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Anonymous
Section 7: Excuses
Here are a few of the most common bullshit excuses I hear in regards to lifting:
1. I have no time: I lift with people who work 60 hours a week and have a family, if youre less busy than that, you have no reason not to train. If you cant find 3 hours a week to devote to training with heavy weights, then perhaps you had better take a look at your life as a whole. People make time for the things that matter, you follow? 2. I am small and weak: Yes, you probably are, and you shall remain that way unless you start heaving some heavy iron and pouring some growin food down your fucking throat. Throw any notions of being a hardgainer out the window. Weve all got problems. So work around them, and start down the road to not being so skinny and weak. That is, by lifting heavy and eating a lot. 3. I am too poor: Id like to begin by saying that a barbell with 300lbs of plates can be purchased for a tad over $100 at most sporting goods stores. So start scrimping and saving. You can also go over to your local army surplus store and buy a large canvas bag for about $15 dollars, and a few hundred lbs of sand from anywhere (shit you could steal it if you wanted) for a few bucks. Now put the sand in some trash bags, duct tape them shut, put them in the canvas bag, and duct tape it shut. Bingo, there is your new training tool. Carry it, press it, lift it, bear hug it, deadlift it, do whatever you want with it while you save up for your barbell. You can also begin a regime of body weight exercises while you are scrounging for the money to buy your weights (really, how long can it take you to put together $100?). Also, if you attend a highschool or university, there is a really good chance you have free access to some facilities in which you could do some lifting. Shitty or not, something is better than nothing.
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