I'm going to tell you something that'll probably upset you, but it needs to be said.
You don't have time for fitness.
There, its out there now. In fact, almost nobody I know has the time to get more fit and eat better. It's madness, the sheer thought of it, really. Extra time in your day for squats and presses, pullups and deadlifts, AND cooking healthy meals? Lunacy! Who has a block of their day where they literally have zero things to do other than work on looking good naked? Nobody I know. We have reports to submit, calls to make, places to go, kids to wrangle, dogs with appointments, Facebook messages, Duck Dynasty, bowling leagues, traffic court, and oboe practice, and that's just Tuesday. (fact - I DVR both of my TV shows, and while Duck Dynasty isn't one that I watch, I also wouldn't know if it's on Tuesday because I don't sit down until 9:30 at night anyway)
With all this going on, it's just shy of scientifically impossible to be in better shape than you're in now, right?
BUT, a strange phenomenon, one that defies both logic and cable TV, keeps occurring around the gym. That's right, people with roughly 0% extra time keep improving their level of fitness and getting healthier! (I'll expect my Nobel prize in Physics for defying previously thought laws of time and space to be FedEx'd to me by Monday...)
So how, you ask, are these seemingly miraculous feats being accomplished by ordinary folk? Simple. They don't have time (as previously proven via internet logic), they MAKE TIME for fitness. No, they aren't sorcerers channeling Harry Potter and pausing time, they just have priorities and refuse to let excuses and negativity run their lives. You see, everyone on Earth has the same 24 hours in each day (except in Alaska where 11 PM is total daylight sometimes and you get to have eggs every 4 meals because it seems like breakfast should be soon...) - the difference is in how you choose to use them to your advantage, and whether you're the kind of person who makes excuses to maintain the status quo of lower level mediocrity, or the kind who wakes up determined every day to improve themselves and the world around them piece by painstaking piece. Sure, fitness takes sacrifice. Anything worth doing takes time and effort out of your day. We have a finite amount of time in life, and honestly, it'd be much easier to putter around the house being "too busy" than to go bust your ass at the gym for an hour. It'd be way more convenient to order Thai food and eat the leftovers for a few days than it would be to go shopping for healthy foods and cook and measure them. But you know what's not convenient or easy? Heart Disease. That's not a walk in the park (though said walk might help...). Type II diabetes - not all that convenient. I'd rather measure my carbs now for the sake of limiting fat gain than to measure both my carbs AND my blood sugar later. Self loathing also sucks (trust me, I've been there) - it's really not easy to dislike the body you see in the mirror. Squatting is literally one of the hardest things ever (besides organic chemistry), but it's infinitely easier than totally avoiding reflective surfaces from the chest down 24/7. So is it really "sacrifice" to take an hour a day to go to the gym and get/stay fit instead of flopping on the couch, making a glute mold in the cushions to catch the spare change falling out of your pockets from McDonalds? I say sacrificing one's health and self esteem is the bigger loss, but that's just my take.
What started this rant, you might be asking? Well someone literally said to me the other day that there was NO WAY (meaning literally full on, rubix-cube while drunk impossible) to get in shape while they still had to work. Now, aside from the moral quandry (I'll spare you that particular rant) that this poses to me, that statement really irked me. People from all walks of life make time and put in the work to improve at our gym, so I really see zero reason why one person should get to make the "no time" excuse while a single mom working full time and then some can come in and improve herself. Frankly that's BS. EVERYBODY has excuses. EVERYBODY has commitments of some kind, limitations, fears, doubts, and things to improve on. BUT not everyone lets those things win. Some people - those committed to living healthier, happier, longer lives both for themselves and for their families will push past discomfort, excuses, and negativity. They will become MORE.
Will you?
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