Training everyday people.

Movemoreguy22

So guys that train everyday, how do u stay on top of it...
So basically Britain has been locked down on and off for a year, so no gyms for about 10months..
I've lost all motivation.
Whats the trick for you guys to keep going...
I dont need to lose weight so its more of a health thing.

steveko89

I find it's far less about motivation and more about habit and discipline. I don't remember the last time I missed or skipped a workout because I just wasn't feeling like it. I have goals and I'm supporting a habit to work towards those goals. I have a home gym so I've not had to deal with covid-related shutdowns, but this time of year with it being cold and snowy, it's not like I bound out of bed every morning pumped to go lift (in our chilly basement) before I head to work, but I know it's what I need to do so I execute the plan.

DancingMoosie

I train at home... dumbbells and YouTube

DoubleG2

steveko89 wrote: »

I find it's far less about motivation and more about habit and discipline. I don't remember the last time I missed or skipped a workout because I just wasn't feeling like it. I have goals and I'm supporting a habit to work towards those goals. I have a home gym so I've not had to deal with covid-related shutdowns, but this time of year with it being cold and snowy, it's not like I bound out of bed every morning pumped to go lift (in our chilly basement) before I head to work, but I know it's what I need to do so I execute the plan.

^^This...I actually found it more difficult to keep discipline working out at home when gyms were locked down. But I did it, because that was the plan. I also workout early am before work. Gyms have been open here since Jan 1. Driving to work out at zero dark thirty in the snow is not motivating. But I am always glad I do - because that is the plan.

Movemoreguy22

I dont no if I could workout before work... have to get up stupid early and I prob destroy myself before work to lift more stuff at work

AnnPT77

Being a slug by nature, I often try in Winter not to work out, but I start feeling so crummy (moody, tense, stiff joints . . .) that I can't keep it up. Don't know how well that would work if I hadn't been fairly active for some years now, making that effect easy to recognize.

Other than that, as more extrinsic motivation, I've learned to recognize - by doing it wrong for years in the past - that if current me focuses on immediate gratification (eat/drink all the things, not work out, etc.), then future me will have a much unhappier life. I need to balance current Ann's strong hedonistic impulses with future Ann's needs for health and strength, or I'm going to be more miserable, sooner, and earlier bed-bound in some assisted living facility, unable to have much fun, unable to eat/drink good things because of health conditions and drug contraindications. Maybe even dead.

I'm already pretty old (65). At 70 & beyond, I want the life my healthy-weight active older friends have, not the life others have. It's pretty graphic. I wish I'd figured this out way sooner. Probably coulda skipped a lot of bad stuff.

ninerbuff

Raises hand.

For me, it's daily lifestyle. I train even on vacation and it being important to me, before booking a hotel, I either see if they have a gym or a gym nearby.

I train 7 days a week, one body part a day for like 30-45 max. Walking is my cardio with some intervals involved and that's daily.


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