Imagine you own a car with its fuel tank filled right up to the brim. One day, you decide to move the car from one place to another—but instead of simply driving it, you hire packers and movers. They lift the perfectly capable car onto a truck and transport it for you.
When you reach the new location, you think, “Let me fill the tank again.” But the tank is already full.
So you come up with a strange solution: you drain the perfectly good petrol into a can, toss the can into the trunk, and then refill the tank.
Again, you call the movers, again they haul your car around, and again you drain the petrol into yet another can and store it in the trunk.
Repeat this cycle a few times, and what happens?
The trunk slowly fills with cans of untouched petrol—the “just in case” fuel you never actually use. Eventually the trunk overflows, so you start stuffing cans into the back seat, then under the seats, then anywhere you can find space.
Soon the car is so crammed with unused petrol cans that it can barely move. Not because the engine failed… but because there’s simply no room left.
Now imagine the car is your body, and the petrol is the energy you keep storing without ever using.
And that is why exercise isn’t optional—it’s how you burn the fuel before it takes over the whole vehicle.
