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Completely agree with this. I'm fitter (can run further, lift more, more aesthetic figure) than I was in my late teens / early twenties and it was all down to

• monero-xmr 2y ago
  You don’t have to stop maximizing income in order to get fit and healthy. I schedule time to work out in my calendar. My wife and I prioritize workouts as necessary time. You can eat at a restaurant and order healthy options and drink water. People who blame their work for being unhealthy are making excuses. I’ve worked 60 - 70 hours a week for 2 decades and I’m in excellent physical condition.
  • throwaway22032 2y ago
    I agree. A better way to word it might just be that I prioritise it. I find that a lot of people say "I can't do that because X". I see it more as, well, I have to do that, so I can't do X, then. As you say, scheduling time.
    • monero-xmr 2y ago
      On Saturday night my kids went to sleep, wife goes to sleep, I work out for 2 hours at 10pm. What was everyone else doing? Watching Netflix? People pretend there’s no time but it’s all illusionary.
      • RoyalHenOil 2y ago
        You answered your own question? It sound like everyone else was sleeping. It's odd to suggest that people will have enough time to exercise if they just cut into their bedtime. Is the idea here that you sleep in the next morning, and then your wife wakes up earlier to take up your slack? Is this your suggested solution for everyone? Increase your free time to exercise by reducing someone else's?
        • monero-xmr 2y ago
          My point is that everyone is lifting excuses instead of lifting weights! Get to the gym and stop complaining
          • RoyalHenOil 2y ago
            Do you tell your wife to get to the gym and stop complaining when you go off to exercise without her at 10pm?
            • monero-xmr 2y ago
              No I communicate with my wife and tell her things
        • throwaway22032 2y ago
          You don't exercise in your free time, just like you don't work in your free time. edit: No, I do it in the time I set aside to exercise. This might seem foreign to you but to me it's no different from someone saying "I need £100 to pay the rent" and so they make time and find a way to pay the bills (usually a job). They don't "work in their free time", they structure their life around it because income is important to them.
          • RoyalHenOil 2y ago
            Right, you exercise in your bedtime instead.
      • drivebyhooting 2y ago
        That’s terrible for your sleep.
  • vl 2y ago
    The problem is that top-level competitive work takes a lot of mental and emotional effort. So even if I’m spending time on health, I can’t do it work 100% effort, and so result is still suboptimal.
    • monero-xmr 2y ago
      I have trained myself to shut off work when I stop working. This took a lot of time. Very rarely nowadays is my sleep or time outside work disturbed by what is happening at work. It’s a meditative practice, but once you really get in the mindset of work being for work, family for family, sleep for sleep, etc. then you stop being bothered.
      • Jensson 2y ago
        That means you probably aren't maximizing your career though, which was the point you have to make a choice there.
        • lazide 2y ago
          ‘A Healthy body is a healthy mind’. NOT doing a base level of exercise and body maintenance results in predictable mental issues (anxiety, depression, difficulty learning, etc.).
  • red-iron-pine 2y ago
    > I’ve worked 60 - 70 hours a week for 2 decades and I’m in excellent physical condition. That's not a great flex. Don't be proud of working those hours mon ami. I'm glad youre healthy tho