Reading a book the other night, needing to do my pushups, I used an approach I don’t usually use.
One that feels right now :
Every few minutes I’d set the book down, and do a set of 10 perfect controlled strict pushups.
10 sets of 10, getting 100 pushups, basically unnoticed, done within an hour that I was otherwise reading through.
No gym trip necessary.
A good book and pushups at home – enjoyable. 🙂
Get the idea of “a set time to workout” out of your mind.
Since 20 years old I’ve viewed the gym, even equipment, as icing on the cake.
The daily pushups are viewed through the lenses of military PT.
I have to do them.
There is never a valid reason to not do them. They have perfect logistics.
I suggest everyone view calisthenics as the primary work, and all else as secondary work.
Perfect logistics that way, and as there is what could be perceived as neverending talk of the gym closing down…meanwhile all the fat bodies are keeping their fingers crossed in gleeful anticipation of “an excuse” to stop the daily elliptical to become an even more slovenly ones with the couch…
I don’t care if the gym shuts down or not.
I’d prefer the access yes, however at this point I’m thinking, sometimes saying, “bring it! close the gym. I’ll come back better!”
I’ve done so before – multiple times.
Just watch…again!
No gym means I’ll just be reading more with this every so often pushups approach.
It’s what I did during the lockdown.
Lockdown lifted people were looking at me like the progress I made was physiologically impossible – but it wasn’t. It happened. Destroy your limiting thoughts.
Destroy them.
There is only capability.
Mix in fasting, the simplest approach to fat loss in existence, and – lean and mean.
Simplify.
Training and eating – keep it simple and workable.
No need for fancy equipment – I AM all the gym I need.
No need for fancy food – simple cooked meals with basic ingredients more than suffice.
The next few days I’ll be eating a keto casserole.
After that I have sausage.
All I drink is water, milk, and 100% fruit juice.
I go the gym when I like, but I’ll be doing my pushups regardless each and every day.
Lean out? Drop the liquid calories, drink cold water instead, eat simple nutritious low carb meals, and fast.
Go for long walks. Sometimes do cardio. More activity –
In my eyes an all in cutting diet is chicken breast and green beans – as said above right now my next two or three days of food is a ground beef and green bean casserole.
I’m taking steps in that direction.
Closer to all in on eating to lean out, and there’s no junk food – only fruit sugar from juice when I have it.
I’ve found I enjoyed fasting, recently I went two days without calories, and got visibly leaner from that time.
Makes sense, 2×5000=10000, 10k calories is 3lbs fat + I was active, I still trained.
Think like a warrior, be on a mission.
You eat good nutritious food when it’s time.
You fast, then feast – when it’s time.
You train, not like some slovenly fat body, but like a man on a mission…when it’s time.
I feel everything – training, eating, fasting, all coming together.
You can’t do the work and not get good results. Put positive work in and it’s guaranteed to work.
And don’t wrap your identity too much in what you do with weights.
There’s greater.
Persistence & Tenacity