Im losing my drive boys

[Cluster]

I dont know if im the only one who’s ever been here but i really have a hard time wanting to go to the gym.
Its been goin on for like 90 days. I dont know why but i just lost almost all motivation.
Its weird cause i love this shit lots of weeks im doin 2 a days and killing my diet. Help fellas i dont want to give up completely any imput would be appreciated boys

 

[Poppy]

Been there for sure. I get bored with stuff and find that mixing it up helps. I didn’t bench press for over a year. I did push ups and overhead press. Shoulders feel great

Just try changing up things for a bit.

Example

Don’t put a bar on your back for a month… no squats. Find substitutes… front squats leg press single leg work

Don’t bench press for a month. Your shoulders will thank you.

Cut back to two days a week for a month. one upper one lower

 

[Cluster]

Thanks @Poppy this shits kinda bummed me out ive been training hard for two years this time and i dont want all that hard work go to waste

 

[herrubermensch]

I find David Goggins advice helpful in these instances, which I myself experience regularly at 55 years young. Basically, stop negotiating with yourself. Give yourself no option but to do this. THIS is what YOU do. THIS is YOUR new norm. If you give yourself an out–e.g., I’m just not motivated enough to do this–your brain will convince you that its ok and even rational to skip the workout.

For me, this all focuses on age: my brain tells me: WTF are you doing, working out for two hours every day and sometimes running afterward or even doing a second workout? You’re an old fuck, you’re gonna hurt yourself, you can’t and shouldn’t be doing this. I ignore it. This is what I do. I refuse the negotiate. Make your brain follow you, don’t let it convince you it’s ok to stop or skip or back off because that’s rational or smart.

In any event, this is how I deal with what you are experiencing, viz., by saying motivation is irrelevant. This is what YOU do, and nothing can stop you from doing so other than listening to your brain tell you that you’ve been doing this for two years, you need a break, you’re overtrained, you’ve been hitting it too hard, you need to summon up some new motivation, and so on. Fuck all of that. This is what you do.

 

[Cluster]

Great talk brother i love goggins 2. I swear im trying i just bitch out which is not normal for me i was thinking maybe im depressed bad o4 something

 

[herrubermensch]

Good luck with it, brother. Don’t let your brain win. This is what you do. THIS is what YOU do.

 

[Cluster]

Great talk im going to the gym now

 

[herrubermensch]

THAT’s it! Go kill it, brother!!!

 

[Cluster]

Lol do you do personal training

 

[Kad1]

I’ve battled this more than a few times over the years. Honestly there is no wrong way to approach it, you have to find one that works and the one that works on this downturn may not work on the next. You mentioned 2 a days and really strict diet. Does eating clean come easy for you or are you like the rest of us that craves junk food from time to time? 2 a days definitely take there till on you especially if you’ve been doing them for 8+ weeks. My advice would be take a week completely off. No weights at all and relax your diet. Eat some foods you wouldn’t normally eat and increase the calories a bit for that week. Just give your mind and body a total rest from the grind. Sometimes that’s all it takes. Another approach is just get to the gym with no expectations for the workout. Just do whatever comes to mind and do it at the intensity level your body dictates on that day. Sometimes just allowing our selves some freedom in the gym is helpful. That set schedule we usually follow can certainly grind us down.
Most important, relax. This is not some rare occurrence, we all have this happen. Even the pros loose motivation from time to time.
Good luck

 

[Dirtnasty]

Body is yelling yiur mind it needs rest

 

[Trollus]

I feel you brother. I’m at that point in my cut. Stalled out and sick of dieting. Never have the energy, lost a lot of strength in the cut. I do use the strategy @herrubermensch is talking about. This is just something I do. But it sucks to feel like you’re phoning it in. @Poppy is right about switching it up though. Sometimes I’m just bored.

 

[Cluster]

Im lucky in the fact that i eat clean and i really dont crave sweets or junk food and never have. It does make it not as fun to get all the calories in for a bulk though

 

[Cluster]

I feel you man

 

[Cluster]

Thats something to think about. I have been wanting to het on here and talk this out. Guess i didn’t figure id get this many ideas from a bunch of hard-core lifters thanks

 

[herrubermensch]

I absolutely will give myself a mental break from time to time by going to the gym with no expectations. Just do what you can.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Oh yeah I talked to someone a couple days ago about this it happens to me every time I go to workout nowadays with low t its not fun at all.
Just gotta keep pushing and its not bad to take a day or two. Especially if you’re off cycle just becareful that it doesn’t slip away its happened were I have stopped for years and start again.

Like everyone already said switch it up to anything it doesn’t even have to be lifting im looking at joining a boxing gym very soon because I have different goals right now that the weights can achieve but the boxing gym can achieve faster.

Whatever you choose to do brother were always here and interested for sure

 

[Cluster]

This place is great

 

[Bigmurph6]

I agree lol

 

[Rusty]

How is your CNS. @Kad1 and @Dirtnasty prolly on to something. Someone on here told me to flash a light in your eye. If your pupil keeps trying to open then your cns is about to shut you down. Take that week off kad is talking about. Happened to me last summer when I was in the gym 3 hours a day for about two months ish at 6 days a week.

Other thing that makes me feel like there is a wall between me and the gym is when my estrogen is too high or too low. When last time you did bloods?