My pep talk for this week is below. As always, be sure to drop by Wendy’s Blog for some awesome recipes and to complete the entire “FJ Friday” experience…

If you’ve read my stuff in the past… then you know how I feel about “information” and “knowledge”. There is plenty of it out there, but no one is doing anything with it. Knowledge isn’t power, applied knowledge is where the power truly resides… and it shocks me at how many people don’t know this. I guess this is why so many “know” but can’t get shit done.

Well today I’m going to take things in a different direction… reduce the amount of “information” that you are exposed to. That’s right, put up your middle fingers in the face of knowledge and tell it to go do naughty things to itself. Why?

Because you know enough. Trust me, you know enough… you just need some room to breathe, some room to DO and some room to GROW. You also need some room to experiment and fail because then you can deduce your own information out of the experience – and oddly enough, you’ll learn the most from these experiences.

So for the next 30 days, go on an information diet. Pick one source of information (such as a book)… or even one piece of information (such as a workout plan) and go apply it for a month and don’t look back. Drop the fucking Muscle & Fatness magazine… screw Oprah’s diet tips (which don’t seem to be working *cough*) and kick the silly Weight Watchers plans out the window. You don’t need all that shit.

Less is more. Were looking for potency here… not a mass amount of diluted mumbo jumbo (even if that mumbo jumbo happens to be good stuff).

For someone who writes about fitness and someone who has a responsibility to his clients… I myself can get overwhelmed sometimes. I mean, one of the reasons I like training people is because everyone has different goals and problems and each time it’s a challenge. So seeking out new information and “facts” is part of the game. But it easily be all-consuming. When it does, you lose sight of what’s really important. That’s when you need to drop the bullshit and scale back, way back, and just create some room to breathe and relax.

Do this for the prescribed 30 days and I guarantee the results will shock you. You will also be able to RETAIN any new information you learn in the future a whole lot better. Sounds messed up and counter productive… but then again, sometimes it’s the counter-productive things that work the best. More is not always better.

- FitJerk

Discuss: What’s the one piece of information you’re sticking to?