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I’m bored with everything
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:24 am
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:24 am
I’ve been flipping between programs and I’m just bored with it all. I was doing conjugate and was enjoying it, but after a recent move, my gym is a quarter the size.
What do some of you more advanced guys , like Ron and denim do for training?
What do some of you more advanced guys , like Ron and denim do for training?
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Posted on 2/17/24 at 12:34 pm to bamaguy17
Sign up for some sort of event that will push your training in a new direction and require you to develop new skills.
I’ve done this repeatedly and it lets me go on 6-12 month training adventures where I’m learning new aspects of fitness. Most of the time I also hire a coach to help me out.
By the time I get to the point of boredom, I’m onto my next thing.
Examples I’ve done:
- Ultramarathon training (started at zero running)
- Hyrox (Currently doing this)
- Mountaineering (Climbed Mount Rainier, Grand Teton, etc)
Next up I think I’m going to focus on the Big 3 and try to hit the 1,000 pound club in a power lifting competition
I’ve done this repeatedly and it lets me go on 6-12 month training adventures where I’m learning new aspects of fitness. Most of the time I also hire a coach to help me out.
By the time I get to the point of boredom, I’m onto my next thing.
Examples I’ve done:
- Ultramarathon training (started at zero running)
- Hyrox (Currently doing this)
- Mountaineering (Climbed Mount Rainier, Grand Teton, etc)
Next up I think I’m going to focus on the Big 3 and try to hit the 1,000 pound club in a power lifting competition
Posted on 2/17/24 at 4:30 pm to Lawyers_Guns_Money
Watching fitness stuff on Youtube and Instagram get me fired up. Test it out.
Posted on 2/17/24 at 5:27 pm to bamaguy17
If you want a fun challenge, do Field Strong from Power Athlete, available on the Trainheroic app.
Still the most challenging and built for purpose program I’ve ever done.
Still the most challenging and built for purpose program I’ve ever done.
Posted on 2/17/24 at 8:40 pm to bamaguy17
It happens man. Been lifting for over 20 years. Not long ago pulled a MAC from always sunny and got up to 220 (bad weight) and got back down to 200 in 2 months. (Do not recommend this at all). Take some time off, the changes happen fast though. I’ve gone through phases…. Lift heavy as hell, riding a road bike, jui jitsu, etc. But I now have the ultimate motivation in a little 8 month old that makes me want to be my best physically for him so I will be able to keep up with him.
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:09 pm to bamaguy17
I'm flattered you think I'm advanced. You probably know this already, but I'll say something about it anyway because there may be someone that needs to hear it.
Get Better At Being Bored
That's not the same thing as being good at not getting bored. Not getting bored is the easier problem to solve, and you and I and everybody else in the world has already figured that out. That's where "Program Hopping" comes from, or Crossfit. It's impossible to get bored with all the new shite you can throw at yourself, or have someone else throw at you.
Until you do get bored of the novelty and the "constant variation" of Crossfit, or whatever you're doing that is always "surprising" you, and then you decide to stick with one simple program for a while so you can be lazer focused towards achieving some specific goals. But eventually that gets boring too. Do you see a pattern here? You'll eventually get bored with anything and everything, so you just have to get good, better, and yet even better at tolerating boredom.
As others have mentioned, and I agree with them, attaching your training to a larger goal or event or reason is the best way I can think of to fortify that internal strength needed to tolerate and accept and deal with being bored.
Maybe it's a natural bodybuilding show in your state's biggest city, a powerlifting event in a place you always wanted to visit but never have found the time to make it happen, an adventure race in a weird country with even weirder food, a weekend tough mudder in your home town and you recruit your friends and wife and coworkers to do it with you. It can be really big and elaborate, or relatively small and simple. Short term, long term, multi-phase, etc, there are no rules, you get to make it all up and make it meaningful to you.
Maybe you want to be like Cameron Haynes and do elk hunting with a spear in Montana while nude, maybe you just want to strut on the beach for spring break, learn to surf on a trip to Cozumel, or go hiking up Kilimanjaro, etc. You don't even have to actually do any of those things, maybe you just fantasize about it while you train, but that may be enough to quell the boredom.
I think of it like this. If someone came up to me and asked me, "Why do you lift weights? Why do you do this?" (I most likely would be lifting weights, but it could be anything, I may be rucking, or doing conditioning shite, which I hate) I want to be able to talk their ear off and tell them my reason, and when I'm done talking I want them to be so fricking pumped they'll run through a brick wall and tear an old lady's arm off and try to eat it before running into traffic and punching people's windshields out. I want them to lose their fricking mind.
Get Better At Being Bored
That's not the same thing as being good at not getting bored. Not getting bored is the easier problem to solve, and you and I and everybody else in the world has already figured that out. That's where "Program Hopping" comes from, or Crossfit. It's impossible to get bored with all the new shite you can throw at yourself, or have someone else throw at you.
Until you do get bored of the novelty and the "constant variation" of Crossfit, or whatever you're doing that is always "surprising" you, and then you decide to stick with one simple program for a while so you can be lazer focused towards achieving some specific goals. But eventually that gets boring too. Do you see a pattern here? You'll eventually get bored with anything and everything, so you just have to get good, better, and yet even better at tolerating boredom.
