Ever just feel like NOT working out? (gym, treadmill, bike)

[Jedi5]

Woke this morning feeling lazy.
Maybe it's Friday and the week caught up to me.
I dunno, for whatever reason, I just didn't feel like working out.

So I skipped my morning workout and did nothing but eat and watch TV so far today.
I knew I would regret not working out and hate myself later in the day.

But whatever, I have a severe case of the lazies.
What's the medical term for that so that it sounds official?

My question to all here -

You ever just get tired of working out and say forget this, I'm taking the day off?
I don't mean your weekly day off or rest day.
I mean more like instead of working out, you just stay in bed and call in lazy.
Or you plop on the couch, watch some TV, and snack away on the chocolate peanut clusters.

That's where I am today.

[ukrkoz]

1. burn out
2. plateau


Take a pick.

I skip ever so often. I happens. I try to compensate as soon as I can. There are many ways to not do routine and, yet, burn calories.

Also, maybe re think your exercise approach. It should bring joy. Something that you really like. Eg, I am weights person. I HATE aerobics. But, I do miles of walking at work. So it compensates.

[Rastafellow]

Nope, haven't experienced that. For me it is psychological. If I don't workout, it will bother me all day.

[kgordeeva]

Of course lol. I think that happens to a lot of people, including myself. Exercise can get monotonous and time-consuming after a while. While it's still warm, I have mainly been just bike riding and occasionally jogging outside. I know I need to get back down to my apartment gym and start doing more high intensity workouts with weights. That's what truly gets you fit and toned.

How I prevent getting bored is doing a bunch of different exercises. I like to do a light 5-minute jog on the treadmill as a warm up and then move on to weights. I'll do like kettle bell swings and squats and then do sprints on the treadmill for about a minute...Then, I'll do two more strength training exercises and sprint on the treadmill again. I keep repeating the process for about 45 minutes or so.

[alaskaflyer]

Yes! Every Monday . I have to wake up very early to commute to work which starts early too, and even though we exercise on work time due to the nature of my job, I simply make Monday my skip day - too tired on the first day of waking up at 0430 for the first time after four days of a more civilized sleep schedule. The guilt motivates me to go the extra mile on Tuesday though.

[Grlzrl]

I can't really stay in bed because I have kids but sometime I skip the workout. Try not to thougn.

[tickyul]

Exercised most of my life.

But I just got sick of it....now I do one brief workout a week, do not really look forward
to it either.

[Luckyd609]

I always take days off. In fact my best workout is after 2 days off in a row. It's amazing. Generally though I take 2 days off a week.

[jaynaydee]

I definitely have days like that. Some days, I’ll talk myself into working out, other days I let it be. But I feel so guilty after.

I find participating in exercise challenges, where you’re pretty much exercising every day, motivates me enough to not take days off. When not doing a challenge, I usually take 1 or 2 days off a week.

When I do take a lazy day, I either make up for it the next day by exercising longer or working out on an off day. Sometimes, I just have bad weeks where I don’t even try to make up the lazy days that week, but I try and make them up the following week by exercising longer on some days.

[chiluvr1228]

I usually work out Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri alternating upper & lower body weights and 40 minutes on the treadmill. Yesterday after working at my computer for 3 hours (I work from home and have since before the pandemic) I was just tired to even think about going to the gym.