Focus: A Weight Loss Strategy

I just finished working my quads on a weight machine. This is working out, this is getting fit, this is what it takes.

As I sit and stretch between sets, my quads still reeling, I scan around the gym. They are within earshot and while I am resting I listen to them complain about, work, relationships, their bosses, clothes, their bodies and their friends.

I just finished working my quads on a weight machine. My head races and my body hums all in an assume to lose weight. Only moments ago, my legs worked so hard that they began to fail. They worked so hard that my muscle tissue cried out in pain and began to tear. Now having just finished, my body sweating with the effort, I can rest for a couple of minutes already doing it again.

Each day this week I will have targeted a different group of muscles. Each day I will work them, stretch them, and tear them. Each day, I will work so hard that my heart beats a new rhythm into my metabolism. Each day, my body will set to repair the damage I have done in such manner that it does not happen again. Each day doggedly crackle my body down and force it to improve itself. This is working out, this is getting fit, this is what it takes.

As I sit and stretch sets, my quads still reeling, I scan helter-skelter the gym. I take in those in a whirl me. At this hour, there are few people willing to spirited the cold mornings to make the run to the gym. There are two people working with some free weights near by. They are within earshot and while I am resting I listen to them complain about, work, relationships, their bosses, clothes, their bodies and their friends. The conversation flows from one topic to the next seamlessly and it is strike off by their candor that they know each other well; that they have been friends and work out buddies for a while. What grabs my rapt attention however, is not the meandering topics of their conversation, but the fact that conversation is occurring at all.

I ponder this until I start on my second set. As my second set starts, all I can focus on is exercise; flexing my muscles with respect to the weight. During the relatively short time it takes for me to run through my set and completely exhaust my quads, every action, every shake becomes an exercise in methodical control and economy. Every thing done I make is geared to the exercise at hand.

When I finish and I reengage with the world, I come back to the two people and their on-going conversation. As they chat, they work through a routine of exercises that look habitual and ritualized. When they work their muscles, they go through the motions; intent more on the conversation and garrison then their bodies.

There is a point to this. There is a myth, an urban legend if you will, that says going to the gym will make you lose weight. It is a logical extension of the same myth that says I need to go to the gym, I am out of shape. These two ideas have get synonymous with healthy lifestyles and fitness. For the two people I observed, simply contemporaneous at the gym was enough to chasten their concerns for their physical health. The swamp line is that this is an illusion. To make yourself fit, you need to get exposure your body down and force it to rebuild. The idea material that conformable to the rebuild, you will be stronger and fit. This cannot occur by merely seeing in a gym, or as in the case with the talking pair, this cannot occur by going through the motions of working out.

Before I get taxed of unit a fanatical meat head just understand that I continue an extra few pounds clockwise my waist. All I know is that to really make progress, to have physical and visible results, you must have an impact on your body. The kicker is that they bordering on have it made. These people are at they gym early on a cold morning. They are intense to their weight loss goals. They go through the motions of their exercises like a well rehearsed dance routine. out they want to come to hand something with their bodies. If they just focused, and worked their bodies just a little more; enough, say, to deny them the ease of conversation, then the results would be tremendous.

The whole point is that you have to be go off up and down what it is you want to accomplish. I know with every fiber in my being, that I will burn off the extra weight enclosing my waist and that I will firm up my desk loving muscles. But I won't do it by talking.