I am not a huge proponent of going to the gym. In my opinion; there are other ways of spending energy in more efficient ways. That being said; the results of attending the sessions speak for themselves and that is the point; I guess. Gym is painful. You subject your muscles to tear. Then they heal and get torn again over and over till tolerance is built. In the end, only their pure form remains; no dead weight in sight.
Dead weight takes us to the gym? Or is it gain of the same? Whatever it is, your body adjusts to whatever you routinely subject it to. What I am almost sure of is that people going to the gym are after change. They identified a problem in their existence and attending the session was or formed part of the remedy. No issue there.
We can then deduce that almost none gyms because they were bored. The sessions are uncomfortable for the new. Then it takes persistence to form habits around this. It takes perseverance forming a habit around some uncomfortable activity albeit for the results. I mean we don’t have long on earth so it takes some grit to dedicate a section of your existence to lifting objects up and down.
Who are gym goers by demography? A mode statistic around this would land at the kind of person who can afford it hence has some sort of income. That or said is heavily sponsored because gym is not free either. Most of this have several years of career experience. Probably why some fall into the trap of eating everything in sight.
These are comfortable people. Their thing has gained momentum and the comfort is easily reflected in their appearance. Is this also analogous to their careers and aspirations. That they get to a point where they just get sucked into some form of routine? That struggle is no longer with them.
By deduction; this in turn means that they no longer grow. Their career muscles don’t tear hence they have probably atrophied to blobs of their former chiseled selves. Struggle, like an uncomfortable beneficial habit, is not to be shunned. Rather we should learn to embrace it to our capacity.
The good thing with skill, especially the mental kind, posses no risk to the physical. A chess master putting themselves in tough chess strategies will not break his hand. A graphic designer trying impossible designs posses not a health issue. How else will they understand their limits? Where will they gain new lessons?
Growing our limits by challenging what we can is a survival obligation. Otherwise, we atrophy to irrelevance.