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[justin11bell]

Some great stories & quotes here.

SideFX hits the nail on the head.

How badly do you want it?

[macrow30]

[Pskee]

^ incredible vid.
"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the pope.'
Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

[miccle]

So much motivation from that vid.

[crossfiire]

after watching it, i got so much motivation. thanks

[mpknob]

Originally posted by devl:


I'm sure many of you have seen this article time and time again. But for those who haven't it's probably the only motivation you'll ever need. Whenever I am having a bad week etc, I read this. I hope that many of the bro's who haven't seen this before will use these words for motivation when the chips are down.

<b>What Seperates us from them

"So, what are you doing for a living these days?" Bob asked me. We're sitting on the couch at one of those tedious holiday get-togethers, you know, the ones where you're supposed to be nice to family members you never see except during major holidays and funerals. I think Bob is my wife's brother-in-law's second cousin or something.

"I'm the assistant editor and a writer for Testosterone magazine," I say. Bob looks at me with a blank expression on his face, as if I'd just told him I sell handmade testicle warmers beside the freeway and was looking to open franchises across the nation.

"It's a bodybuilding magazine," I say.

Blank expression. Deer caught in the headlights. Ronnie Coleman doing trigonometry.

"Oh," Bob finally says, "I heard you were, like, one of those bodybuilder guys or something. So, what's that like, you know, working out every day and stuff? I just don't have time to lift weights all day, but I have been meaning to get rid of this beer belly." He takes another sip of beer. "What do you suggest?" Sip.

At first I was a little offended. I wanted to grab him up and say, "You can't tell I'm a bodybuilder?! Look at my ass! Now, if that's not a nice round squat-built piece of sirloin, I don't know what is! You think that comes naturally? I can crack walnuts with this puppy! Wanna see? Huh, punk? Do ya? Do ya?"

Then I realize this just might cause a scene and could cost me several Christmas presents. I was planning on returning any presents I got and using the money to buy a power rack, so I didn't want to jeopardize this gift getting opportunity. I also realized that old Bob probably had a certain preconceived image of a bodybuilder and I just didn't fit that image. I'm not gorilla huge; I weigh about 205 at 5'11" right now. (When I first started lifting I was a pudgy 159, so that's not too shabby.) Also, I wasn't wearing clown pants, a fluorescent string tank top, a hanky on my head and one of those little fanny packs. And isn't that what real bodybuilders are supposed to wear?

Bob continued to sit there drinking his Natural Light, smoking a cigarette and waiting for an answer, oblivious to the fact that he'd come this close to seeing some serious walnut- crunching ass power. I tried to figure out how I could explain to the average guy what the typical T-Man does and why he does it. How could I get him to understand what it is we do, how we feel, how we live? So I took a deep breath and told him something like this:

"Well, Bob, I guess you could use the term bodybuilder if you really need a label for what it is we do. Most of us actually don't stand on stage and compete, though. We lift weights and manipulate our diets so that we'll look good naked. Sure, it's healthy too, and we'll probably live a longer and more productive life than the average guy, but mostly it's about the naked thing. Truthfully, it goes beyond even that.

"Let's be honest here. We do it because of people like you, Bob. We look at you sitting there with your gut hanging over your belt and we watch you grunt and groan just getting out of a chair. Guys like you are our inspiration, Bob. You're better than Anthony Robbins, Bill Phillips, Deepak Chopra, and Zig ****ing Ziglar all wrapped up into one. We love it when guys like you talk about not having time to exercise. Every time we see you munching on a bag of potato chips, you inspire us. You're my shot in the arm, Bob, my living and breathing wake-up call, my own personal success coach.

"You want to know what it is we do? We overcome. We're too busy to train, too, but we overcome. We're too busy to prepare healthy meals and eat them five or six times a day, but we overcome. We can't always afford supplements, our genetics aren't perfect, and we don't always feel like going to the gym. Some of us used to be just like you, Bob, but guess what? We've overcome.

"We like to watch 'normal' people like you tell us about how they can't get in shape. We smile and nod sympathetically like we feel your pain, but actually, we're thinking that you're a pathetic piece of **** that needs to grow a spine and join a gym. You smile sheepishly and say that you just can't stay motivated and just can't stand that feeling of being sore. (For some reason you think that admitting your weaknesses somehow justifies them.) We listen to you ***** and moan. We watch you look for the easy way out. Because of people like you, Bob, we never miss a workout.

