Finding the Time to Work Out

“I would work out but I just can’t seem to find the time.”

Sound familiar?

What it REALLY means is “I would work out but I’m just NOT motivated enough.”

The TIME can ALWAYS be found.

It’s as SIMPLE as turning off the TV…

Getting OFF the computer (and all those damn internet porn websites!)…

Turning OFF that stupid brain deforming video game…

Cancelling that expensive car trip to your local McDonald’s…

and dragging your FAT… ugly… skinny… lethargic… lazy ass… straight… directly… to the gym.

Getting there is the HARD part.

It’s all EASY and straight downhill immediately right after that.

Much of SUCCESS… is just simply “showing up”.

Most DON’T show up.

Ever!

If you have simply shown up… then YOU will literally have a leg up… on almost EVERYBODY else.

“But I’m REALLY busy!”

• Wake up an hour earlier and THEN… go to the gym
• Go FIRST thing immediately right after work
• Go at night immediately right AFTER… you put the kids to bed
• Go to bed an hour later
• Go to the gym… during your lunch break
• Go to the gym early in the morning BEFORE work
• Go to the gym on the weekends

The time can absolutely ALWAYS be found.

The busiest person in the world can free up three hours a week just to very simply exercise.

The motivation is much harder to come by.

Believe it or not, after a while… lifting weights, it becomes VERY addicting and it becomes much harder to take a day off than it is to simply go continue… working out.

A while ago someone asked me something very trivial like why hadn’t I swept the floor or something, I responded “I’m lazy”.

He asked me…

“how can you be lazy when you go work out every day?”

I responded…

“That doesn’t make me any less lazy, I love lifting, I love going to the gym, it’s much harder for me NOT to go to the gym than it is to go.

If I take an unplanned day off I feel like shit.

I don’t force myself to go to the gym because it’s my favorite thing in the whole entire world to do.

You’d have to force me NOT to actually go.”

It wasn’t always like that.

My FIRST all important year of bodybuilding…

When I FIRST started going to the gym… I literally did have to FORCE myself to go.

Eventually I started dreaming about it during the day, just waiting in anticipation… for that VERY wonderful moment.

Start yourself out at a very moderate, leisurely 3 days per week.

That’s about the absolute BEST start ANYONE can have.

It won’t be ANY fun at first.

You will be weak, and tired, and sore, and also VERY hungry.

Just simply keep on going.

Build up all of that momentum.

Make building muscle and getting into shape simply become a very necessary habit.

You will feel absolutely GREAT after you work out and you will almost certainly be VERY glad that you did.

Just FORCE yourself to simply go to the gym.

Eventually you will understand what it is ALL about.

Eventually NOTHING will STOP you from simply… going to the gym.

Until next time.

Your man,

-Elijah “The Realist”