The easy way out

Nowadays, everyone is taking the easy way out of life. People contemplate the answers to several questions. What is the easiest way to make money? How do I keep in shape without exerting myself too much? What is the easiest diet I can stick to and still be able to eat desert? Not that many people realize that there is no simple answer for these issues.
 
On the aspect of making money and living off it, this society encourages people to become proficient in the business field. This is how our society is getting so sedentary. There is no manual labor involved in this profession other then getting up to print documents or picking up a stapler to staple the papers. People in this business have no time for a healthy, well balanced breakfast. They get in the trend of either not eating at all or eating donuts that are in the break room. You wonder why in this society obesity is such an epedemic.
 
Then there is television that has such a subliminal influence on all of us. On television adds, they always have the infomercials about getting money the easy way. There is always that commercial that endorses the no down payment on selling houses scam. This is a great example of making money without having any credentials or money. Television always endorses the easy way to make money. This subliminally persuades our society to take the easy way out.
 
Becoming successful should take dedication and hard work. It should always be vital that one has a college education in order to become successful. Being successful does not take luck, but it takes being educated, driven, and persistent.
 
This theme of taking the easy way out correlates to fitness and nutrition. People are always trying to take the easy way out. Television also endorses the easy way to get fit. They use many gimicks for weight loss. There is the full body machines endorsed on television, fitness made simple by the king of scammers, John Bastow.
Again, there is no easy way to get fit. It takes hard work and many hours at the gym. It takes more then a crappy twenty minute workout on the bowflex machines.
 
Diet is also another aspect of fitness. People are looking for the diet that they can eat low calorie cake and enjoyable foods. Many people do not understand the concept of eating healthy. My friends ask me this question about certain foods before they eat it. They ask, “ Nick, is this bad for me or they say this food is not that bad for me.” My response is always the same. It’s not about eating foods that are not bad for you, it’s about eating food for nutrition. I can not get through to people that concept. You must eat to obtain nutrition.
 
There is no easy way out to life. Staying fit, eating well, and making a living takes hard work. I wish more people realized this….
 
Nick Keough
Geo: Mass
Profession: Athletic Training Student
Future aspirations: Become a licensed Athletic Trainer, Certified olympic lifting coach and strength and conditioning. Become a Professional Power lifter.

body weight: 250
Bench: 365
Squat: 555 w/ briefs and knee wraps
Deadlift:585

- tps strongman   

Very true. Those infomercials are directed towards unmotivated people looking for an easy fix. But let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Not everyone wants to be a powerlifter, bodybuilder or an olympic athlete. Some people just want to achieve a higher fitness level than what they have, and that does not take grueling hours at the gym. It does take dedication. But doing a bit of strength training and cardio at home even if it is just 20 minutes, three times a week, is better than twenty minutes of desperate housewives. Some of the home gyms are actually quite good (if overpriced), and people all over are seeing great results with just a set of dumbells and a bench at home. I've been working out most of my life at home or at the gym (had a membership the past eight years, I'm 43). Two years ago I biffed it on my new ZX10R sportbike and crushed my ankle. I knew I wouldn't be working for a while so after fixing the bike I sold it and the first thing I was worried about was getting my workout, so I needed something that I could set up at home in the very limited space I have. I also wanted something that could recreate the exercises I was doing at the gym. After researching home gyms I bought a Bowflex Ultimate (yeah, a Bowflex) and a recumbant exercise bike with some of the cash from my bike and have been using them for over a year with excellent results (of course I workout 45-60 min. 5 days a week). At first I was a little apprehensive about it, you know, being a free weight guy, going to the gym 5 days a week and having access to all that nice  equipment, but I have found it to be an excellent home gym and the only thing I really miss from the gym is "some" of the people. Most of the stuff in those infommercials is crap, true, but the Bowflex is actually an excellent home gym. Some of those bodyweight machines (Total Gym) are also nice home gyms that you can get a full body workout on (although the Total Gym clones like Vigorfit and the Total Trainer seem to be of better quality and much cheaper, while the Bowflex knockoffs are cheaper, but their build quality sucks). I know what you're saying, people looking for that pill that magically gets you into shape, my wife has been looking for that pill for years, and the whole time it's sitting right here in our living room!

As a powerlifter, I can be biast in certain aspects of fitness. Not everyone is cut out for intense powerlifting workouts. You are right by saying that people have different goals in fitness.
 
Thank you for taking the time to comment on my post.  

body weight: 250
Bench: 365
Squat: 555 w/ briefs and knee wraps
Deadlift:585

- tps strongman