New Year’s resolutions sometimes come to a dead halt by February. That’s how it goes. Your resolutions to get or stay fit, that is.
Promises made to go to the gym are promises every man should keep. Because exercising at least three times a week, not only gets you buff — it makes you more productive in every aspect of life.
Let’s take away your objections about going to the gym, shall we?
Objection #1: I have no time to go the gym.
Unfortunate you. Your job may well be one of those Bob Cratchit-type desk jobs that start before sunrise. Friends and fitness have gone by the wayside, not to mention Tiny Tim.
Whatever the reality of the ogreish employer, one thing is certain: he or she wants you to produce. How can you keep producing if the job leaves no time to exercise your human flesh-and-blood body? (Never mind what happens to your abs!)
Since you’re making millions for the business, use negotiation skills now.
Convene with colleagues and a friendly supervisor (if one is available in this dark den of commerce) about creating an at-work gym. Depending upon others’ fitness needs, lobby for treadmills, power plates, exercise bikes, and rowers.
If you lift weights a few times a week — because that’s going to keep your body toned and ripped — consider making the case for an at-office trainer as well. Then, get several employees together to work out over lunch hour.
Even if you don’t have one!
An even better concept for the whip-cracking office master are treadmill desks. It is possible–and even ahead of the curve–to outfit a treadmill with desk on which to place one’s laptop and phone. Walking at gentle speeds of less than one mile per hour over at least three to five hours burn off your fat whilst you keep working!
Cost of basic office gym equipment needn’t soar to tens of thousands of pounds. (Although we are not chartered accountants, your employer may also get tax breaks for helping beleaguered office minions stay fit.)
Objection #2: Getting to the gym is a problem.
Ok, we hear you. Getting to the gym before work, or after the work day is finished, is a bore. You want to go out with your mates or share some passion with your woman.
How will that ever happen if the two hours tacked onto the beginning or end of the day are spent at the bloody gym?
Pick up some home gym equipment! If budget is a problem, consider high quality factory refurbished Life Fitness, Cybex, Free Motion Fitness, Gym 80, Sanyo, and others.
Imagine it. Wake at 7:00am and wander to Multigym. Work your arms, back, shoulders, and legs for a half hour. (Don’t forget to adjust the resistance as your fitness improves.) Spend a half hour at rowing machine or cross-trainer. Then shower, shave, get dressed.
You’re at the office before 9:00am and a lovely work colleague gives admiring glances. As you flash a confident smile, she asks, “How do you do it? I can’t get to the gym with these hours.”
Ah, yes. Why not show your admirer the home gym you’ve built?
