What is your motivation?

[Illuminati]

the fact that the weights laugh at me when i am in the gym. they tell me that i can't move them. i want to prove them wrong.

 

[Sub-Zero]

thinking it will make me a better person....jk


i dunno i just feel like its become a part of my life, and i HAVE to do it and make progress sort of like i have to eat or sleep

 

[rbtrout]

You guys might laugh at this one, but several years ago I was on a fishing trip by myself. Being out of shape (but I didn't think so), I would get winded just walking on flat ground at 7500 feet. I also went to jump over a small meadow creek and ended up standing chest deep in this creek and I had hurt my back in the process. This kind of prodded me into working out again. I live for the summer months and flyfishing (back packing when I can), so I had to do something.
One other point, I love playing bball and I do every Saturday. I couldn't hang any more, so I had to do something.
Once I started lifting, with a personal trainer (actually a really good one), I didn't like the full body workouts every day and wanted to get into bb. Now, I'm 15 pounds heavier and 10% bf less. On my way to a lean 250. On the bball court, there aren't any stronger, even big guys, I can muscle around. Flyfishing, no more huffing and puffing.
I've also noticed that I look a helluva lot better, which is a perk. My wife can't keep her hands off of me......bummer.

 

[ridethesnake]

Ha. The pain of life is uncontrollable. Life is full of suffering and there's nothing I can do about it. If I focus on the pain that life deals me I will wallow in sorrow and fail in life. So I create pain I can control and overcome. I focus my energy on it as a way to distract myself from an unhealthy focus on the 'regular' pain of life. . . . When your body is supporting heavy wieght there is no time for sorrow, or self-pity, or irrational anger, or regret, there is only that big fucking piece of metal.

I used to hate the weights. They would antognize me, mock my weakness, prove that I was inferior. I felt the need to dominate them. I have grown to love the weights. They teach me. They protect me from my demons and develop me into a better man.

Plus my best friend got murdered so I have a need to be strong, powerful and secure. Thus guns, weights, fighting techniques etc.

 

[wnt2bBeast]

nothing wrong with looking good..
my motivation is to squat 850 then 900 and then onto 1,000

throw in a 700 bench and a 700 dead im as happy as a pig in shit

 

[dutchman063]

The way it makes me feel is my biggest motivation.....I knew i loved lifting weights since i was about 9 years old..i use to tie big rocks to broom sticks or use old window counterweights and just lift .... of course i never knew a thing about what i was doing....

 

[eat big]

I do it because I love to lift weights. My inspiration is waking up the enxt day feeling it in the muscles and knowing I busted my ass. But at the same time other people larger than me inspire me to become larger. Always up for a challenge.

 

[Dial_tone]

to look good naked.

 

[Rex]

1.Feel good
2.Look good
3.To get my friends to shut the fuck up about how much bigger they are.
4.To show the meaty breasted immigrant that breaks my balls at work that my pecs bounce when commanded to, not because they flop like a fish out of water.
5.Knowing that at 178 pounds I can out squat my entire unit.
6.Impress girls.

#3 is pissing me off so much right now thinking of their fucking jokes that I want to get in the gym right now, but have to wait until 0445.

The one big demotivator is my shoulder is shot to shit, and I'm looking at having to get surgery soon and I know all my gains will be lost.

 

[awnyerneas]

To look good.