So i've been going to the gym alot but I haven't seen any differences,so i think I should do a cardio workout at home which will include an exercise ike and DDR suggestions to add to it would be great but what I want more from this thread is how to motivate myself to get myself moving.I would like to start the workouts in the morning before school but alot of times I am just too lazy.So how can I force myself to get off the couch and do something.I am 12 and 185 lbs so this is pretty urgent.
In need of motivation
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motivation for me is usually however far ive come so i can't help you there.
but if you told us what routine you were doing now then maybe people could help you out.
probly want to post your goals too etc...
Well for my routine I'm thinking of a pure cardio with some weights on the days I don't go the gym whem I'm supposed to {they have weight machines designed for children} and I can't get to the gym all the time because it's about 30kms away and my dad needs the van for work sometimes.But anyway my cardio workout will consist of 5-10 minutes on a stationary bike,Dance Dance Revolution,jumping on a mini trampoline,Wii Sports and other disciplines that you may suggest or I may find at a later date.
As for my goals I just want to be healthy,I'm dangerously overweight and I want to be satisfactory by the time I get to high school.I'm in Grade 7 now so that's another 2 years.
As for my goals I just want to be healthy,I'm dangerously overweight and I want to be satisfactory by the time I get to high school.I'm in Grade 7 now so that's another 2 years.
well, your'e are going to have to incorporate a healthy diet if you want to succeed.
consider reading weight training 101 and designing a 3 day each week routine based on the information.
gym access is kind of a problem...
i suggest you change cardio to HIIT. you can still use the sationary bike just do HIIT on it.
Well I have to admit that my diet is not he best,I try to eat as healthy as I can I have been cutting out candy,chocolate etc. but I have not been eating all the fruits and vegetables that I should be.Now I'd like to know more about HIIt.I know it stands for High Intensity Interval Training but how could I go about doing that.And I'd still like to know how to motivate myself.
1. Take some pictures. You yourself won't see changes day to day. Take some pictures now, look back after 3 months. You should see progress.
2. Take some measurements too. Your BF, your BMR, heart rate. Also your biceps, waist, all the usual suspects.
3. Def post your diet. There are plenty of people here who can help. But you've gotta help us first so we can help you.
4. Find an exercise you like. Don't take up running because your best friend loves it, you may hate it. Try running, biking, weight lifting, swimming, etc. Something will click for you, then stick with it.
5. Exercising is NOT optional. Find a way to stick it in your schedule. Non-negotiable, it goes in and stays in. Some days you may have to workout at 5AM, other days at 10PM. Just make sure it's in there. (It's OK once in a while to miss a workout, but once in an infrequent while is better).
6. Motivating yourself will start with YOU taking pictures and measurements, and starting to see progress. It also means when you're sitting on the couch telling yourself to get up and do something.
7. USE YOUR SCHOOL! Sheesh I pay all these taxes to keep schools going, USE THEM!
They must have lots of after school sports. Maybe a weight room? Maybe a gym teacher you can ask questions of?
Lots of possibilities, I just came up with those on the spur of the moment. Time for you to take the next step.
2. Take some measurements too. Your BF, your BMR, heart rate. Also your biceps, waist, all the usual suspects.
3. Def post your diet. There are plenty of people here who can help. But you've gotta help us first so we can help you.
4. Find an exercise you like. Don't take up running because your best friend loves it, you may hate it. Try running, biking, weight lifting, swimming, etc. Something will click for you, then stick with it.
5. Exercising is NOT optional. Find a way to stick it in your schedule. Non-negotiable, it goes in and stays in. Some days you may have to workout at 5AM, other days at 10PM. Just make sure it's in there. (It's OK once in a while to miss a workout, but once in an infrequent while is better).
6. Motivating yourself will start with YOU taking pictures and measurements, and starting to see progress. It also means when you're sitting on the couch telling yourself to get up and do something.
7. USE YOUR SCHOOL! Sheesh I pay all these taxes to keep schools going, USE THEM!
They must have lots of after school sports. Maybe a weight room? Maybe a gym teacher you can ask questions of?Lots of possibilities, I just came up with those on the spur of the moment. Time for you to take the next step.
