Why Aren't You In Shape Yet? ? 6400 Personal Finance

I swear I am going to tie this in to personal finance.

Did you see the tagline for this blog? ?A Comprehensive Approach To Your Net Worth.?? You didn?t think I just meant money stuff did you?

A couple weeks ago I laid out line by line how with a relatively small outlay of $2,000 you could outfit your home with a badass set of gym equipment that will most likely not need to ever be replaced.? It included dumbbells, a?barbell, a complete 300 lbs weight set, bench, and a power cage.?If you can?t build a family of physically fit beasts?with those kinds of resources something has gone terribly wrong (I?m betting lack of motivation?on your part).

When I say physically fit beasts don?t think I?m talking Arnold size (although that would qualify).? I am a little below average height for men with a correspondingly?less than impressive bodyweight: I am in decent shape.? There are some guys in my unit though with?approximately the same build as me who are bonafide freaks of nature.? One of them?has maybe one inch in height and twenty pounds on me but is throwing around heavier weights than our 200 pound dudes.? Oh, he can also run two miles?in?less than 11 minutes, guess he is in a hurry or something.? In any case do you see my point?? Physical fitness in its truest sense is a measure of capability, not size.? Bodybuilders are a breed of athlete that specialize in size, as a member of the general public your overall goal is?improved health and improved capability.

The good news is that?fitness can be had at a very cheap price.? The bad news is that it is going to involve some mental toughness on your part (the horror!).? Since the alternative is being surprised with, I don?t know,?diabetes (LINK), perhaps you should?hear me out on the virtues of ?embracing the suck.?

$2,000 is a lot of money, got it.? Far be it from me to suggest that maybe you don?t need a $15,000 emergency fund when you have health insurance, car insurance,?homeowners insurance, etc???Lets assume that you don?t have that kind of cash lying around, how can you be expected to get into shape like these studs and studettes.??For them the competition?lies not in a game or sport but in the actual workout itself, surely they shell out tons of cash to achieve those rock-hard bodies right?? Well, to a certain extent yes, being a member of an actual Crossfit gym is expensive as is membership in most other commercial gyms.? Suppose I told you that I could get you going on the road to physical fitness for a one-time purchase of $30?? Would you be interested? (<? rhetorical question)

$30 gets you a pullup bar that you can mount in your bedroom doorway without the need for screwing it into the doorway itself.? Takes about two seconds to set up and then take down.? It also allows you to perform pullups, chinups, ankles to bar, and any other number of exercises that involve getting your feet off of the ground.? I could get you in shape for free but pullups are just so ridiculously awesome at turning you into a physically useful human being that to not get the bar would almost seem criminal.

So now that we have you equipped with a pullup bar (I?m assuming you have a doorway available) and your body the next common excuse for not being in shape is ?not enough time.?? If this is your excuse let me ask you if you do any of the following at least three times a week:

Watch a half-hour format TV show
Prepare?a Digiorno (sp?) pizza
Read 10-15 news articles and/or blog entries online

Its not an all-encompassing list but I bet most of you reading this are guility of some of these activities.? Be honest with yourselves, heck I am guility of the first and last ones on a daily basis and the middle one on pretty much a weekly basis.? All three involve more than twenty minutes of that time that you just don?t have.? Allow me to suggest a simple trade: any of those activities for Alice.

Who is Alice?? Alice is a very simple workout consisting of three basic exercises: the pullup, the pushup, and the squat (no bar, just your bodyweight, this is cheap remember?).? The exercises are performed like so:

5 reps of pullups
10 reps of pushups
15 reps of squats

For those of you unfamiliar with Crossfit terminology performing that group of exercises one time though is one ?round?.? The way Alice works is you do as many rounds as you can in 20 minutes.? The only measure of how well you are doing is what you did last time vs what you did this time.? Being a mere mortal my best score at this point is 16 rounds, some of the guys I referenced earlier are in the 23-25 round range.? If you start out doing five rounds and you had to stand on a chair to help you with the chinups thats fine as long as when you do it the next month you can do six rounds.? Thats the beauty of working out: you only have to compete against yourself, progress is measured by your performance now versus your performance in the past, not how well you stack up against that guy who ran track at LSU.

20 minutes and $30: you know that you can afford it, the only question is whether you want it badly enough.? Frankly, if you are truly a personal finance nut and are really into being frugal and saving every penny that you can then I would call your bluff if being physically fit was not one of your top five priorities.? Its a lot more expensive to be fat and diseased than it is to be lean and mean.? Or, as said in better by the legendary Mark Rippetoe:

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

Yeah, what he said.

Source: http://6400personalfinance.com/2012/07/25/why-arent-you-in-shape-yet/

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