Got married, gained 15lbs, no motivation for the gym

[ProtienFiend]

If you want to stay married you NEED to take of yourself and feel good about yourself. IF you dont you WILL feel like shit and you will put that negitive crap off on your woman. BAD NEWS.

You know better so get your fat Heiniken drinking ass up and go to the gym.

BigGuyPHX

Best advice yet...

 

[airsmith2k]

got married in june, took time off (2 months, which is the longest time off I have ever taken in like 8 years) and I need motivation to get back to the gym. I want to loose excess weight, but after living the married life, I see myself wanting to get home from work, draft out a little beer from my Heiniken Keg can and say fuck it. I don't know how many bros have gone through this, but I feel like shit. Yes eating and drinking everyday is nice and all, but I feel physically and mentally like shit. I guess I need a few bros to flame me to get my fat ass back to the gym and regain my chin

u sound like every guy i know that has got married or has a serious g/f lol

 

[Hybridtheory2o]

Ok well I know how you feel bro. I am 21 now goign on 22 and a year ago after this girl I really like distracted me from the gym by telling me I dont need to workout anymore I look good enough(yeh by the way fuck that noise) and then her ass dumped me I took a year off. All I wanted to do was play halo 2 online and drink beer and sulk in my own misery. I became lazy and for the first time in my life found a little extra chub and I was like WHOA. I just stopped caring and thought everyone is right I dont need to go to the gym anymore blah blah im fine right now.

It sucked and I had absolutley no motivation what so ever. So what I did was someday somehow someway I found animalpak.com and I started checkin out wrath and all those guys and I began to read their articles and wow that shit sunk right in.


Life aint easy and changes are always present but its how you deal with them. Bodybuilding aint bout needs its bout fuckin wants and desires. You have to want this for YOU. You want a sick lookin physique so when ur walkin around wwith ur wife and u pass by fat outta shape husbands and their wives are lookin at you admiring your wife for havin a husband with a sick ass physique and they sulk becuz theirs has a big ol donut disposal hangin from em. Yeh that shti makes ya feel good and you know it.

You know what you need to do...You know what you want to do...You need to start by making realistic goals. If you need to get rid of the heineken dispenser becuz the last time i seen a guy with 20" guns that got that way by sittin in a recliner drinkin a heineken umm i dont recall that ever fuckin happening actually....sooo get rid of it.

You need to get in the gym throw around some light weights get the heart rate up. Put posters in a binder instead of your wall of all the pros that look sick. Oh and by the way your goals need to start as simple as possible..for instance just PRACTICE going to the gym everyday and when it gets to the point where work is about to be over and ur like fuck i cant wait to hit the gym then do it. get the wife in there and she can do her cardio and u can do ur weights and u can spend time briefly in the gym but split up and do ur shit so its like ur spendin time without really spendin time...


As ronnie coleman says..LIGHTWEIGHT!!! AINT NUTTIN TO IT BUT TO DO IT!!!

 

[supertech69]

Wow, good to see a lot of old timers are still around. I rarely post on here anymore because of all the dumbshit that has been going on for the past few yrs.

I feel your pain str8cubano, I have been married for just over 3yrs now. My wedding was 1 week after placing 2nd in a contest & I was in the best shape of my life. I now just look at pictures and cry! lol I am trying to get it back together finally after limping along since then, but life has gotten way more hectic and you have to be a lot more crafty to get everything in. Ahh yes, the good ole days when I could spend 90 minutes training everything I had scheduled. Now it's not uncommon to have at least one dya a week where I've only got 30 min to get a workout in. I plan to get back into shape and maybe do a show again in 2009. If you can just get yourself back in the hardcore mode for 30 days or so, you'll get bitten by the bug and be rollin in no time. Good luck!

 

[BigGuyPHX]

Best advice yet...

Thanks bro!

I call it like I see it.

BigGuyPHX

 

[blackpanther]

Getting married drove me even closer to the gym just to get some peace and quiet now and again! I love my girl to bits but I need time to myself to train otherwise I will feel like total shit.

 

[THE GOOD SUN]

Good seeing you too RADAR. Thanks for advice bros. Its pretty much just get the fuck back and do it. I have been hitting it, but on and off. Maybe one week I went twice, the next week I went once, then I went a week after that and got sick...so its been a bad rythem, but once it starts, it should stay. What sucks is that I know deep down inside eventually things will happen to totally take me off track. If its bad now, it'll be worst when I have kids. I just have to accept the fact that we have to go to the gym( as a modern society) because our jobs aren't what they used to be, and if we don't go to the gym, we will all be unhealthy and look like shit. Its just one of those things that have to be done. Anyways, thanks for advice again

I think you're overwhelming yourself and in doing so defeating yourself right from the start.
Going from drinkin' and being a domestic fatass vagina (i'm sorry but it has to be said) to filling yourself full of EPHEDRINE and drivin' to the gym 100mph while listening to metallica is NOT going to make you rep out 315 on the bench ...sorry ...and then you'll be disappointed, possibly injured, but definitely UNMOTIVATED.

"RAH RAH RAH" is great but it doen't move dead weight!

Also, IMO, jumping on gear right now I think would be a mistake. You gotta go back to basics, you have to re-establish your foundation a bit, such as cardio & diet. Re-evaluating your physique goals & make a schedule that fits in with your married life & your goals.

what you need is a plan.....
1.) diet - plan how you're gonna get your 6-7 meals a day ...or simply start by substituting all the "crap" out of your diet and replacing it with "good" foods. (limit the beer to weekends or to just 1 on weekdays) This will make you start feeling better physically & mentally.

2.) start with cardio - RUN, on the streets, at the gym, or where ever 3 days a week

3.) once you've got a lil cardio back, start to hit basic movement ...squats/Mon, bench/Weds, deads/Fri ...and go easy to start (higher reps/lower weight)

4.) let nature take it's course & trust me it won't be long

to attemp to go back to the gym without a plan or with unrealistic goals is short changing yourself, your efforts, and setting yourself up to fail

just be smart and realistic ...BE REASONABLE! ...and be good to yourself and remember ANYTHING is better than what you're doing now

 

[George Spellwin]

I finished my article on how to Find a Gym, the top 10 things to look for. Thanks for your help. Here's a link to the article "Find a Gym"!

 

[stevesmi]

I finished my article on how to Find a Gym, the top 10 things to look for. Thanks for your help. Here's a link to the article "Find a Gym"!

I like your article. also I would add under cleanliness the locker rooms and bathrooms as well, and even the showers and sauna. I have been to some gyms where the sauna smelled like pee, i really think someone pee'd in the ashes no joke. I never went back to that gym.

 

[C.K.]

If you cant motivate yourself no one else can...