STEP TWO: Create a Concrete Weirdo Commitment.

I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.

That, ladies-and-gentlemen, is a strong commitment.

Here’s another one:

I’m doing a minimum of five pushups every single day for the next 1,000 consecutive days, no matter what. 

Strong! 

Here’s one more:

I’m walking a minimum of ten minutes every single day for the next 1,000 days, no matter what.

These three statements are serious. They’re dedicated. They’re concrete. They leave very little room for your subconscious brain to justify not doing them.  

Now let’s look at a few typical Normie commitments:

I’ll work out with weights when I have time.

I’m trying to do pushups every day.

I’ll start lifting once I find the right routine.

I’ll start training once I buy a fitness tracker to track my progress.

I’m gonna work out with friends once we all sync our schedules.

I’ll join a class once I’m a little more in shape.

I’ll totally start lifting once things calm down.

Can you tell the difference? Strong concrete commitments state exactly what you are doing and have a definable time horizon attached. Below is the one I use in my own life. Let’s dissect it piece by piece. 

“I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.”

Part One: I’m working out with weights.

This is a fairly vague statement and it’s vague for a reason. Instead of being this vague, I could have committed to something like this: ‘I’m doing 3 sets of bench-press twice per week every single week for the next ten years, no matter what.’ 

This is not terrible. 

But here’s where I’ve run into problems with commitments such as these: What happens if I’m on vacation and don’t have access to a bench or barbell? How do I bench-press with no bench and no bar and no weights? My parents don’t have a bench or bar. What do I do when I visit them? I suppose I could find a gym and pay for a one-day pass, but what if the nearest gym is 20 miles away?

What if it’s a holiday and the gym is closed?

These are the moments your subconscious mind will strike. Your subconscious will shrug and say, “It’s not your fault there’s no available gym.”

It will say you can take this one week off. 

It will say, “You tried, but this is out of your control.” 

It will say you can start back next week when you return to your normal schedule. 

Next week comes…

And you’re swamped.

Things are hectic. Work. Kids. Life. You have zero time for your “Get Swole or Die Trying’ workout routine. 

Your subconscious whispers about how you’ll totally start lifting again once things calm down.

And once things calm down, you probably will start lifting again. 

That’s the good news.

Here’s the bad:

Your parents call, they want to know what time you’ll be coming over for Thanksgiving. 

This is a normal ‘Start-Stop’ cycle normies get trapped in for entire lifetimes, which is why I create a commitment that is vague enough to leave me viable options even when the vast majority of options seem to have been wiped from the table.

Rather than committing to a specific structured workout routine, I simple commit to something that is vague and flexible. ‘I’m working out with weights’ leaves me with unlimited options.

I could do pushups, or dips, or lunges, or pullups, or wall squats, or jumping jacks, or swimming, or whatever…

By being vague—I’m working out with weights—you are intentionally eliminating excuses.

You don’t need a gym to workout with weights. You can use your body weight. You can use some water bottles. You can use resistance bands. You can use your momma’s shake weight. You can use the vacuum cleaner. You can literally use almost anything.

However, committing to something specific such as this: ‘I’m doing seated shoulder press with 25LB dumbbells’ is an open invitation for excuses. 

Maybe you find yourself in a place where there are no 25LB dumbbells. 

For whatever reason, on this day, maybe you can’t do seated shoulder press. 

The ultimate goal is to maintain consistency with your commitment, and it becomes much easier to do this if you keep this part of your commitment vague. 

Allow yourself plenty of options.

Moving on…

PART TWO: I’m working out with weights every single day

You must specify a constant and consistent time period. Otherwise, your subconscious will latch onto your lack of specificity, and it will use this lack of specificity to squirm out of your commitment.

If left without a specific time period—‘I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years, no matter what’—becomes—‘I’m working out with weights for the next ten years, no matter what’—which technically means you can work out one single time in a ten year span and still be within the standards of your commitment. 

Fun Fact: You’ll never see the results you want by working out once in a ten-year time span.

Am I implying you must do something every single day? 

Yes, I absolutely am. 

Let’s be real: If you can’t allocate some portion of time to your health and fitness every single day, then you’re not committed to your health and fitness.

Make no mistake—I’m not implying you should dedicate an hour per day, or a half hour per day, or fifteen minutes per day, or ten minutes per day, or even five minutes per day. 

