should I build muscle in the first month?

I want to lose, you know, 30 pounds or whatever. Well, because that muscle is going to set you up for more effective and sustainable fat loss later on because it's fat-burning machinery. It boosts your metabolism. It makes your hormones work better for you. So we want to start with that first 80 days, regardless of what your goal is. to build, but we won't want to start slow.

I want to lose, you know, 30 pounds or whatever. Well, because that muscle is going to set you up for more effective and sustainable fat loss later on because it's fat-burning machinery. It boosts your metabolism. It makes your hormones work better for you. So we want to start with that first 80 days, regardless of what your goal is. to build, but we won't want to start slow.

I want to lose, you know, 30 pounds or whatever. Well, because that muscle is going to set you up for more effective and sustainable fat loss later on because it's fat-burning machinery. It boosts your metabolism. It makes your hormones work better for you. So we want to start with that first 80 days, regardless of what your goal is. to build, but we won't want to start slow.

We want to send an adaptation signal that maximizes adaptation, but that doesn't tap too much into recovery because what my body will do if I go too hard too fast is it'll spend more time healing and less time adapting, right? You have adaptation and recovery, but we use the word healing instead of recovery because I think that illustrates this a little better.

We want to send an adaptation signal that maximizes adaptation, but that doesn't tap too much into recovery because what my body will do if I go too hard too fast is it'll spend more time healing and less time adapting, right? You have adaptation and recovery, but we use the word healing instead of recovery because I think that illustrates this a little better.

We want to send an adaptation signal that maximizes adaptation, but that doesn't tap too much into recovery because what my body will do if I go too hard too fast is it'll spend more time healing and less time adapting, right? You have adaptation and recovery, but we use the word healing instead of recovery because I think that illustrates this a little better.

There's an overlap between them, which is true. But if I go above and beyond what is necessary to maximize adaptation, my body is going to utilize all of its resources for healing. And so what will happen if I do this wrong, which a lot of people do, is I'm going to get some results. By the way, this is where people will protest.

There's an overlap between them, which is true. But if I go above and beyond what is necessary to maximize adaptation, my body is going to utilize all of its resources for healing. And so what will happen if I do this wrong, which a lot of people do, is I'm going to get some results. By the way, this is where people will protest.

There's an overlap between them, which is true. But if I go above and beyond what is necessary to maximize adaptation, my body is going to utilize all of its resources for healing. And so what will happen if I do this wrong, which a lot of people do, is I'm going to get some results. By the way, this is where people will protest.

This will say, well, I went real hard and I got, look at these results I got in the first 30 days. Yeah, but you don't know what kind of results you could have gotten. Could have been better. You might have built three pounds of muscle in your first month coming back, which is great. That's great.

This will say, well, I went real hard and I got, look at these results I got in the first 30 days. Yeah, but you don't know what kind of results you could have gotten. Could have been better. You might have built three pounds of muscle in your first month coming back, which is great. That's great.

This will say, well, I went real hard and I got, look at these results I got in the first 30 days. Yeah, but you don't know what kind of results you could have gotten. Could have been better. You might have built three pounds of muscle in your first month coming back, which is great. That's great.

But you probably could have gained like eight pounds of muscle, which if you had eight, by the way, if you have muscle memory working for you, building that eight pounds of muscle in a month is actually quite possible for a lot of people. If you have really good genetics and you had a lot of muscle that you lost initially, you could build a lot more than that, as Adam demonstrated.