off days

[jappo]

Originally Posted by Eric3237

Well how often do you workout? And another question is how much have you gained since you used to post before? It seems like maybe working out has become the "thing" rather than the way to get to the "thing". Not to sound like a jerk but when you go through all the trouble of making a video of your workout complete with dramatic heavy music it makes it seem like it is all about lifting the weights and being there rather than reaching a goal.

That's ok if it works for you. But if it starts affecting other areas of your life then you could have a problem. Now I am not one to preach about this but if you are a person who works out 5 days a week or something and you've done that for a while then your obsessive thoughts about working out could actually be a symptom of overtraining.

It sounds funny I know but if you do manage to reach a state of overtraining, as hard as that is to do, it can actually cause a sort of depression, disrupting your brain chemcals. Then when your workout it releases endorphins, and voila!, you feel better. So the workout becomes like a drug, both the disease and the cure.

Now I am not trying to armchair diagnose you! It's just something to be aware of. I have noticed that people who workout too often for long periods of time are more obsessed with working out too often. You do the math.

My specific advice is to try not to think about working out but to think about your goals. So that anything that becomes detrimental to reaching those goals, both short term and long term, becomes the enemy, including not allowing your body proper rest. After all, you don't walk accross the desert because you like the heat, but to reach the oasis.

in response to this and all the others:

i think everyone took this a bit too seriously. i'm not saying i don't take off days or something or i can't stop thinking about the gym and want to kill myself over it, and me saying 'i feel useless' was just meant as a joke.. i suppose it's hard to convey that via text but oh well.

"but when you go through all the trouble of making a video of your workout complete with dramatic heavy music it makes it seem like it is all about lifting the weights"

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making videos is something my friends and i enjoy doing, lifting, tricking, and mixed martial arts happens to be something we're really into, so we tape it on occasion. i don't see what's wrong with that.

maybe i should have elaborated a bit more before i made that post, i had a moment of extreme boredom when i should have been studying.


thanks for all the judging though really cool.

[hrdgain81]

Ok everyone needs to breath, drink a beer, take a bong rip ... just relax.

[_Wolf_]

may be even have sex.....

[EricT]

Oh, buzz off. Nobody's judging you. If you don't want an answer don't post a question. You said what you said. I can't read your mind. It would be a waste of my time to give some jerk off answer to what seemed like a serious question. Next time you're bored, why not try the off topic section?

[Darkhorse]

I don't know why people bother posting when they're SO sensitive. He just pm'ed me asking to have his account removed.. I'm guessing because of this pathetic thread!

[EricT]

Chip, meet Shoulder, your new lifelong pal .

[hrdgain81]

don't know why people bother posting when they're SO sensitive. He just pm'ed me asking to have his account removed.. I'm guessing because of this pathetic thread!

aww thats sad, if he couldnt take this, I wonder how he would repsond to real flaming ... what a douche nozzle.

[_Wolf_]

:rofl:

this is so stupid...he couldnt take THIS??? ahahahhah...!!! ive been in sooo many worse positions!!!

[Darkhorse]

[_Wolf_]

lmfao!!!