I’m training to be a bikini competitor and I feel burnt out and wanna give up. Words of wisdom please?

[Anonymous]

The weights are heavy my body fatigues easily I gained 8lb over the holidays, men oggle me in the gym my family don’t understand the dietary requirements and offer me food and alcohol, cardio feels like death because of my recent vaping habit. I keep telling myself one more gym session then decide to quit or not, I make a PR, I see some definition and I feel motivated again but this past week each session has challenged me. I need encouragement. I have a coach but he tells me I have to want it he can’t do the work for me.

[Guy___]

At a certain point of burnout, training becomes detrimental to your goals. Also I don't know what exactly a bikini competitor is but am familiar with many varieties of these things where people ruin their bodies, such as making certain muscles too tight or too loose, screw up their breathing patterns, and sacrifice their health to look better such as by getting too skinny.

[Summeroflove]

Sometimes things aren’t meant to be.

[Asker]

Why did this motivate me? If it’s for me I have to go out there and get it

[Summeroflove]

You’re right! Maybe it is maybe it isn’t but time will tell. I wish you the best!

[Summeroflove]

If that motivated you it might be a sign of going in the right direction. If it did the opposite effect many times that means it’s not.

[NathanDavis]

what exactly is a bikini competitor?

[Anonymous]

Then maybe its not for you?

[Asker]

I will make it for me

[Opinion Owner]

Best wishes.

[Anonymous]

Stop vaping.