Minor problem...with being healthy

**Tonik** · 02-15-2010, 03:06 PM

Find someone to go to the gym with you.

I always got in ruts like that until i started working out a couple times a week with a friend of mine. It's good motivation and gives you someone to talk to and/or call you a sissy girl.

inb4 gay and "squat thrust" jokes

**86 IROC-Z** · 02-15-2010, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Tonik

Find someone to go to the gym with you.

I always got in ruts like that until i started working out a couple times a week with a friend of mine. It's good motivation and gives you someone to talk to and/or call you a sissy girl.

inb4 gay and "squat thrust" jokes

This.

"Where'd my weights go"

"The 35's? I think a girl took them"

**Mr. Luos** · 02-15-2010, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

"Where'd my weights go"

"The 35's? I think a girl took them"

You aren't helping me.

**Tonik** · 02-15-2010, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

This.

"Where'd my weights go"

"The 35's? I think a girl took them"

I only use 5, 10, and 25

**Mr. Luos** · 02-15-2010, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by Tonik

I only use 5, 10, and 25

I am feeling a little better.

**86 IROC-Z** · 02-15-2010, 03:23 PM

Calm down guys, it was a quote from a bodybuilding video. I don't have much use for them either

**Tonik** · 02-15-2010, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Luos

I am feeling a little better.

**Mr. Luos** · 02-15-2010, 03:47 PM

I have actually been weighing out the options....
A. Sign up at a gym for $13 a month (small place)
B. Pick up 20 pound and 30 pound sets of dumb bells. To go with 8, 15, 25, and 35's I have.

Price is cheaper for the dumb bells after about 8 months.

**Dann** · 02-15-2010, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

I ripped the audio from the video and made it as a track for my iPod.

Music is extremely helpful during exercise. I've only had my iPod for about two months now and it's hard to imagine not using it.

For running I usually listen to military cadences (surprisingly helpful) and high-energy techno, trance, hardstyle, etc.

For lifting I usually listen to Eminem, gangsta rap, or stuff like Fear Factory.

Damn thats crazy i listen to the same kinda music while im doing those things(except Military Cadences...but ill try it)
I use a Stereo so it can be loud... i hate having things in my ears lol

**Tonik** · 02-15-2010, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Luos

I have actually been weighing out the options....
A. Sign up at a gym for $13 a month (small place)
B. Pick up 20 pound and 30 pound sets of dumb bells. To go with 8, 15, 25, and 35's I have.

Price is cheaper for the dumb bells after about 8 months.

There is only so many different exercises you can do with dumbbells before you start hitting plateaus.

Much more variety in a gym.

**Zboner** · 02-15-2010, 04:45 PM

dude, it's good if you get burnt out to skip a week, but not much longer, I usually hit the gym 4-5 times a week. but I have a friend I meet there every night its much easier wiht someone there. I have missed 4 days but thats because im snowed in here, which sucks.

**Sassy Cassie** · 02-15-2010, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Tonik

I only use 5, 10, and 25

Me too.

**Zboner** · 02-15-2010, 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by Sassy Cassie

Me too.

you guys are hugh, lol

**Tonik** · 02-15-2010, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Sassy Cassie

Me too.

Originally Posted by Zboner

you guys are hugh, lol

One day my bench press max will be over 85 and I'll let the whole board know.

**LgndKller20073** · 02-15-2010, 05:35 PM

I don't know how you guys do it....nothing irritates me more than having people try to talk to me while I'm working out. Even if it was a friend. I think it distracts me more.

It's really just become part of my everyday schedule to go to the gym. It's routine for me. The only time I've really missed for an extended period of time is my trips out to Vegas the last 2 Augusts.

**Y2KPewterSS** · 02-15-2010, 05:41 PM

This should solve the motivation problem:

**Mr. Luos** · 02-15-2010, 05:48 PM

Time to go cut my willie off.
Thanks P.

**Y2KPewterSS** · 02-15-2010, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Luos

Time to go cut my willie off.
Thanks P.

Maybe that should be the motivational poster for homosexuality

**310stanger** · 02-15-2010, 05:53 PM

Theres nothing wrong with cheating and going to have some pizza or fast food once or twice a week, you almost have to. If you dont cheat a few times, when you finally do you are more likely to go on an all out binge, which snowballs and then you get "ah fuck it" syndrome and just completely fall off the wagon. Just dont allow your cheating to make you miss multiple workouts.

However, the best way to avoid burnout when training is to not overtrain and actually allow your body to recover. This is part of the flaw I find in programs like p90x. It seems like a lot of overtraining for a quick initial result, but you will get burnt out. Your muscles get stimulated through the training and grow while at rest, so if you train to much you never allow your body to actually recover and grow.