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I cannot tell you how often friends, students and fans approach me and ask me what I do to stay in such good shape. It is often a very frustrating experience for me. Why? Because when I tell them my honest answer, they want a DIFFERENT answer.

Here is my honest answer to how I stay in such good shape:

1. I stay on a strict CrossFit training schedule, practice my sports (Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai and MMA) and eat a very healthy Zone diet.

2. I take my training seriously, but monitor over-training. I avoid an on-again/off-again mentality - and will go as far as to train around injuries.

3. I listen to my coaches.

What everyone wants to hear is that I use some special supplement, do some special secret workout, or that I was born with a high metabolism. But that is just not the case. Staying thin, strong, fast and healthy are hard work for me! Very hard work! But I make the personal sacrifices necessary to be at my best.

I think that is why people have such a hard time with my answer. People don’t really want to make sacrifices. They want it easy. They want some pill that will make them all better - or some excuse that means they don’t have to try - because it won’t matter anyway. But the true answer is that success IS hard work. I guess that is why not many people reach their goals. But how I feel is that if something is worthwhile, then it probably is not easy.

Now work hard and reach your goals. They might not be easy, but think of them as challenges. And at the very least, good challenges can be fun!

~By Iman Achhal

By Jeremy