To those that work out

[Kpt._Rob]

In a way I think developing a genuinely unhealthy vanity helps me. Just look at your body, and then look at it after you've worked out. If you've worked yourself to the point at which your muscles really hurt, often times this will cause them to grow, and after they do, just look at them, and take pleasure in the change you've brought about in yourself. Flex your muscles and feel that they're harder than they used to be. It's about making yourself really care about how you look, but it's also about constantly making yourself aware of the fact that your workouts have a real affect on how you look, and that the more you do work out the better you'll look. From there, apply a little bit of sex drive and the desire to find someone of the opposite sex. That's the self depricating process that drives me to exercise for about an hour a day (20 minutes in the morning, 40 in the evening).

It also helps if you do make your workouts fun. I have a home gym, and I pop a DVD into the TV in front of it, so that I can exercise while watching Neon Genesis Evangelion, or Scrubs, or whatever else strikes my fancy.

 

[teisjm]

Work out while at work.
I work graveyard shifts at a medical factory, and theres not much to do, so i get time to work out while getting paid. Theres a small gym at the factory.

Apart from that, situps can be done in front of a TV, that makes it a lots less booring to do.

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

Just force yourself to do it for a while, and eventually it should become a sort of habit for you. You'll start feeling guilty about days you miss, and working out won't seem quite as horrible as it may once have. Plus, after doing it you feel much more energized and overall more healthy as time goes on. As for my motivation, I feel guilty if I don't, and I just enjoy blowing off some steam by pumping iron. Good luck to ya man.

 

[Shycte]

I was kind of teased as a kid for being plumb. I never want that to happend again.

I train Judo, which I enjoy a lot (to my girlfriends great anger lol). And since it's fun I do it often.

Point is, find something that you think is fun. If it's boring, you'll stop.

You have to enjoy it.

 

[Xris]

It's alot healthier than doing nothing. Plus, it's a chickmagnet really.

 

[ToChaos]

I find joy in training, if it's the right kind. Like doing it with your friends or try something different. Kick-boxing, soccer and yoga are my favorites. And afterwards you sleep really well. I don't like pushing myself to hard, so that I feel forced to train.

 

[Da Joz]

High blood pressure and obeisity run in my family, so I do it to avoid an early grave.

 

[logiman]

1. When i`m horny i just do push-ups `till i`m so tired so that i can`t get up.
2. When i just want to show off i got to the bar and do some pull-ups.
3. I never jog. Just ride the bike. sometimes
4. Motivation coems from your DNA. I mean the working-out-gene-thing.
5. When i go to the bathroom, after i do my stuff i pull up my shit and look at my 6-pack.
6. (the most important) Chicks.


*oh, jurking off doesn`t help you get big arms.*

 

[HentMas]

i dont work out... sorry cant help you much, but generally i am happy with the body ive got i weight 85 kilos, 187.39 pounds more or less (take 5 kilos if i go to the EDIT Bathroom EDIT i am totally constipated), sooooo yeah...

 

[Lord Beautiful]

My motivation used to be getting into shape to improve my self esteem and to finally get into shape. Now, my motivation is to get into better shape and to work out simply for the sake of working out. If you exercise for long enough, it takes more work to get yourself to not work out than it takes to get up and do it.

 

[Svizzara]

I tend to think of all the good things that come with a good, strong body, such as female attention, confidence, and increased physical ability. I also tend to think to myself that many things in this world require a good physique. I know that it's not true, but it often helps me get through those last five bench presses.

For example, as I'm performing the movement: "You want that Ferrari 288 GTO/beautiful girl/reputation? Then go get it, you pussy!"

Oh yeah, beating yourself up mentally helps as well. Helps motivate you to get yourself to where you want to be.

Media, especially music, helps a lot. If I see a music video full of gangsters and tough guys, and the music is good as well, it makes me want to get that sort of lifestyle, part of which requires a good physique. Even if you're not watching the music video, those images stay in your head and you are reminded of it all while exercising. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NTeUAmhrZs

Multi-tasking during exercise helps. I watch Law & Order: SVU while I work out. I can't really do that while I go jogging, but if you have an MP3 player, you can listen to some of that music I mentioned earlier. I prefer to just enjoy the cool, quiet morning.