What's up, Brotha?!
Lets see if we can crank this issue around, for my new friend!
LETS ROCK THIS THING!
1. How long have you been going to the gym?
2. What type of program have you been following?
--->Types of exercises
--->How many Sets
--->Rep ranges
--->What type of progression have you seen?
------>Weight on exercises going up?
------>Weight going up on some but not others?
3. Always set a evaluation period
--->Continual
--->Periodical
--->NEVER Let your hard work...be UNEVALUATED! NEVER!
4. What are your goals, young man?
--->Lose Weight?
--->Gain Weight?
----->In the lose/gain weight goal....set the terms!
------->Short term and long term
This link will provide you with information for both goals:
http://training.fitness.com/nutriti...uest-nutritional-sticky-29123.html#post237103
This link MAY eventually become dead as it may become a sticky thread in the near future.
==========================================================
FIGHT THIS FEELING BABY........GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE!
I am all about trying to motivate the brotha and sista's! YEP!......HEY! LETS ROCK THIS THING!
I give the brotha some food for the brain:
I think you need to fully disclose your goals. In addition, I think you need to fully provide your diet details and your training v. rest routine. And, I mean be detailed in the response.
Have you been keeping training log, where you enter weight per exercise, number of sets performed, and reps completed? Are you being, or attempting to be, progressive in your weight training program? How many days of rest per week do you allow? The importance of a training log is so fundamentally crucial, I can’t express this enough.
For example, it can be record of your progression, and if a sticking point surfaces, you will be able to pinpoint when it occurred—exactly, and then compare this to the data in your diet journal, which is another log I advocate in creating. With the sticking point example you then will be able to examine your diet record up to the point of the complication, and see “if” the diet is causing the sticking point, and make adjustments in diet in some unilateral fashion.
In addition, you can use these consistent records of your diet and routine to compare against your physical results, and can be a base of information to use to form a change of plans “if” the body feedback isn’t the one you are wanting.
The Diet and Weight Training Routine will be forever a “married couple”, but a lot of persons tend to forget the “siblings” in the equation that are sometimes more powerful than the “married couple”; however, can cause “uncontested divorce or separation” of the “married couple”.
Within the “married couple” only one is really natural: The Diet. We all have to eat. But we do not have to weight train.
The “siblings” effecting the “married couple” are any environmental factors within the circumference of our daily living that can perform a “cause and effect” on the “married couple”, and having a cognitive understanding that the reverse is also true: the “married couple” can have a “cause and effect” on the “siblings”.
One could obviously say that tracking the diet details on paper isn’t natural, and I would tend to agree (and if tracking can be done “mentally” then it serves the same purpose).
However, for the average Joe and others, when a problem surfaces they need a “Tool Foundation” and mental stimulus set in advance to assist in opening wider and/or enabling true circumference of vision of the environment and their placement within it, to permit “effectiveness” in dealing with it: “Bitching” about it solves “Nothing”, and not knowing where to look or begin to look for answers can enhance and/or compound the problem.
EMBRACE the “siblings” of PAIN.
Pain is a powerful force, and takes on many faces. It can bring you up and bring you down, but it’s not the pain that causes this teeter-totter, it’s the application of your mind and how one uses it to deal with it that is the ultimate decision maker.
(Chillen)
You cannot control everything that happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
(Chillen)
Have your mind WIDE OPEN, and allow progress in your training to be a BASE for your motivation to bread INTO other aspects of your life, and use your brain to bring in differing aspects of inspiration to keep you motivated when your lifestyle enironment wants to sand blast your interal will and desire.
Really brotha its about consistancy.
Alot of forum members think I do some magical diet or routine when in reality its just staying true to diet, consistancy in weight training (using basics and some advanced techniques), and above average will and desire.
And, this is it. Theres isnt nothing special about it. Consistancy in application pays OFF====and this is the bottom line. Nothing so magical there.
===============================================================
One of the KEY things I did when I first started was I kept telling myself that no matter what happens, I will pursue and keep "the aspects of my goal" in line and continue.
