I know I need to go workout. I know I'm just a fat fuck going "tomorrow I'll do it, after this set date I'll do it" again and again. The worst part is I know how bad this all is for me and I know how much better life will be with exercise but there's such a strong mental block stopping me. How can you guys just straight up force yourselves to do something?
Inb4: just do it bro
I know it's mind over matter but it's such a strong mental block.
Just bee yourself
That's the problem
I force myself by first forcing my legs to carry me to my gym bag and then out the door and once youre out the door theres no stopping
Your inb4 is worthless because that's exactly the answer. If you don't have a solid reason to workout in the first place it's unlikely you'll ever go to the gym, especially someone like you that struggles to motivate themselves. So don't think about it at all. Just do it. Eventually it becomes routine and then your problem is gone. tl;dr - just do it
Also stop shitting up the board with your worthless threads. Take shit like this into /sig/ or qtddtot
Just get dressed to go, see how you feel after your dressed
i distract myself with music when i have t do shit I don't want to do.
what the fuck dude
stop making memes of me
You don't need motivation to go to the gym. Just go there.
It's too late dude.
We're already a meme.
Our reality is a joke.
Adamantly stick to a program and diet for a minimum of 2 weeks before you even think about taking an extra day off or having a cheatmeal. If you manage that, when you finally have your cheatmeal and or extra day off, you will notice that you felt good during the 2 weeks. Motivation comes and goes, sometimes it is very hard to go to the gym, but if you have created a habit out of it, you won't dread it as much, it will be like brushing your teeth. If you can't even motivate yourself to start, then it all comes down to two things: Either you go or you don't, you're free to keep being miserable, but you're also free to do something about it.
then bee someone better then yourself
Here's what you do:
Starting tomorrow you'll do one set of push-ups, bw squats, and burpees. Pick a number of reps that will be really easy for you for to do, because this is not meant to challenge you.
So let's say you pick 6 reps for each exercise. You can literally do all of that in five minutes and not tire yourself. Don't worry about the feeling of "this is too light", just do that ridiculously easy exercise and move on with your day.
Next day, increase the number of reps of each exercise to 8. Then the next day, go with 9 or 10, then 11, then 13. Point being, keep a linear, gradual progression. Eventually it will get hard to do all the reps in one set, so break them into two sets, then three, then four. Rest as long as you want between sets, even hours if you feel like it. It doesn't matter HOW you do them, but at the end of the day you must have done the assigned reps of each exercise. Don't worry about rest days, just do those exercises every single day, one or two reps more than the day before. If you want, you can add other exercises. Keep this up for two months, and then start a regular routine at the gym, 3 - 4 times a week. Going to the gym will actually feel easy in comparison to the daily workouts.
I told my parents, who never exercised, to do this after reading a book about the science of habit formation that stressed the importance of consistent small steps, and it worked for them. They're both gym rats now and they're in their fucking 60s, so it has to work for you.
Just do a little more than the day before, and do it everyday. Don't get fancy with the exercises, do the essential and don't do more than 5 different ones. And don't listen to the voice in the back of your head that says "2 months? I want to start working out properly now!", this will not work for you. It's better to spend 2 months doing meme exercises and creating discipline then telling yourself "next week my great life change begins!" for another fucking year.
Forcing yourself is terrible because it makes it a chore in your mind and your willpower only goes so far. Habit is what you want, after 20-30 times of going you will literally feel off when you skip a session. Trick yourself. Create a little positive feedback loop to get over the initial bump, do whatever you like best at the gym and reward yourself afterwards (a nice bath, a drink, Netflix, fuck your gf).
>I know how much better life will be with exercise
Are you sure? What pleasure do you expect to get from exercise that surpasses the sedentary pleasures you enjoy now?
Oh and the inverse works as well. Hang "Been to the gym yet you lazy fuck?" in a couple of spots and feel how it stares at you after a while.
>How can you guys just straight up force yourselves to do something?
