With that said, the next obvious question is how do you increase your self-disciple? How do you strengthen your willpower? How do you ensure you can stay consistent to your Weirdo Commitment?

You do this the same way you would strengthen any muscle.

You start at a reasonable spot, then you progressively get stronger. 

Imagine going into the gym for the very first time and someone lowers a nine-hundred-pound barbell onto your chest.

Bad idea.

One that would probably not end very well.

In reality, you’d have to start slower.

You’d have to start easier.

You’d start with a fifty-pound barbell.

A few weeks later you progress to sixty pounds.

A few weeks after that you’re at seventy pounds.

This is exactly how you build up your self-discipline and willpower. 

This is exactly how you maintain one hundred percent consistency to your commitment. 

You start at a reasonably easy spot, then you progress. 

Today, if your workout routine is too hard, too complicated, or too inconvenient—you are essentially lowering a nine-hundred-pound barbell onto your conscious goals—and (as a way of protecting you from pain) your subconscious will fiercely battle against this. It will create excuses which will justify all the reasons you cannot and should not continue.  

You don’t have time, your subconscious will say. 

You’ll make up for it tomorrow, it will promise. 

You’ll do two-a-day’s during the weekend, it rationalizes. 

And you know very well what happens—this can of excuses gets kicked down the road for years and years (which for most people becomes their entire lives.) 

Most people will never reach their weight loss, fitness, or health goals. 

Most people will live their entire lives lying to themselves, never realizing the tangible results of living inside a body they are proud to live within.

Instead, they’ll live day-by-day. Always making plans for tomorrow. Always hoping they’ll one day have more self-disciple. Always dreaming willpower will magically find them. But this never happens and so they remain miserable; they remain trapped inside a prison of their own bodies, left with only a mind full of hope and a steady supply of weak excuses.

The key to escaping this miserable cycle is to start at a reasonable and easy spot.

Oddly enough, most people won’t start a workout routine like this.

Just as our subconscious thoughts will sabotage our success by causing us to quit a torturous and painful workout routine too early, our conscious thoughts will guilt us into not starting easy.

Easy is lazy, our conscious thoughts will say. Easy doesn’t move the needle. There’s no sense in starting a workout routine that doesn’t build muscle.

You may be nodding your head while reading these statements, but, again, here’s the secret to success regarding fitness, weight loss, and building muscle. 

You Must Start.

And You Must Continue. 

You tell me, honestly, which of these options are you more likely to start and stick with?

Option 1: You make a concrete commitment to wake up at four AM, four days per week, so you can get a solid workout in before work. At the gym you’re gonna do a 20-minute treadmill jog as a warmup, then roll into a full body workout where you complete three sets of upper body exercises and then three sets of lower body exercises with each set consisting of 8-12 reps. You’re thinking (including the drive to and from the gym), this will take about an hour and a half of your day. 

Option 2: You make a concrete commitment to do one daily exercise (every single day) that targets one muscle group, and you make that exercise as easy as humanly possible. You’re thinking this will take about five minutes of your day. 

Right now, your conscious thoughts may be thinking, ‘Well, yea, I’d definitely rather do one exercise that is super-easy, but doing one super-easy exercise is not going to get me to my goal.’

Stop.

Look…if your conscious rational thoughts just put that idea into your head then I need you to do us both a favor. First, I need you to turn around, then I need you to grab your conscious thoughts by the face, then I need you to slap your conscious thoughts as hard as you can. 

First off, you don’t know if doing one super-easy exercise will get you to your goal because you’ve never done one super-easy exercise consistently (every single day) for a long period of time. 

It may get you to your goals.

It may not.

Try it.

Find out.

Either way, I guarantee that one super-easy exercise, done consistently every single day, will get you much closer to your goals than starting a difficult and complex workout routine that you quit after a few weeks or months.  

Secondly, the primary goal of starting super easy isn’t to build you into an Olympic Powerlifter, instead it’s to strengthen your self-discipline and willpower to a level where it’s possible for you (if you choose) to become an Olympic Powerlifter.

The truth is:

If you have to work late one evening, or if your child is sick, or if you are sick, or if you are on vacation, or if life happens in any one of a million different ways…THEN YOU ARE NOT GOING TO WAKE UP AT FOUR AM AND GO TO THE GYM AND DO A 20-MINUTE TREADMILL JOG AS A WARMUP, THEN ROLL INTO A FULL BODY WORKOUT WHERE YOU COMPLETE THREE SETS OF UPPER BODY EXERCISES AND THEN THREE SETS OF LOWER BODY EXERCISES WITH EACH SET CONSISTING OF 8-12 REPS!

