Knowledge isn't the power, it's action

We've all heard the phrase: "Knowledge is power."



And of course, we associate power with success.




Yet, this is 100 percent false. Knowledge is not the power.



We are in the information age, and never before has so much good fitness information been so readily available to the entire world.



But it seems like all that has done is create a lot of well-informed overweight people.



The weight loss industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, with many repeat buyers driving sales.



How many times have we heard "I know what to do, I just don't do it?"



See, knowledge is not power.



Don't buy that fitness video, book or other product if it's just going to collect dust.



Why?



Because you are no better off then when you started.



If you shell out some money for Tom Venuto's book "Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle" (which is the highest selling e-book in history) and don't apply what you've read — you haven't accomplished anything.



If you hire a life coach, and never do what they ask you to do, well, you fail.



Knowledge is nothing but potential waiting for action to create energy (for all you physics people out there).  So to load up on knowledge without action is severely suppressing your real potential for change.



Action is power. It's the missing link between a more fit nation and our current at nation.



 My most successful clients are the ones that take massive action in their lives, and constantly stay on their grind. They take what I teach them, and actually take action to create the results they want. Action is power.



So take what you already know from the books, videos, and magazines you already own and start using it.



Even if you start off doing it completely wrong, you are setting events in motion that will unlock the stored up potential of what's in your head and create energy.



And that energy is what causes the physical changes that you have been chasing for so long. Be diligent in your action. No more starts and stops.



Make a firm decision that this is the time you stop being a slacker, and make some real, and permanent changes to your life to get healthier, stronger, and leaner, by using the knowledge you have, and have yet to learn to it's fullest extent.



People who have done what you want to do, aren't  smarter than you, they just took action on what they already knew.



You can, too.




Chad Smith is a Hagerstown personal trainer, FTNS radio show host, and co-owner of Home Team Fitness Training. Visit his blog www.hometeamfitnessblog.com, or find him on Facebook www.facebook.com/hometeamfitness.