How do I get my boyfriend to work out again

I don't need him to do it with me or lift heavy or look like Zyzz, but I need him to start working out again. When we started dating he'd gym about 4 times a week, but now it's zero. I bought him dumbbells and running shoes because he complained he couldn't afford a gym membership, but he barely touched the former and the shoes are still in the box. I tell him he needs to work out more (men prefer directness, right?) so he can keep up with me on hikes again, but nothing seems to work. I want to be able to do physical activities together again and get him started on losing the bit of belly he's developed recently. How the hell do I make it sink in? Or does he just not care?

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Men do prefer directness. Explain that you're losing respect for him because of this. If that doesn't work, dump him.

He does not care, I wouldn't either if I had a qt 3.14 gf who sucked my dick whenever I wanted and I felt happu and fulfilled. Maybe tell him he's getting fat? Just leave him if you don't like him, don't cuck him

Break up with him and he might start lifting

I worked out to get a gf and stopped when I got one. Your bf likely feels the same way.

Might not be anything you can do, lots of fellas lift for women and then stop once they get them. Tell him you want him to get fit or you’ll leave him. If that doesnt do it, follow through.

Stop having sex with him until he gets back into the habit. Also, stop ruining his diet by forcing him to take you out for brunch and shit.

Just make him jealous. Duh
Dress hot, show that ass off and go out with your friends.
I'm not saying fuck other dudes, but let him know that others are definitely interested.

I wouldn't say I'm losing respect for him yet, but I think you're right.
...good point
I thought only chicks who didn't respect their partners did this after the wedding?

anyway thanks for the legit advice

>s lift for women and then stop once they get them
absolutely disgusting, in like 3 different ways

Tell him you want him to partake in a fit and active lifestyle with you, that you feel it is one of the key points you have in the relationship.

Me and my girl do Squat challenges, ab challenges, grappling, sparring. Great fun, won't stop. Maybe engage in a playful challenge here and there? Try a daily challenge app for abs perhaps. Had great fun with my girl with a few apps daily, makes for a good ritual, some playful banter and good bonding

I wonder if OP is really the prize pig she thinks she is.

"I don't want to have sex with you, I don't find you attractive since you grew a belly"

this may be effective

Probably not that great, since her boyfriend thinks she won't leave him when he gets fat and unfit

unironically this. suggest taking a break..

my gf broke up with me- not cause i wasn't lifting, but i wasnt. made me take a good long hard look at myself and evaluate the shortcomings i'd been avoiding and neglecting.
>fell in hole of desperation
>lost my best friend
>depression/anxiety maximum
>finally approach doctor
>haven't been feeling myself lately
>anxiety is 11/10
>puts me on ssri, evens out anxiety a lot
>start lifting again
>feeling better about myself
>in better mood lately
>drinking less, sleeping better
>starting to look a little better
>motivation ticking up, working on getting better job
>still think of her daily, but it doesn't feel like a punch to the gut everytime i remember her face anymore

i can finally admit i got lazy when i was with her, and took our relationship for granted. didn't realize what i stood to loose until it was long gone. i let my anxiety and shit get in the way; for how could she love me when i didn't even like myself? i can't blame her, even though it sucks feeling like you've lost a best friend.

we're still friends and hangout, but she's been in another city the last few months. i really hope we can try again, be in a different relationship and move forward. but i have to say, i probably wouldn't have changed like this had she not broken up with me...

ask yourself if this is the guy you want to be with op? maybe he can be the guy you want to be with... but not if he's not working towards it.

you can't change him, he has to want to change himself. maybe he'll realize that if you can't be with him the way he is now.

"You're better than this. At least I thought you were."

You can't motivate people to do things. Only they can motivate themselves.

He has to change himself. He has to want that desire. That pulling feeling that draws him towards it. Otherwise, he will fail. Ultimatums don't work. They always end badly. You have to have a mutual respect that this is what you want right now but maybe he doesn't. Maybe there's something that's been holding him back or bothering him.

Try starting small. Make some healthier dinners if you don't already. Buy the dude a bike if he doesn't have one. Biking is pretty easy considering but it's rewarding. Maybe if he feels how good working out again feels he might want to pick it up. Either way you have to understand that not every dude that works/worked out is going to stick with it the rest of their lives. There could be more important things to him. Other goals to achieve. Or if all else fails play some CT fletcher motivational speeches in the background while you work out. Maybe subconsciously it will reach him.

That ones a stretch but who knows.

this

Is he rich? Just cuck him, it's what he deserves.

Otherwise leave.

It's difficult to make someone care about fitness, tbqh.

IMO, you need to appeal to his rational side and you need to allow him to really ease into things. For me, personally, exercising makes sense because it makes me feel good (physically and mentally), and in the future, I won't be a 40 year old dweeb who constantly has minor back/knee pain (along with other ailments that come from taking poor care of yourself for decades).

Another appeal to his rationality is just to make it an experiment. 3-4 weeks of getting back into the groove of exercise, while making daily notes about mood, energy, and how "successful" you felt in a given day. It'll be stunningly obvious by the end that exercise is worth the effort.

Break up with him and watch him go back to lifting and frogposting on this Croatian needle-threading imageboard

>itt virgins giving dating advice to a faggot larping as a girl

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>t. projecting virgin detected

This is like trying to get a fat piece of shit friend to work out. If they're making excuses it's because they don't want to, not because they can't. You're still fucking him even though he's a limp-wristed fagboy right now, right?

Watch, dump him and he'll suddenly start working out. Like CLOCKWORK

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So do you like him more when he is lifting? is he hotter then?