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Ok /fit/ fucktards, what's wrong with me?
A couple of years ago I was in a pretty good place physically: I went to the gym, worked out at home, did regular sports. And although I wasn't yet in my ideal body, i was still pretty fit, with great physical condition and endurance. It was the best I had been in many years, at least.
But then shit happened in my life that made me change my regular rutine, and when I tried to get back to my old habits I found it incredibly hard. I wouldn't get up to go to the gym. I would get tired and dizzy when I would go lift, to the point I will start yawning a lot and even sometimes get very mild headaches. I couldn't get the motivation to workout at home or do any cardio, and when I did, I couldn't bring myself to finish it due to tiredness or just feeling sick of it (mentally and physically). I now try to avoid excercise whenever I can when it used to bring excitement to my life. Now I just spend most of the day laying down telling myself that "tomorrow is the day I'll be fit again."
Does anyone know what's happening to me?
For the record: Yes, I am severly depressed for stuff that's happened in the past.
But I used to be too when I was working out. But now I also get headaches, extreme tiredness and pain, so I don't know if it's a medical condition or not.
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You are lacking discipline. You need to train your mind to just do what needs to be done.
Here's how you can fix that, but you've got to do this TODAY. If you want another day, you'll just get on the whole "tomorrow is the day I'll be fit again." cycle again. Use your motivation to train your discipline.
If you are at home right now, I would recommend you to do this now. It's a quick exercise, but it works like wonders:
* Go to bed and set the alarm clock randomly to the next 3-5 minutes;
* Close your eyes and rest.
* Once the alarm goes of, stretch your arms and legs as fast as possible, jump out of bed and shut down the alarm.
Do this 5 times and do a last time with a 15min alarm. Also, try to do this tomorrow morning.
Eventually this will become a natural reaction and you'll get out of bed as soon as the alarm goes of. No more fooling around.
Tomorrow you are going to wake up 1h30m earlier than usual (use the trick above) to work out.
Set an alarm clock to `wake up time - 8h`. Once that alarm goes of, turn off all screens and go to bed. you can take your time to drink some milk, go to the bathroom, brush your teeth, etc. just don't look at your phone/tablet/computer/books.
NO EXCUSES:
* This is super early and you won't feel tired. It doesn't matter, your body will get used to it.
* This takes a lot of your free time. It also doesn't matter, you can make up for the lost time tomorrow.
If your gym is closed at that time/you have no gym membership, just do the r/bodyweightfitness recommended routine: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine
Do the whole routine. If you are too tired for a certain exercise, just deload,
If you feel too tired to go to work just take a caffeine pill and try to hang on through the day, it will get easier.
Don't forget to eat a decent breakfast.
Now you just have to wake up early 3 times a week. You'll eventually fail and slack off, but you'll be much better when that day comes.
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