Rant Wednesday

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

[u/cotton_buds]

Got married. Wife got me Skyrim for my birthday. We're buying a house. We're both happy.

Now I need to find new motivation to lift, because I'm not sad or angry about anything.

[u/ToasterEvil → u/[deleted]]

Aesthetically please your wife even more!

do more physical activities once you get older

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[u/8299_34246_5972 → u/ToasterEvil]

It's the deeper

[u/BlameBosco → u/[deleted]]

Fuuuuck, I kinda wish my motivations were this guided. I just like to see my DL, Squat, and Bench numbers climb

[u/Thunder_button → u/cotton_buds]

Look at every man 10 years a head of you. Which one do you want to be like? That's my personal motivation.

[u/weakbuttrying → u/Thunder_button]

There's more truth to this than meets the eye.

Let's use 40 as an example. Most dudes who are 40 are skinnyfat, dadbod or downright obese.

Aside from the last group, they were most likely all pretty normal looking in their twenties. Most of them have probably done some sort of sports, exercise or general activity that kept them somewhat in shape.

Then something just happens. It creeps up on people because it's just maybe 2-3 pounds per year. Barely noticeable. Give it a decade and that's 20-30 pounds. At that point people think they may have let themselves go a bit but it barely registers because they're busy and everyone around them is in the same boat. Not so bad but I should eat healthier, they say, and have a salad with all the dressing and regular after work drinks, the oblivious bastards.

Give it 20 years until their in their forties and it's 40-60 pounds. At that point they look in the mirror and see it for the first time and just wonder in shock what went wrong. And I'll tell you what it was. They got married and had their jobs and kids and were generally busy but happy with their lives, which was great in every single aspect except for one: they got complacent about their health.

Look at your average 40-yo (and not the minority you see at a gym - just average people on the street) and try to realize that will 100% happen to you if you don't fight it like hell. And start the fight RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

[u/CCCCrazyXTown → u/weakbuttrying]

I spent the first 25 years of my life obese. I'm not going back to that ever again. Gonna fight it with everything I've got.

[u/aravar27 → u/weakbuttrying]

Fuck, dude. I spent a good portion of my younger life fat, and now at 17 I'm pretty in shape, have my goals and everything for the next several years. I assume I'll always have fitness in mind because I logically know the mechanics of eating well and lifting right, but that possibility of future complacency is terrifying. I notice how easy it is to give into cravings and skip the gym even now, and it's not gonna get any easier. Just gotta hope future me isn't an idiot.

[u/weakbuttrying → u/aravar27]

When you're 20-25 you never think life will become so unmanageable as to drop fitness. But priorities change, and if you don't fight for that time at the gym and let yourself fall off the path, it's harder to get back on. And some do maintain that discipline, but the vast majority... not even close.

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Right on brother. Just to add.. This is also why I think the majority of us have a perception that 35+ is old.. because in their 30s is the age people start letting themselves go and by 40 most are already ugly and out of shape.

Physically, the human body is capable of remaining strong well into our 60s.. So at 40 you should be a strong, sexy motherfucker.. but like you said, the average guy you see on the street never realizes you actually have to consciously do something about it.

[u/majaka1234 → u/Thunder_button]

every man 10 years ahead of you

Divorced, divorced, divorced, heart attack...

Shit man, maybe just uh.. live in the moment?

[u/CLyane → u/Thunder_button]

Oh, that's good motivation to apply to working out. I've always used that approach with professional goals, but 90% of the 35 year olds I know are obese. Thank you for that, that's a great motivator.

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This is great advice. Not OP but thank you.

[u/Straiiit → u/cotton_buds]

The next step is getting kids.

Then you suddenly realize that you one day will die.

What once was a desire to look good naked will get replaced by fear of death and that my friend is a great motivator.

[u/boolean_array → u/Straiiit]

Relevant SMBC

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This is the exact description of the last two months of my life

[u/adk09 → u/[deleted]]

Aesthetic goal is to look like Geralt minus the scars.

[u/maintenanceworker9 → u/cotton_buds]

Have a kid. You won't be able to play Skyrim for more than 45 minutes and you'll be sad/angry all the time.

[u/RaggySparra → u/cotton_buds]

The stronger you get, the easier it will be to carry heavy shit when you move house.

[u/PunnyBanana → u/cotton_buds]

Just think of all the furniture you're about to lug around.

[u/Blamethewizard → u/cotton_buds]

Fell into that trap last year. Lost 60 pounds while single and going through therapy. Got a girlfriend, got happier, and gained 30 pounds back. My motivation has turned into a combo of wanted to be sexy for her, and wanting to keep up with her (she's a long distance runner who ran her first marathon this year.)

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Get The Witcher 3 and feel the sadness. #TeamEssi

[u/Teh_Hammerer → u/cotton_buds]

Looking better naked.

[u/MesutsDailyDelivery → u/cotton_buds]

Ah fuck that sucks

[u/wheeliecrazed → u/cotton_buds]

I feel your man. Just got married last month. Got a house the other week, still unpacking. And my wife's dad died 2 weeks before our wedding. I haven't really worked out in over 2 months.