You won’t.

You’re going to stay in bed. 

You’re going to tend to your sick child. 

You’re going to lounge around and drink martinis all day. 

You’re going to allow a crack to form, which will splinter and weaken your concrete commitment. 

Let’s be real: 

When life gets in the way you’ll skip your intense workout routine and instead of doing that long torturous workout you’ll willfully accept the first decent justification your subconscious brain devises and you’ll gladfully accept this justification because it will relieve you from the guilt of having to label yourself as a quitter.  

No one wants to believe they are a quitter.

Instead, we’d rather believe we couldn’t do our workout because we didn’t have time, or because we had to work late the evening before, or because we were on vacation, or because our kid got sick.

We’ll easily accept the justification of how we’ll make up for it tomorrow, or of how we’ll do two-a-day’s during the weekend.  

However, you and I both know, once we give up one time it’s the beginning of the end for that workout routine.

Our concrete commitment is all but dead. 

The very next day our subconscious thoughts will devise another seemingly logical justification. Then there will be another the day after, another the day after that, and before we know it, we’re fat and flabby again, frustrated with ourselves because of our lack of self-disciple and weak willpower. 

Listen…

There is another way.

Picture this…

You have to work late one evening, or your child is sick, or you are sick, or you are on vacation, or life happens in any one of a million different ways…

Instead of sticking to your normal workout routine where you wake up at four AM and you go to the gym and you do a 20-minute treadmill jog as a warmup, then roll into a full body workout where you complete three sets of upper body exercises and then three sets of lower body exercises with each set consisting of 8-12 reps – instead of committing to all this, you simply go into your bedroom and you do one super-easy exercise that takes five minutes to complete.

You do pushups.

Or you do air-squats.

Or you do handstands. 

Whatever…it doesn’t much matter what you do. The goal at this point is not necessarily the intensity of the workout. Instead, the goal is that you do something to keep you in compliance with your Weirdo Commitment.

The goal is that you continue. 

The goal is that you allow zero cracks to form in your Weirdo Commitment. 

The goal is to do this one super-easy exercise on this one difficult day and then you are done.

Workout complete. 

And by doing this one super-easy exercise (which took less than five minutes to complete), you accomplished one of the most important aspects of achieving your health and fitness goals—You Continued.  

You showed up.

You stuck with it even when life threw you a curve ball.

You did what you set out to do. 

And each time you show up—each time you do what you set out to do, your self-disciple and willpower get just a teeny bit stronger, which is the equivalent of starting with fifty pounds on the bar, then progressing, and progressing, and progressing—only now you are steadily strengthening your self-disciple and willpower as well as your physical strength. 

Remember…

Consistently showing up when you say you will show up is much more important than how much you lift or how much you do.

Showing up and consistently doing the easy thing is much more important than starting and then sporadically showing up for the difficult thing.  

What Is This Magical Super-Easy Exercise That Will Change Your Life Forever? 

For the record, there is no magical exercise that will immediately change your life.

The point of this entire Weirdo Strategy is not about any specific exercise.

Instead, the point of this strategy is to convince you to start with one simple exercise (that is so easy it seems ridiculous not to do it) so you can build up your self-discipline and willpower to a level where you can stick with your commitment for a minimum of 1,000 days.

For me, that one simple exercise was pushups. 

For you, it may be something different. 

Your one simple exercise may be air-squats, or swimming, or burpees, or jump rope, or goat yoga, or hula-hooping, or twerking, or biking, or bench pressing, or Kangaroo jumps, or any one of a million different available exercises.

You can use dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells, body weight, a bicycle, coconuts, water bottles, whatever…

At this point, the specific exercise you choose does not much matter as long as it falls within these three parameters:

1. It must be an exercise you do not hate.
2. It must be ONE exercise that targets ONE area of your body where you want improvement. 
3. It must be an exercise that is super-easy and extremely convenient. 

These parameters are important; let’s break them down a bit further:

Parameter #1: It must be an exercise you do not hate. 

Listen –

If fitness and weight loss were the Superbowl, the team hoisting the trophy is the team that’s able to maintain one-hundred percent consistency to their commitment.

Your goal at this point—All That Matters—is your ability to maintain one-hundred percent consistency to your Weirdo Commitment.