Simple. I tell myself that I have no choice. Women will never love a skinnyfat body. I have no choice because if I want love then I must lift. Take choice out of the equation, because reality is you don't have any. Want love? You have no choice. Lift.
I don't force myself, I just enjoy liftan.
Stop doing bullshit machine circuits and start lifting heavy shit OP. It's fun.
OP you're putting an insane pressure on yourself because you expect lifting to make you look good, to make your boss respect you, to make you lose weight, to make you pick up chicks, to make you a better man, to fix your broken life and so on and so forth.
All those expectations mang. You can't hope to live up to them so going to the gym makes you so nervous.
So here's the good news : lifting won't do any of that shit for you. So just go to the gym and enjoy your time there. Just let go.
It's not enough to be motivated by what you want to be, or repulsed by what you don't want to be. It's a combination of both.
Browse /fph/ threads and read grappler baki x F
You are thinking too much and not doing enough. The act itself is easy, you're making it hard for yourself for thinking yourself away from doing something before you've even done it. So once you understand the power that thought has you can wield it in the opposite direction in order to motivate and align yourself with the virtues and values that you want.
Create a version of yourself in your head that is in every way better than you are now, then imagine that you are that person and do what you think that version of yourself would do - with this moment, with your morning, with your day. Create someone that doesn't exist and be that person.
Work towards it every day with small steps. Break up a goal into component parts - write down your daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, 6 month goals, one year goal and 5 year goals. Make them achievable and ostensibly at a better place than you are now. Success is suffering and failing constantly and not quitting. Once you get over your fear of suffering, once you get over your fear of failure nothing is going to stand in your way.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
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Do some psychedelics, it's the only thing that will drastically improve your mood and change your inner personality without you needing to force it. Swim would suggest shrooms, please take the advice good luck!
>fuck your gf
what do you want fit to do? Put a gun to your head and make you go?
If you can't force yourself then you are already lost, worthless piece of shit- accept it and stop lying to yourself.
You'll never make it unless you actually feel pleasure from working out. DOMS feel great btw.
Just try it once. If you don't feel great and draw pleasure from it, you lost.
That's shit. Fat fucks should never start working out at home. You can't procrastinate at the gym and if you pay for the month, you'll go there, no two ways around it.
That man knows what he's talking about.
Gonna give you honest advice that really made the change for me. Limit yourself to a maximum of 30 minutes of vidya/youtube a day. I moved the Youtube app widget from my phone's homescreen to a new tab. I've noticed how often a day I'd just open my phone and touch the screen where the widget used to be. It's scary. It was just muscle memory at that point. But such things are escapism habits, our lives are too boring but we all wanna play the hero, so we try to seek that feeling in videogames and stupid videos. Use your computer only to learn things that should matter to you. Browse through Jow Forums only when there is really nothing else to do, and even then don't look at the useless threads, LARP's, degeneracy, and ''girls want you to do 100 push ups''. Set easy goals that still require a little bit of work, and set easy habits that still require you to do them everyday. 2019 is going good so far, we are all gonna make it. You are no exception.
You don’t need motivation you need discipline. Learn the difference and build discipline.
Going all in just next day might be hard for someone who did literally nothing so far.
So what you might wanna do is before going to gym give yourself a lil warm up with a month of cut.
If you go for a month of serious cut and stick to it you will see a big progress in terms of losing lard which will greatly motivate you to take a next step- gym.
But desu I don't even think you can do that, which basically is doing nothing, doing less as a matter of fact- less stuffing your face.
The thing is user, for most of us, we don't force ourselves. We may not like to move our ass and go to a place that isn't a few steps from our houses but we do enjoy lifting. We enjoy lifting, the exhaustion and satisfaction and the results that we get. Try lifting for at least 3 weeks with a good diet and if you enjoy it you WILL continue working out. If you don't then move on. Find something you enjoy, swimming, running, any other form of exercise but do not just sit on your ass complaining about yourself. Live a healthy life but most importantly A healthy life that you will at least moderately enjoy.
