The more fit you become the more you can rely on your body to not let you down. Getting fit requires building the self discipline to train and eat right. The more you do this the more you will be able to apply this self discipline elsewhere, and the more you will have the strength and vigor to achieve your goals.
So a top priority needs to be getting more fit. There’s no excuse to not put your all into it.
This isn’t a fitness Guide, however if you follow my suggestions along with what you’ve ready read in our chapter about not becoming a slave to food, you can and will become fit. Guaranteed.
Pushups Will Become Your Best Friend.
There’s many excuses not to get fit. No time to go to the gym, not enough money to buy fitness equipment, no space to train, it’s too difficult to get started. The Pushup kills them all. It builds your whole upper body, requires no equipment and can be done comfortably on your bedroom, living room or even kitchen floor. It’s also the exercise that the world’s best military units use to build both strength and self-discipline in their troops. You will be doing five sets of the most you can do six days a week.
You should know how to do a pushup. Here’s some things to keep an eye on in your form:
- Keep your core tight.
- Keep your hands near your shoulders at a width you feel most comfortable.
- Explode up as you exhale, inhaling on the way down.
- Aim for very high reps.
Eventually you will be doing more than a hundred pushups a day. This will make you stronger, better looking and, most importantly for our purpose here, much more self disciplined.
Follow Your Pushups With Sit Ups.
Sit ups (or crunches) will work your core. They will also challenge your mental toughness and self discipline, because frankly, if you are less than fit they are difficult to do.
Aim for five sets of however many you can do. Adding to the numbers as you become stronger. Again six days a week.
For the Really Committed: Pull Ups.
Pull ups are a challenge for many. They also bring the biggest benefits of any exercise you can do at home without any equipment. You can quite easily do pull ups from a door, a ledge or beam or, if you must, break down and buy a bar for less than twenty dollars. You may not have the strength to do high rep sets at first. I didn’t. But sticking with them will really get across the message of the power of self discipline. Force yourself to be humble and crack out sets of one and two reps for a month and watch as you are quickly able to do sets of five, then ten and then twenty reps.
Five sets six days a week. Not a “must” exercise, but they come with my strongest recommendation.
A self disciplined person is a fit person. Start breaking a sweat!