Oh noes! Have you been eating properly to keep up your energy levels? Is there another way that you could try running some shorter distances outside or somewhere else so that the longer distances on the treadmill are more bearable?
Hang in there! You are a huge motivator for this thread and the strength of everyone who visits here so we’ll be here for you to help keep you motived in return!
First, hugs for DRR. It’s hard when you hit that wall and you feel burned out. My first question is, how much sleep are you getting a night? From what you’ve said about your crazy work schedule I’m thinking that it could be a contibuting factor in how you are feeling. Second, maybe its time to look at changing up your workout routine. It might be worth it to take a sesson or two with a trainer and see what they recommend for you. 
I haven’t been posting on here much lately, but it’s so awesome and inspiring to see how people are doing.
OMG bkitty I want that shirt!!!
For the last two weeks I have been dealing with eye problems and thats led to me not being as consitant with my workouts. Every time I started working out my eyes would start burning and tearing and I had to stop. It sucked because I felt like I was starting from zero again. But you know what? Life happens and shit happens and it will always be something to get you down. There will always be something you can use as an excuse if you let yourself. So fuck it, I’m not letting myself. My eyes are still very raw, but it’s slowly getting better and I have started my workouts again.
Back in February I was at my heaviest weight in my life, at 322. Around that time, my uncle was in the hospital for heart surgery and I remember sitting in the waiting room with my extended family, seeing how overweight all of us were and it scared me. I thought about my uncle in ICU having a quad bypass on his heart from decades of bad eating and no exercise and I made a promise to myself that I was not going end up like that. So now it’s May and I am down to 282. I have a long way to go, my goal weight is 153, but I know I am going to get there. You guys are a huge HUGE inspiration to me. I hope that one day I can meet all of you in person and give each one of you a huge hug. You are awesome and I just wanted to say thank you.
Listen to your body. If you’re burnt out from working a whole lot, it might take a while to get back to full strength. Doing 4 miles is better than 3 miles and really better than no miles. Half of a strength routine is also ok every now and again.
Also, don’t convince yourself that a couple of rough weeks make a downward spiral! You’re determined and you’ve got a good support network here. I trust that you will get back on the hamster wheel… treadmill… running trails… whatever.
You can do it!
thanks everyone! I’m pumped now for a morning work out! gonna kick some butt!!!
this is why this support network is great, everyone I talked to irl told me just to take a few weeks off…which is the LAST thing I want to do and frankly doesn’t give you much motivation to get going again, but now I feel like if I don’t at least do something I’m letting you all down so now I WANT to get going again!
Well, this is the first non-Tuesday I’ve missed since I got my elliptical. I lost track of time playing Fable 2, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to exercise within an hour of going to bed.
Booyah for not falling off the wagon completely!
Seriously, we’re all going to have off weeks. Or months. I think there’s a lot to the idea of embracing a long-term commitment in ways other than all or nothing. Sure, you can’t just let the whole goal slip away from you. But I know that beating myself up and losing faith in myself had a lot to do with how I arrived in a bad place physically to start. Whether it’s beating yourself down over being overweight and/or out of shape OR beating yourself down over not making it to the gym as often as you planned, it’s still self-destructive behavior.
I try really hard to keep my goal in mind, but to approach it each day freshly. So I missed a day last week. Doh! I’ve been tied down with end-of-semester papers and production work, so I haven’t been able to get in the extra cardio I like to do. Doh!
Whatever. I’m just falling back a bit and will continue pressing forward. It’ll all work out in the end.
I’m taking inspiration form chuck’s story about the guy with the oxygen bottle in the gym.
Despite (thanks mainly to an excellent and fun weekend in Wincanton, somerset) being back up almost to the point wieght wise i started at, I feel thinner and clothes are fitting better, guess weight and size are not the same thing
Either way, i’m increibly unfit but am also going to go to a Pilates class this evening, if I don’ return, avange my death 
Definite fwump in my future, pilates is hard but she said she’d let me try it for tongiht and, assuming it doesn’t kill me, I’ll do the rest of this short six week course. IT may not be much but it’s a weekly commitment to a fairly tough workout, I’ll wobble on to my twitter and let y’all know how I got on.