If you can accomplish this, you will win; you will accomplish your goals; you will get in the best shape of your life. 

Now I’m no super ninja mindreader so I don’t know what specific Weirdo Commitment you made but I do know you will not stick with your Weirdo Commitment if you hate the exercise or workout you’ve committed to do. 

Point being:

You must make this an exercise you do not hate.

Here’s how this worked for me: 

As you know, my Weirdo Commitment is this: ‘I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.’

This means I must do some sort of workout every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.

It doesn’t matter what workout I do as long as I do some sort of workout every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.

The duration doesn’t matter. The specific exercise doesn’t matter. Where the workout takes place doesn’t matter. How many reps I do doesn’t matter. All that matters is that I do some sort of workout every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.

Fun Fact: I hate squats. 

I know, I know, I know… Everyone says squats are the greatest exercise on the planet.

I don’t care. I hate them so I don’t do them. 

Another Fun Fact: I hate deadlifts.

I know, I know, I know… Everyone says deadlifts are the greatest exercise on the planet.

I don’t care. I hate them so I don’t do them.

I also hate any exercise that is so complicated I feel I need a technical manual to complete it.

Here’s the truth: If I were to commit to doing squats and deadlifts, I would not stick to that commitment. 

I’d eventually fizzle out. And I’d fizzle out because we’re humans, you and me both. And as humans, we’re far less likely to maintain consistency by forcing ourselves to consistently do an exercise or workout routine we hate. 

With that said, I don’t hate doing pushups. I don’t hate doing planks. I don’t hate doing chin-ups. I don’t hate doing step-ups. I don’t hate doing shoulder press. 

Now make no mistake, I don’t love doing pushups, or planks, or chin-ups, or step-ups, or shoulder press. I’m not the guy that calls my friends and says, “Hey, Pushup Party at my place! Who coming over?!”

I may be a Weirdo but I’m not a psycho.

I accept these exercises.

To reach my goals, I know I must do something, and these are the exercises I don’t absolutely despise, so these are the ones I choose as my allies.

Good news: At this point, you only need to find one single exercise that fits within these parameters. 

One. 

That’s it. 

I chose pushups as my one, but you can choose whatever exercise your quick-beating little heart desires. 

Moving on…

Parameter #2: It must be ONE exercise that targets ONE area of your body where you want improvement. 

This is important and I’ll bet you a shiny green nickel you’re gonna be tempted to disregard this step when building your Weirdo Workout Routine.

One. 

I’m gonna write that again but in bold.

One.   

I’m gonna write it once more but in bold and in caps. 

ONE. 

At this stage in building your Weirdo Workout Routine, you need only ONE exercise.

ONE! 

Not two, not three, not four.

ONLY ONE SINGLE EXERCISE!

I know, I know, I know…but you want a well-balanced physique.

You don’t want chicken legs with baboon biceps. You don’t want to look unbalanced. You want symmetry. 

Listen:

ONE!

For this phase in building your Weirdo Workout Routine you need to do ONLY ONE SINGLE EXERCISE!

Symmetry will come soon enough, I promise, but at this step we are laser focused on building a routine that is so simple your subconscious brain is unable to weasel a way out of doing it. 

Everything at this point is to ensure you maintain one hundred percent consistency with your Weirdo Commitment. 

Remember: The absolute most important aspects of fitness and weight loss are STARTING and CONTINUING.

If you start with a slew of exercises (that eats gobs of time), the moment life punches you in the face the odds of continuing that routine drastically diminishes. 

You’ll quit before your self-discipline and willpower are strong enough to power you through the toughest of times. 

Please!

Start with ONE exercise that targets ONE area of your body where you most want to see improvement. 

Not sure how to pick only ONE single exercise that targets ONE specific area of your body?

Go here: https://musclewiki.com/

Hover over an area of the body where you want to see improvements on your own body. Click on that area of the body and stand back! Poof! Exercises will appear! Choose only ONE!

Did you find ONE you don’t hate?

Great!

Let’s move on…

Parameter #3: It must be an exercise that is super-easy and extremely convenient. 

If you have chosen an exercise you don’t much even consider to be exercising, then you have chosen the right exercise.  

This exercise should be both super-easy and super-convenient.

You should be able to do this super-easy exercise anywhere (whether that place be at your home, a gym, a hotel, or a campsite) and you should be able to do it with very little equipment. 

Why is this important?

Because ‘not having the proper equipment’ becomes an excuse?

