Where's the Rest of the Disaster?

To make athletic gains, like any other gains, you must keep pushing to get further. This Western notion is Faustian, pushing through time and space.

When lifting weights, you must lift more, faster, more times, with greater stress, and then with better method to serve the purpose of the action.

Runners are made better by improving time, distance, and energy use through recovery trained by pulsed intervals.

In the suburbs more than the cities, you'll witness joggers with no gusto and terrible physiques, inspiring the same wonder that makes one marvel over weaklings who devotedly attend the gym but do not achieve results. Looking at them, you might think exercise is what not to do if you want to get into good physical shape.

Awful diet? No sleep? Plagued by anxiety and unrest? Atrocious genetics?

Something is terribly wrong with their approach or their traits that denies them results that should be quickly apparent in normal people. In any case, the feedback of non-results should make them aware that this way is not a good fit for them.