Success at weight training is
highly dependent on mental motivation. Where you work out can have an impact on
your motivation. Going to a gym vs lifting at home can each have their own
benefits. Lifting with other people around can help act as a motivator when
seeing everyone around working hard and offers the ability to think about your
workouts and change them in the moment. This could also work the other way
being that if you were to see people not trying hard, it could toon you out to
lifting. Lifting at home has a lot of benefits. One huge benefit is that you
can conveniently train whenever you want without a hassle. Another benefit
would be that if you were to work with a recorded CD then the motivation of
other people working hard would still be there. The problem with this is that
it adds cost. Home gyms have a huge short-term cost vs a gym. Machines can
easily cost $800-1000, but gyms have a long-term cost that could also be
discouraging. Exercises at home can still feel lonely no matter what. The
biggest negative of “Home training is often done unsupervised, so there is a
greater danger of injuring yourself by using poor technique or the wrong type of
equipment, or by lifting weights that are too heavy for you” (Susan Saliba 14).
A gym has advisers and trainers as well to avoid injury.
Beyond where you work out, it is
hard to stay motivated working out for a long period of time. One reason for
this is that you can make more gains your first 6 weeks working out than any
other time that you lift. These gains become misleading and turn people off
when they stop their drastic growth. Lifting with out people can help become a
motivator to keep lifting. Not seeing any gains can also create boredom which
is also a good reason to lift with other people, or friends if you were to
decide to lift at home.
Do you like to lift at home or at
the gym? If you lift at home, do you lift with anybody else? Do you find it as
a motivator to lift at the gym with other people? If you have tried both
lifting at home and the gym, which do you prefer. What do you think the biggest
plus is for doing either one?
Works Cited
Saliba, Susan. The Basics of Weight Training. Weight
Training, Mason Crest
Publisher, pp. 1-64
Great workout routine Essaw, do you have any advice on how to stay motivated to go to the gym. Also how do you fit your gym time in your schedule.
ReplyDeleteThose are great questions. On weekdays, I go to the gym at 10:30 p.m or 5:00 a.m at L.A fitness. This honestly makes it difficult to stay motivated, (seeing as how I am tired at both times) but these are really the only times I can go to the gym. I honestly, just tell myself to suck it up and go, and that is how I sadly motivate myself most of the time. Although, music can also be very motivating when you listen to music that can get you hyped. This also is good because it takes your mind off of lifting. When most people lift, then psych themselves out and overthink it, but music is a nice way to overcome that problem. I try not to skip the gym other than Saturday (my restday) because that is just not possible sometimes with an overwork load.
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