And ‘this exercise is too hard’ becomes an excuse.

And committing to an exercise that’s not convenient becomes an excuse. 

Look—your subconscious brain is an Excuse Hunter. All day, every day, it’s busy tossing couch cushions and rummaging through cabinet drawers searching for some excuse or another to prevent you from sticking to your commitment. 

Your job—the way you fight back—is to remove all possible excuses. You light all the excuses on fire. You destroy them.

And once you do this (with no readily accessible excuses) your subconscious brain will grudgingly cooperate. It will sit down, it will shut up, it will come along for the ride.

However, it will slink slowly down the aisle, its head hung low. Straight to the back it will sit, and it will stare quietly through the window, all the while plotting a million sneaky ways to derail the fitness and weight loss train.  

It will wait for the perfect moment. 

For the day you get sick. 

For the day you have to work late.

For the day your plane is delayed six hours. 

For the day you’re on vacation. 

Easy is how you combat your subconscious brain’s crafty little tricks. 

ONE simple, easy, convenient exercise is your weapon. 

Once you’ve chosen your weapon, let’s wrap this second phase up with some action!

The goal of this phase is twofold:

1. To discover ONE super-easy and convenient exercise (that you do not hate). 
2. To do this ONE super-easy and convenient exercise (with one hundred percent consistency) for a minimum of 30 consecutive days. 

For me, my ONE super-easy and convenient exercise was pushups. I chose them because I do not consider pushups to be all that complicated and because they are convenient enough to do nearly anywhere. I’ve done pushups in hotels, in my bedroom, in my kitchen, in gyms, in bathrooms, while I was on vacation, while I was on work trips, while I was actually at work.

You name it, I’ve probably done my quick and super-easy pushup routine there.

When I first committed to losing weight and getting in shape, my routine was to do ten initial pushups, then I waited one minute, then I did fifteen pushups, then I waited another minute, and I wrapped up this easy little workout by doing as many pushups as I could. (Which was about seventeen at the time.)

This simple routine took me less than five minutes to complete, and, by doing it—it kept me in compliance with my Weirdo Commitment which is: ‘I’m working out with weights every single day for the next ten years, no matter what.’

For some of you, you may be thinking, “But I don’t wanna do pushups.”

This is fine.

Don’t do pushups.

Do whatever exercise you want. Just ensure it fits within the three parameters above.

Some of you may be thinking three sets is too hard.

This is fine.

Don’t do three sets.

Do two sets. Do one set. 

At this point, the ENTIRE GOAL is to do something consistently for a minimum of thirty consecutive days where you are sticking to your Weirdo Commitment.   

Some of you may be thinking this is entirely too easy. 

A few measly pushups…

Ha!

Child’s play.  

If this is you, stand back, because I’m lobbing a truth bomb.

In a sense you are correct. 

Yes! It’s obviously easier to do the thing you consider to be easy, but when it comes to maintaining one hundred percent consistency even the easy becomes hard. 

Fair warning:

It is the consistency that is difficult.

It’s the not giving up when you’ve had one of the longest, most frustrating, most miserable days of your life that is hard. 

Doing your ONE simple and convenient exercise is easy.

But doing your ONE simple and convenient exercise consistently, every single day, is not. 

Every single day is what is hard.

Every single day is what 99% of humans will not, cannot, or choose not to do.

Every single day is what separates those who achieve from those who do not. 

Your primary objective at this point is consistency.

It’s to continue.

Every single day.

No matter what.  

And this is where Normies fail. 

It’s where I have failed.

It’s where you have failed. 

With that said, right now you have a choice. 

Choice #1: You can do nothing. You can click out of this article and in a few days, weeks, months you’ll forget you ever read these weirdo words. You’ll go about your merry life. You’ll see zero changes in your pant size. You’ll live exactly as you live now. 

Choice #2: You can begin, right now, today, at this very moment, by doing ONE simple, super-easy, convenient exercise (that will literally take less than five minutes), and by doing this, you will automatically be thrust onto a path that will completely change your entire life. 

One super-easy exercise.

For 30 consecutive days. 

If you decide to take the Weirdo path of choice #2 then as soon as you have completed this 30-day phase of Building Your Weirdo Workout Routine, two things will happen:

1. You will have advanced within the Weirdo Ranks and will be eligible to wear the well-respected Yellow Weirdo Band. 
2. You will be ready (if you choose) to move into the fourth step of Building Your Weirdo Workout Routine.