One has to MAKE IT A PART OF ONES LIFE and allow themselves to work with it as they would when problems and complications come up.
If work interferred and I absolutely had no choice not to train, then I kept my diet tip top (because this, in my opinion, is over half the battle), and I was still moving forward, though I lacked the training through no fault of my own, but rather to---living facts of life. This in itself can be motivating.
In other words, if the things in life bother you keep the apsects of training in line and do the ones you have control over, and try not to fall off "totally".
Have a plan of action. Most importantly, blend diet and fitness within your life as you would other important values, and you will win more than you lose.
True POWER is application of Wisdom and this can come through--MASTERING YOURSELF.
==========================================================Answer all my questions and step UP to the plate for yourself and lets get this thing going for you........
The mind can be a friend and/or foe, in either case you are in control of variances in the equation.
You are the KING.......Remember this:
“I am, indeed, a King, because I know how to rule myself.”
Best wishes to you my friend,
Chillen
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What's up, Brotha?!
Lets see if we can crank this issue around, for my new friend!
LETS ROCK THIS THING!
1. How long have you been going to the gym?
2. What type of program have you been following?
--->Types of exercises
--->How many Sets
--->Rep ranges
--->What type of progression have you seen?
------>Weight on exercises going up?
------>Weight going up on some but not others?
3. Always set a evaluation period
--->Continual
--->Periodical
--->NEVER Let your hard work...be UNEVALUATED! NEVER!
4. What are your goals, young man?
--->Lose Weight?
--->Gain Weight?
----->In the lose/gain weight goal....set the terms!
------->Short term and long term
This link will provide you with information for both goals:
http://training.fitness.com/nutriti...uest-nutritional-sticky-29123.html#post237103
This link MAY eventually become dead as it may become a sticky thread in the near future.
==========================================================
FIGHT THIS FEELING BABY........GIVE YOURSELF A CHANCE!
I am all about trying to motivate the brotha and sista's! YEP!......HEY! LETS ROCK THIS THING!
I give the brotha some food for the brain:
I think you need to fully disclose your goals. In addition, I think you need to fully provide your diet details and your training v. rest routine. And, I mean be detailed in the response.
Have you been keeping training log, where you enter weight per exercise, number of sets performed, and reps completed? Are you being, or attempting to be, progressive in your weight training program? How many days of rest per week do you allow? The importance of a training log is so fundamentally crucial, I can’t express this enough.
For example, it can be record of your progression, and if a sticking point surfaces, you will be able to pinpoint when it occurred—exactly, and then compare this to the data in your diet journal, which is another log I advocate in creating. With the sticking point example you then will be able to examine your diet record up to the point of the complication, and see “if” the diet is causing the sticking point, and make adjustments in diet in some unilateral fashion.
In addition, you can use these consistent records of your diet and routine to compare against your physical results, and can be a base of information to use to form a change of plans “if” the body feedback isn’t the one you are wanting.
The Diet and Weight Training Routine will be forever a “married couple”, but a lot of persons tend to forget the “siblings” in the equation that are sometimes more powerful than the “married couple”; however, can cause “uncontested divorce or separation” of the “married couple”.
Within the “married couple” only one is really natural: The Diet. We all have to eat. But we do not have to weight train.
The “siblings” effecting the “married couple” are any environmental factors within the circumference of our daily living that can perform a “cause and effect” on the “married couple”, and having a cognitive understanding that the reverse is also true: the “married couple” can have a “cause and effect” on the “siblings”.
One could obviously say that tracking the diet details on paper isn’t natural, and I would tend to agree (and if tracking can be done “mentally” then it serves the same purpose).
However, for the average Joe and others, when a problem surfaces they need a “Tool Foundation” and mental stimulus set in advance to assist in opening wider and/or enabling true circumference of vision of the environment and their placement within it, to permit “effectiveness” in dealing with it: “Bitching” about it solves “Nothing”, and not knowing where to look or begin to look for answers can enhance and/or compound the problem.
EMBRACE the “siblings” of PAIN.
