Alright, many of you noobies the first thing you hear after "read the side bar" is go lift some heavy shit. I've been at this awhile. I'm in my 40's, I've been in the corporate world long enough. I'm part of the management team, so I've been in leadership for a long part of my career. Early on I was this smart-as-fuck cocky engineer in an environment dominated by scientists who didn't understand me, but knew they needed me. I thought there wasn't any pursuit I couldn't "smart" my way through or out of. I made a lot of mistakes that weren't technical, but interpersonal, strategic, and logistical. My reputation suffered as an engineer because of those issues. 10 years later, I was a much better engineer and the way I got there? Working hard and plain old fucking experience.

I was reading another thread, and the OP basically posted "No time to lift, so I lift at work...". I was going to write a whole response but felt this would be a better main topic. Lee Iacocca once approached one of his managers. When he asked the manager why he hadn't taken vacation, said managers response was "I'm too busy." Lee's response to paraphrase "You're the manager of a billion dollar division and you aren't organized enough to schedule vacation? Maybe I need a new manager?"

I tell people to lift so that you become the CEO of your life. I know that if you lift, your wife will find you more attractive. I know that if you lift you can toss your wife around and fuck her like the rag doll she wants to be. Health, well-being, and all those things are the perks of lifting. But the real benefit of getting a lifting program together? You take control of your life.

Women by nature are social-multi-taskers. They are great at sitting around in a coffee clutch and working on the school activities while bitching about kids, or doing the daily grind that is being a SAHM. What evades women like my wife, strategic planning. She can't make it to the gym two days in a row because of some trivial reason. So why would you leave it to your wife to schedule your gym routine? Now you may say “McGill, I don’t. I run my shit, but I just don’t have time!”. Fucking A nonsense. If you can’t eek out 8 hours a week for the gym, maybe your wife needs a new manager.

The real reason you lift is discipline. You set a course for the ship, and those on board help fulfill the mission. By demonstrating to your wife that your priorities come first, she won’t allow her multi-tasking to fuck with your lifting. Learn to say no, I’m going to the gym. I’ve done the gym thing on and off for years. My wife would do things like “Oh, can you go later so I can [insert stupid shit she forgot to plan for]?” Yes dear. “Oh we have dinner plans with xyz on Friday night. Maybe you can go to the gym early Saturday morning?”. Yes dear. “Oh my sister is coming over for dinner tonight, can you move your gym time?”. In all those interactions whose fault is it I didn’t make it to the gym? Mine.

Now I take a different approach. I Crossfit four times a week (along with a Wendler/Oly program). There’s limited time for classes so you can’t just go a “little later”. I’ve made it clear, it’s not negotiable. I go four times a week. Of course she’s tested me. “Oh I made plans for my sister to come over on Saturday, are you still going to go to Crossfit?” Yep. “Oh we’ve been invited over to blah blah blahs to have dinner with their awful kids. Are you still going to go to Crossfit?” Yep. Guess what happened. After a few times of her trying to blow up my plans, she got the point. We haven’t had a conflict in ages. If she knows it’s going to happen, she comes well in advance and tells me “Hey can you go wxyz days so that we can do this on Saturday?”

You may be smart as fuck, but results at the gym, takes time under the bar. You can’t just “pick up some weights” while sitting around the office. It makes you shitty at both. The reason I tell people to lift, is to get discipline and experience. Only time will give you that. It’s the same with Redpill, you can’t just smart your way out of it either.