As others have mentioned, and I agree with them, attaching your training to a larger goal or event or reason is the best way I can think of to fortify that internal strength needed to tolerate and accept and deal with being bored.
Maybe it's a natural bodybuilding show in your state's biggest city, a powerlifting event in a place you always wanted to visit but never have found the time to make it happen, an adventure race in a weird country with even weirder food, a weekend tough mudder in your home town and you recruit your friends and wife and coworkers to do it with you. It can be really big and elaborate, or relatively small and simple. Short term, long term, multi-phase, etc, there are no rules, you get to make it all up and make it meaningful to you.
Maybe you want to be like Cameron Haynes and do elk hunting with a spear in Montana while nude, maybe you just want to strut on the beach for spring break, learn to surf on a trip to Cozumel, or go hiking up Kilimanjaro, etc. You don't even have to actually do any of those things, maybe you just fantasize about it while you train, but that may be enough to quell the boredom.
I think of it like this. If someone came up to me and asked me, "Why do you lift weights? Why do you do this?" (I most likely would be lifting weights, but it could be anything, I may be rucking, or doing conditioning shite, which I hate) I want to be able to talk their ear off and tell them my reason, and when I'm done talking I want them to be so fricking pumped they'll run through a brick wall and tear an old lady's arm off and try to eat it before running into traffic and punching people's windshields out. I want them to lose their fricking mind.
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:16 pm to DrDenim
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when I'm done talking I want them to be so fricking pumped they'll run through a brick wall and tear an old lady's arm off and try to eat it before running into traffic and punching people's windshields out. I want them to lose their fricking mind
Now that does not sound boring
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:16 pm to bamaguy17
Go to the gym.
Move heavy weight, eat protein, and watch your body change. That’s what motivates you.
Move heavy weight, eat protein, and watch your body change. That’s what motivates you.
This post was edited on 2/17/24 at 9:26 pm
Posted on 2/17/24 at 9:44 pm to pwejr88
quote:
Try not being a bitch and go to the gym.
That can work, until it doesn't. Everybody is different, and then they change.
I don't think I've ever been a responder to that kind of "challenge", which I believe is the coaching term for that kind of mental tactic. That particular "challenge" was my dad's preferred method of motivation, and I think that is a big reason why I don't respond to it. But if it works, use it. It's definitely a common refrain I hear from lots of different folks, and I think the biggest reason why is because it's easy, perhaps lazy, to just tell someone, "Just Do it, quit being a pussy."
I'm not saying you're being lazy, pwejr88, but I've certainly heard people repeat that kind of sentiment in a lazy way because they aren't really invested in the outcome. Like I said, if it works, use it. Some people at some times in some situations may just need to hear, (from within their own head, or from another person), those kind of words. I definitely go through phases where I have no strong motivation, or "give-a-shite", about training, and I'll just say to myself, "It's your damn job, Gutterboy, just go do your job." (I'm partially quoting a line from a movie I like that makes me laugh, which is why those particular words work for me), but what's important is that I get it. I'm telling myself to stop overthinking things and just act, ACT NOW!
Don't ask why, be a machine, just do it. Why does the Terminator relentlessly pursue Sarah Connor to kill her? Does he hate her? What's his motivation? There isn't any, it's a machine and it's following it's programming. Sometimes I think about my life in that way, ya know. Just kill her, stop asking questions.
Posted on 2/18/24 at 7:16 am to DrDenim
I’m only four years in. I still see changes in my body pretty frequently including the weight I’m pushing. I edited because I can fathom that once down then road a few more years, the motivation could be hard to keep going.
Power to everyone that’s still on the journey.
Power to everyone that’s still on the journey.
This post was edited on 2/18/24 at 11:48 am
Posted on 2/18/24 at 12:05 pm to bamaguy17
I am not advanced but boredom is what lead me to MovNat. It's the only program I have stuck with going in 3 years now. The best part is I don't need a gym.
Posted on 2/18/24 at 2:53 pm to bamaguy17
Embrace the boredom and do the Kboges approach
Posted on 2/18/24 at 6:56 pm to bamaguy17
Embrace the boredom or set goals and chase them
What’s your goals right now?
I been doing this 28 years in May and dabbled before that, you have to have discipline because motivation will come and go like a mother fricker
Ppsa and 531 forever book have been god sends for me to not get bored out my mind.
What kind of gym do you have to work with? Can you super or giant set? What are the goals specifically?
Power athlete is great programming, neversatebis awesome, ppsa is awesome but all depends on specific goals really
What’s your goals right now?
I been doing this 28 years in May and dabbled before that, you have to have discipline because motivation will come and go like a mother fricker
Ppsa and 531 forever book have been god sends for me to not get bored out my mind.
What kind of gym do you have to work with? Can you super or giant set? What are the goals specifically?
Power athlete is great programming, neversatebis awesome, ppsa is awesome but all depends on specific goals really
Posted on 2/18/24 at 9:53 pm to lsu777
Be like Dunbar in Catch 22.