Pain is a powerful force, and takes on many faces. It can bring you up and bring you down, but it’s not the pain that causes this teeter-totter, it’s the application of your mind and how one uses it to deal with it that is the ultimate decision maker.
(Chillen)
You cannot control everything that happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
(Chillen)
Have your mind WIDE OPEN, and allow progress in your training to be a BASE for your motivation to bread INTO other aspects of your life, and use your brain to bring in differing aspects of inspiration to keep you motivated when your lifestyle enironment wants to sand blast your interal will and desire.
Really brotha its about consistancy.
Alot of forum members think I do some magical diet or routine when in reality its just staying true to diet, consistancy in weight training (using basics and some advanced techniques), and above average will and desire.
And, this is it. Theres isnt nothing special about it. Consistancy in application pays OFF====and this is the bottom line. Nothing so magical there.
===============================================================
One of the KEY things I did when I first started was I kept telling myself that no matter what happens, I will pursue and keep "the aspects of my goal" in line and continue.
One has to MAKE IT A PART OF ONES LIFE and allow themselves to work with it as they would when problems and complications come up.
If work interferred and I absolutely had no choice not to train, then I kept my diet tip top (because this, in my opinion, is over half the battle), and I was still moving forward, though I lacked the training through no fault of my own, but rather to---living facts of life. This in itself can be motivating.
In other words, if the things in life bother you keep the apsects of training in line and do the ones you have control over, and try not to fall off "totally".
Have a plan of action. Most importantly, blend diet and fitness within your life as you would other important values, and you will win more than you lose.
True POWER is application of Wisdom and this can come through--MASTERING YOURSELF.==========================================================
Answer all my questions and step UP to the plate for yourself and lets get this thing going for you........
The mind can be a friend and/or foe, in either case you are in control of variances in the equation.
You are the KING.......Remember this:
“I am, indeed, a King, because I know how to rule myself.”
Best wishes to you my friend,
Chillen
1. I have been going since the beginning of August since that's when it finally opened.I kind of had a dry spell in between late September early October but I got back on track.It's hard for me to get their because sometimes my dad drives to work and we only have one car,I could walk there but it's about 40 min. away and on a highway.I haven't gotten there this week but hopefully I will get there tonight.
2.At my gym they have a gym specially built for children 8 to 14.I am 12 so.So they have weight machines specially designed for kids.There are 7 of them.There's the squat press,another leg one,Mid Row for biceps,Chin up,Bench Press,Seated Dip and Shoulder Press.The weight stack goes from 1 to 11 and all of them are 5 pounds.So for the leg ones I don't increase the weight which I put at 5 but I do increase the number of reps I do by 2.Currently I think I'm at 34.Mid Row and Chin up very small increasing my arms are very weak and I do do at 20 pounds with 2 sets of 13.Bench press also very slow 20 and 2 of 13.Seated Dip.Pretty much the same except there are improvements in that.And the Shoulder Press would have to be my worst I do 15 pounds at 2 sets of 8.That one is very hard.
3.I had not thought of evaluating myself.What do you think I should do?
4. My goal is to lose weight because I am 180 pounds at 12 years old.It's not muscle I tell ya that.And i'd like to lose some before I get to high school which is in about 2 years.
Hope this helps you.
Trouble is, diet is major component when trying to lose weight - i.e the type and amount of food you have each day as well as how often you eat each day. No exercise program in the world has overcome a lousy diet.
And, given you're only 12 years old , i assume most of the control of that diet rests with your parents - not you.
- you're 180 lbs.....how tall are you ?
- Has the issue of your weight be discussed with your parents ? And who first brought it up - you, your parents or someone else ? Who came to the conclusion you were " dangerously overweight "...you, your parents, your GP ?
- Do you get an allowance and if so, how much is spent on snacks and junk food ?
- Do you have breakfast every morning ?
- Do you bring a lunch to school or do you buy your lunch ?
- What sort of snacks do you have - i.e during school ? after school ? while watching t.v. ?
- Do you play any sports ?
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1.5 foot 3
2.Well over the years it was brought up by my parents but quickly forgotten but more recently I've brought it up.
3.I don't spend my allowance on junk food.Unless I absolutly need to.
