Hi !
Today i would like to share with you my experience with sports.
I always have been really thin in my life. When I was younger I was practicing gymnastics so that's the reasons why. When I stopped it, the only sport I was making was sport at school and I wasn't really involved in it, especially when it was in teams. I always hated teams sports like football, basketball.
That's how I started to gain some weight. At 13 I was around 48kg, and I wasn't really tall because I was only 1m50 tall. (127lb for 4ft and 11inch)
Even if I was really far away from morbid obesity or anything bad for my health, I wasn't really fitting in my own body. Nad still now, I don't want to be in any average weight, I really feel better when I'm thin.
That story isn't about motivation
In only a month I lost around 10kg (22lb) but it wasn't thanks to sports. In fact, I get a brain tumor which was making me throw up every 3 days.
Yes, that was unexpected 😅
Now everything is okay and thanks to that I didn't gain weight anymore without doing sports until my next story :
When I quit High school to live alone 100km away from my parents.
Obviously, eating alone made me... Bigger, adding to that that I wasn't doing ANY sports ANYMORE.
This time I reached 75kg for around 1m75 (165lb for 5ft and 8.9inch) which is approximately the same body weight index than the previous story.
This time, no brain tumor to cheat, the only thing to do was to... Make some exercise. I decided to change something, to remove all obstacles which could avoid me from making sports.
The first thing is, I would like to do sports alone, so i.'ll don't go to the gym, and I don't want to run ( now I'm thinking about it). That means that I was going to do body weight sport at home.
In my apartment the desk is really huge and it wasn't really well placed. To make simple, I didn't have enough space on the floor. I needed to move the desk. Now I have enough room to do sports.
The only thing remaining was to actually do sports. As a big consumer of movies, I was doing sport daily for at least 30 minutes while watching a movie.
If you want to make sports and have some difficulties to do it, some things are to keep in mind.
- It needs to be easy to start sport.
If everytime I wanted to do sport I needed to move my desk and placing it back each time, I would have been doing it for two days I would still be 15kg bigger than I'm now.
- You need to set realistic goals
My unique goal was to loose some weight. I didn't want to have a muscular body or anything, just loose weight and look more than before. Setting goals that are too big for you can discourage you.
It's also important to do a check up and adjust your goals. If you're overweighted and want to look like a Hollywood star, the journey would look like a really long road trip with probably no end because they're training hours per day and spent a lot of money in personal coachs.
Having for goal to loose some weight, imagine 10kg, is already is huge goal and it's awesome if you can achieve it ! Once you made it, maybe you should set another, maybe 10mire if you need, or maybe starting to see your abs ?
I know that my first goal was to remove this little fat tits over my breast. Especially when as a man I always saw this area being flat, if something was supposed to show itself, I would have preferred it to be muscles. And I achieved it, it disappeared in 3 weeks !
- Determination.
This one is the most complicated. For me it's kind of easy because most of time, when I want something I'll do my best to do it, even if it takes time, and I have a really fast metabolism that allow me to see results in only days or weeks, so it felt really great to see that my work is really working.
When your motivation isn't enough, and I totally understand it too, now that I reached my goal I'm not really doing sport anymore, only once a week or twice a month. Sometimes more. You can ask friends to do sports with you, that could totally help to be with someone else, or starting a sport in a club with other people who can support you too !
Making sport in front of a movie was really helpful for me, it was occupying my mind while my body was working.
I made it for around 5 month but it was really impressive during the 3 first ones during which I lost 10 kg and started to see my muscles coming out of the fat, the most impressive is my biceps which was looking really flat before sports and now have a nice round curve. After that I saw my muscles slowly growing and lost'em after stopping sports, which made me lost some weight too.