M4:D45 (D345) It is too hard

What's on my mind today?
WARNING: Rant about to begin

One of my pet peeves is people who don't work hard when they are exercising. I often look at other people working out and I wonder why they are even bothering to come to the gym. They just give no effort at all.

Today I took another spinning class. The instructor took the time to explain the 1 to 10 scale and made it a point to mention that it is a personal scale. By this she meant that a 10 to one person might be greater or less than a 10 for someone else. It all depends upon the personal conditioning of the people involved.

Throughout the class the instructor would say to turn up the tension to a 9 or lower it to a 7. She would implore the class to do sprints or to work one leg harder than another. More than once I heard someone state "It is too hard" and it made me extremely angry. More than once I saw people pretend to up the tension when in fact they didn't touch the tension meter at all. Come on, the only person you are fooling is yourself!

How the heck can it be "too hard"? You are setting the difficulty to your own personal level. Why are you even in the class if "it is too hard"? If you aren't going to give any effort, why get up and attend a 7:30 a.m. class on a Saturday? I just don't get it.

When I workout, I do it to the level of intensity that will bring me the results I want. I may not like what it feels like, but I do it because I know what will happen when I push myself to my personal limits. What is it about the majority of people that they are simply incapable of pushing themselves to the limit? Why do people complain that a personal level is "too hard"? Why do people come to a class at 7:30 a.m. and not work hard?

The following goes out to everyone who is lazy and doesn't want to work hard. Please, don't come to the gym and take up valuable space that could be used by those of us who want to work hard. Please stay home and watch television or read because working out just isn't for you. Don't come and annoy me and attempt to take me off my focused workout. Do us all a favor and just find some body weight exercises to do at home. Don't come in and pretend that you are working hard when you are not. The only person you are fooling is yourself. You want people to think that you are working hard, but nobody is fooled by your ridiculous attitude. There is a limited amount of space at any gym and it should be utilized by those of us who work hard and bring it day in and day out.

The bottom line is that hard work is necessary and if you don't want to do it, stay out of my gym and stay away from me!

Yesterday

Thanks for all the sweet comments about my children. We have what we call 2 sets. We have the girl and boy who are 16 and 13 (Set #1) and then we have the girl and boy who are 6 and 4 (Set #2). We call Set #2 "The Midgets". My midgets like to copy me. I haven't taught them to do it, they just do it. They want to "lift weights like daddy" when they are old enough. What fun! Set #1 lifts with me 3 days a week (I have one day I lift by myself, one day I lift along with them and two days I just train them).

Find out what I'm doing to my body!
Today I did a 60 minute spinning class. My legs were like jello when I was done. What a cardio blast!

Exercise the brain with the Thought of the Day!
Mind over matter doesn't explain much until you have to will yourself to lift large metal objects over your head for many repetitions.