My own exercise routine consists of an hour-long workout everyday, with barbells and dumbbells. Also, a one kilometer run around the block every morning.

Good luck, I hope I helped.

 

[Broady Brio]

Where the hell do you find the motivation?

It is so much easier to go home, lie down, and beat the crap out of people (who invariably only use forest Griffin) on X box live UFC unleashed.

*snip

I know how it feels with the lack of motivation. I go to a gym, I don't take it too seriously, I take it quite lightly and what I mean by light as in at the least JOGGING on the treadmill and not walking like alot of people do and it's just usless. I lost weight and the belly. I also know that alot of women prefer slightly buff men rather than hulking muscules.

Hope this helps.

 

[MarsProbe]

Well, I have managed to maintain a regular 3 times a week routine at the gym. Besides the fact that I'm paying £34 a month for the privelige of being able to use the gym which makes sure I keep attending so I'm not wasting my money.

Other than that, the fact that I was beginning to "let myself go" a bit was a big boost. That and on a slightly more vain note, a desire to appear more attractive to the opposite sex.

It helps to go with a friend as well. Having someone to be accountable to makes you more likely to keep it up than if you do it entirely by yourself.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

I'm still stuck at the boredom phase. I've worked out and seen a little bit of result, I've had the endorphin release that it brings, and even with feeling good afterwards but found the whole process so damn tedious that I dropped from 3 times a week, to 2, to 1, to getting fed up with the sight of it. I have no idea how to motivate myself now, I want to work for the body I'd like, but every time I start I realise just how sick of the gym I am.

Running is a no go, the only road I have near me is a single track lane deathtrap. Blind corners and huge lorries that take up the whole road at 50mph is not the place you go to run.

I walk a couple of miles a day to try and keep it up, but it's just papering over the cracks and preventing me getting too big, rather than actually achieving a loss.

How the hell can you get the motivation to enjoy that tedium?

 

[Kinguendo]

All of my friends go to the gym and have been everyday for about a year... I dont have the heart to tell them but... well, they dont look any different and when they talk about the gym they sound kinda... well, kinda gay.

Seriously, I was with one of them last weekend and he said "Did you see that guys abs?"... I just looked at him and said "No... dude, there are women ALL over."

Yes, I did ask him if he was gay... he has maintained that he isnt. It doesnt matter but if he is straight he really doesnt want to appear to be gay, checking out guys certainly does that.

 

[LimeJester]

I think you just have to learn a routine that you enjoy. Not everyone has to lift weights or run on the treadmill for hours. I used to go to the gym 3 days a week, and would spend an hour there each time and I was very fit. There's loads of stuff out there; martial arts, cycling, canoeing, fencing, organized sports, etc. Just gotta find your cup of tea. And don't get disapointed if you never look like the guys in the UFC. Genetically only 10% of the population has the genes for that type of build.

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

I do bodyweight workouts, got a timetable and everything, up at 6.30 every other day to do my workout
What motivates me most is that I'll be better at my Parkour cause I put the extra effort in, plus you look great after a while of doing it, I constantly have the ladies looking at me now when I train with my top off
Does wonders for your self esteem

 

[El Poncho]

I've not even attempted to go to the gym and stay fit, even though my dads got all I need in our garage, I blame having to walk through the kitchen to get to the garage

 

[SsilverR]

**cut**

my motivation was hate .. i won't go into detail but my life wasn't your perfect teen magazine roundup ...instead of going emo like a little fag, i turned my sorrow into anger and used that to fuel me

but i never went gym a day in my life .. hellll no .. that's dead muscle and all for show

when i was young i took up martial arts to stand up to the bullies and since then i've been hopping martial arts my entire life since i started Aikido at 6

i've never ONCE cared for abs or any of the other things, they just came naturally with training. best advice is to take up boxing .. not the pussy gym boxing, REAL boxing .. find a club not a gym .. i've done more than 10 martial arts and boxing (by miles) is the hardest workout out of the lot and contrary to popular belief, they use legs ALOT .. i've never used my legs more and i did kung fu for 11 years .. also when your body gets healthier you'll see training as less of a chore and more therapeutic

 

[RAWKSTAR]

I'm a fitness instructor and a boxing coach. It has just always been in me to work out and such. I guess some people can just find motovation from nowhere...