I have been gone for WAY too long
So, I’m sure everyone here knows how it feels to completely lose all motivation. However, unlike most of you, I am NOT good at pushing through it and working out anyway. And the irony of this situation is that I work at a gym! I have access to over 100 buildings in the northeast and sometimes I don’t even go. How crazy is that? Ugh.
So, recently I’ve been fighting with myself, but I am slowly starting to get back on the bandwagon.
I have decided to lift 6x week, doing an upper/lower split and a little bit of abs each day. It’s worked well so far….well, conside3ring today is day 2, but I had no desire to workout tonight, and I did it anyway. Leg day is always rough for me because my knees are all effed up. It’s one of those double ended swords because I know that less weight on my knees along with strengthening my quads will help with the pain, but I have to get to that point and push through/learn how to deal with pain first. I’m taking glusocamine and ibuprofen before working out (doc said so) and it’s helping quite a bit, but I really wish I could go down to a 90 degree angle with a squat without a stability ball. Oh well. It’ll come eventually.
Tomorrow is a big day, upper body again, meal planning, and a general kick in the butt. Bring it!
November 5, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Honestly, I think lifting six days a week will burn you out. I rerecently went past 220( i thought i would never) doing a fufull body workout for about 8 weeks.
But i was browsing through your stuff because we are of similar height and build.
good luck and don’t give up!!! you can do this!