{"id":312,"date":"2023-11-28T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2023-11-28T21:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T21:14:58","slug":"i-wish-i-liked-working-out-as-much-as-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"“I wish I liked working out as much as you do”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I get this one a lot. People will see the results of my training and give me some variation of this line. Basically, they’re implying that in order to train like this, I must just like<\/em> doing it more than them, and therefore it’s just easier for me. If they were just born liking<\/em> it as much as I do, then they would get the same results as me! Duh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny thing is, people used to say the same thing about reading to me. In college, I was known for reading a lot. I pretty much always had a book with me, and I would read whenever there was down time. I might read 3-4 books per week outside of the coursework. And people would say “I wish I liked reading as much as you do. I just don’t like reading very much”. Apparently, in order to do anything, you have to be born liking<\/em> doing that thing. Sad thing is, this is how most people live their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a news flash: most of the time, I don’t like working out! And I don’t particularly like reading either. I just like the benefits of both of those things more than I care about the discomfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you really think that when I’m doing a heavy lift, I wouldn’t rather be sitting on the couch, watching a movie, and drinking a milkshake? Of course I would because all of those things are very enjoyable in the moment! I like those things just as much as everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Training can be extremely difficult and uncomfortable. It’s not any easier for me than it is for you. I just do it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, there are those days that I want to work out. But that’s pretty rare. Most of the time, I’d rather be doing pretty much anything else. But I do things I don’t want to do because they support my long term goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get this one a lot. People will see the results of my training and give me some variation of this line. Basically, they’re implying that in order to train like this, I must just like doing it more than them, and therefore it’s just easier for me. If they were just born liking it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dayonestrength.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}