FITNESS CONFIDENTIAL by Tortorich Vinnie & Lorey Dean

Author:Tortorich, Vinnie & Lorey, Dean [Tortorich, Vinnie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781939337917
Publisher: Telemachus Press, LLC
Published: 2013-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

LET’S GET MENTAL

Maybe you’ve always been overweight.

Or maybe an extra twenty or thirty pounds have crept up on you and you want to get rid of them.

Either way, you’ve finally decided to do everything you can to get yourself trim, healthy and feeling great. So, with the best of intentions and a positive attitude, you buy useless supplements or crappy fitness gadgets to help you achieve your goals. They don’t work and you get burned. Which isn’t so terrible if it happens once or twice. But if you get burned enough times, you’ll give up trying to get healthy.

Which is why these products make me so angry.

The very stuff that’s supposed to be helping you is subverting your good intentions, and you’re paying for the privilege! And it’s not just bad food, bad drugs or bad equipment that’s keeping us from being the people we want to be. Have you ever noticed how hard it is to do anything worthwhile? It’s like the universe conspires to stop us from meeting our goals, from creating, from succeeding. Would you like to hear the two things that people constantly tell me they plan on doing?

Write a book.

Run a marathon.

You know how many people actually end up doing these things? Almost none. Which is crazy if you think about it. Writing a book and running a marathon cost just about exactly the same.

Nothing.

If you can afford paper, you can write a book. If you can afford shoes, you can run a marathon. Hell, you don’t even really need the shoes! There’s no special equipment involved. And yet, very few people who say they’re going to do these things actually end up doing them. Why? There’s an old saying:

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle:

when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

–African Proverb

This is true for lions and gazelle everywhere, except one place—captivity. They don’t run because they don’t have to. Their food is provided for them. All they have to do is eat it. So they sit there lounging and grazing contentedly, not realizing that the price they’ve paid for this easy living is that they’re stuck in a cage until they die.

We’re the same way.

We’ve created a world where, for the most part, we’re not going to starve, we’re not going to get eaten and, as shitty as our health care system is, we’re basically going to get taken care of. We don’t wake up running because we don’t have to.

Like the lions and gazelles in captivity, we’ve been trained to ignore our natural instincts to create things and move our bodies and accomplish goals, not realizing that there’s a terrible price to be paid for this supposed “easy living.” And the price is that

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