Motivation

[dahamn]

I know there have been other threads about this, but I wanted to hear some more and share one of mine.......One of mine is the Tsunami on Dec 26th, I was watching like everyone else the videos of the giant wave sweeping away the lives of countless souls. One video was of what looked to be a family of about 5 or 6 trying desperately to hang onto a building. One by one they were swept away while one man with an outstetched arm lost the strength to hold on to his loved ones. I have always worked out off and on and the last year had been getting back into it for what I thought was a pretty good dedicated routine. There I was sitting here with a beer in my hand and nice size pot belly sticking out of my shirt. I'm divorced, but I have 2 kids and I thought would I ever have the strength to hang onto my daughter or any of my loved ones or friends if I were thrown into that situation(granted I live in Dallas, probably won't have to worry about a tsunami)or any kind of situation where I would have to be the protector. The answer was No, now when I am lifting that last heavy rep and don't think I can get it, I think about that man looking into the eyes of his family and how he must have felt he had let them down......that gives me 2 more reps at least.


Dave

 

[tinytank]

I know there have been other threads about this, but I wanted to hear some more and share one of mine.......One of mine is the Tsunami on Dec 26th, I was watching like everyone else the videos of the giant wave sweeping away the lives of countless souls. One video was of what looked to be a family of about 5 or 6 trying desperately to hang onto a building. One by one they were swept away while one man with an outstetched arm lost the strength to hold on to his loved ones. I have always worked out off and on and the last year had been getting back into it for what I thought was a pretty good dedicated routine. There I was sitting here with a beer in my hand and nice size pot belly sticking out of my shirt. I'm divorced, but I have 2 kids and I thought would I ever have the strength to hang onto my daughter or any of my loved ones or friends if I were thrown into that situation(granted I live in Dallas, probably won't have to worry about a tsunami)or any kind of situation where I would have to be the protector. The answer was No, now when I am lifting that last heavy rep and don't think I can get it, I think about that man looking into the eyes of his family and how he must have felt he had let them down......that gives me 2 more reps at least.


Dave

touching story , i first got into wieghts at school when i liked this girl and she told me she luved guys with muscles, so i started workingout, but over the past few years weightlifting has been such an important part to my life. like when my mum died i was in the gym for like 3-4 hours a day, just pushing myself , feeling the pain in my body, it was like a comfort blanket, it was there for me when things got shitty and always made me feel good about myself afterwords. fare enough some of u think tht might sound like self harm but it was just letting out so much stress, anger and greif !! every time ur pissed off hit the weights , u will feel better! good post

 

[dahamn]

touching story , i first got into wieghts at school when i liked this girl and she told me she luved guys with muscles, so i started workingout, but over the past few years weightlifting has been such an important part to my life. like when my mum died i was in the gym for like 3-4 hours a day, just pushing myself , feeling the pain in my body, it was like a comfort blanket, it was there for me when things got shitty and always made me feel good about myself afterwords. fare enough some of u think tht might sound like self harm but it was just letting out so much stress, anger and greif !! every time ur pissed off hit the weights , u will feel better! good post

Yeah, females are always in the equation whether you feel the need to protect them or get their attention.....it's all good.


Dave

 

[tinytank]

also i grew up in tough area so u needed to beable to defend urself. the amount of times i got my ass kicked !lol they were the days, untill i met fellow guys tht were into sports, (most were into drugs) but if u keep close to em thn u were laughing, like this 1 time (in bandcamp)lol, me and a m8 were walking to the pub just for a few,when these drunk students(4) came over and were like wow man u V small rnt u, cause im only 5,2 and they were laughing and shit which was ok untill 1 dude ran over to us and said dont turn ur back on me, and then the all them came over which i knew was going to end up nasty, so before the 3 others came, i kneed the guy in the balls (anything goes)and threw him down and then it was 2 on 3, and they were drunk !! it was the funnyst fight i have ever been in!! so the moral of this post , is self defence!!! sorry ot knda away from tht point didnt I ?

 

[onerepmaximum]

Sometimes in the gym, when it gets to where I want to rack it, I imagine someone is trying to hurt one of my kids and I pump out a few more.

I can see what the dog is sniffing.

 

[tinytank]

Sometimes in the gym, when it gets to where I want to rack it, I imagine someone is trying to hurt one of my kids and I pump out a few more.

I can see what the dog is sniffing.

tht is a good 1, same with the other guy "protection"

 

[Growth&Courage]

now when I am lifting that last heavy rep and don't think I can get it, I think about that man looking into the eyes of his family and how he must have felt he had let them down......that gives me 2 more reps at least.Dave

Good on you bro.
It is ultimately this kind of motivation being associated to an empowering event that consequently evokes so much psychical response to the extent of manifesting into strength, power, growth & courage. What a motivational tool for all of us here.

I shall think of an empowering event where my ex girlfriend knee my balls so hard that whenever I squat I will tell myself "this ain't nothing compared to my balls kneed by her- I get an extra rep or two" lol.

 

[CFZB]

the big thing in the army in Motivation.

I had a couple Ranger drill sgt's.

one was puerto rican.

He was always yelling "Motobation! Motobation!"

he was awesome.


true story.

 

[tinytank]

Good on you bro.
It is ultimately this kind of motivation being associated to an empowering event that consequently evokes so much psychical response to the extent of manifesting into strength, power, growth & courage. What a motivational tool for all of us here.

I shall think of an empowering event where my ex girlfriend knee my balls so hard that whenever I squat I will tell myself "this ain't nothing compared to my balls kneed by her- I get an extra rep or two" lol.

why did she knee u in the balls ??