I’m going to show you two vehicles and I want you to decide which one you want to drive to work. You’ll certainly get the boss’s attention with either of them, but which one would earn you an invite back to work? Especially if you took your boss for a spin.
You probably picked the Bugatti Veyron. I sure as hell did. It’s a 2.6 million dollar vehicle. It’s oil change is $20,000. It’s set of tires is $30,000 and will need to be changed every 2500 miles. It’s a high performance machine that can reach 60 mph from a standstill in just over 2 seconds. This is a high maintenance vehicle if I ever saw one.
While that dump truck is powerfully strong, it’s certainly not high maintenance. It runs on dirty diesel fuel. It takes about 45 minutes and a downhill to reach 60 mph. It’s not a luxurious ride.
I want my body to work like a Bugatti.
Unfortunately, I’ve been driving it like a dumptruck. I’ve been fueling it with diesel instead of high octane. I haven’t gotten it up to speed, revved the engine, or treated it like the machine it could be. Sweets, and salty chips don’t make an engine or a body run well. Sitting on my butt doesn’t work either. It takes exercise and eating right to make our bodies like the well oiled machines others would be jealous to drive.
You see, there may only be 40 bugattis in the world, but this is only body we’ve got. It’s even more rare, even more precious than a 2.6 million dollar car. The difference between our bodies and the cars is that our bodies get stronger when we run them hard. Our bodies run smoother, more efficiently. Whereas cars wear out, need oil changes, new tires and $21,000 routine maintenance to prevent them from breaking down while running hard. They don’t get strong with workouts.
It’s time to eat right, time to exercise right, time to get this machine running better than a Bugatti.
Great analogy!
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Thanks, Kathy. Great car, too!
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I had no idea such an expensive car existed! I read this as I sat here sipping on a coke 😮
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It’s a crazy kind of car! Hope you enjoyed that Coke…
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Reading as I eat Girl Scout cookies. 😂
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HAHA.. better eat ’em all!
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I love the analogy! And I’m with you! On it… let’s do it, Eric! Our summer is almost over but you have a summer coming up. I decided I don’t need to work for a summer body but I definitely want a good and healthy winter body.
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Exactly. We shouldn’t workout for a season. We should work to be healthy 🙂
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Yep. Got thrown off my track because of stuff going on in my life and I just couldn’t bring up the energy to push myself. Which is totally stupid as healthy eating and exercising usually gives me so much. Well, here is to another go 😉
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It’s like blogging and everything else we do in life… we get out of it what we put into it. Except that with healthy eating and exercise we can get more.
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The Bugatti is really nice! The colour is good too. There’s something about the dump truck – it’s down to earth. Excuse me while I fish my Twix… p
P.s: You made a very good analogy and it’s so true. You are what you eat. 🙂
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There’s another color, black with dark red instead of blue. It looks just as good. The dump truck is strong, down to earth, and useful. So I’m not totally disregarding it. Just saying I don’t want my body to look like one.
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Lose the Coke! :p
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Have you been watching Top Gear?
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LOL I may have just watched an episode 🙂
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You sounded very Jeremy Clarkson-ish.
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I like his sense of humor. Plus he knows a thing or two about cars 🙂
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I could care less about cars but those guys are hilarious. Unfortunately I don’t think the Amazon version has nearly the teeth Top Gear had.
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Getting old blows doesn’t it! I feel you here sir. I just ordered some new weights and have eaten the last box of Girl Scout cookies and am ready to be an adult again.
Maybe…
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Mmmm girl scout cookies! I’ll be an adult as soon as I’m done throwing a temper tantrum about having to be an adult.
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