What is your motivation?

[caseygabriel]

What is your MAIN motivation to start/continue working out?

In all honesty VANITY is approximately 90% of my motivation. I would like know what motivates you.

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Most likely vanity, although it's fighting the insecurities I have of myself. Everyone says I'm fine the way I am, and too much bigger is just going to look bad, but until I'm satisfied, I'm not gonna stop.

 

[riverrock]

The feeling of having personal security at all times. That is why strength is more important to me than anything else. I like the confidence that being strong gives me.

 

[~Lexy~]

Health and confidence.

 

[blut wump]

For a while I haven't needed any motivation as such: I just enjoy working out and straining against heavy iron.

Whenever I have thoughts about how long I'll continue to work out and continue trying to get stronger I just have to remember the blob I became after too many years of layoff and the state my back got itself and me into after so much relative inactivity. Somewhere along the line I've managed to accept on an emotional as well as rational level that I'm in this for the rest of my life.

There's also a bit of what riverrock mentions: the feeling of being strong and knowing that I'm stronger than just about anyone I meet in the street who isn't also a lifter. It fits my own mental image of myself to be strong.

 

[jdevlin1985]

Confidence, looking good and of course the women that come with it te he

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Devlin's emoticons almost tell a story.

 

[jdevlin1985]

Devlin's emoticons almost tell a story.

LOL

 

[KillahBee]

I'd say about 90% personal triumph and challenging myself mentally to do things that Joe Schmo would never even attempt. Then 5% health and 5% vanity.

 

[DaPit26]

it started out as a way to advance over the average wrestler and football star in highschool....since then i think it became an unhealthy addiction. motivating factors i guess would be to flex in front of my ex-beotch and tell her how much my new girl likes to feel my muscles when i'm fucking her. lol