For those of you not following my training on Fitocracy, towards the end of last week, I finally broke the crappy Chinese-made Olympic bar that came with my 500-lb. weight set. Sounds awesome to say that, but the truth was a little more underwhelming. Basically, the bolt that holds the collar on snapped during my next-to-last set of Pendlay rows, and the collar came off.

Now, this would have normally been a huge deal, but I am still a member at Net Fitness, so I just transitioned from lifting M-W-F at home and Tu-Th at the gym to lifting five days a week at the gym. However, in spending more time there, I’ve made an observation: People are fucking lazy.

Now, I’m not going to win any awards for original thinking with that particular observation, but it does strike me as incredibly ironic that people would go to the gym, of all places, and be lazy. Let me give you an example to drive this point home.

Every day I go in the gym, I can expect to see weights still loaded on the leg press and dumbbells in random spots. It strikes me as deliciously ironic that someone would go into the gym expressly to lift weights and then refuse to put those weights back because it’s too much work.

And even though this sounds like a rant, it isn’t, for one simple reason: I don’t mind putting those weights up myself. I look at it like this: Every time I move and rack some weight, it burns a few more calories and gives me a minor stimulus to improve my work capacity. And the only drawback is it might take a whopping five minutes out of my morning.

No, instead of a rant, this is a piece of advice. If you are one of those folk who leaves a clutter of plates in your wake, change your thought process. Everything you do in life, everything, has the potential to contribute to your growth, both physically and mentally. By not putting your weights back, you are denying yourself that stimulus which could be bettering you, and giving it to me. And if you are letting that degree of laziness infect your training, think of how much it is probably detracting from the rest of your life.