This is so true!!!!

Meditation is what helped me with this. Just acknowledge the rumination, accept it cant change, and move on. Easier said than done, took lots of practice.

Motivation is fleeting as you have now experienced. Motivation will never get you to your goals. Discipline is the real answer. Like others have said, create a routine. Stick to that routine and the benefits of going to the gym will begin to show up in your life. Of course it feels like a chore! Doing dishes is a chore but we all now what happens if you don’t do dishes after a meal; just leads to more work later on. Same thing with fitness.

One of the best things you can do is to build in rest days/times or rewards. Example. Hit the gym for 4 days and reward yourself with a movie with a SO or friend. Don’t hit the 4 days and you have to cancel. That hurts way more than some muscle stiffness the day after the gym.

Because my back hurts

As a person in this world I feel this. You aren't alone.

Unfortunately our wildest dreams are things like affordable healthcare

When I was trying to form the habit in October-ish, I felt the same way after a couple of months. I think it was right at the beginning of January when I was sitting down at a bar having dinner and a couple beers and I got to talking with stranger. Somehow, going to the gym came up and this dudes face lit up. I explained to him that I'd fallen back off the track because it felt like a chore and I wasn't enjoying it anymore, and he said the following: Even on days you don't feel like working out, just walk into the gym and then turn around and leave. Eventually you'll start to get the desire back, and that's when you know it's time to start again" I did that for about two weeks and then got back on track and have been going strong for the last 5-6 weeks again. Admittedly, some days I really do not feel like working out, and I'll still just go to the gym, walk in, and walk right back out. But I still feel good for holding myself to that one thing.

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One psychological factor behind motivation is to have very specific goals, and goals that are tough bit not 'too hard'

In that respect: recording what you do allows you to set incrementally bigger goals next time around

I find if I don't record (exercise, weight, reps, sets) i get confused and don't know really which way to push

Find/make a goal for the gym or follow a program of some sort, try something different, make the gym fun and a place to achieve a small goal everyday. Some days it will be a chore but you’ll feel good after

Don't stop, you will start to get addicted to the results

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Switch it up.

Do cardio, weights/toning, core or whichever is in your regiment on different days. Not only does it break up the usual, but you will actually feel the difference and you are working on everything.

I hate weights preferring cardio and more fast paced exercises but because it is challenging, I feel it the next day. My body gets out of the rut and I actually feel the burn.

Music, making it fun and having ideal goals/inspiration is what really does it. Make it something to look forward to to jam out and play.

I don’t recall seeing this in Attack on Titan

They probably assumed the parent had a specific enemy in mind

Rent don't pay itself

The two subs are indistinguishable at times

Reminds me of a Kaiju from the movie Big Man Japan.

mfw i asked a witch for a bigger head and shaft and she misunderstood

This is not adhd, nobody can stop thinking. I dont have adhd, i too have this.

Your brain can also not work above like 5% simultaneously, or you literally die.

But i get the frustration nonetheless. The trick is to try and focus on sonething else, like breathing, this is why mindfullness exist.

Though i do see people with adhd struggle to "focus" on "something else" so I guess the point still stands.

The way I stay motivated is reframing things in my mind. When I don’t feel like working out,I tell myself « today will be a great day, and part of that is getting the opportunity to get a workout in ».

Also, you always feel so happy you went afterwards. Perspective is everything when it comes to motivation

As a ADHD person, it feels so fucking unfair that the only thing you can do, is thinking about thoughts if you got nothing to do and that's building up mental stamina and therefore making your brain work to 120% And that makes me angry due to the fact that i can't stop my brain from wrking sometimes

You have to be driven. Motivation dies off. Being driven is a mindset.

What helps me when I’m not feeling super up to it is I have a gym family. Sounds funny, but I’m friends with old people, young, my age group, etc and we all go everyday at the same time. It’s always great catching up! I would feel like I’m letting them down by not going. If I don’t go, they might have another reason not to go.

We do our own workouts and stuff, so they’re not my “gym buddies” (I prefer working out alone), but they’re like accountability partners

Within 30 minutes of waking up, I believe.