I'm not here to tell you the scientific benefits or give you false hope that you're just going to automatically get a six pack with a hot chick. Nor am I here to tell you that your diet is going to transform, or that because you workout you will be completely happy. I'm also not going to tell you a bunch of cliche reasons to workout, such as getting compliments or having many friends. I'm going to tell you the real reasons, the ones I and many of us have personally experienced, and the ones that focus on yourself, not on how people think of you. Working out should not be a means to find justification from other people, but rather something more center-focused. Here's the 10 real reasons why working out will truly be the best decision for you.
1. You Will Feel So Much More Motivated and Energized
Once you get into the routine of working out, your days will feel less draggy, and you will want to be productive. Even if you are super tired, napping will only make you more tired and just want to keep sleeping in that comfortable bed, but working out will get your body active, making you vitalized and recharged to continue your day. After a good workout, your body will feel more energized, more free, more lively, and you'll be motivated to do all the tasks of your day.
2. You Won't Feel Super Gross Eating a Meal
Everyone knows that feeling of feeling super bloated and gross after eating a big meal. Once you start working out and getting into a habit of it, you will feel more justified in eating an unhealthy meal, which I guess in some way you are. But also, you will feel gross just eating a healthy meal without working out, hence you'll feel even more motivated to get up and go to the gym, even if that means sacrificing a lunch hangout with some friends. Time is just a sequence of priorities, make the gym one of them.
3. You Will Understand Hard Work and Patience
It sounds cliche to talk about these terms, however most of the time people really don't understand the application or reality of them. Working out really makes you understand the value of hard work. In times where you are down, or times where you are tired, you have to force yourself to get up, go to the gym, and train your absolute hardest. Hard work does not come automatically, but through developed mental toughness, and it starts at the gym. Additionally, you will also understand patience. Everyone loves to look at themselves after a day at the gym, and pretend to see results, but we all know it takes years for the goals to be achieved. Years of adversity, relentlessness, and perseverance. Getting into working out will make you understand that Rome truly wasn't built in a day, and every rep, every set, every workout is a building process. Trust me, you will realize that success requires a lot of patience.
4. You Will Become Addicted
You know that feeling when you're just desperate for something that if you don't have it, you go insane and pretty much do anything to get it? For example, like losing your phone. Well, that's what the gym is like. You will love the process of sweating, you will be hooked, and only want more because the grind doesn't end. Going a few days without the gym will make you feel gross that you'll go through anything just to get back. Once you're on the grind, you never leave the grind.
5. You Will Truly See Your Body Transform
I don't want to put a before and after picture of some overweight person become absolutely jacked because I don't want to give false hope nor make any standards of how your body needs to be. Therefore, I will let your imagination decide what the transformation your body will have. Once you set goals and start prioritizing them, you will understand what I mean by your body transforming. After weeks of looking at yourself in the mirror, you will find yourself making those results, whether it be to lose fat, to gain muscle, to look toned, to look buff, or remain the same. Just a reminder though, it doesn't come in a day, it doesn't come in a week, it doesn't come in a month. However, you will love it. What you put into this is what you get out. Sit on the couch and eat Doritos, fine, or start running and eat an Apple, see where you'll be at.
6. You Will Only Want to Get Better
The greatest thing about working out is there's always room to improve, there's always something that you can get better in. That could be achieving a certain weight, or benching a certain amount, or running a certain distance. It's endless, and that's what will keep you going forever. You will find yourself coming out of the gym and just thinking about what you're going to accomplish the next day. There will be no quit, no satisfaction, no indifference, only passion, hope, and grit.
7. It's the Perfect Time to De-stress, or the Perfect Plate to Continue a Great Day
The gym really is the perfect place where you can just unleash all the stresses of your day, along with the built up emotions of frustration and anxiety. There's no way to describe this feeling than to experience it and try it out. Trust me, when that day comes where nothing goes your way or everything wrecks you, blast some music in your ears, break a sweat, and take out all of that built up energy. On the contrary, you may be having the best day, feeling gleeful and full of life. Why waste that away? Why utilize that energy on nothing when you can go to the gym, blast your favorite music and go for a long run? You will never regret going to the gym, whatever kind of day it is, because it can only make it better. The gym will bring you love, excitement, rebirth, and revitalization.
8. You'll Understand What It Means to Trust The Process and to Trust Yourself
The great thing about the going to the gym since it's a long process to see results and since it requires so much hard work, it becomes applicable to so many different aspects of your life. When you grow up you will learn that nothing is going to be given to you, however already you've trained your mind to build that mental toughness and relentlessness to never give up. You're able to understand the meaning behind that long road to success, and you're able to understand the great capabilities you have. You learn to trust yourself, and trust the potential you have if you give it your all. Even if you fail, you can trust yourself to bounce back. You're your biggest critic, and you criticize yourself a lot when it comes to working out, but with that you know what you are made of.
9. You'll Be Able to Find True Enjoyment in Everything: The Pain, The Sweat, The Struggle, The Achievement
It's weird. In school I'd rather submit my own answers through my own reasoning and get the question wrong rather than being given the answers and getting them write. I hate cheating, I hate taking the easy road. I love to fail, learn, and build, but I didn't realize that the background behind this comes straight from consistently working out. Through this journey, I went through the pain, the sweat, the struggles, the accomplishments, but even in any stage I found so much passion and enjoyment in it. Every single stage was a moment where I could grow. When I benched 185 I was hopeful for 225, but when I failed to bench 185 I was determined to get it the next time. Exercising is rough, raw, but 100% real.
10. You'll Slowly Be Able to Accomplish and Love Something 80% of Americans Can't Do
Look it up, the CDC doesn't lie. 80% of Americans don't get the recommended exercise amount. That's honestly ridiculous. I love working out. I love lifting, I love sweating, and I love running. I write this because I just want to share something I love. No one pays me to endorse exercise, or be a model. I'm just sharing something that has shaped me in such a positive way, and I hope to influence others to experience those similar changes. I'm not the strongest person nor the most fit, but I've been able to learn the deeper truth behind working out, which isn't to impress someone or get that beach body. You won't regret just doing 10 push-ups, 30 seconds of planks, and 25 jumping jacks in the morning and at night. These are just pure facts. I just want you to fullness of what there is to come. Whether you want it or not, the facts will still remain.