You know your schedule better than I do. 

You know your time limitations.

You know your goals.

If you can realistically only commit to spending one minute per day on your health and fitness, then commit to one minute. 

It’s completely up to you to determine a commitment of when and how long you can realistically commit to your fitness and weight loss goals, but if you can’t carve out even a tiny slice of every day then you probably need to reevaluate your goals and your expectations.    

If you know you can’t consistently allocate time, even one minute, every single day, then don’t kid yourself into thinking you can allocate two hours per day, every single day, to achieving your fitness and weight loss goals. 

Maybe your schedule is better suited for five minutes per day.

Maybe it’s better suited for one minute per day.  

Either way, with whatever frequency you decide, be mindful that your level of frequency will dictate your level of results.

If you do more, you will get more. 

Your job when creating your commitment is to honestly determine how much time and effort you are willing and able to expend to accomplish your goal. If you cannot reasonably expend the necessary amount of time and effort required to achieve your goal, then you need to accept a more moderate goal. 

As an example:

You’re probably not gonna be an Olympic Powerlifter if you only allocate ten minutes per day to fitness and exercise. 

However, you can still have increased strength and a toned physique from only allocating ten minutes per day to fitness and exercise. 

I recommend you first start with an easy time commitment which you’re certain you can consistently maintain. Then, in the future, if you choose to add, you add.

Right now, as you are first beginning to build your routine, the easier, the better! 

Moving on…

PART THREE: I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years. 

Hey!

Listen up!

Here at Camp Weirdo there’s a fundamental law that must never be broken.

That law is this:

In order to achieve your goals, you must do the thing that works for a long enough period of time to allow that thing to work. 

Now, now, stop with all the moaning and groaning…I didn’t create this Weirdo Law so don’t be yelling and cursing at me.  

God made it.

Evolution made it.

Genetics made it. 

Blame one of them!

In truth, regardless of who made it—It Is The LAW!

LISTEN: You WILL NOT reach your goals if you work out with weights every single day for one day, or for two days, or for five days, or for fifty days. 

You won’t.

I don’t care how hard you exercise or which exercise you do. 

I don’t care if you’re doing HITT, or CrossFit, or taking LimitLess Pills. 

You will not obtain (and maintain) any meaningful results within a short span of time. 

Please, stop relying on that normie mythical fantasy. 

PLEASE, STOP PLAYING THE 30, 60, 90 DAY CHALLENGES THAT ARE LITTERED ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA.

Ignore them. 

They’re Normie Traps.  

To fully escape these traps, you must position yourself a bit differently. 

Right now, you are most likely positioning your weight loss and fitness goals as if the battle is ‘You vs. Fat,’ or ‘You vs. The Gym,’ or ‘You vs. Not Enough Time.’

It’s not.

The battle is ‘You vs. You.’ 

The battle is between your very own conscious brain (which creates hard-core goals and plans) and your very own subconscious brain (which is wired to seek pleasure and to avoid hard-core goals and plans.)

If you want to succeed, your commitment must act as a peace treaty between your conscious and subconscious thoughts. Here’s how you make this work:

1. You do quick, easy, simple workouts that you do not hate or dread doing. (More on this a little later)
2. You do these quick, easy, simple workouts consistently over a long period of time (decades, not days.)

If there is one great secret to sculpting a body you are blissfully proud to live within, it is this:

It is not the quality of any single workout that is inherently important, instead, the duration of your actions is more important than anything else. 

The entire structure of Weirdo Fitness, the complete core strategy, is to do easy for a long period of time rather than doing difficult for only a short period of time.

It’s cliche, I know, but the secret is to just not give up.

The primary goal in creating a successful workout routine is to make it so easy you can maintain one hundred percent consistency rather than creating a difficult workout routine that allows your subconscious mind to eventually justify reasons to give up.   

Doing ten pushups, consistently, every day, for three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days will yield much better results than doing a three-day-per-week-full-body-workout that you read about in Men’s Health Magazine, but which you give up on after only eight weeks. 

You can carry easy for millions of miles, but difficult will cause you to give up after only a few short steps.

What does this have to do with creating a successful commitment?

Everything. 

Your subconscious brain will not commit to doing a difficult task for a long duration of time. It will not comply with that peace treaty. You can plan. You can write your plan down. You can promise yourself you’ll stick with it.

