Why do YOU do it???

[Santorini]

What is your single biggest motivation to do it. To diet religiously, to go to bed hungry some nights To get up at the crack, and get on a treadmill half asleep to bang out a session. To voluntarily lift heavy weight repeatedly, multiple times a week and know you will be barely able to climb the stairs to your apartment for the next few days after this self induced bodily damage?

I wanted to post this to see the varying responses. For me, what drives me above all honestly, is vanity. I know, shallow, and superficial perhaps, but I can admit that to myself and accept it. I want to have flowing lines, excellent proportions, granite sculpted muscles, and an overall beautiful body that turns heads everywhere. Health is a close second though; anything I can do to extend my time on this earth is well worth my while. I like to feel big. Powerful. Almost like a titan from ancient Greek mythology(almost ). What singular reason drives you more than the others? (if getting laid more is your honest answer, show some backbone, and post that mofo).

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Well, I am vain so that's part of it. Mainly, though, because I like being dedicated to something. Lifting and being healthy and keeping up with a good diet is always a great habit. People admire me for it, even though I have a long way to go to reach my goals. Everyone envys ambition. I feel proud, too. I feel confident, being strong and looking good. Though, I don't let other people's opinions bother me, my own does and I like to push myself to the limits, to see how far I can go, and whether or not I can reach my goals. I know I can, I just like to see it actually happen.

So to sum it up: Confidence, strength, aesthetics, determination, ambition, pride, envy, a way to vent my emotions, a way to pass the time, a challenge, and all in all some good fun.

 

[Santorini]

Although the response was excellent, what I am interested in, and the purpose of this thred is, is to find the one single aspect that motivates you beyond all the rest(everything he stated). The one reason that is more important than the rest; the reason that transcends the others. One. .......Mine is Vanity

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Ah...well, lifting to get bigger and stronger - power. Power and explosiveness. Thus leading one to be a better fighter (or assist in such).

Dieting and cutting bodyfat - vanity.

 

[artrius]

My reasons have changed over the years. Originally, I got picked on as a kid, so that's why I started. Now I just want to be a monster. I love having a large musculture, being bigger and stronger than I've ever been, not to mention bigger and stronger than other people. It makes me feel good. I guess you can call that vanity. I just want to be f*king huge.

 

[audiophyle]

Being able to take my shirt off and cockblock an entire beach is pretty nice

 

[evander1972]

Vanity and to get laid more often and lay more stunners, Well you said be honest

 

[BrandonXJ]

That's funny you mentioned this, I was thinking about this same thing today.. I came up with the phrase "vanity under the guise of health conciousness." I say I do it for my body, my health, etc.. but when you get down to it, it's just to look better than the next guy. The reason I was thinking about this is because I smoke, yet I look down on people who scarf pizza and burgers and think how unhealthy that is.. then I realized if I really did care THAT much about my health, I'd quit smoking. So it definitely all comes down to vanity.

 

[evander1972]

The reason I was thinking about this is because I smoke, yet I look down on people who scarf pizza and burgers and think how unhealthy that is.. then I realized if I really did care THAT much about my health, I'd quit smoking. So it definitely all comes down to vanity.

So true Bro Im the same allthough Ive now been stopped smoking 2 months, Still find it hard with a drink in my hand though

 

[Santorini]

Fuckin great guys. honest. cool beans

 

[trialbypinoy]

the movation is simply..... ass. The better you look, the more ass you get. =D

 

[Tom Treutlein]

I wouldn't want a girl who desires me just for my body. They're not worth it. At all. Burn them. All.

Oops, did I say that?

 

[irish_pride]

i want to be bigger and stronger so i can get a job as a doorman/bouncer while im in college, as well as looking good and feeling good. but i dont know any girls who would sleep with someone just because they have muscles. thats a bit exaggerated.

im glad to look more intimidating

 

[adam wj]

so i dont end up like my parents. that's it.

 

[BrandonXJ]

but i dont know any girls who would sleep with someone just because they have muscles. thats a bit exaggerated.

lol.. it's not exaggerated.

 

[anthrax]

I wouldn't want a girl who desires me just for my body. They're not worth it.

Sure !

Do we, guys, desire a chick only for her body ?

OK, wrong example

 

[John WB]

Vanity and to get girls.

 

[evander1972]

but i dont know any girls who would sleep with someone just because they have muscles. thats a bit exaggerated.

Ok 2 guys, One average with a bit of extra padding round the middle and cant run 10 yards, Second choice fit very muscular guy. So on first impressions which one has the upper hand with the women at the mo?

 

[KillahBee]

First it was vanity. Then it was to push myself. Now it is twofold:
1) I enjoy testing and challenging my own personal mental limits.

2) Functional strength.

 

[SoreArms]

got tired of being fat

 

[view]

Because I love it. I dunno why I do but I do.

