Finished Week 2 (6 reps of running for 1,5 minutes, walking for 2 minutes) of that couch to 5k program, so far so good. My legs definitely begin to feel it a little bit, especially during the rest days when I bike to work, but I think I'll be fine for Week 3 (2 reps of running 1,5 minutes, walking 1,5 minutes, running 3 minutes, walking 3 minutes). After that it's going to be difficult: Week 4 is total of 16 minutes of running and 5,5 minutes of walking. Well, I'll get there and try to do it anyway I suppose.
I have felt the worse I've felt on a long time. Physically sore but so lethargic and just downright depressed. Been quiet at work and literally have zero motivation to do anything. I'm shocked how much my mood is affected. I guess this could be classed as overtraining?
People do way more than me and athletes do hours more than me. How the fuck do they do it lol.
That sucks, dude... I've got some health problems that have been hampering my ability to get out and do my cardio myself, but I also feel the zero motivation. A short break might do you wonders!
I feel fairly motivated to run, actually look forward to it the whole day, but I guess that's because it's still new and exciting for me. I hear you guys about zero motivation though, lately as weeks go I struggle to do anything productive. I think it's mostly because of what I was usually looking forward to (meeting with friends, concerts, traveling, board game nights, going to bars) isn't possible, or at least isn't safe enough. It was fine while we were in lockdown, but now we're back in the office, I don't know. For the last few years I was like "hey, I've got this awesome concert lined up 2 months from now on" and that made getting through these two months at work easier. And now that feeling is gone, it's just an endless cycle of work for five days, get straight back home, spend two more days not really socializing aside from a few Discord calls, rinse, repeat. I intended to create a DTF thread about my post-roulette listening and been postponing it for two weeks. I don't think I'll muster the will to do it today either.
I realize this is probably more for one of the Covid threads, but I think there was some mental fitness element involved in this thread, so I guess I just had to vent a bit.