Question ... please don't slate me

monosharp

Ok guys.

I've being trying to sort out my weight and fitness the last few months and to be honest, the last couple of years.

I'm abroad at the moment and when I got here I joined a gym.

Now heres the thing. I will play sports till I drop dead, I will climb (as in hike) a ffing mountain and have done on the spur of the moment (here, cause theres plenty of them).

I used to be in the FCA and did quite a bit with them (extra courses which were physically demanding) and I loved it and wanted more.

I have asthma and I'm a heavy smoker but I'd (when i was at home) play a full game of GAA and be dying on my feet but I'd do it and love it.

But ask me to go to the ffing gym and I just can't do it. I go to the gym, get on the ffing threadmill and 5 minutes later I'm just dying to get off it, I'm out of my mind bored. Same with weights, same with cycling.

I don't know if this makes sense but I think I need to know I'm doing this for a goal, for a purpose. i.e > I hike a mountain to get higher and see really beautiful scenery, I play sports because I love it and feel i'd be letting others down if I didn't perform as well as i could (even though I wasn't particularly good).

The last couple months I've being doing TKD over here in Asia, 5 nights a week and I don't think my body has ever being as sore in my life (serious muscle damaging stretching/physical fitness stuff (push ups on 3 fingers etc) going on with this. Its very "military" style here.

Anyways ... Why can I do all this stuff no problem but I can't bring myself to go to the gym regularly. Sure I'll hit the gym for maybe 2 weeks straight but Its a constant argument with myself to go.

Plus, eating. I'm a very very laid back guy and I just can't seem to stick to a diet. Its not that I want to eat crap (burgers etc etc) because here (Asia) I mostly end up eating what I'd consider to be very healthy. Its more along the lines of I'm going to this restaurant and picking something or my mates are going here i'm gonna go with them.

hhmm will i go here and eat this with my mates or go home alone and make myself a tuna sandwich/chicken something etc.

I was thinking maybe I should take up football (I know there is a club here) and another martial art apart from the TKD.

Will that be enough exercise wise ??? Because I honestly have given up on the gym. I can't do it.

Black Swan

monosharp wrote: »

The last couple months I've being doing TKD over here in Asia, 5 nights a week and I don't think my body has ever being as sore in my life (serious muscle damaging stretching/physical fitness stuff (push ups on 3 fingers etc) going on with this. Its very "military" style here.

Anyways ... Why can I do all this stuff no problem but I can't bring myself to go to the gym regularly.

Continue TKD. Really get into it. Not sure why the boring gym workouts are so important to do too.

monosharp

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Continue TKD. Really get into it.

Yeah I am getting into it quite a bit. Find it very rewarding and enjoyable actually.

Not sure why the boring gym workouts are so important to do too.

???

Odysseus

I'm not sure from your post why is it you want to go to the gym? I have only joined a gym once and that was because I was getting it at a fraction of the cost and as I was training five to six time a week [running and MA] so I joined it only for the sauna etc. I never once saw any machine or weights, they just don't fit in with my goals.

What about trying running or cycling outside, if your doing decent MA training you can't be that over weight and you must have some level of fitness, how much do you want to loose? It sounds around the food you just have to make healthier choices if I'm reading your post right. I know for me I'm just not a gym person, maybe that's the case for you?

In relation to the smokes I ran long distance for years on 20 Gitanes, but the is a new medication out now see a doctor over there about if you want to address that it may help. Half of my job [ironically an addiction treatment centre] is/was on the with very good results. Whatever you go for best of luck with it.

Roper

Do you still smoke Odysseus?

dewsbury

monosharp wrote: »

Ok guys.

I was thinking maybe I should take up football (I know there is a club here) and another martial art apart from the TKD.

I entirely relate to the GYM problem ... an absolute nightmare unless you have the correct frame of mind.

I simply can't do gyms either.

FOOTBALL is the solution !
It might be best to play 5 or 7 a side.

You don't need to be great and it is very enjoyable.

I have watch people join football as an experiment and then become addicted. (I have co-ordinated multiple games in 4 different cities).

Another great plus is that you can play into you 50's !

Just do i t !

Odysseus

Roper wrote: »

Do you still smoke Odysseus?

At the moment yes one to two a week:( I would be doing the worse out of my work cohort at the moment