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GROWING ANOTHER CHIN?
THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
OR DON’T DARE GO TO THE CLASS REUNION
The following is a special WEB message
to all my friends, my buds, cronies, partners, and acquaintances
in life’s
journey over the past six plus decades (male and
female) who've allowed themselves to become seriously over-fat
during the past few years (Do I need to put names
in print guys?)
There are no excuses, guys. Excuses are like tits on a
bore hog, totally useless. Many of you know how to eat
properly. A few of you may even know how to exercise properly.
Those of you who don't know these things know that I will
gladly teach you so long as you make the effort to follow
through with them.
And deep down inside me I know you
can “make the
effort”. You have certainly made a concentrated effort
to see how much JUNK you can stuff down your pie hole over
the past years. Coupled with an equal effort in the pursuit
of how many hours you can spend in a weekend sitting on
your ever expanding butt in front of the TV. Not to mention
the monumental task of convincing yourself all the while
that you DON”T need to exercise. Turn that type of
dedication to the pursuit of fitness and strength and you
can’t help but preserver.
You do have the time
When one examines the facts in the fitness/strength
equation, this is without a doubt the lamest excuse of
them all. Albeit the one most often pulled out with the
speed of a gunslinger’s pistol, and fired off, more
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Contrary to popular misconception, proper exercise requires
very little time. Getting the best possible results from your
workouts actually requires that you keep them both brief and
infrequent. I am not talking about anyone spending the bulk of
their day sweating, and puffing through hours of endless exercise
for months on end to loose a few pounds. For obvious reasons
(commercial in nature) this is the conception that most of us
seem to share).
A proper high intensity workout can be performed in as little
as 15 to 20 minutes, and only needs to be performed no more than
three times a week, depending on how quickly your body recovers
and adapts between workouts. Many of my most successful clients
train only twice in an eight day period.
One of my clients at Benchmark lost over
100 pounds while making steady strength gains following a moderately
reduced-calorie diet and a high intensity strength training
routine. This done in a single year. His average training time … 35
minutes per session.
The vast majority of Americans spend more time per day complaining
about your bodies (appearance), their weight, and how they feel
than these people spent working out per week. Start eating properly
and use that time to work out instead of whine.
You can afford it
Don’t use “cost” as an excuse. Many of you
waste more on cigarettes, alcohol, soda or fast food in a month
than it would cost you for a gym membership for a year or for
monthly payments on some decent home exercise equipment. With
the vast number of commercial facilities on seemly every street
corner these days, this argument fly’s about as well as
a one winged turtle.
Come on guys, I know that many of you shuck
out a thousand or more for new rims on that jacked up monster
you call a truck. Not to mention $50 on a new designer shirt or $300 on those “cool” terminator
sunglasses. If you got cash like that, don’t even
tell me you can't afford a gym membership. It doesn't matter
how sharply dressed you are or what you're riding in. If you’re
fat when you step out of the shower you're still fat in that
array of high fashion items you are trying to hide it under,
and fat doesn't look good in anything. If you were in great physical
condition you could buy all your clothes from a thrift store
and drive a piece of crap for a car and still look good, in a
bohemian/grunge sort of way.
And with the ever growing cost of obesity in our society how
can you afford not to? Latest figures on the national cost for
medical treatment of conditions relating directly to obesity,
sits at 93 billon dollars per year.
You need to start now
Think about how much you've let yourself
go in just the past year or so. How much fatter are you? How
much worse shape are you in? If you don't start doing something
about it right away,right this minute, what kind of shape do
you think you'll be in one year from now? Two years? Five?
Remember things pick up speed as they roll downhill. Our bodies
are constantly changing. You're either getting better, or you're
getting worse. It’s as
simple as that. That’s your only two options. No more procrastinating.
No more excuses. Get off your duff and start “reinventing” yourself.
You need to start focusing on growing more muscle, not more chins.
The two or three you have now, should be a clear signal that
something needs to change.
You can do it
Never let it be said, that it will be easy, it isn't going to
be easy, but nothing truly worthwhile ever is. Change your eating
habits and work out regularly. Yes, it requires effort and self-discipline.
However, if you persevere you're going to experience major changes
in your body within weeks, and within months you'll be looking
and feeling better than you have in a long, long time.
Begin to think like a warrior and leave the “wimp
on the sofa” behind. You have a major battle ahead. Make
no doubt about that. That battle is what we refer to as “old
age”.
And trust me, if you hang around the planet long enough, it will
engage you in a fight. It is a fight that you need to prepare
for NOW.
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