Anthony Astbury argues men use excuses to avoid fitness, comparing poor health to a parent ignoring a child running toward traffic. He pushes listeners to replace excuses with a mental trigger, like a picture of a car, to force themselves to exercise.
If you're in a park and you see your youngest 4 year old running across the park to a main road, I, even at 47 as I am now, can get up and sprint after that child and hopefully grab them. If you're a fat and you're breathing out your ass and your, you know, jeans have fallen around your ass crack because you're so fat and you can't get halfway there and that child gets run over, would you, would you say, do you know what gave myself the best possible chance of saving that child? Or would you sit and think, if I hadn't been fat, I'd have saved them? Now, it sounds harsh, but some people need to project that instead of saying, you're a bit flabby, you need to sort your shit out and you say, how would you feel? And if you, if you're not fussed about it, then stop fucking moaning. But if you can think, oh my God, like that, I would never feed myself good. So every morning when you can't be asked to get out of bed and go to the gym, have, have that in your mind, you know, have a picture of a car or something as a trigger to reminder, this is why I'm going to work out, because otherwise it's easy just to play small and stay fat.