Phaze
on the “having an off month but determined to se this through and hit 100 kilos by june gruddarnit” ID
DVR - Sometimes the option of taking weeks off isn’t a bad thing, I’ve taken 2-3 weeks off going to the gym (holidays),etc and it doesn’t hurt your progress at all, the body is good at telling you what’s wrong, you just have to recognise the signals. Running half marathons is very taxing on your body compared to other forms of exercise, so the more extreme you are being active means that you have to reflect that in rest.
It’s likening it to pro sports people, they do intense exercise for 4-6 months and then have an off season to recover.
As long as you have your goal, then the motivation will be there, just ensure that you eat correctly and most important sleep.
You have to remember that the body cannot tell the difference between exercise stress and work related stress. So to the mind, exercise stress + work stress = Major stress and it’s going to release the hormones to combat that, one being cortisol which impeds weight loss and I think makes you hungry due to the insulin that it raises.
So as long as you take it easy, sleep and rest, then things should work out.
Phazed - Coolies, how was somerset? Although I tend to think of the combine harvester accent whenever that county is mentioned :). Yeah, I’ve found that too, during my refeed, I ate ‘GOOD’ and I got up to 15 stone 6lbs but that is going to be alot of water and glycogen from the extra food/carbs. Now that I’ve eatting better (more balanced diet + lots of water), I’ve dropped 5lbs of that in about a week. So now I’m at the lowest I’ve been and I’m at the weight I was 4 weeks ago.
We’re here for support and yeah pilates esp developing core strength is brutal - I hate planks.
In my own personal life, I’m back on the good eating/exercise and as mentioned, I weighed myself and am at 15 stone 1 lbs (211lbs). My handstand pushups are coming along nicely.
Yesterday was a good leg day where I did
Front Squats
Stiff legged Deadlifts
Leg Press
Pistol Squats
Handstand Pushup progressions.
It’s my nephews birthday next week, so I’m going to be baking him a Ben 10 cake, lets hope I can resist the frosting out of the mixing bowl :).
Also, on the fitness forum that I’m on, there is a new challenge based around the 10,000 challenge (based off the to be good, you have to put in 10k hours), there is a lot more detail then that, but as a mini challenge to myself, I’m going to see if I can do 10,000 reps of the following (either single or combined)
Handstands Freestanding - do 10,000 reps in 90 days - Hopefully I should be able to do it pretty decent if I practise it everyday, I know I will do that because when I was practising Capoeira, I was doing that and by the end of a month, I could hold a position for at least 10 secs and I could walk on my hands for a bit, I even got to the point where I could raise my hand.
Pistol Squats - Do 10,000 between the two legs.
Handstand pushups (assisted)
I want to say burpees in honour of BKitty
Rowing machine - I’m thinking of doing 10,000 miles per week (have to see how doable it is). It should prepare me for the breast charity canoe trip that I’m doing in July.
So hopefully I’ll get your support as I try this.
Anyway, nothing much happening today, hope all is well.
I love everyone’s support! There really is no place like GWC. Everyone is doing so well, keep up the good work and like Chuck said, do what you can and remember that your fitness is a long term commitment so it requires some give and take and compromise with your body and your schedule. Part of your overall health is your happiness too and while working out increases endorphins, sometimes you need a rest to keep all of the processes going normally!
In my recent workout news, I invested in a Nike+ device so that I can keep better track of my running. It tracks your distance, time and calorie burn for each run. You can also set goals, my first two goals are to run 10 times in the next two weeks and run 30 total miles in the next month. I figured starting with general goals would keep me from overdoing it (or geeking out) with the device and trying to push myself too much to beat records or run extra miles.
The other cool thing about the Nike+ is that there are some set training workout routines that you can follow on a daily basis for different goals. I want to try one of those in the future. Is anyone else using something like this to keep track of running?
ok myu pilates class is over, I know i tweeted about this already but I wanted to tell you non tweety folks.
