Am I mental....?? Question about motivation.

FORIANN

So I decided today that I would no longer post my workouts on my page because for whatever reason I don't particularly need people congratulating me everytime I work out....it feels hollow and obligatory to me. I feel like people will either elect to workout or they won't and as kind and genuinely nice is my little collection of friends is, I don't know why a pat on the head doesn't motivate me.

Likewise, there are people coming up to me saying, "Man, how much weight have you lost?" and all I can think is, "Yea, but I need to get my sustained HR up to x bpm" for 60 min if I'm going to continue to see progress. I'm the same way with weight training.

I've made a lot of progress and I look good without a shirt on..but when I look at my self in the mirror all I see is room for improvement. It's like I'm in this intense competition with myself.

One small part of this might be that I started thinking I was shooting to get down to 300lbs. I am not fat...I am a BBIIIIGGG guy. So now that I'm at 275lbs I don't really know where my target weight should be, so I just keep pushing. I know I'm mildly OCD and I think perhaps my issue is I don't have a solid quantifiable number/objective in mind. I just want to push as hard as I can. So thus...am I mental?

beduffbrickie

From the conversations we have had your not mental. Sign of prefection its sounds like to me, no harm in that. always room for improvement I say. Or what have we got to live for.

therealangd

Nope. Nothing wrong with what you are doing at all.

If you were trying to compete with other people, then I would say you have a problem.

omma_to_3

I know what you mean about posting your work outs. I really debated about it too and I do let C25K post on my wall. I really don't know why I do though LOL. Maybe for the accountability? Maybe if no one ever sees me post another workout someone will ask and keep me accountable? I don't really know. I asked some friends about it and they did think it was cool that I was posting them. But like I said, it's only C25K that I'm posting, not my other workouts so it's only 3 times a week.

PlanetVelma

I post my workouts for accountability. It really helps when I'm feeling frustrated and not seeing results, although I'm my harshest critic.

Perhaps you could post a blog every couple of weeks and note your accomplishments, struggles and mini-goals for the upcoming weeks? Even if you don't share your blog with your friends, you'll have that history saved and give yourself a feeling of accomplishment because you can see in your own words what you've accomplished thus far.

FORIANN

I post my workouts for accountability. It really helps when I'm feeling frustrated and not seeing results, although I'm my harshest critic.

Perhaps you could post a blog every couple of weeks and note your accomplishments, struggles and mini-goals for the upcoming weeks? Even if you don't share your blog with your friends, you'll have that history saved and give yourself a feeling of accomplishment because you can see in your own words what you've accomplished thus far.

I think I like the sound of this...just noting milestones and goals met rather than all the mundane stuff.