The Gym as a Job

The gym, it's our get away right? It's a place we can all go and forget about the world for a while. But how serious do YOU take the gym? If you are dedicated to the gym, it is a job. You get paid to go to the gym. Not monetary wise, but you get paid off with your body and the enormous health benefits received. Since this is a job, how serious do you really take it?

This is a question that you need to have an answer too. Do you slack in the gym, or do you take it serious? Is it a social place, or a place where you really dedicate your time to making yourself better? I see people all the time at the gym that just don't look like they want to be there. If you don't want to be there, then QUIT! Don't do something and not give it your all. A job is to be taken seriously. How serious do you take your real job, how serious do you take class if you are a student? These are a bunch of questions that should really make you think.

If you don't take the gym seriously, you won't see results. It's a simple equation. If you don't work hard, you won't succeed. Just because you go to the gym, doesn't mean you will magically turn into Hercules. What matters is the work you put IN the gym, not the time SPENT in the gym. Saying you workout for two hours every day DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. You can spend 60% of the time, just talking to people and not working out. Saying you workout for 45 minutes, doesn't mean you didn't have a successful workout. 45 minutes is a lot of time if you don't slack. The person that goes balls to the wall for 45 minutes WILL get a better workout, than the person that sits in the gym for two hours and doesn't workout. It's not about the time PUT IN, but the work put INTO the time.

This is just like sitting in class. We can have two people that go to every class of the semester and spend the same amount of time in class. Do you know the difference between the two, even though they never missed a class? The difference is the amount of work put in. Just because you attended every class, doesn't mean that you know all the concepts and material. The one person takes notes every class, asks questions and LISTENS to everything the teacher is saying. The second person goes to class, sits in the back, no notebook, attempts to listen and sleeps half of the class. 

Do you see the difference between the two? Do you understand why it's about the work put into the time and not the actual time? Good. We're getting somewhere.