I did a post the other week where I discussed memes about quitting.

You know the type – puking, crying and bleeding is ok, quitting isn’t.

“Winners never quit, quitters never win”

The following day I saw two Facebook friends share the exact meme I’d used for the blog image.

I’m not sure if they’d copied it of me.

If they did, I do kinda hope they hadn’t read the accompanying text which made the opposite point they were trying to make.

These two acquaintances were / are fellow FitPros I’ve met over the years.

And, you guessed it, they have big muscles.

Because, let’s be honest, all those memes about quitting are only really about being muscular, strong and / or fast, aren’t they?

Usually shared by people who are in great shape (or, at least, are getting in better shape).

From my experience, no one has every aspect of their life exactly as they’d like it to be.

I remember very early on in my fitness career, in a free weights area in Sheffield, listening to a guy having a rant about another gym member who he thought was “lazy” and a “quitter”.

Guy A was in and out of work, rarely saw his kids and didn’t support them and was often in trouble with the police.

But he had big muscles.

Guy B had worked hard for 30 years to provide an amazing life for his family and was a loving and attentive husband and father.

But, to some degree, he’d sacrificed his body and health to make that happen.

I’m not really sure who was the “quitter” there.

Note: I am, and it’s not Guy B.

Life is a balancing act.

It’s hard to fit everything in.

But, from my experience, telling someone they’re a “quitter” for not being in phenomenal shape when they already have an awful lot of stuff on helping others, doesn’t help.

What does help though is helping people realise that when we start to look after our body, energy levels and mood…………

That’s not at the expense of those around us………

It’s to their benefit.

And what else helps is helping people realise that they don’t need to spend hours and hours slogging through gruelling workouts they hate and cooking every meal from scratch.

Tactical changes that take us in the right direction are plenty.

Knowingly sub-optimal and done will always beat “theoretically perfect” and not done.

We’re not training for the Olympics.

We just want to move in the direction of a body we like the look and feel of more.

That can do what we want it to do more often and more easily.

Improved energy levels and mood (it’s www.myrise.co.uk/apply if you like the sound of making those changes without having to do boring exercise you hate and give up your favourite foods).

Nothing wrong with big muscles if someone wants them.

But not having them doesn’t make us a “quitter”.

Much love,

Jon ‘Quilter’ Hall

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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!


Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.