Staying motivated while lifting alone?

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  • acogg
    acogg Posts: 1,870 Member
    I work out at home by myself. I agree with using a timer for rest. Have you examined what you do when you get off track during a rest period? Picking up socks, answering the phone or any number of household distractions can put you off track. What works for me is to try to do my workout when hubby is still sleeping and to block everything else out of my mind. This is my time and when I am working out, I tolerate no distractions. I don't have children at home anymore, but I can sympathize.
  • shane_tac1
    shane_tac1 Posts: 35 Member
    Ah so not long then. Yeah don't get discouraged. It takes awhile to get used to. In the long run if you can get over that hurdle of motivating yourself it becomes awesome and means you can workout when you want to! My buddies in the UK (I moved to Canada) all train together still, about 4 of them at times and we all chat in a group on viber. Watching them all chatting and having to move their schedules around to make it fit for everyone just makes it overly complicated to me.
    Like tonight I have worked right through till 7 (my office is next door to my gym in the basement) and I don't have to head off to a gym to rush in a workout and rush home again. I can go train at 9 or 10 if I want to.

    My gf bought insanity. She tried to get me to do it but I didn't like the looks of the program.I tend to steer away from massive amounts of cardio. Weights and diet are all I need to gain weight and lose weight.
    What equipment did you kit your gym out with?
  • dweat62
    dweat62 Posts: 12 Member
    Hey man find someone to train with everyday! If you don't want to do that you can take the iPod headphone approach. But at my gym, when my training partners have a different schedule than me I will just recruit someone for the day! It helps meet new people and who knows, you could find a long term partner..... Lifting partner.
  • Squamation
    Squamation Posts: 522 Member
    I will be the first to admit I'm slow when it comes to technology. But that Jefit App is a little confusing. I'm turned it on this morning and realized that I need to do some pre-programming with it before I work out, so next time.
    My gf bought insanity. She tried to get me to do it but I didn't like the looks of the program.I tend to steer away from massive amounts of cardio. Weights and diet are all I need to gain weight and lose weight.
    What equipment did you kit your gym out with?

    I like being told what to do and just having to do it. No thinking involved- just follow along. Plus there were circumstances and I knew I wasn't going to have weight access for a while and didn't want to fall behind.

    So far we have 2 barbells - enough plates for 100lbs (total bar weight - which more than enough for me at this point). And an incline trainer (like a treadmill but has a much higher incline level). We're working on getting a bench and rack.
  • shane_tac1
    shane_tac1 Posts: 35 Member
    I will be the first to admit I'm slow when it comes to technology. But that Jefit App is a little confusing. I'm turned it on this morning and realized that I need to do some pre-programming with it before I work out, so next time.
    My gf bought insanity. She tried to get me to do it but I didn't like the looks of the program.I tend to steer away from massive amounts of cardio. Weights and diet are all I need to gain weight and lose weight.
    What equipment did you kit your gym out with?

    I like being told what to do and just having to do it. No thinking involved- just follow along. Plus there were circumstances and I knew I wasn't going to have weight access for a while and didn't want to fall behind.

    So far we have 2 barbells - enough plates for 100lbs (total bar weight - which more than enough for me at this point). And an incline trainer (like a treadmill but has a much higher incline level). We're working on getting a bench and rack.

    Everyone is different so if you like having the workout planned out and following along to it there is nothing wrong with that.

    The bench and rack would be well worth while purchases! Can do everything once you have those.
    I kitted out our workout room with nearly the works (I still need to get a power rack) by looking on sites like Kijiji (A Canadian site) and Craiglist and just looking around at stores offering items on clearance. Can get amazing deals.

    You could even get away with using a swiss ball, which you can pick up dirt cheap from Walmart, to use as temp bench?
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    you answered yourself in the first line of your original post.

    put on your big girl panties and dig deep.

    you'll only have yourself to thank later when you're stronger, leaner, and kicking *kitten* all over the place.


    yeah, this.


    maybe have some music playing. i know that i'll start a set at the beginning of a song, and usually stop and rest until the start of the next song.

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