Arnold says if you have 1 hour a day to spare, you can work out.

If I'm feeling tired, there's no way I can lift where I feel an adequate burn; it's just a futile attempt that only brings diminishing returns. I'll end up wasting an hour and have nothing positive to net.

But just doing anything is better than doing nothing, and it gets easier as you do it more.

Your workout doesnt need to be a full hour of heavy weights. It can be a 30 minute walk, a light jog, some push-ups, etc. This is a defeatist mindset that you have.

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It's not insane. We live in a world where we work too much, don't make enough money, barely have free time, and have to live in a stressful political climate.

It's a damn achievement if you can cut all the noise and keep yourself healthy. Don't belittle people for trying to figure it out.

It's more like two hours because you have to actually travel to the gym, then deal with getting ready and cleaned up.

The funny part is that some people early on told me "no, you need to enjoy going or you'll stop". Those people stopped going to the gym, whereas I've been going strong almost 2 years straight and managed to lose 75lb. Fuck toxic positivity bs. It's fine to hate going, it's fine to hate working out. You just be honest about your feelings and do it anyways. But lying to yourself just makes it so much harder to stay when you just can't keep up the lie

You don't even need an hour. Try 5 minutes of Dan John's ABCs with 2 kettlebells. You'll want to look it up, but an ABC is 2 cleans, one overhead press, and 3 squats. Bam, full-body workout.

Don't want to pay $20-50 for 2 kettlebells? 5 minutes of burpees with a squat at the bottom, no equipment required.

Everyone has the time - it's the effort that they don't want to go through. It's also easy for me and fitness people to be condescending about that, which turns people off, so I always start with the 5 minute time. Just give yourself 5 minutes of feeling like hell. It'll be over soon and then you can reflect on what just happened and if you have the energy to keep that up regularly.

By the way, effort is more important than raw numbers. No matter how you're feeling or how tired you are, give a hard effort relative to THAT.

^ Yeah, I agree with you two. More often than not, I don't want to lift, I don't want to run, but I do it anyway. We only have this body and this life, don't ruin it.

Gonna tag this so I can chime in when I'm not v drunk

It's not insane. We live in a world where we work too much, don't make enough money, barely have free time, and have to live in a stressful political climate.

It's a damn achievement if you can cut all the noise and keep yourself healthy. Don't belittle people for trying to figure it out.

Gonna be real, it's for hard for me to agree on all points. I run a business and sit on two boards and have time to find 5 hours a week to exercise.

I also recommend lying to yourself. I already advocated for 5-minute workouts, which are great because the rest times in a traditional workout are a LOT of filler that you can remove; you obviously won't be able to lift heavy without any rest times but the training stimulus through sheer intensity will still be there. However, if you're having trouble dragging yourself to do 5 minutes, tell yourself you'll do it for just 1 or 2 minutes so you get SOMETHING done. There's a very good chance that you'll keep going for the full amount of time since you've already started.

Gonna be real, it's for hard for me to agree on all points. I run a business and sit on two boards and have time to find 5 hours a week to exercise.

I can't because my body always hurts and working out will only make it worse before it ever provides any benefits