Motivation

[Honesty]

I'm losing motivation fast. When I first started working out I would never miss a session, but now for some reason I just started loosing motivation. I kept getting gains and everything, I saw gains almost everywhere but I lost my motivation. Anyone care to tell me how to keep motivated? It's hard to even force myself to work out. I still eat clean, that hasn't changed. The last time I worked out was 1-2 weeks ago and then I stopped.

[getfit]

well has anything changed in your life?

[twm]

Well, PLing and BBing isn't for everyone. If it can't keep your attention, it might not be for you.. I can't wait for each and every training session.

On a more positive note, why did you start lifting to begin with? A specific poundage goal? A body image goal? You have to find what drives you and focus on it. There is a good article thats called "What Separates Us from Them," which is a very good read to motivation.

[Cheezefacta]

Yea, I cant wait for each session either. Yesterday I f*cked up my shoulder on heavy DB presses and now my shoulder hurts so bad that I missed the gym today and most likely tomorrow too ..its killing me so much right now. I had a few waves of 'no motivation' but they went away and now I cant stop.

[HahnB]

http://www.geocities.com/swisherhits/iron.html

[TOBART]

"Motivation, how about this for motivation, CUMMING, all over the place, a girls soft hands rubbing your strong muscles and your cumming like a hurricane, how about that for motivation?"
Rock

Classic

[WBBIRL]

I just read that article and it hits home big time. Thats exactly what I thought and how I feel about the efforts one puts into any challenge. I too have a friend named Jason who has recently (about 2 months ago) started lifting with me. I encouraged him to lift with me at first because he was my friend and he was a good spoter. Hes a little more then half as strong as I am but he only weighs 216. At first he wanted to just lose some weight, gain a little more muscle and get rid of some fat. Its been a real struggle with him, I mean he tries to spot reduce, he overworks some muscle groups and almost flat out refuses to work others. He skips days or cuts them short at his whim for no real reason. Like today he cut out and only did one lift, he said he had a headache and that legs days were **** anyhow. I've told him 1000 times that legs are the most important muscle group to train and that no matter how much cardio he does it wont matter if his diet isnt in check. This kid only listens to some of what I say and I just dont know what to do yet. He's convinced he can lose the fat around his gut with cardio, and ab work without so much concern on the diet. Some times he wants to quit early or skip altogether to go out with other friends and it dissapoints me. At first he was just a good friend and a good spot, but I want to see him reach his goals as much as I want to reach mine.

So to the poster, dont become Jason or in regards to the artice "Bob". Take a day off, go somewhere quiet and spend a couple hours evaluating just what it is that you want. What will make YOU happy??? You started lifting for some reason and you need to identify what that reason was and then figure out if its worth the sorness or the time or energy or effort. I know for one that the person I would be today, if it werent for my efforts in the gym, wouldn't be nearly as happy as I am. I sat down like im suggesting you do and I thought about what it was that I wanted, what would make ME happy. I had goals that Ive made and I've had goals that I've failed and that told me something... I didnt want it bad enough because I didnt make it happen. If you keep you eyes on the prize and your head out of the clouds nothing will stop you from your goals.

[D Breyer]

hahaha

[Built]

"Motivation, how about this for motivation, CUMMING, all over the place, a girls soft hands rubbing your strong muscles and your cumming like a hurricane, how about that for motivation?"
Rock

Classic

Okay that's hot.

Lalalalala.....

[MixmasterNash]

Okay that's hot.

Lalalalala.....

You were dancing in front of your computer when you typed this, right?

[Built]

Dancing. Is THAT what the kids are calling it these days. Sure. Okay.

;)

[mattanshrager]

i have no idea what my motivation is. the gym is just my favorite place, like a little fantasy world where i create storms all over my body and lift the **** that i really shouldn't be able to lift. but it's that storm man...it's that ****in thing........mayb it's what you lack

[crazedwombat]

just go on myspace.com and browse the hot girls and be like "i can have that if i was muscley" ...works for me

[jack_of_all]

i started lifting for chicks because i was fat and wanted to get into shape... well im still fat but i couldnt give a **** about becoming thin in the near future, i just dont want to lose strength when im still not that strong. i lift for me, and hell, if i biologically could id lift for an hour a day.

[KevinStarke]

Proving to myself and everyone else that i can lift with the big boys. Knowing that moving big discs of iron will make me bigger and stronger than i was the day before. Shutting up all the bigger kids that pushed me around in when i was younger. THATS my motivation

[drew]

How about having NO strength? How about laying flat on your back for a month? How about needing help to get out of bed?

If that doesn't motivate you, nothing ever will. Now stop being such a pussy.

[KevinStarke]

Amen!

[Anthony]

If you want it, you'll do it.

[Unreal]

"If you want it, you'll do it."

I think that sums it up. After seeing me lose 60+lbs, my one friend just bought an exercise bike and bowflex, and is asking me for help and what I did. I told him the number one thing is that it really is a life style change and you have to want it. If you don't go all out, then I don't see what the point is messing around.

[drew]

You should be a real friend and bring him to trade in his bowflex and bike for a power cage and some freeweights. :D

[Unreal]

He works freaky hours, is married, and barely has enough time to use that let alone goto a real gym. Its a step in the right direction atleast.

[AzStorm]

I'm losing motivation fast. When I first started working out I would never miss a session, but now for some reason I just started loosing motivation. I kept getting gains and everything, I saw gains almost everywhere but I lost my motivation. Anyone care to tell me how to keep motivated? It's hard to even force myself to work out. I still eat clean, that hasn't changed. The last time I worked out was 1-2 weeks ago and then I stopped.

What keeps me motivated.

My sincere desire to not kill my kids,even though I feel they may deserve it somedays. (stress reliever)

The frustration of having to deal with stupid people. (stress reliever)

People that drive mini vans in the fast lane at 10 mph below the speed limit while talking on their cell phone totally oblivious to their surroundings. (stress reliever)

Aggressive music

My desire to be BIG and healthy,be the best I can be for my wife and family and myself.
OK,so I want to live forever,what can I say?

A little cliche,but,lifes about choices.What choices will you make today??

[WBBIRL]

Yep, watching someone leaner more athletic with all the chicks put two plates on each side of the BB and try to get it up just once and then I go over and rep it just 5 times so they can see how easy it is. It just makes them sick with envy, they got they looks and the chicks yet dont even compare.

[twm]

WWBIRL: all things considered, if i could be fat and lazy while still banging hot chicks all the time.. i'd probably be fat and lazy.

[drew]

:withstupi

[phatmike]

Honesty,

Hey bro let me ask you a question. Before you stopped, how much experience did you have, and how many weeks in a row did you train. How many days a week did you train?

I have seen and heard of many guys get all fired up, and go to the gym for 8 weeks straight. They would be there for 2+ hours a day, 6 days a week. That is a surefire way to overtrain, and lose motivation like no other.

If that sounds like your situation, a routine change is in order. If not, then I don't know what to tell you. Everybody here has something in them that drives them to make time to get to the gym. Sometimes (like for me), it takes a while to find that motivation. At first I hated going to the gym. Now I get semi-depressed if I don't.

Bottom line: Get out there and find your motivation dammit! It's not gonna be here on this message board. It's gonna come from inside you.

[SW]

Just look at all of the fatasses the electronic age has produced. All they want to do or care about is pleasure and food. They go running as fast as their stubby legs will carry their cellulitevictimized (yes, my word) bodies. Do you really want to be that guy? If you don't work hard and don't have a naturally skinny body, that's where you'll be. Weak. Pathetic.

[KevinStarke]

Yep, watching someone leaner more athletic with all the chicks put two plates on each side of the BB and try to get it up just once and then I go over and rep it just 5 times so they can see how easy it is. It just makes them sick with envy, they got they looks and the chicks yet dont even compare.

I fully agree and im quite guilty of being that guy on many occassions. Nothing feels better than going and repping someones max when they're trying to be a hotshot in front of the ladies. I get the same words every time i lay down on the bench to do it too, "you sure you can handle that little guy?" and i've come to the point where i dont even respond to it, i just smile and make them angry. You cant say you dont want to be doing tht Honesty. If you want to be serious about this you have to make it part of my life style. Not going to the gym when im supposed to is like not eating beef jerky every day, and im a man who loves his beef jerky...

[Rastaman]

Yep, watching someone leaner more athletic with all the chicks put two plates on each side of the BB and try to get it up just once and then I go over and rep it just 5 times so they can see how easy it is. It just makes them sick with envy, they got they looks and the chicks yet dont even compare.

LOL. Is that what you like to think? That it makes them sick with envy? I couldn't care less how much someone else benches. Personally, I care much more about how good my body looks. I'm a bodybuilder at heart.

How to find your motivation? To me, motivation derives from how badly you want something. How badly do you want a better body and better health? How badly do you want to be more respected and more admired? How badly do you want to be more attractive to yourself and others? How badly do you want to challenge yourself mentally and physically?

[ddegroff]

What he said above is pretty good. It all comes within. I could say that back in high school i was a fat kid and didnt get the chicks and thats what motivates me. Which it did in the begining but not anymore. My motivation is to get the feeling i have right now the "PUMP". Everytime i go and give 120% in the gym afterwards i feel amazing the best feeling in the world (except a few other things ;)). Thats why i work out, if i dont have the feeling every few days, i go crazy need to work out. Another one i just thought of is go watch Pumping Iron, listen to Arnold talk about body building. Thats motivation!

[Junin]

I weigh a pretty lean 170, my little brother weighs in at pretty obese 305. I train harder, eat better, and put more into my time at the gym. He consistently puts up way more iron than I could no matter how hard I tried.

Is this a measure of worth? He is guilty of half-assing it while I work my hardest and he can put up more than me?

No offense, but I'll take my worth from how I look, not the amount of metal I can raise 16 inches in the air.

[WBBIRL]

@Rasta, thats cool man if thats what you want

Just saying there are some track hotshots in my school that have defined scuplted muscles that go around looking at themsevles and rubbing their muscles in front of the mirror. Then they go over and put a miniscule ammount of weight on the bar, wait until everyone is watching and then does it once, grunts obnoxiously and then feels their arms again. Then when the fat slob goes over and reps 50lbs more then that 10 or so times it puts them back in their place. If your not showing off and being a hotshot about it then its all cool, but if your trying to pass off as superly strong because you have big muscles then its go time.

[drew]

If you weighed 305, you would put up far more than your brother.

[WBBIRL]

I weigh a pretty lean 170, my little brother weighs in at pretty obese 305. I train harder, eat better, and put more into my time at the gym. He consistently puts up way more iron than I could no matter how hard I tried.

Is this a measure of worth? He is guilty of half-assing it while I work my hardest and he can put up more than me?

No offense, but I'll take my worth from how I look, not the amount of metal I can raise 16 inches in the air.

Well hes naturally stronger then you are, and dont think his strenght comes from his weight, thats a load of **** right there.

Being strong nor fit gives anyone "worth" but if your trying to show off your strenght and your brother embarrases you, then you got what you deserved. If hes trying to show of his muscular size and you show him up, then he deserved it.

EDIT: @ drew

If he got to 305 in muscle mass, if it was fat there would be no positive correlation to strength.

[Junin]

People train for different reasons.

I train to look good naked! Oh, and the walnut crunching ass power.

[drew]

EDIT: @ drew

If he got to 305 in muscle mass, if it was fat there would be no positive correlation to strength.
To clarify, I meant if he continued with the way he trains and got up to 305.

[WBBIRL]

No kidding drew

100lbs of muslce mass would make a hulk out of anyone.

[Unholy]

Chase's posing video is my motivation.

[Drai's]

Download Jay Cutler's "Ripped to Shreds Video Preview". I don't really know why, but that's the most motivational thing I've ever witnessed.

[Rex]

Working out, getting bigger and stronger... it's not easy. And no one ever said it would be. There is no secret. You either do it, or you don't. If you're not motivated, don't do it. Motivation comes from within.

[Honesty]

Wow I posted this yesterday and I forgot about it. Well anyways I mainly started lifting because my neighborhood is ROUGH. I mainly did it for fighting purposes. Kids would want to fight you for just looking at them wrong. And I remember seeing this kid in my content class, he was a grade higher than me and thinking "I wanna be that big". This kid was big, strong, and most importantly vascular. When he walked down the hall, if this was the first time you saw him, you would stare at him. I do get pumped up sometimes...For like an hour. I'll feel like I can do anything, and then when I goto do it, it goes away. Anyways i've had 1 year and 4 months of lifting and now weightlifting just seems like its annoying.

[KevinStarke]

Well if you find it annoying dont do it, cant drill motivation in to your head.

[Sidior]

haha my motivation is to be HUGE!!....which is going to take alot of work cause im 5'9" lol