/fit/, how do you deal with no motivation to go to the gym? I've been going consistently for the past couple years and now that I have a full time job and other responsibilities, it feels like more of a chore/burden to go now. Also, I don't really feel much of the benefits anymore. I'd rather just focus on my career. Any advice?
focus on your career and get nice and fat
if you don't enjoy lifting, then maybe you can find something else that you enjoy more, like eating donuts and getting diabeetus
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just become a fat slob, OP. No one here will judge you, it's your safe space
Cardio and going in the morning
Work/life balance dude. Going too deep into either one of them results in a lack of optimization for both. If you’re healthy and fit you’ll go much further in your career and vice versa (you have more money due to a successful career, you can invest in better gyms, equipment, etc).
I doubt you were actually consistent with your lifting because for anyone who is doing it consistently it becomes an essential part of their routine. It becomes almost the same like brushing your teeth you just do it no matter what, an essential part of your health/body hygiene.
And I have never ever gone to the gym, worked out and then regretted that I workout out. No matter the situation every single time I'm glad I did, so I just keep doing it.
Dude it's all pointless, lifting, working, self improving, everything. You will never make it and you will never live the life you thought you would live.
The younger generations are realizing early how fricked they are compared to the older gens.
Things weren't like this ten years ago, but they are now and they will only get worse.
I wouldnt go if it wasnt for my homegym. qol/convenience helps with discipline. being motivated all year round is unrealistic and I dont know a single person who is always motivated in what he is currently doing. sometimes you just need to grind it out until the motivation comes back.
I get out of bed and do 24 chin-ups and still feel depressed. The only thing that helps is writing music.
Make it a habbit.Like showering or brushing your teeth. You will feel like shit if you don't do it.
What if I hate showering and brushing my teeth?
Then make it a habit like shitposting on IST or jerking off kek.
I just think about the way my back used to hurt all the time before I started to lift. That's usually enough to get the bare minimum out of the way.
i mean just dont go then? its not a big deal. you are not a bodybuilder, you are not getting ready for a competition.
>Also, I don't really feel much of the benefits anymore. I'd rather just focus on my career. Any advice?
Like what the frick are you even asking? Advice for making your life worse? Focusing on your life and career is 1000000000 billion times more important and resourceful than sacrifing even a second of it to prioritze going to the gym. Training and gymceling is fine when you are 16, maybe 20, maybe even early 20's but after that it really should be put on the backburner. Im not saying to stop training forever and become fat and unhealthy, I'm telling to stop obsessing over it and thinking you need to find "motivation" for something so meaningless. Go play golf or something, find better hobbies. Lifting is good coping mechanism when you are a lonely loser but its not really that great otherwise.
I have lifted for 13 years and I've had breaks of up to 3 years when I didnt go to the gym once. So what? When I got back, muscle memory kicked in and I was hitting PR's in 4 months. Focus on career and wealth and achieving owning a house big enough so you can have fricking le epic perfect home gym etc. thats gonna serve you for a lifetime.
>he needs motivation to exercise
It's called discipline moron.
motivation is needed to build discipline in the first place you mouth breather
Go after work for an hour. Change up your routine. Do lifts you don't normally do.
>Work from home
>Go to the gym at whatever hours because nobody checks the overperformer
>Do whatever lifts I feel like doing
>Back home shower and play Vidya
>Get raises and gains
Feels good man
Fitness has to become a part of your lifestyle and identity, that's what kept me motivated for 10+ years. There was a bit of vanity on my part, liked the validation from others and how strong I felt overall.
Personally, I think it's a chore and burden worth doing. You are investing in your own health, both physically and mentally. I think it has played a large part in my coping tool kit. The benefits are not only physical, but psychological too.
As another anon said, it seems like you don't have balance in your life. You have to pull back on your other responsibilities because you have identified you want to focus on your full time job and career.
Stop being dead. Be alive and enjoy pain. Motivation is overrated. Embrace discipline. Pic unrelated but it's the only sfw pic I have in my downloads folder so ye
I honestly just hate exercising. I've tried so many times and I hate it ever single time I've tried it. I get no enjoyment from it. People always say how they feel so much better after lifting/cardio, but I just don't get that. Got a gym membership on Wednesday and I keep telling myself that I'll go, but every time I think about it dread just sets in
You need to stop jerking off
Did you know that masturbation hinder your gains and porn will frick your brain up? Plus sexual abstinence has some pretty unbeliveable benefits:
https://imgur.io/gallery/g4eGH
Here are some studies:
Three weeks of abstinence increases testostorone levelshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11760788
Masturbation is associated with lower psychological health and reproductive well-beinghttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681994.2019.1677883
Sperm contains compounds that prolong lifespan, fight cancer & heart diseasehttps://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/spermidine-rich-foods-may-prevent-liver-cancer-extend-lifespan/
Masturbation decreases dopamine levelshttps://sites.tufts.edu/emotiononthebrain/2014/11/18/postcoital-neurochemistry-the-blues-and-the-highs/
Watching porn reduces gray matter in prefrontal cortexhttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/1874574
Porn addiction has similar mechanism with substance addictionhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4600144/
Prevalence of erectile dysfunction doubled between 2004 and 2013http://cir.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Genital-Image-Sexual-Anxiety-and-Erectile-Dysfunction-Among-Young-Male-Military-Personnel.pdf
Pornography consumption is associated with mental health issueshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327603/w1
i guess i can't relate to this because i'm motivated by unending hatred of something that i can't escape.