What motivates you to exercise?

[MCWTRAINER]

Hey everyone, I'm starting a new article on motivation. If you would like to contribute to the article that would be awesome. I'm looking for motivational stories that you might have, motivational quotes, etc. Basically anything that got you motivated to exercise is what I'm looking for. I have read a lot of good stories in the past and I hope to hear them and some good ones in this thread. Feel free to cut and paste something that you have put together in the past if you wish. Thanks everyone and I look forward to reading your posts!

[Blast_]

Can I quote Dante?

I get alot of emails and hear alot of personal stories from guys that are bummed out, depressed, feeling like they wont ever be that bodybuilder they want to become. I also see some personal accounts on these boards and I want to respond to some of the guys who are 140 to 210lbs and are really trying in bodybuilding but that I see are giving up hope. DONT EVER ****ING DOUBT YOURSELF! DONT YOU EVER ****ING DOUBT YOURSELF! If you put your nose to the grindstone and be persistent, consistent, and driven my promise to you is that you will make it to a very elite bodybuilder in the not to distant future. I went 3.5 years once without missing a meal (6 a day)--if i did miss a meal i set my alarm clock at 3am and got up even when i was dead tired and cooked it and ate it. If you really want this bad, and have that "im going to get this **** done" attitude, I guarentee you that youll end up where you want. Will you be a pro? No and neither will 99.99% of everyone else out there. But if you push the limits and do what I have been trying to do with everyone for the last 4.5 years on the net (turn yourself into a fat burning, muscle building, blast furnace) you will get there.
I am noone special but I had people calling me "stickboy" and laughing how skinny I was in the beginning when I told them i was "trying to become a bodybuilder" with my ever present shopping bag with all my meals in it so I could eat every 2.5 hours. Screw those people! Guess who kisses my ass now when I go back to my old home town on the East Coast and go into my old gym. I dont want to see anyone in this forum thinking "man im never going to make something out of myself as a bodybuilder" BULL****!!!! Yes you will and dont let anyone tell you otherwise! Prove them wrong. Pick the bodyweight you know you need to be at and eat up to that bodyweight while doing cardio and carb cuttoffs to keep lean. Eat like a massive 300lb monster and cardio like a guy who is 8% and your going to end up at 250 jacked!
This is your life, dont listen to those people doubting you, they are going nowhere themselves and want to keep you at their level. Shore up all holes in your regimen. Training, supplementation, diet, sleep, stretching, consistency in all of those is the key. There is no doubt in my mind that I can turn anyone (and i mean anyone) into something special if they are willing to be meticulous, steadfast, and stay the course 100%. Alot of you keep jumping around and doing different things but if you really sit back in your chair and think it all out--YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO! Almost every single guy reading this right now can turn themselves into one of the 5 best bodybuilders in their gym. DO NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER! I had a pack of freinds when I was 20 years old I used to hang with. They dwarfed me. I had by far the worst genetics but I had 50 times the willpower of those guys. One was muscular and naturally shredded, one had incredible genetics and looked like a bodybuilder anyway but when he lifted he got pretty incredible looking, one was 250lbs and a big monster with very limited lifting (lazy), one had slightly better genetics than me and he was also pretty determined. I bypassed all of them in spades, every single one of them because I have a "no ****ing way am I going to fail" drive to this sport. The next time you look in the mirror and doubt yourself and get bummed out because your not where you want to be, I want you to remember this post. If you want something bad enough and go at it with the best of your abilities and smarts, you might not become the best, or pro, or top of the class at it, but you will become PRETTY DAMN INCREDIBLE at it, because of your fortitude and hard work. Dont let any son of a bitch tell you otherwise--this is your life-Get in that freaking powerack, make that logbook your bitch AND GET IT DONE!

It helps me remember that I know exactly what needs to be done. I don't need to second guess myself, I just need to get it done.

[IntensityX]

What motivates me,health and looking good for women that's what motivates me.

[MCWTRAINER]

Good post Blast!

[SDSU]

What motivates me you ask? Whenever I look in the mirror and I see my amazing physique, i know that if i dont train i will go fat. I know i look better than most so it keeps me wanting to come back to the gym and get myself even bigger and even more ripped. Also, that cute little chick i always got hanging by my side does a lot to help motivate me to keep pushing myself. Mainly, lifting is based on my attitude because it makes me feel good, and i love the feeling of pushing myself in a hard workout, it keeps me focus on my school studies oddly enough. IF i am slacking off in the gym, that means my school work suffers.

Too sum up why I lift i have two suick phrases you can remember.

I want to be better than everybody, everytime i go to the gym i am the one that has the nicest phsyique. I lift for the ladies, but I love myself and wont ever quit lifting. That keeps me motivated.

[Skigazzi]

In my mind, you are either getting better, or getting worse, there is no middle ground. I can't just go to work, go home, sit on my ass, do nothing, knowing "Im getting worse". <---thats probably it in a nutshell

I also love to compete, but like many of us, organized sports are long gone, now I compete with myself and my skinny genes, when I see the scale go up an Lb., I feel like I hit the winning shot.

Girls look much better in the gym.

Endorphins fuggin rock.

I like when people ask me if Im taking anything illegal.

TV sucks these days anyways, so might as well go to the gym.

I can hit a golf ball farther than my playing group now..but I want more!

Though I didnt pursue biology or chemistry as a major (though I took mutliple college credits in them), its been an interest, more now than ever...the entire field of supps and lifting kinda get me into it again.

I look good naked

[body sculpter]

In my mind, you are either getting better, or getting worse, there is no middle ground. I can't just go to work, go home, sit on my ass, do nothing, knowing "Im getting worse". <---thats probably it in a nutshell

I also love to compete, but like many of us, organized sports are long gone, now I compete with myself and my skinny genes, when I see the scale go up an Lb., I feel like I hit the winning shot.

Girls look much better in the gym.

Endorphins fuggin rock.

I like when people ask me if Im taking anything illegal.

TV sucks these days anyways, so might as well go to the gym.

I can hit a golf ball farther than my playing group now..but I want more!

Though I didnt pursue biology or chemistry as a major (though I took mutliple college credits in them), its been an interest, more now than ever...the entire field of supps and lifting kinda get me into it again.

I look good naked

great post man

[B-baldy]

The gym is something of a sanctuary . It's the best place there is to leave all the pressure, frustration, and whatever else weighs on one's mind. Lifting away all that **** is very therapeutic.

[bigballa53]

The gym is something of a sanctuary . It's the best place there is to leave all the pressure, frustration, and whatever else weighs on one's mind. Lifting away all that **** is very therapeutic.

Couldn't have said it better, when I need to escape I go to my gym.

[punksurfer024]

The gym is something of a sanctuary . It's the best place there is to leave all the pressure, frustration, and whatever else weighs on one's mind. Lifting away all that **** is very therapeutic.

i agree with this, plus........................ I need to be in shape to save lives and property, and i cant do things half a$$ed so i have to go full on or not at all.