You know, sometimes I feel like I’m living in a zombie film.
Like a couple of days ago during the first of my twice-weekly forays to the gym. (I only lift two days per week. Heresy, I know. And yet, I get better results, consistently than 95% of guys hammering away 4,5, or even 6 days per week. That should tell you something).
Anyway, as I looked around I realised I was surrounded by zombies and started to worry that someone might just bite me.
I kid ye not, Every Single Person in the gym was either staring vacantly into space as they halfheartedly tickled themselves with machines, or they were slack-jawed and face down staring at their phones.
Dawn of the Dead indeed.
Joking aside, they all looked like they’d rather be anywhere but the gym which invites the question:
Why bother?
After all, going to the gym is a huge time investment. You’ve got to get changed, get to the gym, do the workout, and, I hope, shower afterwards.
You’re looking at a couple of hours, easily. Possibly more.
Train twice a week, and that’s four hours.
Three times, six.
Four, eight.
Think about that for a second.
Experience tells me most guys train four days a week give or take. That’s an entire working day wasted if you’re not doing it with discipline and focus. (Contrary to popular belief, simply ambling across the threshold isn’t something worthy of celebration and a guarantee of results; you actually have to want to train, and train well).
The lesson?
Find an approach you believe in enough to put in the hard graft and keep putting in the hard graft long after the novelty has worn off.
But to do that, you need a plan.
Fortunately, it just so happens I’m going to explain exactly how to plan your training for an entire year in the forthcoming issue of The Phil Tyreman Letter.
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Phil Tyreman
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