Time to die

Git sum

Love hate relationship love the results hate the suffer LOL👍

P90X - “I love it, but I hate it.”

How do you guys find the motivation to work out? I used to do the treadmill consistently for 30 minutes or so a day but I stopped because I didn't like doing that. I don't have a gym membership, or the money for one. Sorry if these sound like excuses.

I feel good when I’m in shape and feel bad when I’m not. That’s about all the motivation I need. 

Tony Horton for the win 

I have that and the bike. They'll fuck you up lol 

For me it’s always an on/off with the getting in shape motivation.

Usually happens when I catch a bad look in the mirror and go “alright, you look like shit, we start right now”.

And don’t let the gym/money stop you. Best shape of my life was nothing but road work. 
Ran to the high school football field, did tire flips up and down the field until I literally couldn’t lift my arms, then ran back home. Every single day.

Side note: I despise the gym. 3/4 people are there scrolling their phones on the most used machines, the other 1/4 are too busy looking at themselves, errr, checking their form in the mirror to realize you’re trying to get a set in.
 

Where did you get it from and what did it cost? I’m on the edge. Thanks. 

Thanks for the advice, i don’t ride a dirt bike, or any bike, but i understand what your saying.

We Have the ski erg...

I hate that piece of shit so much....

but mannn do I love it.....

I hate it so much I want to punch it In the face...

...but hott damn I love this thing!!....

did I mention I want to set this pile of shit on fire and watch it burn...

..oh my god I can't stop 💪🏽 

...Fuck you! Why did I buy this! 

....Raaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr!!!

Brings back memories of doing their ab workout 😮‍💨

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Relying on motivation is a trap. You either value the health of future you or you don’t. 

Looking at it as “working out” is also a trap. You are human. Your body wants to move. Do what’s fun and what you consider play. 

Then learn to enjoy the process of improving at that. 

The work that is preventing the work is the work.

Delayed gratification is self love.

And in reality, it’s all play. 

Never felt the urge to downvote a post so quickly... rowers and myself don't get along.

300 is a steal. Good work!

I hate the treadmill as well but hit it a couple times a week for 1.5 to 2 miles. I use it for warm up at the gym, then head over to the row machine for 10 minutes to warm up the joints before lifting.... I had a hard time with motivation as well but I forced myself in the beginning by putting it on my calendar. Once I saved time for it, it was easier to make myself do it and after about a month, It was becoming a habit (they say it takes 30 days to force a habit). I've been going to the gym pretty much 3-5 times a week for almost 8 years now. Don't look at it as "working out", just look at it as another task that needs done during your day.

As for being able to afford a membership, I use Planet Fitness because it's cheap. A lot of people hate it and talk smack about PF but it has everything you need for $15 month and most people can find $3.75 a week. If there are none near you, just plan out a route around your area for running / walking. Get some cheap Wally World dumbbells or Google bodyweight exercises and you can come up with a nice routine. You can do a lot with a single kettlebell as well.  

I think I've used a tread mill once in my life and it sucked. I also hate going to the gym. 

Lately I've been doing a full body workout 3 days per week. 

Get some dumb bells or resistance bands. 

Do 10 chest press

10 front loaded squats

10 rows

10 deadlifts

10 shoulder press

I do that as a set with minimal breaks in between for 5 sets. It gets the heart rate up and provides resistance training. I have a selection of dumb bells i use but a set of a variety resistance  bands is around $100

Original version for the win if you really wanna suffer.

I don't mean this to be getting at you or any choices you make just giving my honest opinion on the way that fitness is presented these days.

It shouldn't be a case of motivation, or forcing yourself to do something. The trendy grind it out or your weak thing that gets thrown around by these so called alphas is damaging to people.

'working out' has been made into this complicated thing where you need to go to the gym and do this weird machine or do insane interval training that batters your body into the ground. Yes there's a place for those things especially for top end athletic performance (in moderation) but I see friends and family that get sucked into these 'trainers' who are just social media influencers that are trying to sell you stuff or get you on some supplement or medicine. 

So people go from being borderline obese and sitting on the sofa all day to instantly overloading themselves with runs they aren't ready for, high intensity intervals and weights with dreadful form and being miserable so they quit the gym and decide they'd rather be fat.

The human body loves to move and it loves to eat clean natural foods that have been available for thousands of years, you can completely transform your health by eating a good diet, making sure you eat enough food to fuel your activities and just going for a light run for 30 minutes two or three times a week plus either riding on the weekend or for non moto people a hike or long cycle etc. Throw in some stretches and functional strength training and within a year you'd be in the top 80 percent of the population. 

Doing that is easy, as in genuinely easy. You're no where near out of breath on the runs it's just a nice clearing of the head, the stretches free up your body to make you feel better through the day and the strength training makes every single thing you do easier. If after doing that for a while you want more of a challenge or want to take yourself into some athletic performance levels thats great, that's the time to start looking at some structured work outs and you're then building on a base you already have.

