Joy Kong, MD, says most people fail at fitness because they confuse exercise with wanting to transform their whole life. They chase surface goals like abs or a tighter butt without admitting the real dissatisfaction driving them. Real change requires getting honest about what's actually broken.
A lot of people want to work out, but they don't know their goals. If you ask them what they want to do, they don't know they want to work out. Most of the time when people say they want to work out, they want to lose weight. People want to work out because they won't change. But they don't know that. They don't know that until years later that, oh, my God, I was really want a transformation. But the transformation is the physics part was just this, the first part. I'm not happy with my life. Now we're getting somewhere. You won't change. A lot of people want to work out because they won't change. But they can't exactly put the fingers where they want to change. I want a tighter butt. I want sexier abs or arms. Okay. All right. Well, there's tons of different ways you can achieve that. You don't even need to do legree for this. You could do at home. I could choose some exercise right now that'll lift your butt up, tighten your triceps, make you do some weight, you know. Why do you want to work out? It takes years, and some people will never really get to the bottom of it. Why they actually really want to work out.
