Everyone asks me this. "You do so much of it, you must like it, love it!"
No. My answer always shocks them. "I wouldn't say I enjoy it", I normally say. And I don't. Believe me, the LAST thing I want to do, despite being so damn good at everything I do (exercise included) in the mornings which I do FIRST thing waking up is get on the floor for my splits. I'd rather bang the maid. Hehe. But ... then I remind myself of discipline, success, all those things, and once its embedded in your brain its as hard to get out as ... it is to get it IN in the first place, if I don't do it, I'll be antsy all day, terrible mood etc.
When exercising, especially high rep, the last thing on my mind is enjoyment,because I don't enjoy it, but fuck yes, I LOVE the results I get- absolutely, everyone does.
But no-one wants to put in the work, they "praise" me up and down, but most of these people don't do it in their own lives so its utterly pointless (but thank you anyway).
To me, if I praise someone, the first thing I'll do is this - EMULATE, and then BETTER in whatever term that which I praise about the guy (like about him). Otherwise, what's the point for ME?
Yup. Call it selfish, whatever it is, but its selfish in a damn good way I'd say, SELF IMPROVEMENT daily despite already being at a good level.
My body is like a finely tuned machine. My life too. Any minor disruption, chaos ensues. So no I don't "enjoy" putting all the parts in place daily. The only things I really enjoy? Women, Old Spice Musk aftershave - trust me, classic old school, writing is ... yes, carthratic, always has been, Tai pos included ... and of course my smokes. (Food etc sometimes, but not important, dessert, maybe ... but really, the eating part is not that important for me, so I might enjoy it at a certain level but I dont really think about it). But I do everything I don't enjoy religiously, right down to the minutest detail daily. No exceptions as I keep saying. And the chaos isn't ... ok, so I I do 10 pushups more or less, chaos wont erupt, but until I meet certain daily baseline standards I've set for myself, rather high ones, I simply don't "feel it". Its that simple.
People call high rep workouts useless and boring, they certainly are NOT useless. You have to look at the results of the people saying that ... but boring?
I don't know, if you cant focus your mind long enough on a set of pushups, or squats, you'll go nowhere in life and likely have not.
That aside, deep breathing must be done. So many people hold their breath while doing pushups, for one, to get to "high reps" they mangle the exercise and do horrible reps quickly, and they will hold their breath while doing high rep anyway, squats etc too.
You must breathe in and out with every rep, not only does this help you immensely in all manners as I've explained before (research the sites, you'll see) but it actually helps in focusing the mind more. Breathe in and out rythmically with each pushup, you will quickly find the "boring" aspect disappears.
I realize all of what I am saying here is going to be stolen and copied by people on their own sites like a lot of all else I say (because I give you the real deal for free, no-one else puts them through what I do, they are very lazy, so they just steal ideas etc) but the thing is if you don't do it all - and no you cant cherry pick "I like this, I enjoy this", then its pointless for you regardless of how much you larp, copy, stay addicted etc - you simply wont advance in your own life, its that simple.
Anyway, I've explained another secret tip in the 0 Excuses Fitness Videos for getting your breath back to normal and not getting that out of breath anyway ... keen observers got it. Haha. And I do sort of enjoy the deep breathing, haha.
And to end this one, no I don't enjoy my routine, but I am a fanatic about it anyway. Life, fitness, everything, its that which you do not enjoy that you simply must be a fanatic about and it is usually that which will bring you the best overall results once you BARREL through the mental resistance in your own mind. You do not have to necessarily ENJOY something to be excellent at it, but you need to have stellar mental discipline (hence people always tell me that - plus my work ethic, but they dont tell me I enjoy it, they ASK me if I do) to get excellent results from it. That's my (my parents aside ) - even my aunt has always told me without even knowing about the fitness "you are a very mentally strong person, Rahul".
Like they say, everyone SEES things, no-one SAYS anything. Anyway, we've been there so many times. Don't feel like it today haha.
Feel? Yes, because its optional ... certain things are not. Not feeling like exercising? Tough shit. Not feeling like completing them reps? Tougher shit. Do it anyway, that simple.