Look in the mirror and if you're fat get to work. I can't let myself get like that. I'll have a 8 pack when I'm 60.  For a beginner start off slow with obtainable goals. Then work into more and more without burning yourself out. Get a routine with a plan and stick to it. Write down everything you do and the dates so you know what you did and your progress. You don't need a gym or weights to start. Do not just start doing random things without a plan or tracking.. This is coming from someone that's worked out since 13. I did the ace fitness training degree. Work outside doing very demanding physical labor. Was going to compete in a natural physique show 10 years ago after coming back to lifting for a few weeks and was told by 2 other pros and personal trainers/dieticians that I would win and gain a pro card. Decided last minute not to do the show for other circumstances.  Diet is a very large part don't eat junk especially if you have a pinch of fat around your waist. Once your body gains strength and such you build a base with muscle memory.  So if you quit for a bit its very easy to get back to where you were vs starting from the beginning to get there.  If you work a physically demanding job you'll lose almost nothing. Ive even taken years away from it and actually came back stronger than when I left off just from working.  If you're lazy after you take time off or do it un natural ex juice you'll quite possibly find yourself in a worse place than where you started in the first place. Good luck and get to work no excuses unless you don't mind being a couch potato. 

Ps: don't skip lower body. I see so many people that just work upper body. Not only do they look goofy they aren't tapping into the bodys true potential. By working your lower body your upper body will see more results. Lower body releases hormones which will help progress everything.  Also lower body strength is the first thing to start to go as you age. 

What a Hateful sight.

As a bloke that lives by the river, and who's High School was but 300 meters from said river, well, I know real rowing.

Started it after I destroyed my first knee. And, because I was chasing a Girl on the Rowing Squad.

Wasn't even fun out on the water. Rowing, sucked. Can't do wheelies, big skids, or jumps. About the only excitement to be had is when someone would "catch a crab"........on water rowers will know what that is. 

Was fun in the Shell Shed before and after sessions up and down the bloody river - due to The Girl.

Sitting there stationary , with nothing but the repetition , well, it would drive me nuts . Same as the bloody rollers and trainer I have for my bicycle. Even setting up a Big TV / Screen can't get me to do the 'exercise, standing still' thing. I HAVE to just get on the bike, and spin frantically  around the neighbourhood - about to do so, right now. Riding at night, is safer than the day, and the Bloody Magpies are asleep.......

I'm Not knocking it, the Rowing Machine, as such , just reliving the nightmare that is 'exercise, sitting still' . Oh, hang on, I do a bit of that, when sitting like a spud in the recliner in the workshop, with  light weights in my paws, or ankle weights as I swing my toothpick like legs up and down. 

Ya gotta do, what you gotta do - in my seventh decade on earth, I rapidly turn into a blob, without exercise. Well, I seem to be a bit of a blob, even with quite a bit of exercise - I am, my long dead Father, and his genetics.

I Don't row anymore, but, I do use the Olympic White Water Stadium that's just a few Ks away.  It's much more MX / Dirt Bike riding like, in that, you can have a sh*t load of fun. Every now and then I / we can also share it with the Fox Sisters (they live only a few hundred meters from me) , and, many other Paddling Super Stars. It's like being out on a track with Herlings / Tomac / The Hunta Brothers etc. One feels entirely Unworthy, when that happens. 

Have fun with The Suffering, quadmx301 !

PS :  try finding a Rowing (as in, On Water) club sometime. You may encounter an old school rowing machine, with the Massive Horizontal Flywheels - those Frightening bloody things will put the wind right up yah! Health and safety has probably had them disappear, decades ago though. 

The trick is, stop thinking you have to be motivated all the time to work out. Cause you wont. Its BS. Nobody stays motivated for every single day. There will always be times were you just dont feel like working out. You just ignore and push thru it. You shouldnt rely on motivation at all. You set your goal and then you gonna do it. Its called discipline. Once you TRULY understand that, you wont miss a single training session.  I do split training and work out every day with a 1 day break after each cycle. Been doing that for over 3 years now. 

Has anyone thought about just taking a job as a truck driver? Saves you money on the rower and you might get paid eventually.

You get 96 inch verticals, get to date nfl wives, hit on by Russian mob boss wives, drive through West Virginia mountain roads, meet the wrong turn family, and double boost port cylinders for all!!

I’ve had one for more than 15 years and it’s the only reason I’m in decent shape at almost 60!

Btw, the title of your thread should be, time to live healthier.

looks like someone is unhappy about me having a rower…wtf? lol 

Word of caution but I hear using handlebars on these gives tennis elbow . It's happened to a couple of people I know 

My Dad was a retired over the road truck driver and he must have liked driving as he loved it.  I need help though...enlighten me on the reference to 96 in verticals, nfl wifes and russian boss wives?

To stay on topic...moto riding is much more of a work out than anything else I do based on what my Garmin watch tells me.

Look for posts with “125” in the poster’s screen name, you’ll get it instantly…😂