One thing I have noticed that my life is lacking since finishing basketball my senior year is a competitive aspect, and I think this is the reality for the vast majority of adults. While you go to the gym to train, most people don't have a purpose as to why they are training, so why not give them one?
Instead of doing your traditional 3x8 for your weights and then hit the treadmill for a twenty-minute job, how about you spice up your training and add a competitive edge to it. I'm not talking about seeing if you can go up 5 pounds on each exercise either. I'm thinking you should take every single exercise you would normally do during a workout, say your Friday workouts, and do one set of each in rapid succession. Then go each a second time and possibly a third, fourth, or fifth time as well. Time how long it takes you to get through those circuits and keep your time each week. Your workouts leading up to your Friday workouts will be preparing you for that competition day, and you will find yourself more excited to work out on those days as well. After a month or two, switch up your Friday routine and set a new time goal for yourself. After a few months, go back through an old Friday workout and see if your time has improved. This will be a great way to mark progress throughout the year as well.
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