Cant get back to being me

[landonm5]

Well, I have decided not to do the show in july. My very first thoughts were to take off a year or two and grow and try to grow into a heavyweight for the GA in a year or two. Then, everyone was talking to me pumping me up to do the GA this july.. . . well after the Atlantic in March i took off about 6 weeks. No gym, no diet, no nothing. I started back dieting, training and i just lost the fire!!! I have not been able to admit it to my wife, to my friends, my brother or anyone. I cant hardly focus in the gym, everything is heavy as hell!!!, my endurance is nothin, i started back on test, eq, and primo about 3 weks ago. I'm just getting worried. I get a quick pump but i am worried. Maybe not a big deal to anyone else . . and everyone in gym is like where u been? congrats, u look great all that. to me i look AWFUL!

I know this is long but maybe a few of you will read and help me out somehow! I had the worst rebound from diuretics. . dyazide. . aftter eating shitty the week after i gained 26lbs! so i was mentally freaking out, had to get xpel and cut carbs out just to get back sane. where i was training for example 225 bench 5 sets 10 12 now 5 or 6 times is a ton! its not about weight i know that i just cant get motivated and NEVER been this way.

i want to start eating to stay lean but grow! i did palumbo for prep so now when i eat carbs i feel bad and i shouldnt be that way.

thats my venting and i have felt depressed as hell!

 

[mb97]

Hey buddy been wondering where you have been! Don't feel weird about how you're feeling rt now, it has happened to a lot of us. It happen to me about this time last year. If it was ME and I'm sure people will disagree, I would come off of everything for a couple of months and get your mind rt. if you need to take some more time off from the gym then do it! Spend some time with your family, or do something else u enjoy. Prepping for a show is a long nerve racking process, you will know both physically and mentally when your ready to come back!

 

[The Dude]

Hey buddy been wondering where you have been! Don't feel weird about how you're feeling rt now, it has happened to a lot of us. It happen to me about this time last year. If it was ME and I'm sure people will disagree, I would come off of everything for a couple of months and get your mind rt. if you need to take some more time off from the gym then do it! Spend some time with your family, or do something else u enjoy. Prepping for a show is a long nerve racking process, you will know both physically and mentally when your ready to come back!

I agree. If you aren't having fun than do something that's fun for a while until you are dying to get back in the gym. If you can't concentrate you're going to get hurt. Take the opportunity to clear out and spend time with your family doing things you normally couldn't.

 

[mcgaret]

you could also just do a totally different workout that seems easy. Just mabey come in and do some light sets of 50. If I am totally
out of it I will do something like that. It isnt like a hard workout but I am keeping the muscles going and it just isnt as mentally draining.
Or say for bench just do 2 or 3 sets of 20 with 135. Work some different fibers. Keep it short, easy and somewhat fun. You should
get a good pump and after a while you should feel like hitting it hard again. Just what I do when I mentally cant get into it.

 

[Presser]

Yeah this is a tough situation, it really is!, and a Catch 22 situation as well and I will explain. Personaly if it were me I would, and have done this. Take all the time off you need totaly from the gym, until you get that Hunger/fire back cause thats all your missing from the sounds of it! Now the catch 22 is this, when you take that much time off until you get the hunger for the gym and or competition back, you feel like total shit the first few weeks due to your strength going way down and your overall look in the gym even when ur pumped up ur just not happy with it. So its a tough call, but I would take the time off until you get that fire back! However if I were to do it all over again, i think I would have found a different gym then i usualy go to and once a week do a total body work out super light with high reps, just enough to maintain a little bit of ur size and strength, maybe even twice a week, but do it in a new gym where no one knows you, No one knows what you use to look like compared to how you look now, sounds cheesey i know but we all have those feelings of "everyones looking at me and wondering what the fuck happened to me" lmao. It really shouldnt matter I know but who are we kidding we all think it and it bothers all of us! Trust me i took a good year off for the most part due to my injury and going back to the same gym sucked balls, and I should have stated back out at a fresh gym where no one knew me and no one wanted to talk to me , until i felt like going back to my old gym.

Not sure if anything i said hits home or is even good advice for your situation brutha, but I do know you will get it figured out sooner or later, its a lifestyle and no matter how long u take off, you will always wind up going back!

GOOD LUCK BRO!

 

[mkdk]

through the years when I take time off I do just dips and chins to keep strength and tightness, I mean its easier to maintain than it is to get it back, Ive seen many people quit and never come back. When I go back to the same gym from 80's there is only few that still workout, very few. Just go minimal but dont quit doing everything just sitting around that is no good. We were not meant to just sit around and do nothing.

 

[mb97]

I do know you will get it figured out sooner or later, its a lifestyle and no matter how long u take off, you will always wind up going back!!

This is the absolute truth, if you nothing else from us and this thread take this too the bank!!!!