"Dunbar
A friend of Yossarian and the only other person who seems to understand that there is a war going on. Dunbar has decided to live as long as possible by making time pass as slowly as possible, so he treasures boredom and discomfort."
"Dunbar
A friend of Yossarian and the only other person who seems to understand that there is a war going on. Dunbar has decided to live as long as possible by making time pass as slowly as possible, so he treasures boredom and discomfort."
Posted on 2/19/24 at 6:15 am to lsu777
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What’s your goals right now?
To not be a weak old man. Ive always chased a total but if I’m being honest, I think I’m just sick of deadlifting. I think I just need to take a break from it. I dread it every workout. I think I’ll swap for a good morning or SLDL.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 7:15 am to bamaguy17
My opinion I’ve gotten from others, deadlifting isn’t that beneficial unless training for specific goals that call for it. If strength is the goal, farmers walks, dips, chin up, pull ups, squats, lunges, etc, will make you very strong.
Heck even barbell bench press, the pinnacle of male fitness, has been shown to not be needed if other options with dumbbells and cables are available.
Heck even barbell bench press, the pinnacle of male fitness, has been shown to not be needed if other options with dumbbells and cables are available.
Posted on 2/19/24 at 8:05 am to bamaguy17
quote:
To not be a weak old man. Ive always chased a total but if I’m being honest, I think I’m just sick of deadlifting. I think I just need to take a break from it. I dread it every workout. I think I’ll swap for a good morning or SLDL.
man then pick you out a more bodybuilding plan from ppsa. only last a month so you dont get bored, you get lots of variety etc etc
i suggest filling out the hoodie, only has snatch grip deads. i think you would like it
in future plans, sub Rdl or rack pulls for deads if you dont like them. or sandbag carry
Posted on 2/19/24 at 11:38 am to Lawyers_Guns_Money
quote:
Sign up for some sort of event that will push your training in a new direction and require you to develop new skills.
Variety is definitely the key to it, at least in my world.
Go train for a triathlon OP. Keep some events on your schedule, it helps with staying motivated.
Posted on 2/20/24 at 8:12 pm to Oates Mustache
Get into hot yoga for a while. It will make you strong in different ways than you are used to.
I know what you are talking about with the boredom. I’m lucky enough to have a summer rocky mountian trek to prepare for. Once that is over, I might train for the Louisiana Marathon OR go for the 1000lb club. It all depends on what I’m feeling.
I know what you are talking about with the boredom. I’m lucky enough to have a summer rocky mountian trek to prepare for. Once that is over, I might train for the Louisiana Marathon OR go for the 1000lb club. It all depends on what I’m feeling.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 9:08 am to White Raj
I try to break it into seasons. Started doing Peloton classes a couple of years ago, and there are various challenges I join throughout the year. I'm in week 7 of an 8 week challenge now. It is 4 scheduled rides each week, with the weekend always being a longer class. This is what the group usually runs each January-February and the target is setting a good base/foundation for the year. My main focus since the start of the year has been to do this base training, and it can get boring with mostly longer endurance rides with a few hard intervals thrown in for some weeks. I lift on the days I don't ride, and it is something like a chest/back day, arms/shoulders, and leg day. I'll sometimes throw in another upper body day that is more of a lighter weight/higher reps and hitting everything upper body.
When that ends, there is about a month until the next one, and I'm going to focus on a 4 week leg strength program, while dialing back the riding to 3 days a week. Basically two leg days a week, and I'll still do my couple of upper body days, but only ride 2-3 days a week to sort of maintain what I've built in the last two months.
Then my next program is a 6 week riding challenge that will focus on improving output while riding. I'll dial back the strength work for legs, and focus more on upper body lifting. Then it will be summer time and go from there. May start running a couple of days a week and not ride indoors as much. I might ride outdoors once a week. Variety is what keeps me from getting bored, but I tend to get hyper focused on whatever I'm doing for 4-6-8 weeks. I never completely stop doing any one thing, but the changing it up is what keeps it interesting. I might do a PPSA program, or a mileage challenge on the bike, or a running goal. But I'm going to keep doing something. It all is beneficial, and shifting gears is how I avoid burnout.
When that ends, there is about a month until the next one, and I'm going to focus on a 4 week leg strength program, while dialing back the riding to 3 days a week. Basically two leg days a week, and I'll still do my couple of upper body days, but only ride 2-3 days a week to sort of maintain what I've built in the last two months.
Then my next program is a 6 week riding challenge that will focus on improving output while riding. I'll dial back the strength work for legs, and focus more on upper body lifting. Then it will be summer time and go from there. May start running a couple of days a week and not ride indoors as much. I might ride outdoors once a week. Variety is what keeps me from getting bored, but I tend to get hyper focused on whatever I'm doing for 4-6-8 weeks. I never completely stop doing any one thing, but the changing it up is what keeps it interesting. I might do a PPSA program, or a mileage challenge on the bike, or a running goal. But I'm going to keep doing something. It all is beneficial, and shifting gears is how I avoid burnout.
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