OP got shit on and left
No u
Seriously gyms rake in a shitload this time of year on new gym subs that don't even get used beyond a first visit
>tfw love lifting
>lift with okay form
>get injuries/pain
>people lift with retarded form
>injury-free for years
>fucks like OP can lift but don't want to
Why is life so weird? Appreciate you can lift fucking stupid OP. If you don't like lifting then don't do it, there's plenty of other physical activities to opt for. You fucking cunt.
You have to be the right type of person to a actually enjoy exesscie. Therer's a reason most people don't do it.
>tomorrow I'll do it, after this set date I'll do it
this is your problem. go fucking workout right now you weak bitch
This this this. You WILL NEVER make it if it feels like a job. Dieting is the same. Learn how to make delicious healthy food at home and you'll never opine for the fast food Jew again. I spend all my treadmill time thinking, "I wonder what's on sale fresh at market? Ooooh I got pork chops in the fridge I can marinade those for tomorrow. Damn I can't wait for pork and brusseled sprouts bro hnnng that's gonna be tasty"
No. Most people enjoy exercise but they put it off because they think other distractions are more important. Not everyone likes lifting weights at a gym but there is a variety of exercise activities that aren't that and I'm truly hard pressed to think of a single person that doesn't like ANY of them.
consider death
OMFG that's totally me. Man, what the...
>"I wonder what's on sale fresh at market? Ooooh I got pork chops in the fridge I can marinade those for tomorrow. Damn I can't wait for pork and brusseled sprouts bro hnnng that's gonna be tasty"
cringe
>t. Tendie coinesseur
Read Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
Read Discipline Equal Freedom by Jocko Willink
>be me break wrist because of bike crash I wasnt at fault at
>still go to the gym religiously using bands as good as I can and doing other stuff
>make what my doctors call an "almost miraculous" comeback as a result can already bench 80kg again a few days after I got my cast off
>get back to my old stats within 3 months or so whilst looking better because I was able to bring some weakpoints up
>throughout vacation go even harder at it and give it my all
>make one bad move on the bench
>shoulder hurts since a week now, can once again only bench 80kg because above that my shoulder hurts
Today I was driving to the gym in this fucking cold weather and it took me like 15min just to get the snow and ice off my windows and lights. Then I go into this overcrowded shitgym and all I do is basically going from one machine or bench to the next seeing if maybe my shoulder wont hurt on that movement. Practically only do side raises and tricep work because no matter what I cant do any pressing movement without pain and I need it to heal. So I only do the movement with the bar to check if I feel discomfort in that area and abandon the exercise for today.
I swear I am going crazy, if this isnt fixed by next week I will just say fuck the pain and train through it I dont even care if my body breaks anymore I am so fucking mad at this instant. Why does this shit always have to happen ? I put in the hard work, stay natty and put in sweat and blood pushing myself and what do I get for it ? Fuck all, right when I was about to hit alltime PRs on the bench after working my way back up from nothing because of my fucking broken wrist my shoulder fucks up. When my gf asked me why it bothers me so much I really had to hold back not to shout at her in frustration.
>fuck your gf
where do you think we are son
Being fat and lazy/worthless/anxious/depressed are all highly correlated. Focus on diet, and as you lose weight you will get emotionally stronger.
>Inb4: just do it bro
That is basically it. It's called discipline. You think of something you don't want to do, give yourself to the count of 10, and do it. It's not a matter of forcing yourself to go out and lift, it's developing discipline. Discipline is a muscle of it's own, in a way, and I can image that you, being a doomer, funnyjunk user (filename), and self described "fat fuck" probably haven't done much to develop it.
Tomorrow, pick up your room a little bit. Next week, eat a salad. Next month, do some pushups. Give it time, and before you know it you'll be able to say to yourself "Okay, I'm going to get up out of bed and go to the gym, even though I don't want to, in 10, 9, 8, 7..." and actually do it. Moreover, doing it despite how much you don't want to will give you a sense of accomplishment I'm guessing is absent in your day to day life.