When you need to progress you will.
The people who go to the gym begrudgingly, take no joy in it, and make no progress, I honestly say they’d be better off staying home.
If you don’t enjoy the thing, nor see the purpose behind it strongly enough to at least put in a modicum of effort, you’re just wasting time.
So many aren’t doing enough to even warrant calling it going through the motions.
Somehow our country, one ridden with obesity, it has become trendy to “gym”.
It seems like more than not have gym memberships.
Yet, we’re not able to find healthy robust men and women everywhere we go.
Why?
Inactive gym memberships, and those showing up to only use lackluster intensity day after day negating their trips, wasting time, taking up space.
You don’t need to go to the gym, you just need to be as Wim Hof says happy, strong, and healthy.
You could do some calisthenics regularly, cardio outdoors, and never pay a gym a penny and be good.
Swimming at the lake, or a shirtless bike ride in the sun is a better choice than cardio indoors.
You need to lift at the gym? Do so after the activity in the out of doors.
Americans between work and leisure are not physically active enough.
Prior generations would walk regularly. It’s amazing how much this made a difference between my grandfather’s generation and now.
My grandma spoke to me once of an Irishman up the street, carrying home on his right shoulder two 50lb sacks of potatoes stacked one atop the other every Thursday evening on his walk home from the factory for feeding his family of wife and ten kids.
You almost never see anyone carrying groceries on foot anymore. Eating would require far more calorie burning if you had to walk to the store and carry your food home.
The occasional old timer, the homeless, and some hispanic immigrants are the only ones I’ve ever seen do this.
They’re the ones living with activity levels found 50+ years ago.
Sometimes having less requires healthier practices as lacking a horseless carriage can force you to go on foot or get on a bicycle.
I have a feeling somewhere out there a homeless man is capable of competive bicycle racing. Think about it, many of them biking around are lean and wiry and they’re on foot all day often enough. I see them biking 10+ mile stretches, and occasionally one is hauling ass bombing alongside traffic.
I’ve long felt america could be land of the jacked homeless. You’ve got to spend time somehow.
Regardless of your station in life, an hour a day dedicated to pushups, going amrap/density training in that time. After a month it’d be silly how quickly your upper body had muscled up.
That’s training simplified with logistics erased.
If you’re sedentary, unemployed at the video games or employed in a seat – train 2 hours a day! I’d spread it out over more than one session, filled with density calisthenics, and just see how fast you get fit.
Each and every human is meant to be happy, strong, and healthy. And it’s pretty simple to get there.
You can have these three things, so smile, train well, and eat as best as you can.
It’ll be good friend.
Persistence & Tenacity