overtrained/unintersted?

[menatarms]

Hey guys. LAtely for the past few weeks, i've been losing enthusiasm for workouts.


It could be because my base camp gym is being renovated, and thus closed.. and the makeup gym is NEVER open.


I still have my trusty 12.5 kg dumbell in my office though..


But i dont feel as "ON" as i used to.. like wanting to workout every day... i seem to have died down..


When i was begining: my attitude was "WHOA everyday lets go PUMP up man!"


Later on i was like: "I need to rest more as i get more intense.. i work out once every 2 days"


later on: "Im gonna be working out lower and upper body on different days.. giving each body part 3 days of rest after intense heavier weights"


Now im like: "huh? Workout? Now? hmmm.. i guess so..." kind of attitude.


I wonder if these theories are true:


1. THe more experienced you get.. or stronger you get.. you need more time to rest your muscles as you increase your workout intensity?

Kind of like levelling up a WOW character



2. The more you workout... the less interested you become?



WHy do I feel this way? I don't wanna be fat or weak like most of the other DULLARD men.. i wanna be cut above the rest.. but somehow my spirit is kinda.. not as energetic or "ON" as it was.

[ultimate]

Take 1 week off bodybuilding, do anything except bodybuilding. Then come back.

Your workouts may be too long. Cut short and make sure you get enough rest every night.

[jonathan]

Generally speaking, at the beginning your body will respond to any kind of training. After two or three months it will adapt and the effects will start to diminish. To counter that, you need to cycle intensity and switch routines.

Cycling intensity means working up to a goal. Start low, start slow, then as the weeks go by, increase weight, sets, reps, decrease rest breaks, do a more difficult variation of an exercise, workout more often. Keep going until one fine day you start getting weaker, bored, discouraged, feel like you're sore and dying all the time. It's time to cycle. Start all over again from the bottom, not with what you did right at the beginning, somewhere a little higher. And then work up towards a new goal. This process can be as short as a month, as long as six. There are many variations, but the point is not to keep doing the same things all the time at the same intensity.

Switching routines means doing something different. Maybe after six months of lifting, switch to cardio for two, then go back to lifting, then do something else.

As for the mental aspect, well, you have to find it in yourself to be better than what you are. Cycling and switching will help prevent burnout and boredom, but only you have drive to make it happen. Training "to be better than others" is one way, but in my experience it's negative and doesn't really work in the long term unless you're a professional athlete. Yeah, it feels good to lift more, be bigger, stronger, faster, look better than others. The problem is, sooner or later one fine day you will find some people whom you just can't be better than, or you can't find anyone else to beat. You no longer get that "high" from "being better than everyone else", and things start going down. Even heard of somebody who was so enthusiastic at something for so long but one day just decided not to do it anymore? To cut things short, just train to be better than yourself.

[hermanchauw]

This happened to me recently, after approximately 1yr of GTG. I am scrapping all my tough rings exercises and going back to the a few that i started with last year, but a little harder version.