Mental strength, man. You must be a total waif to be this averse to physical activity.
Do you know what it feels like to conquer a massive physical obstacle that you've prepared to challenge for months? Do you know what running long and hard does for you mentally? It reveals to yourself your potential. I never thought I'd make it through the Crucible in Boot Camp- but I fucking did it, I completed one of the hardest training courses on earth at the time. My confidence flourished- I was already confident in my speech and social skills. But now I was physically confident. I don't expect someone like yourself to understand what that means, and it's a shame that you don't even see merit in trying to reach that.
It's not going to come down to me having to beat someone with my bare hands.
How can you know this? You can't. What if you hear an intruder just as he's walking into your room, and as you're fumbling with your safe he fucking grabs you? You're going to fold and be killed, because you have never overcame intense physical hardship. You have this attitude that "Someone else in my circle will come along and help"- those people aren't always going to be around. Part of being a man is being able to physically take care of yourself and those in your family weaker than you.
Finally, a hypothetical scenario: Two guys get into a gunfight. They have the same skill level at shooting, same size, same guns- all variables are equal, except one of them runs 5 miles a day, and the other one depends on everyone else around him to assist with difficult physical tasks. My money is on the man who can run, every fucking time. Even if he is shot first, he will have something the shut-in doesn't- THE WILLPOWER TO CONTINUE FIGHTING, TO CONTINUE PUSHING UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE. They'll be more likely to stay in the fight longer, even with severe/mortal injuries- we can see this in action in combat/police footage. The guy who doesn't physically train will immediately fold upon catching a bullet and give up, hoping his "circle" comes along to save them. The guy who trains physically will depend on himself and his own skills to WIN.
Perhaps you just lack a competitive streak? I also find it a little unsettling that multiple people agree with this notion that "physical fitness is a waste of time". Sounds like coping to me; and this post on the same day that MSNBC published some nonsense about how physical training is White supremacy. You look very suspicious in light of this.
I'm sure it's a good use of time for many people. There's many benefits, I've just weighed them and determined for myself I'd rather use my time on something else. 45 minutes a day of working out equates to 5% of my remaining lifetime waking hours. I have ALOT of shit that I am trying to get done before I die, and the ROI on using 5% of it on this just doesn't make sense to me individually.
Some personal reasons:
1) I see the value in an active lifestyle, I just don't see the value in working out or running around kicking a ball for the sake of it. My day to day activity is already active enough, my body has exactly as much muscle as it needs to deal with it's current workload. We build and maintain our buildings, we produce (and hunt) our own food, we maintain our roads, we cut our own heating fuel. Yes, we do this in as energy conservative a manner as possible, ie, we're not chopping firewood with an axe, but it's not a sedentary lifestyle.
2) I'm genetically of very small stature. I learned early that weight matters more than training and strength. I'm not saying that strength and training don't make a difference, I'm just saying my huge cousin who was just born a beast would beat me in a fist fight regardless of how much weight lifting I do. There are examples of highly trained people who would fight way above their weight class against average people, but I've determined that it would take a massive amount of effort for me to build up to a point that I could win in a confrontation without fighting dirty. I'd rather spend that time on IPSC, UDPA or some other defensive pistol training which I enjoy and has a higher likely hood of actually protecting me.
If I need to carry a fridge up a flight of stairs, a have close family members that love to be asked for help, or hell, I can pay someone with the extra money I made using the work out time more productively. I'd probably have needed help even if I worked out like crazy my whole life.
3) Women prefer muscular guys, but I'm past the stage in my life where I care about attracting a mate. That being said, women are also attracted to power/authority and wealth.
4) If I value my time at $100/hour, that 45 minutes a day costs me $75/day. That's $27,375 I could have earned in a year if I just worked instead.
I learned early that weight matters more than training and strength.
That's just flat out incorrect. Maybe you had some bad experienced getting roughed up by bigger people "early in life" or w/e, but that shouldn't make you fold up and decide "I'll never be able to defend myself from someone if they're heavier than me", that's a real bitch decision. I can provide you with many examples where this is disproven, if you'd like.
Women might be "attracted" to scrawny/fat/pudgy rich men, but they're fucking broke Chads on the side, and you're a fool if you don't think so. "Chad fucks, beta bucks", man.
If I value my time at $100/hour, that 45 minutes a day costs me $75/day. That's $27,375 I could have earned in a year if I just worked instead.
This has to be one of the most jewish things I've ever read, fucking disgusting that you put a dollar value on your life. YOU ARE NOT YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. You seem to be mistaken. And if you make that much money, you can stand to sacrifice a hundred bucks a week to do some damned push-ups and cardio. You'll add years to your life.
I was thinking the same thing with him - that he was coping for a lack of physical fitness and was being overall lazy.
If one has trained to not be completely fucked when they're in discomfort or actual pain they are going to be able to get themselves out of bad situations rather than being outright killed.
It's never a waste of time to be physically fit, to be able to fight through pain and discomfort, and to get the job done despite this. To be otherwise is being a pussy.
If one has trained to not be completely fucked when they're in discomfort or actual pain they are going to be able to get themselves out of bad situations rather than being outright killed.
This is what I was trying to say, in so many words, well put.
If you haven't felt your lungs burning, feeling like they're about to burst, and then still climbed up that rock-wall. You get to the top ledge of the rock wall, your muscles are screaming in agony, every cell in you wants to give up and let go- but something inside of you says "NO, CLIMB! REACH UP, GRAB THAT LEDGE, AND PULL!"; and then you do.
Someone who can do that will be better in any kind of fight than someone who has never experienced physical hardship and overcome it.
It does reek of coping. Pushes glasses up: "I think that people who do physical activity are just wasting time because I make $1 million per hour, and an hour of working out is minus one million dollars for me!" Pure faggotry, sounds like something a jew would say.
People who brag about material possessions or how much money they have are compensating for lacking elsewhere, in things that are more important. At the end of your life it doesn't matter shit if you have a fuckton of extra money. If you can fight through when your body is screaming at you to give up, or to run away, you'll fare far better in everything in life - not just the situations where you're in said pain or discomfort.
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