MEN’S HEALTH
The Gung-Ho Man’s Guide to Working Out LESS (and Feeling Great)
Calm your jets, fellas. Less is more.
Guys CAN multi-task after all, because we can be awesome and dumb at the same time.
- Awesome by tackling things head-on, no messing about, let’s fix this.
- Dumb because we confuse the quantity of energy and effort put into a task with the quality of actual work.
I could take you on a tour of my house and show you various home improvement projects I started myself, all guns blazing, ALL the tools…
and then had to call a guy to come do it right.
But working out is possibly the only area of my life where I HAVE learned to curtail my manly gung-ho urges. I keep things calm and steady and do just enough (2 hours a week tops) to stay in shape and still make progress at 47.
I don’t work out much, but when I do it’s a high-quality workout. I get a lotta bang for my buck.
And this is what I want to teach my fellow guys here. Because having coached hundreds of men over the years, I know how it starts:
6 days a week, all the goals, all the equipment, new sneakers, high expectations…
