I don’t know if you heard, but The Orange Man is due to begin his third presidential term.
What has this got to do with getting strong and in shape?
A fair question.
Answer:
Nothing and everything.
I shall mansplain:
Something that has amused me greatly are the utterly deranged attitudes otherwise Kind and Tolerant people have towards Trump.
For example, the guy was mere millimetres from having the contents of his skull vented into the air on live television. A truly profound moment that was met with shrugs of indifference through to statements that could be fairly interpreted as “he deserved it” from people who identify as his political opponents.
Likewise the accusations of homophobia. Never have I ever seen any outcry from the “Right Thinking” about the situation in Uganda under Yoweri Museveni where homosexuals face the death penalty under the “Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023”.
On the other side sit so-called “conservatives” who are treating Trump winning this election like it’s the second coming of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Many of them are Christians of a protestant persuasion who are tetchy about the second commandment (often to the point of outright iconoclasm) when it comes to the veneration of Mary and the other saints. Yet, they give this convicted criminal, divorced and remarried, alleged pr0n star enthusiast a free pass because he “triggerz the libz” or whatever.
Meanwhile, in The Real World:
* Senior military figures are talking seriously about us intervening in the Russia/Ukraine conflict, which at the very least would require conscription meaning a grizzly end via thermite dropped from a drone or good old fashioned bullet is a real possibility for many thousands of men,
* Millions are struggling to pay something as simple as their water bill, with 40% of respondents to a recent survey claiming they are going to struggle to afford the rise, and 38% of those people saying they are planning to cut back on food shopping or other essentials,
* One in eight children between the ages of two and ten are obese due to the utter absence of meaningful support around exercise and lifestyle to equip otherwise hardworking and well meaning parents to be the role model their children deserve,
* Pencil-pushing bureaucrats at local councils are relentlessly pursuing working class families in deprived areas for upwards of £1000 for the crime of… *checks notes*… having their bin stolen and the contents dumped a short distance from their property, leaving one mother in tears at the prospect of being unable to treat her young daughter at Christmas…
… and so on, and so on.
Yet the telebox would have you believe that the most pressing issue of our time is the election of a president in a foreign land, and many – I daresay most – have bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Why?
Control.
Specifically, the feeling of the absence of it.
The world is going to Hell in a handbasket and everybody knows we can do nothing about it whatsoever.
Unthinking people resolve this sense of existential dread by going all-in for their “side” ultimately hoping for others to secure them the health and prosperity they so desperately desire.
By contrast, the astute, as few as we are, recognise that our salvation does not lie at the ballot box so take matters into our own hands knowing full well the riders *are not* coming from the East at first light on the fifth day.
A large part of that is getting as strong and in shape as humanly possible ‘cuz without a capable body your chances of surviving, much less prospering, as the comforts of Western society crumble to dust are pretty much zero.
Hard days lie ahead, of that there is no doubt.
Details of a straightforward approach to training that will assist you in getting your house in order on the fitness front are linked below:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/programme
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman