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What's your motivation?

^are you 'struggling' to do these things you don't 'feel' like doing? i ask because, in myself, if i'm on-track i tend to have desire to stay on-track, and the things that may've felt that way to me in some respects end up being things i'm internally-motivated to do, even if they're not immediately rewarding/enjoyable.
 
personally, i work out because i can't imagine not working out. i just don't feel like myself if i go more than a day without exercise. the trick is making it a matter of habit, rather than just motivation. so my advice would be to seriously make a commitment to yourself to work out 5 days a week for two weeks. you don't have to kill yourself every time out, but just make sure you do at least 30 minutes of something pretty much every day. don't put any pressure on yourself, and keep your expectations low - getting your body acclimated to exercise is often a lot more pain than progress. but keep that commitment, and i guarantee at the end of those two weeks you will feel better physically, feel better about yourself, and need a lot less encouragement getting out the door.

once you get there, you can make a better assessment of your goals, interests and abilities, and start to work more specifically. but at this point you just need to get your body and mind used to the idea that working out is a natural, normal thing for you to be doing, and build an association between physical exertion and feeling good.
 
I work out to gain strength and feel better about myself. Ive had the whole AIDS patient thing going on since i was young. Always been skinny and I wanna change that so thats why i hit the gym 5 times a week now. That and it really helps me sleep to use up my energy reserves for the day.
 
Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes!

When in doubt, just read Arnold Schwarzenegger's quotes (Videos of him help as well ;)):

"I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the Mr. Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Oliva and Lou Ferrigno ..."

"Experiencing this pain in my muscles and aching and going on and on is my challenge. The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. I have no fear of fainting. I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It's not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I'm OK. A lot of other athletes are afraid of this. So they don't pass out. They don't go on."

"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."

"Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks. Suppose a great person takes the risk and fails. Then the person must try again. You cannot fail forever. If you try ten times, you have a better chance of making it on the eleventh try than if you didn't try at all."

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent."

"I was always interested in proportion and perfection. When I was fifteen, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me."

"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."

'We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.'

'My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.'

'The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.' - 1975

'Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.' - 1975

'Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day..." - 1979

'Stay hungry, stay healthy, be a gentleman, believe strongly in yourself and go beyond limitations.' - 1975

'The unique thing about bodybuilding is that when I compete it is just me on a stage alone. There is no field, no bat, no ball, no skis, no skates. All other athletes have to use equipment, like a football. But I don't use anything in competition except myself. It's just me up there. Me alone. No coach. No nothing.'

'It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.'
 
I don't want to get fat again.


I want to lose the vestiges of a gut that I still have.


I want to be high as fuck on endorphins all day, everyday.
 
Choose life.

Education, getting fit, "planting my seed", having fun, travel, helping others...experiencing anything out of the ordinary like going scuba diving on reefs/diving in deep caves, hiking in mountains, snowboarding, flying...too many to mention. Life is full of little pleasures hidden from the eye so discovering these is my mission. And getting paid helps.

Main motivation used to be causing trouble/ruckus and still is to an extent. Just less so. I guess part of my motivation is minimising my rebelliousness now, growing up and not wanting to "watch the world burn"
 
My motivation is to avoid buying pants with a bigger waist line. I cringed when I got off speed and my weight increased. Although I did look healthy with a few extra pounds, it was traumatic. Fear of another waist line increase and accountability to personal goals (written out) and to friends (aka workout buddies) are my motivation.

Keep up the good work!
 
the 100miles/100days "challenge" has been an excellent carrot to dangle in front of my own nose.
 
I've joined a pretty successful band and always do great gigs to decent crowds, signing autographs after shows etc... so, i want to be looking great basically.. Coming out of the most unhealthy year for me has been difficult tho
 
I've decided to read at least 8 books by the end of the year. I just finished my 3rd. I have doubts that I'll make it though.
 
SirTophamHat said:
I like it when people stare
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Hows this for staring.

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honestly. if i walked into a local gym and all the bros were muggin @ me like that, i'd be proud as fuck. you gotta be doin somethin right to piss people off... glad i lift at home now.

i stand by my statement though. i aim to 1) look so good people can't avoid staring and 2) tune my CNS to perfection
 
To get back to my normal self.. Currently in the middle of a comedown and I am working extra hard on my workouts to make my recovery faster. This also includes eating healthy and getting lots of relaxation and sleep
 
Jonnavi said:
To get back to my normal self.. Currently in the middle of a comedown and I am working extra hard on my workouts to make my recovery faster. This also includes eating healthy and getting lots of relaxation and sleep
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good stuff. It really works.

My motivation is that I simply feel so much better when in good shape. My energy level, my confidence everything.
 
Finding myself again. After many years of self destructive activities, I'm trying to turn the page and find the health and fitness I once had in life. My wife did it, so I better get on my horse before she leaves me for the milk man! But seriously, for me this is about physical and mental health. My body and mind both require exercise and working both of them at the same time from the ground up is the only way I know.

Besides, I'd like to reintroduce myself to the real me. I've been someone else for a long time and it's time to say goodbye.
 
I love what exercise does for my life. I feel more energized, my metabolism is more efficient, I look more youthful and radiant, I look more attractive, my sleep is deeper and my awake time more alert, I feel more solid and strong. The list goes on really. I just love doing body work in general, like stretching. It takes me out of my monkey brain and puts me into the present when I focus on my body.

The times when I get lazy or too busy and I start neglecting exercise/health lifestyle, there will always come a point where I'm tired of feeling stagnant and like shit, and I'll get back on the horse. The rewards are great.
 
ive come back with a new motivation now

im motivated to keep my body strong and supple because the mind and body are so interconnected that they influence each other so much

so if my body is in peak condition then my mind is in a better state to be able to spread love and reduce the misery around me
 
gyrospeck said:
Arnold Schwarzenegger: "Having a pump is like having sex. I train two, sometimes three times a day. Each time I get a pump. It's great. I feel like I'm coming all day..." - 1979
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dslxTj_uUwM

Like other posters, my motivation is simply to do something I know is productive when I can't do what I'd like to be able to do (find a goal that convinces me it is worthwhile for me more than other things, has realistic concrete steps I can perceive and pursue semi-independently, and makes grown-up money). Compared to that, I've always found exercise easy. The way I think about it is that it's just simple exertion. You lift stuff, you keep running. The only thing pushing back is weight, and the only thing keeping you from stopping is pain (to a point ... don't break yourself).

To me these things are so much more simple than trying to find a singular driving passion that one can make their life's work, or at least their life's effort (which is enough to do to be honest). So many people make strives in careers, which to me are largely economic contrivances and inventions of the 20th century, not natural wellsprings of human purpose, yet these same people can't convince themselves to workout (? ... !?). The challenge of working out is mere physical resistance, not forming a path through life by hand from the shifting sands of purpose as they fall away around you in an ineluctably shrinking circle while you watch the once inspiring vision of your marathoner's road crumble into the breathless dark of existential despair. Think of that if you have any idea what you want to do with your probably still young life and chuckle at your misgivings on your way to the god damned gym. [insert smiley winky thing]

Oh, and watch the Schwarzenegger coming video. It's good. He says "coming" a bunch of times.
 
i was in a position to help someone not long ago, but i knew instinctively i wasn't strong enough to help lift them out of danger so i had to stand back while a stronger dude acted. when i feel like maybe not doing a workout because i'm lazy, i visualize being in a position like that again. in that moment nothing is more crystal to me than the truth that i must get stronger in case the next time i'll be the only one around to help.
 
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