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Rant: Push Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

  • December 7, 2009 11:24 am

So I’m at the gym today and what do I see but three girls “working out” in the shortest shorts ever, talking and laughing like it’s the most fun they’ve had in their lives. Now, why did I just put “working out” in quotes? Because there’s a difference between actually working out and just hanging out in the gym and thinking you’re working out, and apparently a lot of people do not realize this. The gym is not a place to socialize people — be it the basement of your house, gym in your apartment or road you are going running on, go there with a purpose.

If you’re in the middle of a set and talking to the person next to you, you are not working out. If you are looking across the room and checking out some girl stretching, you’re not working out. And if you feel exactly the same at the end of a set as you did at the beginning, you damn sure are not working out.

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But, I Don’t Belong to a Gym

  • December 6, 2009 9:24 pm

One of the most widely circulated reasons that I hear as to why it is hard to stay healthy is someone saying that they do not belong to a gym. Who ever stipulated that being healthy required a gym membership? I think the reason  that people will resort to an excuse like this is because they do not know how to exercise without exercise equipment. Well let me see if I can help dispel the myth that being healthy requires a gym membership.

So what exactly do we do at a gym? Well, we either push something, which would be weights, pull something, or breathe hard which would be cardio. Now, unless you live in a box, I think it is impossible for anyone to say that they cannot do those three things in and around their house or place of work.

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