/fit/ - Fitness, Health, and Feels

Other than wanting to get /fit/, it's good to have a motivation to get /fit/, be it something militarily or other something else.

Lift in the morning, wake up earlier. You can still have a productive day after workout, but having productive workout after hard day will be very difficult.

>>131759

Not OP but I've struggled with the same shit in the past. This post helped put things in perspective. Thanks anon.

>>131760

Not him but I find lifting later better, purely because protein fucks with my stomach too much and I don't want to deal with that during work or lessons.

>>131731

Apparently before 10pm is the best time to sleep, it supposedly increases healing or something.

I would also suggest counting down, but I don't remember the number of days before something becomes a habit. All you need is to form a habit and you're set.

I work afternoon shift, take my lunch near the end of my shift (1.5 to 2 hours to digest a full meal, or 30 minutes to digest an energy bar) and head to the gym right after to lift, cardio, and/or shower. I shower exclusively at the gym and wake up and do it again every weekday.

I also am on my feet for all of those 8 hours, and am constantly moving for at least 6, if not 7 of those hours. And I go lift afterwards.

You're just a lazy fuck.

>>131806

Listen to this guy. You’re a lazy fuck. Stop being lazy

I'm sick of this question.

When you ask about motivation, you're actually asking because the short term reward part of your brain is what rules you. Motivation is something that won't last you very long. You're looking to lengthen that feeling you'd get if you're running from a bear.

There's no way you can feel like you're running from a bear perpetually for days, months, years.

Maybe think about it that way.

>>131731

>should I wake up early to do it?

Bro you have no idea. Working out first thing in the morning is amazing. Gets the blood pumping in the comfort of your own home and on your own terms. I would start my workday at 5 when I was working ag, and my coworkers thought I was a FREAK for how awake and alert I was everyday. Sure beat dragging ass and working from a cold start. It just takes one day of really pushing it, and I guarantee you you'll be out like a light and up at 3am the following day ready to kick some ass.

>>131796

Also like this dude said. You do heal faster. I was bouncing back from injuries that would have grounded me for a week while I was sleeping early. Remember, when you're working you don't get to decide what you're working with or how fast you do it. Its lots of irregular weight at awkward angles, and usually it needed to be done yesterday. Exercising after doing that is begging for an injury. You do it before and it's like a stretch before a race.

The one disadvantage to this and what got me when I went back to school was the fact that no one else has your schedule. Everybody wants to do things at 7 or 8, and I would be out by then or dead tired. That includes stores and TV too. No Toonami, no parties, no dinner with chicks. Old geriatric people share your schedule and no one else. Maybe you'd be down to pick up some holocaust survivor at the park but I wasn't. As soon as I stopped working I switched to much more reasonable 7am hours but I didn't feel as awesome and I miss seeing the sunrise.

Only if you can guarantee 8 hours of sleep a night. I tried something similar once and it killed me because I didn't change my bedtime.

>>131731

everyone in fitness likes to say

>discipline, bro

but if you want to succeed you have to unleash your pure and unrelenting autism on this. I don't lift because i tell myself "man it would really be the good thing to do right now", but because im physically addicted to the biochemicals released by lifting and because my body dismorphia eats me alive every morning looking in the mirror. I unironically start considering steroids every time i stagnate on my lifts. You should get itchy, aggressive and unwell every time you go 4 days without lifting. I swear it is like this for 90% of lifters.

I consider lifting my reward for putting up with a day of work. But I do work in an office, so I'm usually only mentally tired at the end of the day.

>>132097

>Tough love over the internet

Admirable, but mistaken.

>>132132

>Tough love

Unlikely. Normally it's either someone in a high serotonin state that has become triggered or someone giving advice for themselves.

>>132097

I'm 18, and I'm already in pretty good shape from wrestling (out for the last part of HS due to torn ACL) and i'm going into the military in a few months, I just want get stronk for it.

>>132097

Way too much

this post probably says more about you than anon

>>132137

take your height in inches and multiply by 2.5lbs

that is your goal body weight for the military okay

get lean. you should be doing plenty of cardio because in the military you're expected to run 4 miles.

the standards are actually very low but you'll want to show off.

lift well but focus on staying lean, and not injuring yourself.

A few of my cousins served, one still does in Afghanistan, the other was a helicopter mechanic in Australia. Good luck bro. Also consider picking up a foreign language if you want to get stationed somewhere in particular. Theres thousands of soldiers getting girls in Japan, Korea, Australia, etc…, almost everywhere really, and you can definitely have a lot more fun around those parts than in the buttfuck of nowehere in Afghanistan.

>>132158

>>132134

>>132132

I never said it didn't apply to me. I'm scared of what could have became of me if I didn't enroll in college and get scared into getting healthy again.