"You ask us for advice about diet and training and usually we politely offer some guidance, but deep inside we know you won't take our advice. You know that too. We smile and say, 'Hope that helps. Good luck,' but actually we're thinking, 'Boy, it would suck to be you.' We know that 99% of people won't listen to us. Once they hear that it takes hard work, sacrifice and discipline, they stop listening and tune us out.

"We know they wanted us to say that building a great body is easy, but it just isn't. This did not take five minutes a day on a TorsoTrack. We did not get this way in 12 short weeks using a Bowflex and the Suzanne Somers' 'Get Skinny' diet. A good body does not cost five easy payments of $39.95.

"We like it that while you're eating a candy bar and drinking Mountain Dew, we're sucking down a protein shake. You see, that makes it taste even better to us. While you're asleep we're either getting up early or staying up late, hitting the iron, pushing ourselves, learning, succeeding and failing and rising above the norm with every rep. Can you feel that, Bob? Can you relate? No? Good. This wouldn't be half as fun if you could.

"We do it because we absolutely and totally get off on it. We do it because people like you, Bob, either can't or won't. We do it because what we do in the gym transfers over into the rest of our lives and changes us, physically, mentally, maybe even spiritually. We do it because it beats watching fishing and golf on TV. By the way, do you know what it's like to turn the head of a beautiful woman because of the way you're built? It feels good, Bob. Damned good.

"When we're in the gym, we're in this indescribable euphoria zone. It's a feeling of being on, of being completely alive and aware. If you haven't been there, then it's like trying to describe color to a person who's been blind since birth. Within this haze of pleasure and pain, there's knowledge and power, self-discipline and self-reliance. If you do it long enough, Bob, there's even enlightenment. Sometimes, the answers to questions you didn't even know you had are sitting there on those rubber mats, wrapped up in a neat package of iron plates and bars.

"Want to lose that beer belly, Bob? I have a nutty idea. Put down the ****ing beer. I'll tell you what, Bob. Christmas morning I'm getting up real early and hitting the iron. I want to watch my daughter open her presents and spend the whole day with her, so this is the only time I have to train. The gym will be closed, so I'm going out in my garage to workout. You be at my house at six in the morning, okay? I'll be glad to help you get started on a weight training program. It'll be colder than Hillary Clinton's coochie in there, so dress warm.

"But let me tell you something, Bob. If you don't show up, don't bother asking me again. And don't you ever sit there and let me hear you ***** about your beer belly again. This is your chance, your big opportunity to break out of that rut. If you don't show up, Bob, you've learned a very important lesson about yourself, haven't you? You won't like that lesson.

"You won't like that feeling in the pit of your stomach either or that taste in your mouth. It will taste worse than defeat, Bob. Defeat tastes pretty goddamned nasty, but what you'll be experiencing will be much worse. It will be the knowledge that you're weak, mentally and physically. What's worse is that you'll have accepted that feeling. The feeling will always be with you. In the happiest moments of your life, it'll be there, lying under the surface like a malignant tumor. Ignore it at your own peril, Bob.

"Don't look at me like that either. This just may be the best Christmas present you'll get this year. Next Christmas, Bob, when I see you again, I'm going to be a little bigger, a little stronger, and a little leaner. What will you be? Will you still be making excuses? This is a gift, Bob, from me to you. I'm giving you the chance to look fate in those pretty eyes of hers and say, 'Step off, *****. This is my party and you're not invited.' What do you say, Bob? Monday, Christmas morning, 6am, my house. The ball's in your court."

Okay, so maybe that's not the exact words I used with Bob, but you get the picture. Will Bob show up Monday? I don't know, but I kind of doubt it. In fact, Bob will probably take me off his Christmas card list. He probably thinks I've got "too much Testosterone," like that's a bad thing. I think Bob is just stuck in a rut, and as the saying goes, the only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.

The way out of the rut is to make major changes in your life, most of which won't be too pleasant in the beginning. The opportunity to make those changes seldom comes as bluntly as I put it to Bob. Most of the time, that opportunity knocks very softly. What I did was basically give Bob a verbal slap in the face. You can react two ways to a slap. You can get angry at the person doing the slapping, or you can realize that he was just trying to get you to wake up and focus on what you really want and, more importantly, what it'll take to get it.

