I'm not permission-seeking, I don't need a beginner routine, I have all the right equipment ready and waiting, I fully understand nutrition and how to exercise, I have plenty reasons to start.
I simply cannot begin.
Has anyone else experienced this?
How did you solve it?
Do you have any advice?
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this is literally me rn and why I decided to check the board. but people here are rarely useful, especially to f*males
OP here, I am male.
Why do you think the advice would be more useless for females?
Why mention you are female if you think you will get bad advice?
Or are you looking for female specific advice?
You have to kill your inner gains goblin. You are paralyzed by the number of options. Here's what I did as someone who never wanted to exercise his whole life. I repeated the same full body workout two to three times a week for a year. That's it. Your first year is going to be useless anyway, so use it to get into routine, then tweak it according to your goals.
That's a bummer to hear, I wanted to optimize for quick gains, but I do hate roids so going the long road as a natty seems the clear best option.
dumbbells and inclined pushups on desks?
that's probably because all you care about is "what lifts will make my ass bigger" or "how do I get a flatter stomach" and then every time people tell you to squat and eat less and then you seethe about it. If you aren't exercising at all then doing LITERALLY anything will get you gains
no I actually need to be able to do 5 pull ups in a couple of weeks, I know it sounds lame but thats what I currently need to achieve. Otherwise Im in good shape aside from weak arms and have no delusions but man reading these threads can be poisonous
Military?
ywnbaw, attention seeking prostitute
Just fricking do it, or don't.
Stop being an indecisive b***h.
You don't want to spend you fricking time in limbo, either do it. Or forget about it and do something else with your time.
how the frick should i know why you aren't doing something, you moron?
here, you try it. why am i not wanking right now?
Start very small OP. Play the long game. Maybe just stretch a little a couple times a week for now. It has to be something that's not entirely overwhelming, otherwise you'll just avoid it. If you've been doing nothing you can't go zero to sixty, take your time, be patient, and build the habit on good foundations.
Thank you, I suppose I should start very basic and that will naturally build.
are you moronic? you fricking pick up the weight and set it down. you fricking walk outside and start jogging.
what is so hard about that? do you need someone to wipe your ass for you because you simply cannot?
>I'm not permission-seeking, I don't need a beginner routine, I have all the right equipment ready and waiting, I fully understand nutrition and how to exercise
Really? YOU SURE BOUT THAT?
There is an energy barrier to going the first time.
You can overcome this by recognizing that your first trip to the gym is not a singular event, but an event which you will be repeating day after day as part of a lifestyle/routine. Your first day is not any more significant than the 80th, or the 800th day. It is not special. It is merely the first day. Your decision is not to go to the gym one time. Your decision is to make the gym part of your life.
whoa, not op but thanks anon
no trick, you just go
the problem is its hard to just go because you are a lazy fat sack of shit who is not only weak physically but also mentally
surmount being mentally weak and then the body will follow
force yourself, there's no shortcuts or one easy tricks
that's the discipline you lack but can change, so do it and stop whining about it
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I am exercising regularly but I normalcy spend at the very least 3 hours procrastinating. If it's day off I will literally waste it all. I have no idea why.
Your possibly an externally motivated person, rather than an internally motivated one
And if there are no external preasures or motivators present then in youur sub conscious you figure, why bother
How can this be solved?
If you believe yourself to be externally motivated then draw in external people to your goals and progress
You need to make youurself accountable to someone other than yourself, friends, family, partner, gym buddy, running group, whoever
The real problem's start when you're an externally motivated introvert or very private person
Thank you
I mentally scream at myself until I do it. I fricking hate lifting. It sucks. I just have to berate myself until I stop procrastinating.
Just do something, literally anything. You've probably got it inside your head that you "could" execute the perfect routine, the perfect diet, so you spend more time thinking about this than actually doing anything.
Seconding this, OP. When I don't feel like lifting I just tell myself I'll do 1 set of curls. 9 times out of 10 I end up doing the full routine. The hardest part is starting.
You have poor executive function, the part of your brain that figures out what you want has very poor connection with the part that knows how to do it. Try to externalise, anything that is the equivalent of writing with huge letters on the wall "DO THE THING" can add up and help you do thing
>the part of your brain that figures out what you want has very poor connection
This could be true, I often struggle to choose what to eat to the point I skip meals rather than make a decision.
I will look into it.