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August 20, 2008

Stay in shape, be more productive, do more every day

For the last few years I haven’t been working out at all, I just eat, work, slept and play some videogames when I had the time. That was all I did. I was pretty much out of shape (a lot) and started thinking on my own health. Worst than that, I had been tired all day long while working; so I decided to do something to change that, and boy, what I did was simple and everyone can do it.

I bought an exercise bike last month and started to workout every day. The first day the longest I could do were just 10 minutes. Really, I couldn’t go any further, I was in pain, all sweaty, almost dead. That was the first day. The second day, the same thing happened, just 10 minutes, a bit less maybe, but in the fourth day I managed to do 15 minutes! boy that was a great day!

Now, I can do 25 minutes! That’s almost 30 minutes per day! I feel better, I work better, I don’t feel tired anymore and what’s best of all, I have been eating a lot less!

Funny thing happens when you workout in the morning.

  1. You think again before eating anything that can make you fat during the day because, you see, you worked your ass off at the morning and you don’t want to throw that away. So you start taking food very seriously and eat a lot less. It’s hard to do a diet or change your food habits, but that’s because you don’t have any good reason to stop eating like a pig (I know I did), but that changes automatically the minute you start doing exercises; guaranteed.
  2. You feel better, more comfortable, confident; you take big steps now when you walk down the street, even run a bit sometimes.
  3. You can focus more, true. You can do more work in less time, you start feeling like you can kick ass every minute of your day.
  4. You start feeling less heavy, which is good because then you start feeling that you can be a LOT less heavier.

Long story short: if you workout more, you will start feeling more productive, happy and less tired. I know, I know, that’s the usual “fitness” guy speaking, but take it from a guy who didn’t move his ass from the computer since … well, since he was born; IT HELPS. And it helps a lot.

Those things are worth just $200 - $300 USD, what are you waiting? buy one and get over with it!

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