what motivates you mentally...

[L3]

...to push off those last two reps??

you know, the things you say to yourself in your head to get really angry and push that weight up...

for me, thinking about women works like a charm, every time :yeah

[natenator]

you know dude, eventually you need to find a motivation to do this for yourself. One day you're gonna turn 30 and realize the majority of women don't give a **** about how much you bench, squat, curl or if you got a 6pack showing. They want someone financially stable, with career and personal motivation/drive, someone they can see themselves with when the looks die and all that's left is conversation and common interests.

You're young so enjoy it while you can but if your motivation for the gym is simply to look good so you can get laid then you are ****ed in the future.

What motivates me? Doing what others can't or are too pussy to do even if that means risking injury because giving any less would feel like a cop out - a let down.

I don't workout. I train. The fags at the GL I go to workout. I do different and so I am different. Dave Tate inspired :)

[chiplin]

I just pop in the earbuds and get in the zone. Thinking about my daily goals for that training session motivate me enough to do anything. Sometimes I like to try and trick myself if I'm DB Chest pressing 80's by saying it's only 60's and then there's the classic using the song that's on to turn you into a beast for the last few.

[L3]

Nate homie I think you misundersood the nature of my post...but I agree, one has to want
to do this for themselves, otherwise failure is guaranteed in the long run.

Personally, I meant that when I feel fatigured on my 3rd working set and have to push out my
last 3 reps, getting ANGRY about women makes the weights as light as a feather. I also try and
time the end to correlate with a high intensity moment in a song if I have the ipod going. But in
general, getting angry works the best, and women issues are what get me in that state imeediately.

[Jazzy]

for me. what's motivate me to push me hard..there a lot of things.
first, each workout, if I didn't do my best, i'm not very proud of me and one time, I heard a things and each time I think I can't do one more reps, I remember this quotes:

The 2 or 3 or 4 last repetitions is what makes my muscles grow!

so, Each time it's the hard point, this quotes came in my head and I push harder!

Second, I Want to do competition liKe I said in my introduction. So, My goal is to go on-stage and Win my competition with the beat shape I can achieve in this moment and doignt the best with the poses!

third, it's my personal goal, I want to put mass, weight around 180-185 lbs lbs for a BF% under 10% and I know it's will be those last 2 reps that will destroy all the fibers and like i said, make my muscles grow!

:yeah

[O-Train]

Concentration, visualization and confidence. For me the lift is over before it begins. I'm either going to get it (once or x number of times) or not. My mindset going into the lift is what determines everything.

[natenator]

Concentration, visualization and confidence. For me the lift is over before it begins. I'm either going to get it (once or x number of times) or not. My mindset going into the lift is what determines everything.
my mindset on squats is hoping I don't shit myself :D

[waderow]

my mindset on squats is hoping I don't shit myself :D

and deads

[natenator]

and deads
I'm usually pretty good there but the o-ring def gets a nice workout on squats! haha

[Sexxxton]

this is probably the best thread i've read yet on bodybuilding, because it's right at the core of WTF we're doing and why we're doing it. everyone is motivated differently. i totally agree with natenator: if you're motivation is extrinsic, you simply won't last, and you will inevitably be unhappy. you will constantly seek the approval of others. do it for yourself!

your motivation must be immanent, it has to come from within. Setting goals and making sacrifices are important; focus in the gym, and discipline outside the gym is important. but either you have passion or you don't. as dave tate said, passion trumps everything. it comes first (before goals, sacrifice, focus). and no one can give that to you: you can't look for approval for your muscles from others cause you ain't gonna get it.

i don't have the best genetics, and i don't have the best diet or discipline, but in the gym, i think i train harder than anyone else i've seen (except for my coach, he's unhinged!). to tell the truth, in the end, i don't know why. it just comes from within. this is the way i am in all walks of life: if i don't give absolutely everything i've got on that day, i feel i cheated myself.

to me it really comes from understanding and knowing you are a mortal person: this will all end. you won't have endless chances. i take a forward, retrospective perspective in my training: "will i regret not _______" is how i go about it.

but that's really trying to articulate something that i can't really express. i just have intensity. i know that passion and intensity WILL make me seek out and find better dietary practices and training protocols; it'll make me disciplined. but passion precedes everything.

[tiramisu]

I don't really understand the question. Lifting is not something I do because I'm angry or I seek approval. I don't need a special motivation to get the reps or the sets in.

3 days a week, currently 4, I lift. I like to lift. It's kind of like brushing my teeth or going to the bathroom. There's no real special motivation required it's just the right thing to do. There are years where I haven't lifted but for the most part I've lifted off and on for 30 years. Sometimes, like now, I can string a few years together in a row and see great progress. Other times not so much.

Passion fades, the amazing results of the first few years fades, and sadly youth fades. It's just lifting. You get under the bar and you do it then you go home.

What I generally see at the gym is 16 year old boys doing half reps with passion.
They don't last.

[L3]

fack i didnt think i was that bad at expressing myself.... heres a scenario

youre doing chest, last set of your 4th excercise...youre tired, sweat pouring into your eyes, out of breath, and the pump makes it hurt to move your arms... you have 3 reps to go... what motivates you to not quit after 1

[tiramisu]

Again, why would you need some kind of special motivation to finish your set? Just lift it. Do you need a special motivation to poop?

