Hey bros, quick thing about myself. I lifted for 3 years straight and got really good with my eating and shape. I kept up with everything, school, work, gym and even a social life. One day I got tired of all of it and got into a depressive episode and lost all my gains. Ive always worked blue collar and recently my back has been killing me, more so than when I was lifting. I know to do good mornings, and to get back into lifting but it feels harder than the first time around. It feels like a chore now,, and when I do lift I enjoy it but I am busy from 7-7. When I am home I dont want to do anything but shower, play some vidya and knock out. Should I invest into a home gym? it feels like the only solution. Also doesnt help I dont have the chance to cook my meals as much as I would want to, and my fridge is being occupied by my other family so its hard to meal prep. I wanna get back into the grind bros..
>>76807048https://thenordstick.com/products/back-buddy>I wanna get back into the grindno, you actually don't. You obviously don't. Your whole post is anti-grind. You're just unhappy about the outcome of your clear desires to not grind.Try this: accept those desires. Don't grind. Spend very little time on fitness. Do few sets on only 2 days a week and avoid maximal intensity.Move from 'nothing' to 'something'. Something is a world of difference away from nothing. You can reconsider things from there.
You get back up
>>76807075wisdomsomething was wrong with your life OP to make you depressed enough to lose all your gains. Find out what that was, and listen to your physiology. Something was happening there--diet, relationships, actual true self vs a false social self? Burnout? If you're working 12 hours a day then adding gym and frying your CNS isn't going to help. Maybe start with learning to diet and count calories, do stretches and yoga just to start and learn to take care of yourself in a way that actually makes you feel good.
>>76807075I have to agree, My ultimate goal when I was lifting was really to just get in shape, not to become a bodybuilder. I am a little mad at myself because I got through so much progress done in 3 years. I excelled at it but it feels old now. >>76807103Yeah Ive been wanting to at least adjust the diet and I was unhappy. I never changed myself but I was in a different city when this all went down. I moved home and felt stable again. I have got a job, my car, and I am almost done with my education, but the one piece I am missing now is my own fitness.
>>76807048just make up rice and potatoes if you cant meal prep. that stuffs easy to make.
>>76807048>but it feels harder than the first time around. It feels like a chore now2 reasons for this. One, you're reestablishing a habit that is exhausting at first. Two, you're subconsciously expecting to be back where you were at your prime and you're not, you're weak and it's demotivating. You just need to force yourself to keep grinding until you get to the point where it's habit again. Luckily muscle memory is real and it won't take you 3 years again to build what you lost, it might take a year or a year and a half to get to where you were. If you're working 7 to 7, lift before work. Yeah it's going to be suck until your body gets used to it but that's all you need to push through.
>>76807048>I am busy from 7-7Are you working 12 hours? 10? Anything more than 8 seems too much for me unless it's under 5 days a week. Call me lazy, but that eats up so much of your life too, I hope you at least have a choice, health is wealth.
>>76807075I thought you were about to start Mentzerfagging but this is good advice
>>76807048>school -> blue collar? someone who knew how to lift is looking to make a home gym?get the fuk outta here
