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RE: It's NOT REAL. And a CHALLENGE! (WIN SBD!)
The biomechanics of the healthy human body are a beautiful thing to behold, to be celebrated for their own natural majesty. Working out is dorky as hell, but it can be kind of cool looking sometimes. A healthy human looks nice, so be healthy derp. Do the work, you can look healthy too! Marketing tries to sell a brand of lifestyle behind the image of a healthy person, so they want the best image they can make. Problem is, the result comes from the work, not the marketing, and they don't want to photograph or advertise the work, or tell you that you will indeed also have to do hard work to become healthful :P
Exactly. They show you the "after" and the "before" but not the grueling hours and days of the "during." Thanks for commenting!
It's through those grueling times that one develops discipline, and learns to shine under pressure - the most valuable parts of lifting. I know if I ever let myself get out of shape, I have the discipline to crack the whip and make the muscles grow, and the same motivation that pushes me through another set of hard squats carries me up a mountain perhaps more easily :D
Discipline is bad for marketing though; disciplined people don't buy as many things and are less vulnerable to manipulation.
Absolutely. Fitness is such a mental game. But like you said about climbing the mountain, life is a mental game.
Right now, in fact, I'm practicing my discipline with cookies: every time I think, "I'm done, I can't eat another one," I tell myself, "No! Just one more. I can do this!" LOL
The mountain can be a metaphor for any goal in life pretty easily :)
Hahaha it's a lot easier to not feel bad about having another cookie as long as you keep the same vigor in your squat and deadlift routine, or in the progression upward in intensity... you know you're gonna need every bit of energy you can scrounge to grow and recover :D