I won't hide the fact that I lost all motivation to workout. The passion just went away.
I got tired, lazy, made up all sorts of excuses.
Perhaps the catalyst was when I injured my wrist during a soccer/football match.
I took almost 2 weeks off from the gym for it to heal and since then I kept finding excuses not to go back, the most used one being "I'll go tomorrow" but never did and week after week went by. Who knew 2 months of excuses would pass so quickly, there I was away from the gym and losing my 1 year worth of gains.
I lost 6kg and put on 5% body fat, that didn't make me motivated instead I felt demoralised and made even more excuses not to get it all back.
After sitting and lazing around at home for 2 months I tried my hardest to get back to training, forcing myself to go to the gym once a week. However, once I got there and realised how much strength and muscle mass I've lost, I got even more demoralised. I was lifting weights that I used to when I first started out.
I gave up again.
About 1-2weeks later I began recalling the many reasons why I started working out, slowly I brought my lazy ass to the gym and very soon 1 month had passed. This week marks the 4th week that I have returned to the gym with a proper routine and committing to all the planned workout days.
Anyway, I'll probably stop here for now.
My next post will continue from here, with the reasons that re-motivated me and the various attempts at creating a new routine to get back my lost efforts. (spoiler: those routines didn't work as well as I had hoped)
Also do look out for my other posts that I've begun drafting. Hope to publish them on a regular basis!
A video on "why I work out". Most of their reasons are very similar to mine!
Till the next post!
