If you want to achieve your fitness
goals, the time for excuses is over, .
Continued: Wade's 90-day' Fitness Challenge.
(Post #11: 1/20/2020)
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CHALLENGE BEGAN (For Me) 1/13/2020
Someone recently asked me what I was up to. I told her about
my fitness challenge. She seemed very interested about the challenge and began
asking all sorts of questions.
(This is so much fun for me! I LOVE when I can get people excited
about their fitness journey! I love being a sort-of, catalyst in the process.
Even more enjoyable for me is, when I run into these people months later and
they excitedly tell me about their newfound fitness success.)
During this conversation however, the questions took an
all-too-familiar turn. The questions were more probing about me, and my
journey. These were not questions designed to learn how the best results could
be gained. No. I know THIS line of questioning.
These were more like the questions of a lawyer, building a
case. This woman had NO interest in learning how to succeed. She was looking
for an excuse as to why this process was possible for me, (easier) but
impossible for her. In short, she wanted a way out. She wanted an excuse to
avoid exerting effort and making sacrifices.
“It’s not fair!”
My rebuttal may seem harsh but, “B.S!”
In all honesty, fitness is the single most fair thing I have
ever encountered. It doesn’t require experience. It doesn’t require a certain
degree. You don’t have to “know someone”. (Nepotism has no power here.) You don’t
have to be rich, or join any group. In fact, some people just eat vegetables
and run!
You only need ONE thing, to succeed: COMMITMENT - That’s it,
and that’s all.
My mother taught me something simple, when I was a kid. “If
you want it, you’ll make it happen.” (Mom is AWESOME!!!)
The woman above, like SO many others, tried to pull the "age
thing", until she found out that I was 55 years-old. Then she tried the "injury
thing", (See my first post for my list! Includes a hip replacement) Then she
went for the "time thing", but I shared that I was working 7 days a week, writing
this blog, creating accompanying videos, hitting the gym a minimum of 5 days a
week and beginning to write my 8th book to be published in the past
2 years.)
Then, she seemed to think, she played the ultimate wildcard:
“Do you have kids?”
I told her I did not.
“AAAAHHH!!!” She said. “Well, there
you go!”
OK. You win. You get to keep your current physique.
I did all I could do.
The reality is simple:
“If you really want to do something, you'll find a
way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” —Jim Rohn
Anyway, I gotta run. I’m headed to the gym to meet two of my
gym-friends. They will probably be working out with their two oldest sons. #Noexcuses
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