There’s no shame in admitting that at least 50% of the reason you exercise is that you have a “complicated” relationship with carbs or a sweet tooth and don’t want to get fat.
Or that you literally can’t afford to gain weight because then you’d have to buy a new wardrobe. Or that you want a good excuse to buy a new one.
No matter how zany your reasons may seem to others, if you can use them to fire your fitness furnace, there’s no shame in exploiting them to the fullest.
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There’s no shame in admitting that at least 50 percent of the reason you exercise is that you have a, how should I say it, a complicated relationship with carbs or that you have a sweet tooth and you just don’t want to get fat. Or maybe it’s because you literally can’t afford to gain weight because then you’d have to buy a new wardrobe or maybe you want a good excuse to buy a new wardrobe.
No shame in those things either. Or maybe you want to refute people who have doubted you and put you down. Or maybe you have fitness goals that have nothing to do with your body composition. Or maybe it’s the other way around. No shame. Or maybe you just don’t want to be fatter than your friends, or maybe you want people to check you out now and then, or maybe you just love checking yourself out when you have a pump, don’t we all?
Or maybe you get off on the feeling when you finish a workout, or maybe your life just feels a little out of order when you stop going to the gym. My point is, no matter how zany. Your reasons might seem to others, if you can use them to fire your fitness furnace, there is no shame in exploiting those reasons to the fullest.
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Free Worldwide Shipping & Returns
Many companies use shipping and handling fees to increase their profit margins, but here at Legion, we hate profits, so our shipping is free!
Okay, so we do dig on profits, but we also go in for happy customers, and free shipping works like gangbusters. So, if you live in the UK, Canada, Puerto Rico, or Guam, your order ships free when it’s over $99.
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Also, if you don’t absolutely love our stuff for whatever reason, we don’t request you deliver it to a PO box in the Gobi Desert by carrier pigeon.
We just . . . wait for it . . . give you your money back. No returns. No forms. No nonsense. Holy moo cows.
That means you can say “yes” now and decide later. You really have nothing to lose.
Free Worldwide Shipping & Returns
Many companies use shipping and handling fees to increase their profit margins, but here at Legion, we hate profits, so our shipping is free!
Okay, so we do dig on profits, but we also go in for happy customers, and free shipping works like gangbusters. So, if you’re outside the USA, your order ships free when it’s over $199.
Why the restriction on international orders? Unfortunately, shipping abroad is very expensive, and if we didn’t require a minimum order size, we’d lose a lot of money. But! We're also hustling to improve our international logistics and will be passing our savings along to our international customers.
Also, if you don’t absolutely love our stuff for whatever reason, we don’t request you deliver it to a PO box in the Gobi Desert by carrier pigeon.
We just . . . wait for it . . . give you your money back. No returns. No forms. No nonsense. Holy moo cows.
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