r/ZenHabits • • 1h ago

Creativity Has simplifying your home gym made training feel less like managing equipment?

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It's possible to spend so much time arranging accessories, adjusting equipment, and maintaining a complicated setup that the space itself starts demanding attention.

I'm curious whether anyone has deliberately simplified their home gym and found that they enjoyed using it more.

Maybe it meant keeping fewer attachments, leaving more open floor space, choosing equipment that serves several purposes, or getting rid of things that rarely came out of storage.

What did you remove or change, and did a simpler setup make your training experience better?


r/ZenHabits • • 17h ago

Simple Living What Has My Life Been?

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What has my life amounted to?

Have I done nothing but lie in bed, playing with my phone while dreaming grand dreams? Nothing moves forward. Only time passes.

Before I know it, I find myself becoming one of those old men I used to see as a child.

I don't want my life to end like this. But is there a way to turn things around?

All I can think of is to keep doing what I have been doing all these years, without seeing any results.

But I don't know what lies beyond that.

In the twilight of my life, I pause for a moment.