I am so bored of lifting, I’ve been doing it for years. It doesn’t matter whether I listen to music, audiobooks, podcasts, whatever, the act of picking up weights and putting them back down for an hour and a half of my day has become such a slog that I’m debating just leaving it behind for some other form of exercise like running, fighting or CrossFit. I don’t have as much free time as I used to, and it’s hard to devote what little I have to something I’m starting to dread so much.
Has anyone else hit this point? What should I do to make it more bearable? The only reason I haven’t stopped is because I don’t want to be weak.
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>I’m debating just leaving it behind for some other form of exercise like running, fighting or CrossFit
Most people rotate between different types of exercise like this. It’s normal. Go start your marathon training
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Yea you're getting nothing from me
ID on that jacket?
How many days did you used to go OP?
Anywhere from three to five in the past. With the program I currently run, it’s five.
Instead of lifting you could've learned Japanese.
Who gives a frick about learning the language of a culture that hates you? So you can understand your little cartoons?
Just pick up another sport for awhile, learn some new skills
I've never read something so pathethic
Go lift
Steroids made lifting enjoyable again for me, and I'm not even trolling.
try calisthenics, or something else that will keep you fit
What's your birthday and I'll read the health section from the birthday book
Same. Ex fatty thats 12.5% BF right now. I started weights around a year ago and am very bored.
The only reason I keep going is because I do my bro splits at home (got pullup/dip stand, bench, dumbells) during paid work hours. If I ever was to get an office job I would just quit and maintain cardio 2-3 times a week.
I've tried working out at a gym too before you say anything. I just don't find it interesting or enjoyable. That being said, having abs is super comfy after a life of being a whale.
every few years I get tired of lifting and get really into martial arts, and then a few years later get tired of martial arts and get back into lifting in a never ending cycle
I can’t relate. I like lifting because it’s the simplest workout I can do to gain strength and look aesthetic. It takes little thought to do and the gym environment is comfy.
If you’re bored then try other stuff, some already good suggestions in this thread. Being active and athletic in general won’t make you weak.
>hour and a half
why do you need an hour and a half? Stop wasting your time and increase the weight and just do higher intensity. You can get your whole workout in 30-45 minutes.
It's fun and exciting when you're hitting new PRs and new weights you have never lifted before and how they feel to you. Sure you might stall or go slightly backwards a bit, but the overall trend is up and you're learning when you can get a good session and so on. Then sooner or later you hit a plateau and it's like... so, this is it. I hit this bench, and this is me, this is my lifting life, it's never going to get better than this. Sure you might break the plateau a little by refining things here or there, whether it's 2pl8 bench or 5pl8 bench you're there forever. And now that everyone's lifting or soon will be genetics wins all over again, the cruellest irony for people trying to outlift their genetic bad hand.
And then some day the tide will turn and instead of hitting new highs you'll start to be hitting and suprised at hitting new lows. Instead of climbing up the weights you'll be falling backwards through them. You've seen it all before and now even when you win after doing a great workout you still lose overall. That's gotta suck.
You're a glass half-empty kind of guy, huh? Jesus, that was depressing to read