5 Hard Lessons I Learned From Working Out For 10 Years

You get the best results when you do the work

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From age 17 to 23, I was very inconsistent at working out and going to the gym.

Often, I would find excuses, give in to a lack of motivation, and I wouldn’t say no to parties and alcohol, which then kicked me out of my consistency for days.

Yet when the pain of not making progress and remaining genuinely skinny became too big, I finally made a decision and started taking this seriously.

For three years, I’ve been training four times a week consistently, regardless of what happened, regardless of lockdowns, and regardless of any other circumstances. Except for when I was sick to give my body rest.

I’ve learned the following hard lessons after years of inconsistency along the process. Some of them were mental breakthroughs for me and helped me achieve success with my body.

If it weren’t for these, I’d have probably never taken responsibility and never gone through the transformation I desired

Wanting to quit never goes away.

There was a time when I thought that this notion of quitting would go away. I wished countless times just to stop and leave the gym or never go there again.