Have you ever considered quitting the gym for good?

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I have. Natural bodybuilding is too ungrateful. Knowing that nothing will change whether I barely do anything or train 6 days a week could be demotivating. Another problem for me is that the gym is a sterile environment where nothing ever changes.

You are going to the same room, seeing the same people, listening to the same stories, doing the same motions and of course looking the same year after year.

I believe that many men would benefit from doing minimal work in the gym and investing their energy in other active endeavors and sports that preferably require you to be outside doing something real instead of running on some hamster wheel and sharing oxygen with steroid chemists and women who are there only to show off their new Nike yoga pants.

If I had one month to live, I wouldn't spend a second of it in a barbell house.

So, how about you?

Have you ever considered quitting the gym for good?

Have you considered the possibility that you simply dont like the gym culture at all? You seem to like running - maybe thats where you would excel at. Humans have the tendency to love what they are good at, and hate what they are not . This has to do with biology, the cycle of dopamine-serotonin in your brain, and the reward center of your brain.

As for doing the same thing over and over, well thats the "nature" of this activity. What a lot of people do wrong is that they only go to the gym and dont pursue other sports that could amplify the benefits of going to the gym. If you have an outside sport, say martial arts, you dont go to the gym to simply work out in hopes  of growing your biceups to 18 inches, you go to the gym to train for a specific goal you have for your sport. That is what a lot of people get wrong, and thats the reason a lot of people go to the gym and eventually quit. Of course, modern personal trainers, do not teach you basic strength stuff instead they teach you how to do bosu ball curls because they are paid to make you have low to non existant gains because you needing them will get them more money (because you will need to hire him for longer hours) so you are left on your own to find the answer to fast muscle growth (basic strength exercises, nutrition, sleep etc)
That is unless you are rich and can afford an expensive personal trainer, who will give you all the answers you want plus (possibly) connections to drugs.