How to kill laziness?

The Technical · 10-26-2005, 10:29 PM

I haven't trained in like a year or so due to the workload of school, in the last two months I've been trying to get back, but I just slack again. Its seems pretty pathetic considering I could once squat 200+ pounds (about 1.08 times my bodyweight at that time). What are your suggestions for beating such a mental state?

onslaught61 · 10-26-2005, 11:25 PM

Just do it.

have a goal.

Brandon MacRea · 10-26-2005, 11:56 PM

Music helps me through a workout. Writing new and challenging (but possible) goals each month to strive for helps. In all honesty, though, there is no magic formula to stifle laziness. You just have to suck it up and train yourself mentally. Once you bite the bullet and get training enough, it just becomes part of your routine. Once you skip it enough, it does likewise.

codysweet02 · 10-27-2005, 12:30 AM

Just make yourself go a few times a week for a month or so and that after that you will feel like a piece of shit each time you miss it. I havnt gone to boxing at all this week and i feel like a lazy fuck.

PariahCarey · 10-27-2005, 08:15 AM

Good advice here.

Start slo and give yourself a break.

Laziness is subverted rage. You've got the energy just need to tap into it.

Train at home when your down. Something is better than nothing. Many times a few home workouts over a week or 2 buiulds enought momentum to get back to the gym/dojo.

Don't think about going. Have your stuff ready to go at all times and get up and get dressed and don't tie yourself to a non-flexible schedule.

Hamit Aktas · 10-27-2005, 10:26 AM

It's all in the head. So if you are strong mentally, you just do it anyway.
Let's say you sit on the coach thinking, I should train. But you don't feel like it, or don't want to. But even though you don't want to, you do it ANYWAY. Because you know that you SHOULD and it WILL be better for you and you'll make it a routine and it won't be as hard to train anymore you just DO IT.

This example I'm about to use is very.. weird. But the principle is the same. If you are standing on top of a building by the edge, you know you can take one step and you'll fall. Of course you don't want to, because you'd die but you CAN do it. It's easy as f*ck to do it. All you have to do is take one step.
Now in this case you'd die if you did it, so of course you'd never do it. But you know you CAN do it right? One step, and you'd fall. Cant' get much easier than that. With training, all you have to do, even though you don't want to, is to DO IT ANYWAYS. Only in this case, you don't die. ;)

SO JUST DO IT!

bacon · 10-27-2005, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by The Technical

I haven't trained in like a year or so due to the workload of school, in the last two months I've been trying to get back, but I just slack again. Its seems pretty pathetic considering I could once squat 200+ pounds (about 1.08 times my bodyweight at that time). What are your suggestions for beating such a mental state?

so you weighed 111 pounds, but you could squat 200? So what are you like 4 ft tall?

SwiftMcvay · 10-27-2005, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by bacon

so you weighed 111 pounds, but you could squat 200? So what are you like 4 ft tall?

No genius, he would actually be weighing about 185 since he is squating a little bit more than his bodyweight.

bacon · 10-27-2005, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SwiftMcvay

No genius, he would actually be weighing about 185 since he is squating a little bit more than his bodyweight.

My bad, coulda swore he said 1.8 not 1.08.

M_A_C · 10-28-2005, 01:58 AM

I've always found that just getting into the gym is the hardest part. Once you get there you will get the work done, so just make the effort to get there! Plus you know there is the feeling of a job well done waiting for you at the end.