"Clammy that's fucking gay I can do at least 10 pullups and 50 pushups."
Cool story, bro. Did you do any today? Yesterday?
If you do them every day, you're all set, you don't need this post.
If you haven't done any since last week, or last month, or last time there was a thread in here about doing them, then listen to this.
The working out might not be as hard as getting yourself to do it every day.
You know what's not hard? Flossing. I fucking hate flossing. It took some effort to get myself to floss every day. Flossing isn't difficult, making yourself floss is. The discipline of doing it every day might be what you actually need to work on.
1 pushup is BS. It's really, really hard to justify not doing even ONE pushup and ONE pullup. Do it literally every day. When you get overwhelmed by how dumb only one of each is, you're free to do more, but you are NEVER allowed to not do at least one.
I'm going to start doing this. Anybody else going to commit to at least ONE pullup and pushup every single day?
Or is that too big of a commitment for you?
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conservativecanuck ago
I swear on my life that this is one of the first pieces of advice I give to anyone who talks about getting fit. Set the bar as fucking low as possible and do it.
Just one per day
invisiblephrend ago
very true. you can't just expect to do 50 pushups on day one when you haven't used your muscles in months, if not, years. there's no shame in starting off slow and working your way up. in fact, it's the only way you can safely adjust your body to it's new changes in order to not overdo it and seriously hurt yourself.
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Discipline is BS
I worked out two hours a day years ago. Rode 10 or 20 miles on my bike, did an hour of strength training.
Then I moved, got a new job, and got out of the habit. It's the HABIT that's the hardest. Start with the the habit building, make it stupid easy, then build up from there.
matthew-- ago
One way that I found really helped me was [Dilbert guy]'s method. Make the goal just "going to the gym". Doesn't matter if you're not feeling it or any other reason, just drive there, walk in the door, and if you still aren't feeling it, just go back home. I've done that before a few times, but most of the times it's like, fuck it I'm here, and either do the entire workout or skip out on the heavy squat (heavy squats and deadlifts are always last).
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Exactly, dude. The hard part is starting, which is stupid, but that's how our broken brains operate.
conservativecanuck ago
You contradicted yourself here.... you state discipline is BS but then you talk about the Habit being the most important.... good habits is discipline
clamhurt_legbeard ago
Make good discipline a habit.
Problem solved!