4.I do have breakfest every morning
5. I bring a lunch to school
6.I usually have whatever my parents buy for groceries,.Some of the things I have for school could be a Nutri Grain Bar,a banana,Rice Krispie Square,100 calorie packs.After school I may have nachoes or something of that caliber.
id say if your not motivated then your not changing your body for yourself because then you would be motivated.so ask yourself who/why you are doing this and if the reasons are good enough then go for it but if not then just do whatever you want , its your life not anybody elses.
I am changing my body for myself.The only reason I'm not motivated is because I'm lazy
Welcome! I think you're on the right track.
The way I'd get motivated is finding a way to be active while enjoying what you do. Then reward yourself (with non-food items!) when you choose to make good choices about eating right & being active.
Do you LIKE going to the kid's gym? Can you make up challenges or games or go with a friend or do something to make it more fun? Can you just get moving without having to go the gym? Play some sport? Go on a hike or get out biking with a friend? Jump rope? Figure out what forms of exercise you WANT to get involved in, and then work from there.
Given your current weight & age, you will make progress by eating right & just increasing your activity level. You don't need to be logging hours in the gym to lose weight, so that shouldn't become your sole focus. If you like going and have the opportunity, then, by all means, go. But if not, don't worry too much about it.
As for the diet, this is probably more important for weight loss. You should probably read some of the sticky threads here (if you haven't yet) and start thinking about how to eat right.
I think that it is really important that you sit down with your parents and talk to them. You sound very mature. Tell them what you've told us: You are unhappy with being overweight, you know it is unhealthy, and you would like to make some changes in how you eat and how active you are.
Explain to them how they can help you (e.g., by buying healthy foods that you've requested), and show your commitment by being willing to prepare your own lunches and help your parents prepare joint meals. You can also use this opportunity to tell them what kind of support & motivation you would find helpful, and what kind is not so helpful.
I think once you start this dialogue, you will realize how much it is your OWN motivation that spurs you. Do not drown yourself with negative thoughts! Everyone feels lazy sometimes. But you ARE acting! You are taking steps to improve your situation. Focus on the good you are doing, and how much that good can translate into real results. You have come here, and you have the strength in you to work hard toward your goals!
The way I'd get motivated is finding a way to be active while enjoying what you do. Then reward yourself (with non-food items!) when you choose to make good choices about eating right & being active.
Do you LIKE going to the kid's gym? Can you make up challenges or games or go with a friend or do something to make it more fun? Can you just get moving without having to go the gym? Play some sport? Go on a hike or get out biking with a friend? Jump rope? Figure out what forms of exercise you WANT to get involved in, and then work from there.
Given your current weight & age, you will make progress by eating right & just increasing your activity level. You don't need to be logging hours in the gym to lose weight, so that shouldn't become your sole focus. If you like going and have the opportunity, then, by all means, go. But if not, don't worry too much about it.
As for the diet, this is probably more important for weight loss. You should probably read some of the sticky threads here (if you haven't yet) and start thinking about how to eat right.
I think that it is really important that you sit down with your parents and talk to them. You sound very mature. Tell them what you've told us: You are unhappy with being overweight, you know it is unhealthy, and you would like to make some changes in how you eat and how active you are.
Explain to them how they can help you (e.g., by buying healthy foods that you've requested), and show your commitment by being willing to prepare your own lunches and help your parents prepare joint meals. You can also use this opportunity to tell them what kind of support & motivation you would find helpful, and what kind is not so helpful.
I think once you start this dialogue, you will realize how much it is your OWN motivation that spurs you. Do not drown yourself with negative thoughts! Everyone feels lazy sometimes. But you ARE acting! You are taking steps to improve your situation. Focus on the good you are doing, and how much that good can translate into real results. You have come here, and you have the strength in you to work hard toward your goals!
well imo just stick with it because it only gets easier to folllow your diet as time goes by
Okay thank you for all the help you guys.Now I'd like to know more about this HIIt and how I can incorperate it into what I do.
Also do you think I should start a journal?
Why should you not?
It would be beneficial to post your goals and routine so others can comment and give you advice.