I'm 17 years old hiking the Appalachian Trail with a friend. Yesterday we met Greybeard. He's 82 and 900 miles in to setting the world record for oldest AT Thru-Hiker

I definitely do not have free time to go to the gym every day. I could maybe manage 2 times a week. I work a high stress finance job where I typically don't take breaks or lunches, and I'm a single dad and a college student. I have nobody to help me since I moved to a new city for a degree so getting up at 5 am wouldn't work because of my young child. During the semester my days literally start at six am and end sometime around midnight to 2 am every day with no breaks. Weekends are mainly for recovering, trying to do family stuff with my son, and also working more and doing homework when he's asleep.

I get that you've been disciplined but I really hate that attitude of "anyone could find an hour a day to go to the gym". I'm an incredibly busy person and most other white collar professionals and single parents I know are similarly busy. Not joking, I sincerely have went weeks where I only managed 5 or 6 hours of sleep the entire week and was busy the entire time I was awake, with chores/errands/appointments with lawyers and doctors and accountants/raising my son/doing fun things with my son so his only memories of me aren't of me working on my laptop/working/attending higher education/homework.

It's not even like I'm some six figure big shot, I'm just trying to get there. Those guys are even more busy. I've always been a "the floor is my gym" guy anyways but the people I know who go to the gym every day have made that a large aspect of their life and the ones I know usually don't have professional jobs or families.

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