This is a message for those of you who are members of a "fitness center." These can be the large-scale all amenities included "fitness resorts" or it can be the small box 24-hour joints. To all of who are attend these facilities with the usual suspect of goals in mind, I would like to make something very clear, though, I hope it doesn't apply to you.
Most of what you are blaming your failure(s) on is not the problem. Most of what you're expending the effort to complain about is not the problem. I'm going to state it plainly before you get bored and move on, mmkay?
The problem is you.
And nothing else, to speak of.
The problem is not the gym. The problem is not the placement of TVs in the cardio theater or whether or not they're high definition or how many channels they do or don't have or how clear the radio reception is or isn't on your radio and it's not how well your book/magazine/kindle/newspaper can be propped on the machine for easier reading.
The problem is not the gym. The problem is not which brand of elliptical/treadmill/recumbant bike/weight stacks/dumbbell/swissball is available. The problem is not the placement of these tools or that the lease was recently updated to the absolute state-of-the-art industry standard stuff that "is just too different" than the old stuff.
The problem is not the gym. The problem is not the temperature on that side of the room versus this side of the room or the placement of the wall mounted fans or the availability of "sweat towels." The problem is not the volume of the music in fitness classes and it is definitely not the volume of said music as you walk by in the hallway.
The problem is not the gym.
The problem is your belief system, your personal consititution, your habits... your choices.
If you among the roughly (from my own slightly glib observations of several different gym memberships) 70% of gym-goers that probably found the last few paragraphs disagreeable then that last sentence may be sobering. So, let's say it again, all together this time:
The problem is your belief system, your personal consititution, your habits... your choices.
But, here's what I propose. I propose a paradigm shift. Change your way of thinking, change the life you choose to lead. So, what if you've chosen to be obese, sedentary, and substance dependent (I'm thinking of the 'caffeine as food' movement, here...)... and it's been years?
Make a different choice. Better, ideally, but different for now. Choose better food, less food, different activities, more activities, more exercise, better exercise... a different attitude about exercise; is it a lifestyle requirement or a chore?
It may have been sobering to see in print (or screen, as it were) but isn't it actually freeing? Isn't it freeing to know that you can choose the YOU that you see in the mirror and chose whether or not it matches the YOU that's in your head?
I'm either crazy, just a jerk or I'm right.
You call it,
PMH
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