The Pareto principles dictates that 20% of the effort will yield

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The Pareto principles dictates that 20% of the effort will yield 80% of the results.

However, the 20% effort is more than those who have deluded themselves realize:

You need to do a majority of the following to make it, and it all can easily be done even while working 50 hours a week:

>Track appropriate consumed calories
>Track approximate macros
>Eat a large amount of vegetables daily
>Not deviating from diet for bullshit reasons
>Read multiple books on healthy human diets
>Track results of each workout
>Have a workout routine that you stick to
>Periodically assess the appropriateness of your workout routine.
>Avoid alcohol except in limited social situations
>Avoid excess sugar except in limited social situations
>Read multiple books on weightlifting
>Periodically do form checks
>Work daily on flexibility and posture
>Push yourself every workout (except when injured)
>Never skipping workouts because you 'don't feel like it'. True emergencies only.
>Periodically research and be able to explain why the lifts you have chosen are beneficial

Doing the above for 1-2+ years (maybe even less for those who have lifted a long time but are stuck in mediocre limbo and haven't perfected their diets) nearly guarantees making it to the extent you need to. Accountability and effort are the 20%.
True greatness will take more effort (steroids, higher intensity, more hours, more study).

If the above list scares you, you're not doing enough and you know it.
Why go to the gym 3x a week if you aren't going to fix your diet for a few months while you cut?

It's not honestly that hard, but convincing mentalets that it isn't? That's the hard part.

>But I don't do some of these things and I made it bro!!!
K. Great. Awesome.

>Bro I don't need to track shit I wing it and make it
K. Great. Awesome. Odds are you've developed a reliable heuristic which replaced the need to track. That's fine. It still took effort to find your rhythm which is the whole point.