Losing the drive to workout

[HotDamnItzDavid]

I felt the same way when I had my shoulder injury. I was at about 170 when I hurt my shoulder then I took 5 months off. In 5 months I dropped to 153. I was pretty much frail again. When I started working out f again I was struggling to put up 5 reps of 185. I used to put that up 10 times easily. So I left the gym and never looked back at it again. Then I met my friend who needed a partner to work out with again and that got me all motivated to go again. I'm slowly gaining my weight and strength back.

 

[Citruscide]

I felt the same way when I had my shoulder injury. I was at about 170 when I hurt my shoulder then I took 5 months off. In 5 months I dropped to 153. I was pretty much frail again. When I started working out f again I was struggling to put up 5 reps of 185. I used to put that up 10 times easily. So I left the gym and never looked back at it again. Then I met my friend who needed a partner to work out with again and that got me all motivated to go again. I'm slowly gaining my weight and strength back.

If you need help in rehabing your shoulder, let me know... I've totally dislocated mine out of the socket three times now. I have been told by doctors I'd never lift heavy again. I've been told i'd never bench over x amount of weight... each time I have come back and near tripled the weight they said I wouldn't be doing. -- Recently before my last injury (Sept 18th) -- I was doing 80lbs on db military presses... a weight 4x that the doctors said I would be able to do without my shoulder redislocating.

You can overcome any injury... work around and through it...

C-ditty

 

[Mike_Rojas]

Hang in there Rev! Maybe you need some time to recover. Maybe you need to workout light for a couple weeks. You'll bounce back in no time. Sometimes I obsess about my workouts too much - it helps to spend some time doing other things to get your mind off it. Good luck! Never quit!

 

[Boulder257]

Try these things:

1. look at pictures of physiques that you want to have
2. music that motivates you
3. movies that make you feel good
4. get your ass kicked by a big guy (always works for me)

Also, don't forget that you have to get the juices and endorphins flowing before you may want to feel like getting back into the swing. My personal advice is close to cits, just get your ass to a gym and get working. You WILL feel better the longer you get back the motion.

Good luck and God Bless.

 

[Arnold'sApprentice]

Sounds a bit like overtraining...i know i lost all interest in lifting when i was in an overtrained state..i always ached and saw no changes in the mirror...the iron game seemed a pointless game to me. Loss of training anticipation is a text book overtraining symptom.

Bro,I say pig out on junk for a bit..stay outta the gym another week and day by day you will feel your desire for the weightroom coming back until you're climbing the walls to get back

peace

 

[Exodus]

take a month off, let your shoulders heal, and other injury's, spend some quality time with your girlfriend ( or if you dont have one, use the arm without the shoulder injury). read.

your getting into strongman training with t3c right???........ go and to www.elitefts.com and read all the articles, then study on strongman, find out why these guys are so big, and what kinda workouts they do.

go to www.irongame.com and watch all those videos for inspiration.

force yourself to stay away from the gym for 1 month, but surround yourself with stuff that makes you fired up for training. go with t3c, PH, and LS to train with them on event days, but dont train, let them tease you about wanting to do stuff but DONT TRAIN...........

find out the passion you have by forcing your self to be involved, but not actually get to workout. this will make you go into a rage, but then after 1 month you will be so swelled up with anger and rage and excitement and that love to train, you will look back on this post and laugh at your old self.

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[HotDamnItzDavid]

If you need help in rehabing your shoulder, let me know... I've totally dislocated mine out of the socket three times now. I have been told by doctors I'd never lift heavy again. I've been told i'd never bench over x amount of weight... each time I have come back and near tripled the weight they said I wouldn't be doing. -- Recently before my last injury (Sept 18th) -- I was doing 80lbs on db military presses... a weight 4x that the doctors said I would be able to do without my shoulder redislocating.

You can overcome any injury... work around and through it...

C-ditty

Thx for the offer but I'm prefectly fine now. The hard part is getting back to where I was.

 

[PolishHammer1977]

Thx for the offer but I'm prefectly fine now. The hard part is getting back to where I was.

If you're "fine now" you are invited to come meet us in the parking lot in Westbury for some strongman.

You down?................................

 

[sk*]

For the past week I haven't been in the gym due to injuries. I binged out on junk food for the whole week, and really have no desire to comeback to the gym. For the past 3 years I just had a single minded drive of just going to the gym, never had I missed more than 1 week, except for the planned breaks. I guess it is because the visual results are so slow to come, that the idea of just going to the gym no longer gives me the necessary drive. Anyone else had a problem like this? I guess these injuries are bumming me out and not letting me get to the gym so I can forget all about this nonsense.

Dude, i'm gonna smack you. That motivate you enough?

Shut up and deadlift.

-sk

 

[Cuthbert]

It happens to the best of us bro. It's just a matter of how you respond to it now.