My Fitness Hell
It Was Me All Along.....
Don’t be an asshole to yourself.
— Karthik R
I Quit.
I am meant to be fat. It's my genetics.
Great! A New Workout Plan, super pumped!
Oh wait, I did all these last time. Didn't work then, Won't work now. To the trash…
Boy, if only I had a nickel for every time these creeped into my head.
The reason I got nowhere with fitness when I was starting out was because of these.
Or that’s what one would think.
Sure, the thoughts were always there. Yes, they were pulling my legs down. Hard.
But you know what was the real thing keeping me from doing anything about it?
Hint: It's not the negative talk.
It was ME.
I didn’t do anything to fight them back.
I didn’t question anything that these voices told me.
Instead, I chose to do Nothing.
Because it was easy.
I just accepted whatever thoughts going on inside my head as the truths, believed in them so hard and made myself a mental hell. (And yes, I was still fat.)
See where I am going with this?
Most of what is going on inside our heads are the ones pulling us down, keeping us from growing.
In Fitness and in Life.
No wonder I got nowhere with building a damn muscle….I was constantly looking for the easy way out.
I was so engulfed in my own thought bubble of negativity, that I never even gave a chance to the things that could actually have helped me.
But you know what DID help me?
I will tell you after I ask you a question.
What needs to change so you stop quitting on yourself?
Take two. Write it down or Comment in this post. We will talk about this in the next post.
So, back to my rant.
What did help me was Accepting that there is NO easy way out. There never is.
Even if it exists you are more than likely to be reeled back in via the easy way IN.
At least, that’s what happened to me.
I talk about my experience with this in the Syrax Mindset and Fitness Podcast.
Click Below to check out the episode and know it all. The good, bad and the ugly..
I gotta say it took me a while to let that sink in but once it did, I felt...
Relieved.
Liberated.
My entire thought process changed. How, you may ask.
I started looking for the things that would help me in the long run.
Things that I could stick with and keep doing over and over again.
It wasn't about finding that miracle fix.
Instead, I embraced the daily grind, the small wins, even the setbacks. THEY became my fuel.
Fancy only works on solid ground. I was tired of building on sand.
If you are too, it's time to start digging for that bedrock within.
Remember that question I asked? Your answer holds the key to unlocking unstoppable progress.
Take some time with it today.
Until next time and always thereafter, remember this.
I’m Rooting For You.
You Got This.
Karthik
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