Working out with someone significantly weaker than you can be difficult if you do not approach it with a strategy.
We have your strategy.
You must encourage your weak allies to become strong. Allies in this case can be your aging parents who are at risk of losing mobility, a spouse who let themselves go, a pregnant spouse, or a peer your age who’s skinny fat, or morbidly obese, for example.
Remember, it’s narcissistic to have an unkempt body.
Being morbidly obese is an obvious weakness because the body domain is physical and can be observed. The body is The orchard of humanity, the visible domain.
Being “skinny fat”, which means being lean and soft, possessing a body with little muscle and high fat, is a critical weakness, no different than being obese.
We must cultivate strength in each domain in ourselves as well as in our allies.
A wanderer must spread virtue to maintain and improve both culture and society. This improves the present and the future.
If the weaker individual is resistant to training, entice them by offering to take them out to eat afterward. A weak individual who pursues pleasure will see the food after the workout, not the workout. This is no different than hiding a pill in peanut butter for a dog.
Food never tastes better than after vigorous training.
The pursuit of pleasure is Hell. Show them the path to Heaven.
How to workout with someone significantly weaker than you
Begin with a gentle warmup with your weaker peer. Do not seek to “break” your peer or demonstrate superiority with a warmup; doing this will scare them away.
Once you get to strength training, demonstrate the movement on an empty apparatus or machine. Then, let them go first so you can observe and correct them with optimistic energy.
whatever weight they do, add yours on top of theirs.
This creates a fun challenge for you to push yourself while your peer pushes themself too. This is the core concept of working out with someone weaker than you.
For freeweights, add your weights onto theirs, so you’re not constantly re-reacking your weight, adding theirs, to take theirs off, to put yours on. Just put your weight over theirs and go for it.
If using machines or dumbbells, or something else without plates, push yourself further. Tell the weaker individual that you’re training harder because you’re inspired that they showed up. Appear impressive while inspiring them with encouragement, reinforcing that fulfillment is available to all. This will make your weaker peer more likely to continue their training when they know that their training equally inspires you to train harder.
When resting, don’t look at your phone. Your peer will feel excluded. Instead of looking at your phone when resting between sets, do this.
Make working out with someone weaker than you a challenge to grow stronger. Use their presence to drive your growth. Let your ego expand while training with your peer by adding their weight to your weight. If it feels right, go for a PR.
To summarize:
Work them hard so they feel euphoria; not further where suffering will discourage them. They need to build momentum; they don’t need to be crushed so they fear training. Dangle eating out somewhere good afterward on your dollar when pitching training, then follow through.
By making your peers stronger, you become stronger.
