One of the most valuable things that I've done in high school is building my physique.
So I started going to the gym in the beginning of sophomore year.
I actually just graduated a couple days ago from high school and I graduated early.
So it is, I had a senior year but I only had half of a year.
So one semester, senior year.
And so I've realized that the best thing that I've done for myself is build a physique
in high school.
And so with that said, I've seen so many people like try to build their physiques and yeah,
they've seen slight progress.
But the reason why I made so much more progress over other people is because I figured out
when I wanted to go and I went consistency.
I went consistently.
And the thing is that I dedicated everything to this.
This is all I cared about for years.
I would literally just go to the gym, go to school, come home, think about the gym and
then go to bed and then go to the gym.
Like I would just repeat.
That's all I thought about.
And that, like I said that I went to the gym before school, that's very important.
I believe that you should be going to the gym before school if you're a high school student
because this will allow you to be extremely consistent.
And the thing is that you should not go to the gym before school if you're not going
to bed in time.
If you're going to go to the gym before school and reap those rewards, you have to go to
bed in time because I went to gym, I went before school for years and I've also seen
other people go to the gym before school and they did not see nearly as much success as
I did.
And that's because they didn't go to bed in time.
I was going to bed, it depended like depending on when you asked me, I was going to bed at
eight o'clock and then I moved it down to 730 and then I moved it down to seven and then
630 and now it's at six o'clock.
I'm going to bed at six o'clock and that takes sacrifice.
If you want to build a physique in high school, then you should probably say goodbye to your
social life and this is where being a introvert is an extreme advantage and that's because
I'm able to just not talk to anyone for weeks upon months.
Over summer break, I did not talk to anyone.
Over breaks, I just did not talk to anyone and I'm coming at the beginning of a very
long time away from anyone.
The next time I'm going to see anyone from my school is when graduation happens, which
is in May because I did graduate early a couple days ago, but I'm walking the graduation
ceremony in May.
So be able to just not talk to anyone and the thing is that you're probably going to
outgrow those people anyways.
So like your real friends are the people going to the gym in the morning with you and I did
find that.
I did find that to be true.
Those are the real friends that are going to stick around with you.
So go to the gym in the morning and the thing is you, this will do more than build your physique.
This will build extreme discipline because if you do what I did, where you bike to the
gym, which I definitely recommend bike, only bike to the gym, you wake up like five in
the morning, you like shower or whatever I prefer to shower in the before the gym and
after the gym.
Just I don't like to feel gross while I'm lifting.
Just a personal preference.
You wake up, shower, eat if you want.
If you're going to school, I prefer you should probably eat in the morning and then go to
the gym and then you go to school.
That takes discipline, especially if you're in a cold climate.
Like I live in Chicago.
Chicago is freezing in the wintertime.
And so you're biking in the dark.
You're biking in the snow, in the rain at five in the morning.
Like that takes serious discipline and that really builds you.
So that part is very valuable.
And then doing it every single day because if you're going in the morning, you build up
that habit of going to the gym and then you shower there and then you bike from the gym
to school.
You build up certain habits that make it so you actually prefer to go to the gym in the
morning, especially when your sleep is on point and you've gone to the gym in the morning.
You're already like of awakened and you've been awake for a couple hours.
I did this and I actually had more sleep than most of my peers.
Like a lot of my classmates were going to bed at 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, like
very late hours on a school day.
They weren't waking up till like 7.30 and they were miserable during first period.
But me?
I've been up for four hours.
I'm chilling.
And I am wide awake because I just put some work in at the gym and I'm pumped up during
class.
So that's like that is an extreme advantage to go into the gym before school because then
you're way more focused.
I found that I was way more productive during my classes except I got a little bit more
tired during eighth period, which was like my last period of the day.
But thankfully I dropped that class very quick.
So like that, it didn't even matter.
And then so while you're at school, you get the benefits.
And then right after school, what you do is you read.
Like that's all you do.
You go home and you read.
You don't like you can hang out with friends if you want.
But if you're serious, you don't.
You read books.
And then after that, you eat like you eat food right when you get home and then you read
for the rest of the night and then you go to bed.
You go to bed at like 6 o'clock or 7 o'clock.
Like this is serious.
Like you go to bed early.
You want to get at least nine hours of sleep every single night or else you might as well
not even go to the gym in the morning.
If you're not getting nine hours bare minimum every single night, don't go in the morning.
It is only worth it if you get nine hours of sleep.