{"id":142,"date":"2009-08-28T19:37:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-08-28T19:40:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T07:40:01","slug":"why-do-some-weight-train-for-life-others-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/why-do-some-weight-train-for-life-others-give-up.php","title":{"rendered":"Why do some weight train for life & others give up ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"gareth<\/p>\n

Currently I have been weight lifting and keeping fit for 25 years. I have never, ever used steroids and gave up alcohol and smoking 25 years ago.<\/p>\n

When I made the commitment to lift weights it was a permanent one.<\/p>\n

The gym became my place of hope and solace. My health and fitness keep me happy and positive when everything else can be going wrong sometimes. If you are well – thats what matters.<\/p>\n

So why do most people who undertake fitness give up after 6 months ?<\/p>\n

Why do millions of people who know how much better fitness makes their lives still just give up ?<\/p>\n

I cant say why straight out of my head – I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Is it because they are dumb, lazy, disorganized ? Well not keeping in shape is all of those things but of course plenty of clever & hard working people die an early death because they are not in shape.<\/p>\n

The answer must be psychological in nature, it must be related to motivation. We are talking a lifetime commitment here – a major life change.<\/p>\n

I believe the answer is the in initial psychological imprint this change has upon your mind. For me the change to a healthy lifestyle and body building was phenomenal.<\/p>\n

I was a skinny picked on drug addict and street kid. I weighed like 6 stone and was a dope smoker and drunkard truant. I was a very bad kid, the guys I hung out with were 10 yrs older than me. We are talking a convicted rapist, drug dealers, violent people. <\/p>\n

The terrible thing is I became as bad as them myself. I was nearly murdered as a kid and my family busted up so I really didn’t have any role models that made me feel safe or welcome except for a bunch of small town thugs.<\/p>\n

Those were tough times – at 6 stone I was nearly at deaths door.<\/p>\n

Body building turned it around for me. Just like if a person saved your life you would owe them right.
\nWell body building saved my life. I doubled my weight, kicked the drugs & booze and lost the bad company.<\/p>\n

I studied psychology and motivation and went back to school (from which I had been expelled for drugs). So after that there was no turning back.<\/p>\n

I think that the reason some people train for life and others do not is quite simple. Those that never give up have a genuine appreciation for the benefits of fitness and the seriousness of those benefits.<\/p>\n

Those that give up do so out of ignorance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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