Tips for getting back into heavy lifting / bulking?

vandaalen · 2019-02-01T11:04:39+00:00

Just start

hiddenpersona · 2019-02-01T11:12:51+00:00

You need to rewire, complete reset yourself to kickstart yourself. Once you are off the wagon and became lazy it’s really hard to jump back so you need to start with the roots. You need 3 months of monk modd.

Start with waking up early. 5:30-6AM every week day and 10:00 AM on weekends if you feel you deserve some sleep. Set an alarm on yourphone, get rid of all alarms. From now on no matter what you will wake up at the same time, no excuses. It will be hard in the beginning to adjust.

Your morning routine is the most important thing in how you live your life and it literally sets the mood for the rest of the day, week, month. You need to establish a simple but effective morning routine that you do same things every morning like a robot in the same order.

It could be something like this: wake up, water, pushups, coffee, gym, shower.

Second thing is diet. Make it stupid simple, eat same things at same times everyday without a cheat. You will be a robot from now on.

Cut yourself out from social media and mindless social environments for a while.

Do everything that serves you. You know the right thing, just do it.

Listen podcasts, they stimulate the mind really good and puts you in the zone.

Create routines. Shower routine, eating routine, reading routine, laundry routine, social routine, cooking, cleaning, movies, books, gym, sports. Everything has to be routined, planned and ready on your to do list and calendar. You need to spend 20 minutes every night or morning and a long reflection on sundays and create programs for the next days, weeks and months so you won’t be fatigued or bored trying to figure out what to do next. Just spend some time organizing events and it will be easy to follow them.

Sleep. Most mental suffering and laziness comes from bad sleep habits. It leads to laziness, lack of motivation, tiredness, lack of energy in gym, testosterone not working well. All this slippery slope will lead to caffeine overuse, bad food, lazy activities and such and eventually bad sleep again that will put you in a bad cycle that you are probably in right now that you are suffering.

Discipline is key here, motivational videos and such won’t help you. If you wanna kickstart and shake yourself just wake your brain up. Your brain and thoughts probably got too lazy, soft and comfortable. Get in the coldest shower and you will remember who you were and it will remind you to kick ass again.

TheStumblingWolf · 2019-02-01T11:10:00+00:00

Start from scratch and you'll grow more hungry.

pame12 · 2019-02-01T11:12:06+00:00

Try a bunch of Grenola with some nice yogurt you like.

mrmaldoror · 2019-02-01T11:37:31+00:00

I gave up heavy lifting and bulking too, I can't stand gyms, hate the vibe, hate the music and the contracts. I've found as many hobbies as I can to stay in shape. I did almost 5 years and 5 days a week in the gym, wouldn't step in there ever again.

TRP8myfeels · 2019-02-01T12:47:07+00:00

Do it.

burnimus-maximus · 2019-02-01T15:29:48+00:00

Don’t complicate things man. It boils down to 2 things.

1- Lift heavy 3-6 days a week.

2- Eat 500 calories above maintainence (1g protein per pound of body weight).

If you want it bad enough, you’ll figure it out and do it. If you don’t want it bad enough, you’ll never reach potential and join the 80%.

LielS30 · 2019-02-01T21:32:57+00:00

Have a purpose, a goal (maybe it's a physique, maybe it's to return to the old beast you were, idk just decide)
Remind yourself of that purpose everyday

In the physical level, shove down the food just for 3 days to a week. Your stomach will expand and you'll have the food going down easier afterwards. It's very important to get into groove\momentum and keep it going.

Something that helps me is I committed to track my food on MyFitnessPal every day (it's an app) that way I commit to eating my calories every day EVEN when I think there's no chance of finishing everything by the end of the day.

As for training, find a proven program that you ENJOY doing but will also result in maximum gainz. find the balance.

good luck ;)

soulmysold · 2019-02-01T21:42:57+00:00

Bodybuilding encyclopedia by Arnold S.

PDF is downloadable off google.

0x9A30D7C49714D98000 · 2019-02-02T00:24:28+00:00

Find a good preworkout and take that until you get into the routine. Preferably one that contains DMAA (hard, but not impossible to find still)

randomTATRP · 2019-02-02T06:23:32+00:00

Just go. I had a longer pause recently too and the hardest part to just get ready for the gym (prepare stuff) and go. After I just went out of the building, it was all like I never stopped training.

brooklynbooked · 2019-02-01T17:26:54+00:00

Whether or not you should bulk will depend on your current physique, including body fat percentage. Post a pic if you can, along with your stats (lifting and physical stats).

Title	Tips for getting back into heavy lifting / bulking?
Author	bf1bro18
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Date	February 1, 2019 10:38 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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