We live in such an interesting time period. This is, perhaps, the most advanced civilization to ever walk the face of the Earth! We have seen unbelievable technological advances!
We have technology that allows us to communicate, in real time…face to face with someone around the world! If we have a question, it is answered immediately, if we need something, we can have it in less than a day without leaving our couch! We can have food delivered to us within the hour….
However, I would question if this actually makes our world and our society better! We are less healthy than ever…we are weaker than ever…we are less resilient than ever…. We complain about how hard things are, but we have it easier than ever!
While things are easier, how are our lives BETTER?!?!
Now, there is an injection for weight loss! This injection is designed to make weight loss “easier”. Some people are losing weight….the ads on TV would suggest that EVERYONE is….but the truth is that many don’t.
In exchange, patients are promised weight loss with the risk of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, gut paralysis, blindness and EYE ROT (you read that right!)…..with weight loss that tapers off and generally returns when you stop the injections. This doesn’t seem quite worth it to me! But it’s easy…..
Let me portray a different story….one that I see inside the walls of Backward Arrow Modern Fitness almost everyday….
I see a group of people that come in and chase the hardest thing that they can grab. I see people that are continually pushing to lift more weight….do another rep….do a little more…go a little faster… When these people chase a little harder, they see things like:
- Weight loss
- Strength gains
- Inches lost
- Diseases gone (diabetes, autoimmune diseases, high blood pressure)
- Pain decreased and eliminated
But it actually looks more like this:
- More energy
- Looking better in the mirror
- Feeling better in your clothes
- Promotions at work
- Better relationships with a spouse
- New jobs begun
- New businesses started
You see, it goes far beyond the physical….what we do transforms the physical into the mental strength. What we do is so demanding and difficult, it makes everything else in your life seem easy!
If you strive in the gym as hard as we do, suddenly the report that you have to do for work doesn’t seem so hard/bad/challenging. When you feel as challenged as you do in our gym, all of a sudden, it is not so hard to manage your kid’s meltdown at the store, which turns you into a better parent and gives you closer relationships in your family.
You see, when you take the easiest route, you don’t grow. When you do the hard thing, your growth is so much more than physical! This becomes a change that cascades into a mental, emotional and relational growth.
So honestly, when I started this gym almost 10 years ago, the thing I wanted to see most was lives transformed OUTSIDE of the walls of the gym….the ones that embrace the challenge that we present on a daily basis, they are the ones that have the lives that people want most!
So, if you are tired of the life that you have, stop trying to make it easier. Come join the community of people who decided that easy will no longer suffice. Because we don’t do easy….
