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What is your motivation?

caseygabriel

caseygabriel

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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....
 
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.
 
to look good naked.
 
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.
 
i was always a dork in school. i was always intimidated by the big guys at my school, and was always too intimidated by weights to get near them. i thought they belonged to the guys that were already twice my size. by the end of senior year i was itching to conquer the weight. i guess i just wanted to be a man. now I'm still in it because i couldnt imagine life without it, i would feel crippled again. i love being bigger and stronger than most people i see, and making progress that is undeniable. looking and feeling better about myself is all i need
 
my new found motivation was a talk i had earlier in the week with my doc...

16may05

went to the doctors again today. here is my discussion:

Doc..."hows your back doing?"

Me..."it still hurts. mostly in my lower back. i get pains when i run that spread throughout my hips. then it turns into shooting pains that run all the way down my right leg, and into my heel."

Doc..."that's not good. lets take some more x-rays."

....we take x-rays...

Doc..."everything checks out, everything is evenly spaced. blah, blah, blah, medical terminology that i dont understand, blah, blah, blah..."

Me...looking dumbfounded...

Doc..."i would reccommend that after your back heals, that you give up power lifting. your body just isn't built for it. you're training partner is 6'2" and weights 280. he has the build for it. your body structure (im 5'10", 200lb) is just too small, and your joints and ligaments just can't handle the stress that power lifting places on them."


IS THIS GUY F@#KIN JOKING?!? GIVE UP POWER LIFTING? THAT'S LIKE ASKING SOMEONE TO QUIT BREATHING...
 
I have alot of different reasons,some seem horrible,but Ill list them anyway

the number one being vanity
also for my future career in law enforcement
then for overall health,ie mental and physical health,I always feel better when I train
and Im currently cutting hardcore because a bunch of friends are going rafting in august and my ex is bringing her new guy who is a frumpy goof and I wanna be just shredded and go shirtless all weekend lol
 
Except for the ones who said vanity or looking good , you are all full of shit. You may have started out for different reasons but the vanity keeps you going.
 
lol.. vanity? I stay away from mirrors for 11 months of the year becuase I hate what I see...

lifting for chicks... nope, most girls think usher is jacked. Cardio, coke and bowflex is all you need for that.

lifting because I want to be the biggest, badest, strongest motherfucker I can be, yup.
 
I dont want to be the norm. Like the rest of society. I wanna be within that 10 percent who makes all others envy us. I wanna make girls panic and confused as to what they should do, if they should approach me or not, as I walk by them....yeah...that helps a little bit.
 
I think vanity dries up pretty fast once you are out of your twenties and have family, career, and other stuff going on in your life. Everyone wants to be good looking to one degree or another but it isn't much of a motivator past the teens or mid-twenties. Although I've seen a number of exceptions I can't say any of them really came from admirable, successful, and balanced people. For me, I think I'm in the general health and fun category. I enjoy lifting, it keeps me healthy, and makes me feel good. Over the years it's run the gamut of athletics, lifting big, looking good in various blends and quantities but this is where it's been at for a while now.
 
cwpick said:
Except for the ones who said vanity or looking good , you are all full of shit. You may have started out for different reasons but the vanity keeps you going.
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wow, you must be incredibly wise to intrinsically know that every single person who lifts weights does it solely for the purpose of looking a certain way. i had no idea that powerlifters went to all that trouble just to look the way they do.
 
I doubt that most even started for vanity and, for sure, vanity is definitely not enough to keep you going.

We should just burn the troll.
 
Tweakle said:
lol.. vanity? I stay away from mirrors for 11 months of the year becuase I hate what I see...

lifting for chicks... nope, most girls think usher is jacked. Cardio, coke and bowflex is all you need for that.

lifting because I want to be the biggest, badest, strongest motherfucker I can be, yup.
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Now thats my kind of talking!!!!!!!!!!
 
used to be for image, and then i realized that weight training didn't help my self-image. but then i coincidentally started doing other stuff requiring functional strength, so suddently it became a tool to support a meaningful hobby.

Plus it puts me very much in touch with my body. there's something about using and taxing various muscle groups that really puts you in touch with body movement. During the course of the day we tend to forget about our body, the shell the carts us from this to that. Something we'll always have, and worth taking care of
 
casualbb said:
used to be for image, and then i realized that weight training didn't help my self-image. but then i coincidentally started doing other stuff requiring functional strength, so suddently it became a tool to support a meaningful hobby.

Plus it puts me very much in touch with my body. there's something about using and taxing various muscle groups that really puts you in touch with body movement. During the course of the day we tend to forget about our body, the shell the carts us from this to that. Something we'll always have, and worth taking care of
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exactly..since ive strengthened my grip my jerk off sessions have been very explosive..im almost as good with my left asi am with my right ;)
 
At the beginning it was physical appearance. I wanted to get muscular to attract women. Note to any guys that have yet to figure it out: women, in general, don't like very muscular guys, though they do like low bodyfat. You start getting bigger than say, a sprinter, and you're starting to seriously limit the number of women who are attracted to you.

Now I train to improve my athleticism, strength, and functional performance. Appearance is secondary--my chest is down to a mere 42", yet there are an overwhelming number of women who have told me I have a "perfect" or "ideal" body. Wish I had known that a couple years ago.
 
Debaser said:
At the beginning it was physical appearance. I wanted to get muscular to attract women. Note to any guys that have yet to figure it out: women, in general, don't like very muscular guys, though they do like low bodyfat. You start getting bigger than say, a sprinter, and you're starting to seriously limit the number of women who are attracted to you.
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note for you young guys..
cock size matters more than bodyfat :)
strong glutes and abs will increase your stroke power ;)
 
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