July 7, 2010 – 12:21 pm
“Magary, get your team together and clean that latrine!”
Ah yes, bathroom cleaning duty in the barracks after a long weekend of drunk soldiers. But the hard nasty work had already been done.
One of the young privates on my team asked, “Magary, didn’t we already clean the latrine today? Didn’t we already clean it THREE TIMES today?”
The private was correct. We were on our fourth trip to the bathroom that day, armed with mops and pine-sol and well aware that the actions we were about to take were unnecessary.
So why were we cleaning so much that day? For no other reason than our sergeant had nothing better for us to do. It was busy-work. What a waste of time.
You can see similar fitness practices in gyms everywhere. People grinding away at long slow boring cardio on treadmills and elliptical machines because they have nothing better to do. It’s just busy-work. It’s work that’s comfortable and comes with the hollow promise of forging a lean and fit body. What a waste of time.
But you know better. You know that the key to reaching your fitness goals is to continually push outside of your comfort zone. You know that if you are not coming close to the red line of intensity, you are not going to get the lean and fit body you desire.
So stay away from the hours on end of the treadmill trot or watching the wheels of the elliptical go round-and-round. It’s worse than cleaning a bathroom four times in one day.
P.S. If you really want to push out of your comfort zone, I recommend you take a look at Scott Sonnon’s free Tacfit videos. To watch the Tacfit videos now, click here.
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