Your Gym Membership Is a Monthly Donation to Guilt
I keep paying for a gym membership, but I almost never go. I feel guilty canceling it because I might start using it, but I also want to find other ways to stay fit that I will actually do. Is it time to cancel?
Gym Fees For Nothing Guilt,
Unused Treadmill Patron
Cancel it. The gym is a museum where people go to admire the idea of themselves.
If you are not attending, you are not a member, you are a sponsor.
Fitness is not a building, it is a problem you create for your body on purpose.
Start treating daily life like hostile terrain. Stairs are mandatory. Elevators are for the weak and the injured, and you are neither today.
Turn errands into movement with intent. Carry your groceries like you are transporting evidence and you cannot be seen struggling. Park at the far edge of every lot like it is a tactical decision, then walk with enough speed that strangers assume you have a mission.
Now we get serious. Replace your gym with guerrilla fitness: office-building stair raids, curb jumps at intersections, and impromptu wall-sits in places with bad lighting. If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them you are training for composure.
If you need accountability, form a covert calisthenics circle. No branding, no matching shirts, just silent meetups where everyone does ironic pushups like it is performance art and self-defense at the same time.
The gym sells comfort; you need a lifestyle that refuses to let you sit down without consequences.
– Uncle Bobby