Forum: Motivation

So late last year I made losing weight one of my New Years Resolutions,and so far I've done pretty well.In a little over two and a half months I've managed to lose 25 lbs,a fourth of the goal I set for myself and the most I've ever lost during any attempt I've made to get healthy.The problem is...

hi, i am 5'10 and about 168lbs and about 20-25 % body fat. (just guessing by looking at body fat percentage pics). been lifting 1year not really hard enough but started my first bulk when i was 140lbs skinny as shiit for about 2 months and becamr like 160lbs and had to stop workoing out for 5...

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Yeah, water weight...great motivator AND demotivator. :o I just recently realized I was fat, got weighed in at the Dr's and about had a fit right there and then, so I got my head in the game and am in it to win it! The first week I didn't weigh myself at all (didnt have a scale hahah) and...

There's an endless amount of ways to think of exercising. Sometimes people create exercises that can really isolate certain body parts to maximize strength. My little brother can bench press more then me, but I can chest press more then him. Dead lifting and squat we are about even. Yet whenever he...

I am 25, have been training 8 Months and gone from benching 110 pounds to 286 pounds. I currently weigh roughly 180 pounds @ 14% body fat. I actually achieved this 286 pound lift whilst I am on my cutting cycle (which I did not expect!) My diet is in check, consuming 1695 calories a day, with High...

What are you finding to be your greatest motivation to meet your fitness or personal goals?

So I've been a lurker on this forum for many years. Ive picked up some good habits and some bad ones but I have learned a lot and have been motivated above and beyond by some of the transformations and motivation posts I have seen. I would like to share my story in hopes that one day it will also...

Not sure if this is the right location for this forum, but it is motivation for me. I am looking for a database or maybe like a computer generated program that might be on the web. Does anything like this exist? I have looked for some time now, but im not sure if I am using the right query. Im...

Idk if it's just me but I can't find any research done on the topic but my girlfriend noticed a couple weeks ago that if I don't go to the gym I tend to be irritable and angry, is this a common thing and she said it could be a chemicals balance being thrown off when I don't go any suggestions?

I have always considered myself to be strong, butnot in the best of shape. I weigh 17 stone and can push out 28 dips, I consider that pretty good. But... A friend of mine has strength trained for years, he only weighs 70kg but the strength training has paid off. He now does a dip with 100kg...

I know that men like to see the scale go up when they are building muscle, but for women (at least for me) it's a harder thing to handle. I am 5 feet tall and always have been around 106-109 lbs (depending on the time of day and year). I didn't look exceptionally skinny and was actually very curvy....

This may sound like nothing compared to an eating disorder to some people but there are a lot of people that really get held back from this. I know that probably the biggest thing that holds me back is depression. Whether you've been diagnosed with it or you just know you have it here's the place...

Hey everyone i am a personal trainer and i just wrote a free ebook "The Fitness Temples Family Fitness Challenge" for all you families out there to start exercising together, its simple and done in your home while watching TV send me a PM requesting the book if your interested or know of a family...

So, I joined this site today because I've hit this plateau and I can't for the life of me get past it. I weighed close to 400 pounds a little over a year ago. For awhile, I was in the "I don't care about my weight, this is just how I was built" camp but evnetually, when I could actually feel my...

I was an ex-footballer (that's soccer for all you yanks) in my previous years. I recently started bb (stats are wrong can't be bothered to update) and made some gains. I had pretty developed quads before and after squatting and stuff for a few months they stand out as the most developed part of my...

I'm 29, started gitting the gym, changed my diet and am seeing some great resukts in my first month. I'm just wondering if there's any chance in hell I'll come out looking like one of these 6pack having MF models without adding any questionable substances?

Hi! I am a Stockholm-based designer with a keen interest in weight lifting. After having spent some time at the gym and fitness related websites I've noticed that decorations such as posters, product packaging, and clothing are frankly - tasteless. But maybe thats just me. I would like to...

Hello, my name is Zach. I am a brain cancer survivor, and seizure fighter! I had a lot of setbacks in the past 6 years, (I was 16 when I was diagnosed), and I was severely depressed and self hating after the ordeal. Missing out on five years of social and spiritual development seemed to keep me...

Right lat larger than left, left arm/Delts/pec larger than right, right leg bigger than left (quadriceps). On week 24 right now. I focus on evenly using all muscles in the appropriate exercises but only last week did I realize I've been doing my left-sided dumbell rows in bad form compared to...

ive been fat my whole life. my bitch mother taught me to binge eat so she wouldnt be the only fat one. im trying to undo the damage. im 5'10, at my worst was 242, have gotten myself as low as 178, but recently binged myself back up to 190. the only thing that helps me is straight up fat shaming...