And I don't know, but I feel compelled to give you an ingrown toenail story that likely had its roots when I was young, and didn't know how to kick a soccer ball and no-one taught me, and when my toes hurt, no-one bothered to really look at them, the problem started there.
And I ignored it for years ... literally during my first job in China, it was so terrible, it would hurt to even touch. I remember a foot massuese giving me a blowjob, her high heel accidentally striking THAT spot - the scream from me, probably shook the whole damn 5 storey building.
I finally went to a hospital in HK to get it treated, China could probably have done it too but my insurance was based out of HK.
So I went, taxi, bus, border, border, subway, hospital ...
... 6 hour odessey in all, give or take, but anyway - cute little nurses told me not to drink after the operation ... but turned out later it recurred. They were nice, but they didn't do a good job.
Then I found another more "local" doctor in Hong Kong (last one was a big hospital).
Not sure how I found him, not sure if my supervisor at the time recommended him ... I think it was something like that but I cant quite recall.
And the first thing he said looking at me, I gotta CUT it.
And he proceeded to inject a mighty injection at the base of the toe with very little warning (base, not where it was ingrown).
And then another needle RIGHT in the ingrown part but while I felt it, the area was numb with the first injection, so no screaming.
And without warning, he chopped and diced.
VS the first hospital who warned me of it all in advance, did all the formality etc ...
When all was done, he wrapped it up, gave me a timeframe and bade me goodbye with "Indians can normally take less pain than Chinese".
Well, this Habib is rather different.
So with a wrapped up toe, back on a subway (crowded) .. and well, the whole thing in reverse, and then on to Walmart off all things back in China. For some reason I loved buying huge cases of beer from there, and I'd tell my parents about it on the phone and they'd complain about "you're drinking too much beer" when all I said was "Its a great workout carrying those up".
With a heavily bandaged toe at that ... (remember, this damn nail had grown half into the toe. I was never taught the most basic of self care, including Penis care, lol "stretching it back")
TMI, I know. But I don't know, ya'll love my tales. You are just cheap asses and want it for free lol but thats OK for now.
It hurt like a SOB all the way back. Initially the anaesthetic was there, but it wore off in an hour and by the time I was home, I was like a ginger cat on hot bricks literally.
So how I managed Walmart with that, I am not sure.
I am not sure of the WHY either. I mean, delivery girl would send it home for me ...
Anyway, next day, pain completely went away. And THAT doctor, turned out, ultimately solved the problem.
Again - brutality works. Simple. The only thing that does. Old school, Dr Lecter style knife, and it solved the problem. I still have twinges sometimes, but that's more mental than anything else.
And that's the tale for the day. Please don't hold your breath while exercising, especially pushups. Purify them LUNGS. Believe me, large chests come if you enlarge the musculature behind it, not so much the muscles.
(Diaphragm).
And please try and actually do these things if you feel compelled to copy what I am saying and create a larpy whiny post on it (I know at least TWO that do this on a daily basis, without me, their lives are empty lol).
And I remember people saying coffee makes you piss like a racehorse.
Does it?
So does green tea, water, most of it ...
www.shristiimports.com - for more on that front. I've been so busy the past year that I didn't even realize this site was down, its back up NOW though. (my trolls are so addicted here even THEY did not notice it, lol. Now since that site also has a very nascent newsletter that I must get back up - they will stay addicted there a bit longer too haha).
Trust me, high quality green tea can knock you on your ASS with the caffeine. It can also purify your lungs like the selenium tea from Guizhou etc, but you need to get it straight from China. Supermarkets wont work, and factories - without the right QC in place, you'll get "semi good stuff". Still not the real deal ..
Coffee, for some reason, I only like COLOMBIAN coffee, but there are many other great high quality locations you can get it - Southern India, maybe the Middle East too. Actually all of South America most likely - or is that all America now, Canada included, under Trump? Hehe. Not sure about Greenland as yet though!
I even got BEANS the other day. Beautiful! From a businessman in India that ended up building one of the biggest and greatest companies there. Old school, classic.
ANYWAY.
I think that's that for now. Enjoy the tales as y'all always do hahahahah
