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One of the most valuable things that I've done in high school is building my physique.

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So I started going to the gym in the beginning of sophomore year.

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I actually just graduated a couple days ago from high school and I graduated early.

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So it is, I had a senior year but I only had half of a year.

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So one semester, senior year.

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And so I've realized that the best thing that I've done for myself is build a physique

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in high school.

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And so with that said, I've seen so many people like try to build their physiques and yeah,

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they've seen slight progress.

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But the reason why I made so much more progress over other people is because I figured out

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when I wanted to go and I went consistency.

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I went consistently.

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And the thing is that I dedicated everything to this.

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This is all I cared about for years.

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I would literally just go to the gym, go to school, come home, think about the gym and

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then go to bed and then go to the gym.

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Like I would just repeat.

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That's all I thought about.

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And that, like I said that I went to the gym before school, that's very important.

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I believe that you should be going to the gym before school if you're a high school student

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because this will allow you to be extremely consistent.

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And the thing is that you should not go to the gym before school if you're not going

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to bed in time.

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If you're going to go to the gym before school and reap those rewards, you have to go to

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bed in time because I went to gym, I went before school for years and I've also seen

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other people go to the gym before school and they did not see nearly as much success as

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I did.

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And that's because they didn't go to bed in time.

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I was going to bed, it depended like depending on when you asked me, I was going to bed at

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eight o'clock and then I moved it down to 730 and then I moved it down to seven and then

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630 and now it's at six o'clock.

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I'm going to bed at six o'clock and that takes sacrifice.

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If you want to build a physique in high school, then you should probably say goodbye to your

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social life and this is where being a introvert is an extreme advantage and that's because

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I'm able to just not talk to anyone for weeks upon months.

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Over summer break, I did not talk to anyone.

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Over breaks, I just did not talk to anyone and I'm coming at the beginning of a very

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long time away from anyone.

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The next time I'm going to see anyone from my school is when graduation happens, which

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is in May because I did graduate early a couple days ago, but I'm walking the graduation

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ceremony in May.

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So be able to just not talk to anyone and the thing is that you're probably going to

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outgrow those people anyways.

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So like your real friends are the people going to the gym in the morning with you and I did

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find that.

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I did find that to be true.

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Those are the real friends that are going to stick around with you.

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So go to the gym in the morning and the thing is you, this will do more than build your physique.

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This will build extreme discipline because if you do what I did, where you bike to the

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gym, which I definitely recommend bike, only bike to the gym, you wake up like five in

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the morning, you like shower or whatever I prefer to shower in the before the gym and

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after the gym.

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Just I don't like to feel gross while I'm lifting.

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Just a personal preference.

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You wake up, shower, eat if you want.

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If you're going to school, I prefer you should probably eat in the morning and then go to

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the gym and then you go to school.

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That takes discipline, especially if you're in a cold climate.

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Like I live in Chicago.

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Chicago is freezing in the wintertime.

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And so you're biking in the dark.

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You're biking in the snow, in the rain at five in the morning.

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Like that takes serious discipline and that really builds you.

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So that part is very valuable.

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And then doing it every single day because if you're going in the morning, you build up

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that habit of going to the gym and then you shower there and then you bike from the gym

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to school.

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You build up certain habits that make it so you actually prefer to go to the gym in the

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morning, especially when your sleep is on point and you've gone to the gym in the morning.

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You're already like of awakened and you've been awake for a couple hours.

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I did this and I actually had more sleep than most of my peers.

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Like a lot of my classmates were going to bed at 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock, like

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very late hours on a school day.

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They weren't waking up till like 7.30 and they were miserable during first period.

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But me?

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I've been up for four hours.

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I'm chilling.

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And I am wide awake because I just put some work in at the gym and I'm pumped up during

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class.

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So that's like that is an extreme advantage to go into the gym before school because then

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you're way more focused.

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I found that I was way more productive during my classes except I got a little bit more

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tired during eighth period, which was like my last period of the day.

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But thankfully I dropped that class very quick.

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So like that, it didn't even matter.

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And then so while you're at school, you get the benefits.

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And then right after school, what you do is you read.

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Like that's all you do.

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You go home and you read.

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You don't like you can hang out with friends if you want.

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But if you're serious, you don't.

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You read books.

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And then after that, you eat like you eat food right when you get home and then you read

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for the rest of the night and then you go to bed.

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You go to bed at like 6 o'clock or 7 o'clock.

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Like this is serious.

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Like you go to bed early.

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You want to get at least nine hours of sleep every single night or else you might as well

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not even go to the gym in the morning.

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If you're not getting nine hours bare minimum every single night, don't go in the morning.

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It is only worth it if you get nine hours of sleep.