The Start

A new job. A new city. A new home. A new experience. New. Something you've never done before. Somewhere you've never been. Someone you've never spoken to. It can be a scary thing.

We humans love patterns and repetition. Thousands of years ago, humans survived simply for being able to recognize patterns. We've basically evolved to rely on them, for a world without patterns would be chaos.

Patterns help our lives run smoothly. Patterns keep our stress levels down. Have you ever driven to work, pulled into your work's parking lot, and find yourself parking in the same spot? Or order the same food from the same restaurant? Sit in the same chair in class? Use the same workout routine time and time again (cough cardio rats cough)?

Then one day your parking spot is taken, your favorite food is no longer on the menu, someone is sitting in your seat, and all the cardio equipment is in use.

Now you have to do something different, something new, and it's weird.

You either adapt, fight, or flee. Those are your choices. Choosing can be a scary process. The amount of variable possibilities make it easy to avoid new things in people's lives.

Even more so, the idea of failing is incredibly horrible to some people. The majority of people are not confident enough to grab some weights and move for a hour (60 on a treadmill doesn't count).

If you want to change your body, you have to lift FREE WEIGHTS. Every day you talk yourself out of it, is another the other guy is doing hook grip deadlifts. The hardest part of something new is the start.

START. NOW.