{"id":321,"date":"2023-12-26T20:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2023-12-26T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:42:03","slug":"special-snowflake-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Special Snowflake Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a VERY important yet overlooked topic in fitness. This idea alone stops millions of people each year from getting into shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I call it “special snowflake syndrome”. The idea is that so many people think of themselves as a special snowflake, and since they are such a uniquely special snowflake, certain things won’t work for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since they’re a special snowflake, the standard approach won’t work for them. There are too many examples to list, but they all share a common theme: they are an excuse used to justify not doing something that people don’t want to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 99% of you, your hormones are not<\/em> permanently messed up, you don’t<\/em> have some genetic mutation that stops you from building muscle or losing fat, and you don’t<\/em> have some anatomical anomaly that prevents you from squatting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I once had a guy tell me that he can’t squat because he had some minor injury playing soccer in elementary school! I wish I was making this up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the time, people use these excuses because they are afraid of one of two things: discomfort or failure. It ultimately comes down to fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been there myself. For years I didn’t squat because I was afraid of failure. Squatting was hard, and if I didn’t try, then I couldn’t fail. Granted, it took me years to realize this truth. At the time, I told myself the same bullshit excuses that most people live by:
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