Consciously, you can do all these things, but once life gets in the way and things get even the least bit difficult, your subconscious will revolt, and when it revolts, you will be so worn down, so tired, so fed up that you will be more than happy to accept any seemingly logical excuse which allows you to quit doing the difficult task you consciously know you should keep doing. 

However, your subconscious brain will accept the terms of doing something for a long duration as long as it is something you perceive to be relatively easy.

Your conscious brain can justify easy. It becomes much simpler to enforce the terms of your commitment when you can consciously tell your subconscious thoughts to shut up because all you have to do is something that is quick and easy.   

When creating your commitment, I suggest you be vague when it comes to specific actions but concrete when it comes to the specific duration. 

However, at all costs, your loyalty to sticking with your commitment cannot waver. Unless you no longer want the goal, you must always do what you have committed to do. 

You do this by giving your subconscious as little ammo as possible.

Make the thing you do as easy as you must as long as it allows you to continue on your path for the duration of your commitment. 

Normies start and then stop, but Weirdos keep going. 

No matter what, just keep going.

Fun Fact: Weirdo Yellowbands are earned at a minimum of 30 consecutive days.

Part Four: I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.

Fair warning: Something will happen.

A zombie apocalypse.

The sun will fall from the sky.

An alien invasion will take place.

Something in your life—something you cannot yet foresee—will happen. And your subconscious brain will attempt to use this event as a way to weasel out of your commitment. 

However, unless you are admitted into the ER and physically unable—it is very hard to squirm out of a commitment that says you will do some sort of workout, every single day, for the next ten years, no matter what. 

Why?

First off, because you have decided to commit to doing a workout that is so extremely easy it is nearly impossible to justify not doing it.

And second, because no matter what means no matter what.

If there is a zombie apocalypse, you will find some way, no matter what, to do some sort of quick and easy workout while you slay zombies. 

If the sun crashes from the sky, you will find some way, no matter what, to do some sort of quick and easy workout in the cold dark of eternal night. 

If there is an alien invasion, you will find some way, no matter what, to do some sort of quick and easy workout while dodging laser beams.

It can be a five second workout. 

It can be one pushup.

It can be as simple, as quick, as easy as you want—it just has to keep you true to your commitment. 

No matter what, your commitment must take priority.

No matter what.

 

 

Now Let’s Take Some Action!

Before moving on, it’s extremely important you create your own Concrete Weirdo Commitment.

With that said, right now, you have a choice.

Choice #1: You do nothing. Unfortunately, this is what the vast majority of people who read this will do. They will do nothing. And they will get nothing. Nothing happens if you do nothing. Nothing changes. You will stay the same. You will feel the same. Your clothes will fit the same. Nothing will change. But don’t worry, because this is normal. This is exactly what normal people do. They do nothing. And they get nothing.  

Choice #2: You do something. Using the examples and detailed steps from this article, you create your own Concrete Weirdo Commitment, which will act as a peace treaty between your conscious and subconscious thoughts. This step may seem unimportant; it may seem like a bunch of RooHaaHaa, but I promise you, this step is crucially important. It is everything. If you make this choice, you will be well on your way to getting in the best shape of your life. If you’re having trouble and would like assistance in creating your Concrete Weirdo Commitment (or just a friendly review of your Concrete Weirdo Commitment), then feel free to shoot me an email at Josh@FitnessForWeirdos and I’ll help the best I can. 

Choice # 3: You use my Weirdo Commitment as your own. If you’re finding it difficult to create your own commitment, you’re obviously free to simply use mine as your own. Here’s the one I use that works well for me: I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.

If you decide to use my commitment as your own, here’s the catch: You Must Actually Commit To It!

You have to actually commit to working out with weights, every single day, for the next ten years, no matter what.

This is something you will actually need to do. 

Every Single Day.

For The Next Ten Years.

No Matter What. 

This is a commitment you will be held to. 

Santa Claus will be watching.

And so will the tooth fairy.

And all the itty-bitty little Weirdo Elves! 

If you have chosen choice number one, then our journey together is now at an end. Good luck on your journey.

However, if you have chosen choice two or three, our journey together has just begun. 

For the Weirdos who remain, please click below to jump into Step Three of this Six-Step Weirdo Workout Strategy. From here, I’m gonna show you just how easy getting in the best shape of your life can actually be. 

Let’s get to it!