It was agonising and difficult however, despite how hard it was, my reaction was, I got through this and what I said tot he class teacher afterwards was “that was agonising, same time again next week?”
This surprised me, I hurt, I still hurt, and yet I want to do this again, I see it as a vindication of my decision to exercise.
wolverines fwump
Alan
Well, managed to get a cycle in today. Might try to get in another partial cycle in about half an hour, but at least I didn’t make it 3 days off in a row.
Our first day of the current 21 Day Crush It Campaign was held behind the San Diego Convention Center- familiar to Comic Con International goers!
got up this morning and did a strength routine, feels good! goal is to have a full week back on for exercising again next week, determined not to let history repeat itself!
ok gang I need some inspiration here, after two weeks of 10 to 11 hour days I was burned out, I’m back on normal hours this week but all my motivation seems like it’s been taken from me
Darth
There must be something in the water because my motivation over the past week or so has been nonexistent, too. I missed four days of workouts, and I’m feeling pretty lazy even though did manage to get back into the gym yesterday. I think maybe I need to do something new to get my mojo back, but I’m not sure what. I’m feeling stuck and frustrated.
I do know that people go through cycles of being super gung-ho . . . and then not so much. But I think we’ll both eventually get back on track, we just need something to give us a boost. I’m going to try just getting out and around this weekend, doing some shopping, having fun, and enjoying the weather.
DRR- so glad you’re getting back in stride! I’m kicking it into gear with the 21 day challenge.
Nike- I balk and dread my workouts often. It’s that whine about it until you’re doing it syndrome (tho not aloud). I always feel the benefit and am grateful after I’m done, tho. It’s just weird. I don’t know why- maybe because my day starts so early. Whatever the reason, I’ve felt that motivation deficiency, too- lol!
Starsaber- how long are your elliptical sessions? I remember talking to Chuck about it, having every intention of getting to the gym for an inservice on one, and never getting to it. :o
SB & GR- I think we need to invest in some pom-poms! GWC Cheer! Thanks so much for the Positive Vibes. I’d been feeling pouty and defiant and you’ve pulled me out of it.
BF§- you can dooo eeeeet!! I think I was at about 206 (on a 5’ frame) when I got serious about getting fit. I lost some and gained some. I started this current Challenge at 189.5. I’ve gone down 1 size since January and got rid of 5 bags of clothes that are now too big for me. While the weight hasn’t changed dramatically, my physique HAS. You are ossim for realizing shit happens and you just have to roll with it!
I was getting hung up on the pounds till the hub schooled me by helping me cull the wardrobe and showing me physically how differently things hung on me. It’s too easy to beat myself up, so I don’t weigh in as much- maybe once every 2-3 weeks. I keep coming here to stay positive!
And Bishop- your workouts are insaaaaane, man!
We did the Finish And Go Home Friday workout, tonight.
3 circuits (for an overall time) of:
1/4 mile jog
50 squat jumps
40 push-ups
30 burpees
20 reverse lunges (on each leg)
10 Monicas (named for a bootcamp buddy when she complained- lol) They start out from prone plank position and jump feet up to one hand-extend-other hand, and that’s ONE.
My time tonight was 34:12.
fwump
15-20 minutes, but I’m still working up my stamina. I own one, so I don’t have to drive somewhere else to do it.
Re getting hung up on pounds versus focusing on how you look and feel: that is really key. Weight is one metric, not the only metric. And this place is fantastic for keeping ourselves upbeat and positive. Also, I have to say, I love that every time I tweet “Wolverines!” post-workout at least 3 GWCers respond and either tell me about their workout or remind me that I’m awesome. It’s great motivation!
Re the Monica. Ack! I’d be a puddle after 10 of those!
Monicas - I’ve been dense - what do you do after the prone plank position.
Ok guys, need your support. Stepped on a scale and literally went, “Woah”
I’m a sniff over 190. I generally am around 180. I’m going for 175. Will post weekly updates! Say it with me,
WOLVERINES!