Also, ever since I have become I have become more secure and achieved greater self-esteem.

 

[bran987]

so you will be my pretend online friends

 

[wootoom]

i do it to look good for myself and for everyone else.

 

[fatmasterfat]

I do it out of spite.

 

[bran987]

I do it out of spite.

oooh good answer!~! that sounds juicy!

what happened? what made you want to bodybuild out of spite?

 

[fatmasterfat]

well it all started when I was 6 and i was waiting in line for two hours to go on one ride, splash moutain, when this big asshole infront of me burned me with a cigarette...

well that happened, but I do its not why i diet, or train. I say out of spite, possibly out of spite for myself, I used to live a very unstructured lifestyle, nothing but partying and fucking around. So the way I look at it I wasted all those years fucking around when I could have been more of a productive person. So its to better myself, in spite of myself, I guess you could say...

and to spite that big asshole infront of me in the line. I'll find you one day.

 

[Santorini]

It's funny with me. I have this serious fucking issue with out of shape people now. They annoy me. I know in my heart its fucking wrong, but hey, its there. Fat slobby people bother me just to look at. I'm disgusted by them. I just want to kick them in their fat behinds because they let themselves go so bad. I think stomach stapling should be a federal law imposed on the clinically obese.

 

[bran987]

well it all started when I was 6 and i was waiting in line for two hours to go on one ride, splash moutain, when this big asshole infront of me burned me with a cigarette...

well that happened, but I do its not why i diet, or train. I say out of spite, possibly out of spite for myself, I used to live a very unstructured lifestyle, nothing but partying and fucking around. So the way I look at it I wasted all those years fucking around when I could have been more of a productive person. So its to better myself, in spite of myself, I guess you could say...

and to spite that big asshole infront of me in the line. I'll find you one day.

hahaha, awesome, how old are you?

 

[trialbypinoy]

so you will be my pretend online friends

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHH

 

[cherylynn]

just reading this interesting thread...does anyone do it because you feel physically better and more energetic. I thought I'd see that at least once. ;P

 

[BrandonXJ]

just reading this interesting thread...does anyone do it because you feel physically better and more energetic. I thought I'd see that at least once. ;P

I sure as hell don't feel better and more energetic after maxing out my 4th set of squats, and then doing hamstring curls and then calf raises and then trying to run for 20 minutes, I can tell you that. Energetic? How about seeing stars and close to exhaustion?

If you feel energetic and physically better after a workout, you're not working hard enough.

 

[bran987]

I sure as hell don't feel better and more energetic after maxing out my 4th set of squats, and then doing hamstring curls and then calf raises and then trying to run for 20 minutes, I can tell you that. Energetic? How about seeing stars and close to exhaustion?

If you feel energetic and physically better after a workout, you're not working hard enough.

lol
she means just during the day cause you are healthier than everyone else and not eating crap that makes you fall asleep at your desk

 

[BrandonXJ]

lol
she means just during the day cause you are healthier than everyone else and not eating crap that makes you fall asleep at your desk

oh. I knew that.

I can't sleep anyways.. I'm too sore

 

[L_Seven]

Endorphins

 

[Tom Treutlein]

It makes me feel good. I feel energetic about an hour after a heavy leg day even. I just feel so accomplished. It's nice.

Yo man, fatmasterfat bro, my bad.

Bran. I'm your friend.

 

[chewyxrage]

strength leads to confidence

 

[borg4902]

I was just really fat all my life and I mean really fat in the pat year and a half I managed to turn me from a 278lb man to a 168 lb weekling to now a ripped 206lb maniac that turns head everywhere. I love the feeling of walking into a room and girls I couldnt pay to look at me drool, its the constint stares and fliting and the way people just come up to you and start asking you all these questions. Its when you lift and are halfway through a set and glance around to see the whole room staring in aw. Its knowing that I did it all by myself, I built me. Its when you havent seen some one in a couple weeks and they almost shit seeing you . I love it every second of it I cant ever fathum how everyone dosent do it. Oh yea because they cant or they just dont care about themselves enough to. Being where I was in life such a short time ago is what really mokes it all worth it. The only problem is I am so damn picky I dont think ill ever find a girlfriend, no girls around here work out or eat healthy. Being lonly sucks but honestly it to drives me. Just my 2 cents.

 

[JKurz1]

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[GoldenDelicious]

because i want to do the things young people do forever. i dont want to age like the people around me have. my mates have love handles, beer guts. their formerly hot girlfriends sag all over. they look sad, unhelathy, and talk about the good old days.

its partly vanity, its partly a desire for health, but overall, really...its a desire to live well, not just to live

 

[velvett]

Vanity, good way to deal with the day (get out those agressions), people with msucle tend less to look saggy and mushy when they get older (nothing worse than old skinny fat/flabby people) and well, I love really good food and that metablolism slowed down after 30 (SOB!) .