Make way for the 2 hunkiest doctors in the house, baby!!

Yes – we build them with the right stuff at The Forge.

Chunky to hunky all the way.

So this is how it works.

Imagine you’re feeling under the weather.

You know what that does to you.

You’re tired, exhausted, crankier than a mosquito in a mannequin factory – and all you want is to get better as fast as possible.

When you are that way, I bet you anything that the first request on your list is to know you’re in safe and capable hands.

And strong ones to boot.

So let me introduce you to Dr. Mark and Dr. Karim.

They’ve put down their stethoscopes for a little while, and grabbed some dumbbells instead.

And boy, does it show.

You won’t get many of these bad boys to the pound.

 

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO?

You know, it’s always been a moot point for me that a doctor should be a picture of health.

After all, if your bread and butter is making others healthy, shouldn’t you be as healthy as you possible can yourself?

And if you are rocking the fitness train, it should show pretty clearly right?

So here’s a question: why are most doctors I know seriously out of shape?

And I’m not talking one offs – I’m saying that at least 7 out of local 10 doctors are definitely unfit.

Yes, it’s that bad.

And this is not just something I have observed locally – obesity is an epidemic that has spared no one, including health professionals everywhere.

There is a lot of research that shows that doctors are just as out of shape as non-medical people. The fact that they are medically trained and are the official guardians of human health makes no difference at all.

For all you professionals who are supposedly at the forefront of the healthy industry, that should be a serious wake up call.

How can you make me feel awesome if you look like shit, Doc?

I mean, you’re sitting there, at least 10kg over-weight, looking like death warmed over and you’re telling me how I should get into shape?

Seriously…

Again, research show that a doctor’s lifestyle directly affect their patients. A recent Hopkins study indicated that doctors who are more health conscious, and who made an effort to stay in shape were far more likely to counsel their patients on the necessity of fitness in their lives.

And, when that happens, patients are far more likely to listen and do something about it.

Unfortunately, the flip side is that doctors who are unhealthy role models fail to promote healthy behaviour in their patients.

I mean, if your doctor obviously doesn’t give a flying banana, how likely are you to be influenced positively when he is telling you to exercise and eat properly?

So Doc, let’s stop this couch potato crap shall we?

That’s not how it works.

That’s pretty much like some personal instructor, who is either impersonating a stick insect or whose latest (and perhaps only) encounter with a six pack was at the beer aisle in the supermarket, telling me how to exercise properly.

Just gimme a break, will you?

 

PAYING YOUR DUES

If you want to talk the talk, you better be walking the walk.

And you had better be showing me you’re reasonably fit and healthy to inspire my confidence…and my trust.

And that means – LEAD BY EXAMPLE.

Put the work in and practice what you preach.

Stop the excuses. They are exactly that – excuses.

You roll up your sleeves and go to work.

That is how we do it at The Forge.

And I can assure you without any shadow of doubt that Dr. Mark and Dr. Karim are the real deal.

They put time aside to pay their dues and get shit done.

And yes, time is made. Never found.

It’s not easy to find time for yourself, on anyone’s schedule.

But with a doctor’s shift being severely demanding, that’s even more of a challenge.

Yet these two get it done.

They are medics on a mission.

And, at The Forge, we make sure that the mission is a success by giving them all the support they need, and making sure that each and every session gets all the juice squeezed out of it.

We make every minute count – anything less is just not acceptable.

So guys, I’m proud of you.

It’s a long road, but we live to fight every day.

That’s what makes people like you one percenters.

Now, get ready to get back under that bar and say “AAAH!”

 

 

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