New Year's Resolutions and Your Lazy Ass.

The New Year's Resolution must be one of the most ridiculous of human customs.

You identify a problem you're having, and then you wait until January 1st of the next year to address it,

in the spirit of a group participation event that nobody completes

and nobody approaches seriously. You decide that you're going to quit eating chocolate or stop

scratching your feet. You stop until January the 5th. You're typical. In the gym business, New Year's Resolution business used to be a

bigger factor than it is now. 25 years ago, fewer people participated in the fitness industry

during the regular course of the year. So more people were free to buy memberships in January

they weren't going to use.

Back then, New Year's business was a significant percentage of the year's growth.

And the leveling off of this spike is really a good thing for everybody.

The gym isn't as crowded with amateurs for the first three weeks after their hangovers are gone, and more people are using the gym more of the year.

But if you fall into the category of die-hard New Year's resolutioners

that insist on giving it a shot this year again,

let me suggest a different approach this time

strength training training is the systematic approach a person employs to

improve a physical ability preparing for a marathon a football season or a

weightlifting meat are examples of training.

They require an analysis of the specifics of the task, an assessment of where you are now in

relation to where you want to be, and a plan for getting there. The plan and its constituent components are the training.

The constituent components are the workouts, and each workout is important

because together they produce an accumulation of increasing physical capacity.

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