How do you handle your low energy days at the gym

If you are going for a goal or competition, do everything. If not, go for the main movement and whatever else you can get through.

Should have hydrated more

I will do main movement only and call it quits.

What lsu777 said, warm-up, put everything you can into your main lift, then shut it down and celebrate the fact that you got what you could in.

This rarely happened in my 20s but now that I'm older with more work, family, and life stuff it happens sometimes. No shame, rest up and kill your next workout.

I'll warm up and see how it goes. Sometimes your body lies to you. I've hit pr's on days I felt awful.

If I'm warming up and the weight isn't moving fast, I'll switch to a lower weight variant of the main move. Pause squats, 3 count Spoto press and deficit deadlift are probably the most common.

I usually finish with a strongman circuit, so I'll usually autoregulate there and not push if I'm still not feeling it or go light weight for time.

Planning a partial deload now and again helps keep the performance more even, but the down days happen. Part of my mindset thing is accepting that low energy days are part of life and some days you just have to punch the clock in the gym too.

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Snort some preworkout

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Rich Piana? I knew you were still alive damnit!

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What lsu777 said, warm-up, put everything you can into your main lift, then shut it down and celebrate the fact that you got what you could in.

This rarely happened in my 20s but now that I'm older with more work, family, and life stuff it happens sometimes. No shame, rest up and kill your next workout.

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This. If I don't have it, I'm putting absolutely everything I have into my main lift for that day, and then I call it a wrap from lifting.

I'll often throw in some mobility or stretching stuff at the end as it doesn't require as much energy but is still productive use of time.

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some days when I have zero desire to lift weights

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It's weird for me but the days I absolutely give zero fricks about lifting are the days that I actually get in and get shite done. It's just getting over that mental block for me about being lazy.

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Don’t take that seriously

Spend a little time on mobility and do the main movement. If you’re really zapped then lighten the load by 25%

I get like that some days. I’ll a little bit longer of a break between sets, but I mostly just try to power through it.