- Mar 26, 2005
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Every time I start, I last maybe two months max, and then I burn out.
Its always the same. I just.. quit. I can only fight this uphill battle for so long before I cannot take it anymore. It doesn't get easier or better with time. Working out is always tedious, boring and painful.
I can never be "in the moment" and just enjoy what I am doing. I keep looking at the clock to see how soon I can leave the gym and go home to play video games. I feel like a hamster in the wheel on that elliptical or a treadmill fighting against the pain and tedium that always strikes me after about 10 minutes.
I tried to listen to music, but eventually I get sick and tired of the same music and there's only so much music I like. If I am not distracted, I start thinking while I'm working out. I think about the futility of it all, the tedium, the pain, and eventually it gets to me.
There was this one time where I stuck with it for two whole months, 40 min cardio 5 days a week every week. I lost like 20 lbs and halved my belly, but still quit later because it was just all too boring and too mundane.
I tried to vary it. Something like bike one day, elliptical the other, and so on. The weights are kind of pointless in my particular case, since I don't care for gaining muscle. I only want to lose weight and the belly. Yes, I understand weight burn calories too, but cardio is usually more effective for weight loss.
How do you stick with your routine? how do you keep yourself from quitting? After work, I just want to drop on the couch like a bag of potatoes, eat, play some games and pass out to go to work the next day all over again.
I am 35, and I feel like I have no energy, and it's only getting worse. I am 5'9" and I weigh 220 lbs so I am way, way overweight for my height.
Its always the same. I just.. quit. I can only fight this uphill battle for so long before I cannot take it anymore. It doesn't get easier or better with time. Working out is always tedious, boring and painful.
I can never be "in the moment" and just enjoy what I am doing. I keep looking at the clock to see how soon I can leave the gym and go home to play video games. I feel like a hamster in the wheel on that elliptical or a treadmill fighting against the pain and tedium that always strikes me after about 10 minutes.
I tried to listen to music, but eventually I get sick and tired of the same music and there's only so much music I like. If I am not distracted, I start thinking while I'm working out. I think about the futility of it all, the tedium, the pain, and eventually it gets to me.
There was this one time where I stuck with it for two whole months, 40 min cardio 5 days a week every week. I lost like 20 lbs and halved my belly, but still quit later because it was just all too boring and too mundane.
I tried to vary it. Something like bike one day, elliptical the other, and so on. The weights are kind of pointless in my particular case, since I don't care for gaining muscle. I only want to lose weight and the belly. Yes, I understand weight burn calories too, but cardio is usually more effective for weight loss.
How do you stick with your routine? how do you keep yourself from quitting? After work, I just want to drop on the couch like a bag of potatoes, eat, play some games and pass out to go to work the next day all over again.
I am 35, and I feel like I have no energy, and it's only getting worse. I am 5'9" and I weigh 220 lbs so I am way, way overweight for my height.