My excuse is that “A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Gagehot
Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has posted so far - it’s kind of interesting to see all the different motivations and reasons for lifting.
Lots of good posts here. “Be all that you can be.”
Well, I started because I saw a nice bony frame in the mirror and said, “Why’d you fail me here? Look at all that sweet potential…”
My excuse for keeping it up: Well, I don’t have an excuse. The excuses, they have ME.
In a word, respect
Knowing that, for now at least, there is a chinese girl warming up with my work set weight.
yep, this was just the right post i needed to read as i was gagging down my 2nd breakfast (oatmeal w/ protein powder). thanks all!!
[quote]GStringTheory wrote:
yep, this was just the right post i needed to read as i was gagging down my 2nd breakfast (oatmeal w/ protein powder). thanks all!![/quote]
Second breakfast?
What are you, a hobbit?
[quote]harris447 wrote:
GStringTheory wrote:
yep, this was just the right post i needed to read as i was gagging down my 2nd breakfast (oatmeal w/ protein powder). thanks all!!
Second breakfast?
What are you, a hobbit?
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hahaha
when you’re eating 6 meals a day, you kinda run out of imaginative names for them
Every day you miss it get’s harder to go back!
Stress reliever, energy level and The biggest reason …
My x said I could never do it own my own. I started out to prove him wrong. I discovered myself in the process, goals, self motivation,determination. Now it’s for me. Next time I bump into him,it will be him looking at me on a poster!
- want to get bigger, stronger
- wanna look in the mirror one say and say without laughing…ya i’m happy with my body
- i was fat…don’t plan on going back
and i love it, the feeling you get when u can lift more is awesome
Well originally for me it was just the fact that over the past few years I’ve become addicted to physical excercise, and after a friend of mine got into weightlifting/bodybuilding (he’s the one who told me about T-Nation), I decided, “I’ve wanted to be sexy as hell for my whole life, why the hell not?”
Then, after my training started paying off (which, lucky for me, was about a week into it), my girlfriend told me that I looked different since I “started dating Cindy” (I named my barbell cinderella, for irony’s sake, and the running joke is that I’m “dating” her). I asked if the difference was good or bad, and of course she said good.
So for now my motivation comes a lot from within and just the will to look good naked, but also for my girlfriend (which, in turn, helps me out too – everybody wants a girlfriend that wants to see him naked, no?)
My reasons are pretty simple:
1.I like it. The blood rush, the pumping metal, the constant eating, I love every minute of it.
2.I want to look good nekkid, and I used to be really fat.
3.(And this is the most important reason) My girlfriend likes the improvements.
Many factors are involved for me.
First, I go to the gym to be healthy. I don’t care to waste away like so many old people I see. Sure, I’ll eventually degenerate, suffer, and die, but I’d rather it be a fast process instead of a multi-decade long one. To get to the gym, it’s just habit now. There’s no dreading the gym ever. I feel extremely tired at times, but I’ve had days where I’ve felt super tired but broken all my PRs because I know I’m going to have to work my ass off.
Sometimes, I practice active meditation. I’m concentrating on the contractions of the muscle, my breathing, and nothing else. I feel pain and know it’s temporary. Most buddhists aren’t bodybuilders, perhaps I’ll never become enlightened because I am… regardless, I learn from bodybuilding because it’s hard. I find I’m capable of much more than I think I am, and at other times, I realize the importance of taking a break. So I guess, second to health, I find I learn a lot from bodybuilding and I love learning.
I want to live as long as I can. I’m diabetic and the odds are against me.
[quote]harris447 wrote:
GStringTheory wrote:
yep, this was just the right post i needed to read as i was gagging down my 2nd breakfast (oatmeal w/ protein powder). thanks all!!
Second breakfast?
What are you, a hobbit?
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No, silly. He’s an ectomorph.
Haveing a serious health condition that if I dont take care of myself i’ll be dead by 33, if not sooner. Also, wanting to hit 180lbs at 8%BF, then after that maybe do it at 200. Just your typical things… you know…
[quote]Dragon wrote:
Haveing a serious health condition that if I dont take care of myself i’ll be dead by 33, if not sooner. Also, wanting to hit 180lbs at 8%BF, then after that maybe do it at 200. Just your typical things… you know…
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I do.