Poker is like getting in shape

I've thought about this for a while and noticed similarities with the two, especially in my life.

At first, you have to get to a point where you are fed up. In poker, you lose your bankroll for the umpteenth time after not putting 100% of your efforts into keeping it with good BRM, in life you're struggling to fit in your favourite pair of jeans because you haven't been bothered to look after your diet and exercise.

So, we vow to stop playing, and take a break from poker and educate ourselves by reading books, articles and forums, like CC, we record our progress using things like HEM/PT3 and set ourselves strict BRM and personal goalswhen we come back after our break. In life, we may read men's health magazine, a few articles about good nutrition, going to the gym, we start goping to the gym, or getting out to exercise, we start a strict diet. We look down at the scales and see we've dropped 10 pounds in a month. We look in the cashier and see we've doubled our bankroll in a month.
We are extremely confident, so we move up in limits, maybe a little too fast, and it hurts our bankroll a little. We think that we've dropped 10 pounds so we can have that chocolate bar, or burger, and then another one because if we've lost it before we can do it again.

Then we get lazy again. Leaks reappear in our game and our confidence drops. We lose a bit, so try to make it up fast, making rash decisions, and the bankroll begins to dwindle.
In life, we skip the gym for a few days, pig out on fast food, go to the pub and notice our results fading away much quicker than we gained them.

We have now lost confidence in both areas, and the downard spiral will start again if we don't get a grip of it. This is where we should break, now before its too late. Read up on poker, BRM, drop down a level and go back to it with strict goals and grind away, we don't need quick results. We shouldn't need to go broke again to realise this.
In life, stick to that diet, force yourself to the gym, you know you will feel better afterwards. Slow and steady wins the race.

I think the message I'm trying to put across here is, when I win, I get too confident and I'm sure others do. I think a better word may be complacent. Making smaller goals makes the overall goal easier to achieve. In EVERYTHING.
Don't fall off the bandwagon

Anyone else feel these 2 are similar?
I would like to know if anyone else has found anything similar to poker in their lives, in the way i've found getting in shape relates me to poker.

No.

Well yes.

You should be playing the at the top of your game when you play poker, and you should be pushing your body when you go to the gym.

I don't believe in getting lazy, and when I just wanna mess around with some money I go to the lower limit tables, put $40 on and raise/shove every playable hand. Perhaps the equivalent of a friendly basketball game.

You could draw this connection to just about anything that has a work/reward relationship though.

If we look at the basics of what you're saying, which is:
Poker - Discipline+Knowledge+Correct Plays=Profit
Gym - Discipline+Knowledge+Correct Workouts=Get Buff
School - Discipline+Studying+Testing Well=Get Smart
Work - Discipline+Being Responsible+Doing your job=Get paid
Cooking - Discipline+Ingredients+Recipe=Yummers
Beer - Glass+Beer=Empty Glass

See? All of these are exactly the same!

Yeh the point is, if we're not putting 100% in, we're not getting anything like 100% out

Seems like kinda a stretch to me. At one you can pretty much just will your way through it with no skills or talent at all. I mean anyone could run 5 miles a day and get in shape. Plus it's not like there are millions of other runners in your way preventing you from being in shape.

In poker you gotta learn a lot more and be somewhat talented to get anywhere. Your talent really stands in your way a lot more. Pretty much getting in shape you don't have to think that much just will yourself to do it. Poker is a game that requires talent and a great mind.

OK then imagine you've done all the training and then you enter a marathon . Now you have to be that little bit special to beat all of the others.

Why would anybody run a marathon?

LOL.

I can't disagree more. Talent is more often than not the result of multiple hours of disciplined study and practice. This applies to any field. The difference is that people see the results and think "Ohh, he/she is a really talented *fill in the blank*" and that it comes naturally, not seeing the years of hard work it took to get there. The difference is desire, imo. OP got it right.