If you're a regular T-mag reader, I doubt you need to be called out like Bob. But maybe you've caught yourself slacking a little here lately. Maybe you've missed a few workouts or maybe you started a little too early on the usual holiday feasting, like, say, back in September. Just remember that the time to start working on that summer body is now. The time to get rid of those bad habits that hold you back in the gym is now. You want to look totally different by next Christmas? Start now. This isn't because of the holidays or any corny New Year's resolutions either. The best time is always now.

Christmas day I want you to enjoy being with your family and friends. I want you to open presents, sip a little eggnog and have a good meal. But if your regularily scheduled workout happens to fall on December 25th, what will you be doing at six o'clock that morning?

That's what separates us from guys like Bob.

Credit for this article to T-Mag.com

I actually started tearing up over how amazing this one was. Thank you.

[bonkerzzz]

This post by Layne I found very motivational, particularly the video at the bottom. He gets a lot of stick when he does nothing but help people on this site.

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...#post716396511

[Team1anabolic]

Great read, everyone has their off days and this certainly can put it in perspective!

[ptacha]

))))

[tallgod]

redtube.com

[ironboyz]

LOL what about redtube?

[wnaskor]

It is amazing what we see when we are children. We see all the great things life has to offer. Our minds are open and limitless to any possibility, and rather than say I can’t or I won’t - those limits haven’t been set yet so they don’t exist. The imagination is what tells us what we can and cannot be or what we can become, and that is limitless. So with that...what happens to us as adults? We let our dreams fade away. Being like the people we looked up to as children isn’t important anymore. We eat bad, develop bad habits, we get lazy, hang around unproductive people, and most of all our imaginations stop working and we are left to deal with the real world and all the negative influences that surrounds us. We stop thinking outside the box and only about what is closest to us and what’s WRONG with our lives. I’m not saying this pertains to everyone, but to a lot of people it does, myself included. I’ve let dreams go, passed up on opportunities, became so absorbed in life’s pitfalls I quit living the life that I always wanted and took what I was given and accepted it.

As children we wanted to be a "Hero" like the people we looked up to. A fireman, policeman, doctor, like your dad/mom, for most boys it was a super hero. I didn’t just want to be like Superman, I wanted to be Superman. My grandma made me capes when I was little in every color you can imagine. I pretty much wore around the house all day every day, but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t fly?!? I wanted to be big and strong for as long as I can remember. I wanted to be brave, looked up to, do good for people, and in the time of need help whomever I could. I wanted to eat right, and take my vitamins and pray like Hulk Hogan told me to do. I wanted to do good things for others and say please and thank you. I saw the world as a huge place with unlimited possibilities. I saw the good in everything and everyone and wanted to be better at everything that I did. I set goals and did all that my little body and imagination could to achieve them. I went through a period where I flexed in every picture that I took from age 6-8 to the point that people started holding my arms down before every shot. I didn’t care though. I was a force to be reckoned with and I wasn’t afraid to show it off. I believed that I was strong and wouldn’t accept any other alternative.

The innocence of a child can teach us a lot, so pay attention. Remember the things you wanted when you were young, who or what you wanted to be like or what you wanted others to see in you. The only person that can tell you that you can’t is you...and i don’t know any kid that will truly listen when they are told they aren’t capable of doing something. This is a trait that we develop later in life. The things you find to be ordinary about yourself is what makes you a hero to others, so remember some little kid out there might be looking up to you and wishing that someday they can be "big and strong" just like YOU.

By: Brandan Fokken

[BamaBruce]

http://youtu.be/icP9wNPpgSs really great if anyone wanna embed

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[gaijinr]

I never want this thread to end !!!

[Urgelryimmert]

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[SoccerMuscle5]

thanks man you made my day

Mine also. this is amazing. Thanks for posting!

[nakres1984]

Amazing thread

[bilaba70]

Quoting for later

[rcarlile23]

I absolutely love the "Tomorrow is never promised" post.

Think its my favourite post on this thread

[steenbuilder]

http://www.flowrestling.org/coverage...Before-Success

Here's a short clip where Chael Sonnen talks about failure before success. You may not love the guy, but he speaks the truth.

[DarrenConroy]

[AestheticLad]

The most Inspirational video to date (imo)



Great thread Emma!

[DarrenConroy]

The most Inspirational video to date (imo)



Great thread Emma!

Great video! It covers a lot of era's of bodybuilding!

[azxangeles]

Thanks for the motivation

[gurudeb]

Excellent excellent thread...

[DarrenConroy]

[ShigeruErwin]

its worth to read.. nice!

[HautDeGamme]

Haha great!

[DarrenConroy]

I never thought two words could sum it all up...