[O-Train]

Same reason a crack head smokes crack.

[kloan]

#1 motivation is progressing, if I don't push those last couple reps out what the **** am I bothering for. It's about pain and suffering to achieve results.

#2 I don't want to tank out and sit there like a ****ing dummy not being able to rack the bar. No one around to help, so I better push that ****er out.

Without that energy, drive, motivation, aggression, one may as well lift an empty bar, because your body sure as shit isn't going to respond to idle requests.

[BBbox]

Nate homie I think you misundersood the nature of my post...but I agree, one has to want
to do this for themselves, otherwise failure is guaranteed in the long run.

Personally, I meant that when I feel fatigured on my 3rd working set and have to push out my
last 3 reps, getting ANGRY about women makes the weights as light as a feather. I also try and
time the end to correlate with a high intensity moment in a song if I have the ipod going. But in
general, getting angry works the best, and women issues are what get me in that state imeediately.

What exactly are you so angry about women over?

[L3]

this thread sucks the big one

[kloan]

this thread sucks the big one

dont let a couple retarded posts make you feel bad... some people just like to take a shit on others. probably had a fight with the wife or something....

[declan]

Hey L3 I get what you are saying. Its not the general idea on why you are training but what you think about to push through when you are almost at your limit is what you want to point out.

I train with the mindset that I will be stronger each week, look better the next month and don't be the same every damn year. As far as my push to get that last painful reps, my logbook.

[buildinthaskinnys]

Alot of people stare at my gym, its kind of creepy and annoying, but I use this as motivation to push myself harder and heavier. That or the fact that i want to be bigger and stronger than everyone else there.

[natenator]

I don't really understand the question.

You don't because you're an analytical snob void of all emotion and feeling.

[C-money]

i dont really need motivation... i love this shit.. thats why i do it every day

[natenator]

i dont really need motivation... i love this shit.. thats why i do it every day
you never have days where you just don't 'feel like it' so you turn to youtube for some video's or load up up some new playlists to get you going?

[C-money]

you never have days where you just don't 'feel like it' so you turn to youtube for some video's or load up up some new playlists to get you going?

not really.. i just go, cause once i get those first few warm up sets in im good to go... the only thing i could say that motivates me is listening to my metal playlist

[natenator]

not really.. i just go, cause once i get those first few warm up sets in im good to go... the only thing i could say that motivates me is listening to my metal playlist
wow.

Well... awesome!

I wish I could say the same. I definitely have those moments where I don't feel like going but do anyway. Usually seems to happen when I have injuries or when in contest prep where having to look at the treadmill as I stroll in makes me sick hahah

[C-money]

Ya i hear ya on the cardio buddy! haha

[Rhinobolt10]

I think it's fine to train cause of girls, I know for a fact I can push harder when there's a hot chick around. Course, there aren't always hot chicks in the gym...

Generally, I see myself on the platform, or about to do an event... and I see myself winning, and feeling great, then I see myself losing and feeling like an idiot, and being embarassed in front of all those people... That gets me pretty fired up.

Other times, I just let myself hate all the people in the gym, and make it my goal to make them all realize that I'm the strongest guy there. That doesn't always work tho, a lot of the time I feel kinda bad about it.

I read my competitions training logs sometimes, and that seems to help.

Other times I just think of what I want my body to look like.

The biggest thing is that I've set very crystal clear goals for myself strength wise, and I think about them all the time, and visualize everything. that's what pushes me a lot.

[Talo]

The numbers are my motivation. I've got all my sets and number written down in advance ( up to 12+ weeks ) as it's all done on percents . I do not want to think that I can't do what I said I was going to do , plus I use pen so I can't change it .... LOL :)

That and I'm thinking about my competition .... Squat till my eyes bleed !

[Talo]

Plus pushing out that 4th set - 5th rep ( heavy ) is what's makng you stronger and if that's your goal then that's what has to be done.

[biggy]

I think I know what your talking about L3. Like on my last sets just to push the weight I have it set in my mind that if I don't push the last couple of reps out that its some how going to affect my date on Friday or I wont get raise or something. Even though I know it really won't affect it just kinda psych myself out. Well that's what I got from your post any ways.

[Jazzy]

I think it's fine to train cause of girls, I know for a fact I can push harder when there's a hot chick around. Course, there aren't always hot chicks in the gym...

Generally, I see myself on the platform, or about to do an event... and I see myself winning, and feeling great, then I see myself losing and feeling like an idiot, and being embarassed in front of all those people... That gets me pretty fired up.

Other times, I just let myself hate all the people in the gym, and make it my goal to make them all realize that I'm the strongest guy there. That doesn't always work tho, a lot of the time I feel kinda bad about it.

I read my competitions training logs sometimes, and that seems to help.

Other times I just think of what I want my body to look like.

The biggest thing is that I've set very crystal clear goals for myself strength wise, and I think about them all the time, and visualize everything. that's what pushes me a lot.

it's a good one! ^^..I like and I can say I do is also, visualising and writting down my goals!..there the key of sucess!

[gregdoucette]

I could give u a power point on this but basically its just a combination of both extrinsic and intrinsic motivators.