Who powerlifts alone???

[Schutzhund1]

I was starting to get pretty serious about powerlifting a year or so ago. I had made considerble progress all my lifts but then my wife and I built our first home about 30 miles from the nearest gym.

I have built a decent home gym in my basement with equipment such as:
Squat rack,
Dip station,
Flat bench
Incline bench,
Lat pulldown
Low row,
Reverse Hyper machine,
Seated Calf machine,

Now we've been in our home since May '04. When we first moved I was pretty good about working out for a month or two then I started to get real busy at work and then started to slack off.

Well my projects at work have all slowed down and I'm going to focus on my lifting again. My only problem is motivation.

Who else works out alone?
How do you deal with the motivation?

Lacking the gym atmosphere, I'm probably going to start relying on discussion forums like this one to keep me motivated.

Any tips???

 

[daveyboy2345]

For motivation try reading various lifting magazines or health/bodybuilding magazines for a while before you want to workout. Then pop 100-200 mg of caffeine and 40 minutes later you should be "hungry" enough.

 

[Schutzhund1]

For motivation try reading various lifting magazines or health/bodybuilding magazines for a while before you want to workout. Then pop 100-200 mg of caffeine and 40 minutes later you should be "hungry" enough.

Magazine's are a great idea. I usually work out before work in the morning so I don't know about the caffeine 40 minutes before the workout but I do drink coffee while I'm lifting.

24hr a day re-runs of the "Worlds Strongest Man" seems to help too!

 

[Parabellum]

I work out alone and what keeps me working is setting new PR's. Also preparing for a meet keeps me in the gym.

 

[oxtail72]

I work out alone during the week, but on weekends, I make it a point to train at a particular location with the team I belong to. This won't last long since I'll be moving soon closer to the team home. We have quite a few powerlifters who make long trips to train with us.

While there are several ways to keep motivated when training alone, nothing beats going to train with others who have their heart in the game as well. Perhaps you should try to at least make a trip or two each month to a location nearby where you know there are several other dedicated powerlifters or team. If this can't be done, I understand completely about feeling alone sometimes, and the camaraderie you develop online may be the only source of outside motivation you'll have for some time. Have you looked into who may be in your area who powerlift competitively or in general, even if it means a 30 minute to 1 hour drive on occasion?

 

[bignate73]

I train alone. its no big deal, if you have the right safety setup, you can be fearless and not worry about failing. as for motivation...motivation comes from within for me. i don't really need someone to pump me up.

 

[BadboyAl]

I workout alone. I have noticed reading websites and forums as well as staring at my routine and finding ways to improve it keep me motivated.

One big motivation for me is knowing I dont have to pay a large monthly fee for a gym that the only equipment i use is the power rack and dumbells, and i dont have to deal with all the jerks you find at many gyms....

 

[wnt2bBeast]

Im a PL trapped in a bodybuilding gym lol..my goals are what motivate me..upping my total, training my lifts, setting PR's, seeing the big guys putting up huge numbers..those are all things that motivate me..ill let nothing get in my way..just today i heard some jackass say to his buddy "whats the deal with that" referring to me doing board presses..Did it get me down hell no it felt good to be ODD..i relish it

 

[blut wump]

Im a PL trapped in a bodybuilding gym lol..my goals are what motivate me..upping my total, training my lifts, setting PR's, seeing the big guys putting up huge numbers..those are all things that motivate me..ill let nothing get in my way..just today i heard some jackass say to his buddy "whats the deal with that" referring to me doing board presses..Did it get me down hell no it felt good to be ODD..i relish it

You're lucky! My local is a "fitness center". I talked one of the instructors into putting a one-rep-max chart on the wall. He'd only do it for Smith Machine bench "for safety reasons" but after about a month it had about ten entries. I occasionally bump into the other guys who are on the chart and we all reckon it helps with motivation.

I did call in at the other local gym but when I asked about squat racks or cages he didn't seem to understand. He then went on to tell me that they had a few big guys in and they usually brought their own weights with them. After pausing briefly to imagine people lugging a few hundred pounds of plates up and down the steps, I left.

 

[kp88zgj]

I was starting to get pretty serious about powerlifting a year or so ago. I had made considerble progress all my lifts but then my wife and I built our first home about 30 miles from the nearest gym.

I have built a decent home gym in my basement with equipment such as:
Squat rack,
Dip station,
Flat bench
Incline bench,
Lat pulldown
Low row,
Reverse Hyper machine,
Seated Calf machine,

Now we've been in our home since May '04. When we first moved I was pretty good about working out for a month or two then I started to get real busy at work and then started to slack off.

Well my projects at work have all slowed down and I'm going to focus on my lifting again. My only problem is motivation.

Who else works out alone?
How do you deal with the motivation?

Lacking the gym atmosphere, I'm probably going to start relying on discussion forums like this one to keep me motivated.

Any tips???

i would just watch training videos like Ronnie coleman the unbeleivable, pumping iron things like that