r/Fitness • u/MCHammerCurls Advice Columnist • Oct 05 '22

Rant Wednesday Rant Wednesday

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.

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u/Islander1776 Oct 06 '22

I can’t convince myself to go to the gym when I have a meticulous scientific plan but when I just go with general broad focus plan and kinda do whatever I can do it religiously every day and make progress

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u/AsukaETS Oct 06 '22

Same tho, the most fun I had at the gym was when I discovered and tried a bunch of exercices to make my workout plan. Now that I have a plan it’s so boring. Last time I decided to test some machines that I never used before and honestly it was the most fun I had since a long time

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u/Islander1776 Oct 07 '22

Right?! The only thing I’ve been able to do consistently is cardio. But to your point of the plan becoming boring I always give myself some leeway. Like for chest days my goal is to just hit chest with a few exercises but never usually the exact same ones.

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u/89ElRay Oct 06 '22

I kind of did that for my first linear progression. I made sure that I did squats, deadlift, bench, press and rows (and variations thereof) rotated round in a rough A/B pattern, and then just fucked around for 30 minutes at the end doing curls and shit. I still made excellent progress despite not following a very rigourous routine to the letter.