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NT, I need a kick in the @%# to get in shape. I know what to do, I know I need to do it. But right now it's like Xbox > Will Power.
Stay/get back in shape...Vol: Motivation
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The hardest part is getting up and getting to the gym/track or whatever. Once you do that its smooth sailing
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look in the mirror and ask if this is how you would like to look. Or just find a friend who already goes to motivate you.
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xbox?
thoght you were gonna say school or work....just tell yourselfto stop being a bum...or if it helps...say you will only play xbox if you work out for at least an hour before u do
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heres motivation for every 35 lbs your over weight your package is smaller (pause)
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A fine chick that you start talking to will motivate you also
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Yup lookin in the mirror works for me... also watchin youtube vids
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Check it out. I've been walking 8+ miles each day for the past week... and it's Cut City all DAY up in this*!$@#.
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Originally Posted by duckdafraft
xbox?thoght you were gonna say school or work....just tell yourself to stop being a bum...or if it helps...say you will only play xbox if you work out for at least an hour before u do
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go to the gym get a membership that cost money and you will be wasting money if you dont go.
I got a membership last week and been goin just about everyday
feels good to work out, hit the sauna, go swimming, then hit the jacuzzi
plus you'll have a lot more energy! you can still play video games just make time to work out!
I got a membership last week and been goin just about everyday
feels good to work out, hit the sauna, go swimming, then hit the jacuzzi
plus you'll have a lot more energy! you can still play video games just make time to work out!
otis dont play that
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Honestly if going to the gym is that hard for you just play a sport. I was out of shape and never wanted to go to the gym. I started playing soccer andbasketball again and lost 30 pounds on one summer. It's summer time, go out play a sport and sweat, and just watch the pounds melt away. You won't evennotice how many calories you burn. Losing a couple of pounds then gave me the energy to go to the gym again.
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youtube vids of fat people?
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She won't...He's fat.
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Is that you in your avy?
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my motivation is I wanna be a "walking girl magnet"
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Thats harshOriginally Posted by AF1 Beast
She won't...He's fat.
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Man work out and take pictures often. Once you see your progress, you will want to keep going.
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"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, youknow, 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'sbrother-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 justtold 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 outevery 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 ofbeer. "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 %@#! Now, if that's not anice 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 moneyto 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 imageof 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 Iwas 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 thoselittle 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 toseeing some serious walnut- crunching %@# 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 andcompete, 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 longerand 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 yougrunt 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, andZig +!@%!%* 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 ofpotato 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 eatthem 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 goingto 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 justcan't stay motivated and just can't stand that feeling of being sore. (For some reason you think that admitting your weaknesses somehow justifiesthem.) 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. Youknow 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 that99% 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 notget 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 evenbetter to us. While you're asleep we're either getting up early or staying up late, hitting the iron, pushing ourselves, learning, succeeding andfailing 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 wedo 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 watchingfishing 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 youhaven'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 toquestions 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 +!@%!%* beer. I'll tell you what, Bob. Christmas morning I'm getting up realearly 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 gymwill 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 aweight 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 veryimportant 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 prettygoddamned nasty, but what you'll be experiencing will be much worse. It will be the knowledge that you're weak, mentally and physically. What'sworse 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 underthe 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 meto 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 notinvited.' 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. Infact, 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. Ithink 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 changesseldom 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 andfocus 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. Maybeyou'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 thetime 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 totallydifferent 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 yourregularily 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.
"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 justtold 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 outevery 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 ofbeer. "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 %@#! Now, if that's not anice 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 moneyto 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 imageof 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 Iwas 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 thoselittle 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 toseeing some serious walnut- crunching %@# 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 andcompete, 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 longerand 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 yougrunt 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, andZig +!@%!%* 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 ofpotato 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 eatthem 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 goingto 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 justcan't stay motivated and just can't stand that feeling of being sore. (For some reason you think that admitting your weaknesses somehow justifiesthem.) 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. Youknow 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 that99% 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 notget 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 evenbetter to us. While you're asleep we're either getting up early or staying up late, hitting the iron, pushing ourselves, learning, succeeding andfailing 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 wedo 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 watchingfishing 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 youhaven'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 toquestions 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 +!@%!%* beer. I'll tell you what, Bob. Christmas morning I'm getting up realearly 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 gymwill 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 aweight 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 veryimportant 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 prettygoddamned nasty, but what you'll be experiencing will be much worse. It will be the knowledge that you're weak, mentally and physically. What'sworse 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 underthe 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 meto 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 notinvited.' 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. Infact, 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. Ithink 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 changesseldom 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 andfocus 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. Maybeyou'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 thetime 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 totallydifferent 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 yourregularily 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.
de phx jose
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or unless he thinks "Damn. i can be fat and lazy, and get girls? i should stay this way"
it's all how you interpret it. to not get fat, just don't eat a lot..
dude below. cliffnotes?
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I stay thirsty to go to the gym. I wake up, eat my cereal and a banana, and drink my whey protein. An hour later I'm at the gym. I'm souping up myroutine..in addition to the 6 sessions a week I used to do, I'm adding 2-3 classes of spinning in the afternoon.
I'm trying to get that 6 pack by summer of 2010. I got 2 now, the other 4 are on layaway.
Sunday is the only day that I don't go to the gym, and sometimes I feel like I've been lazy of it.
Remember that Rome wasn't built in a day. You didn't get fat in a day and you won't get fit in a day.
I'm trying to get that 6 pack by summer of 2010. I got 2 now, the other 4 are on layaway.
Sunday is the only day that I don't go to the gym, and sometimes I feel like I've been lazy of it.
Remember that Rome wasn't built in a day. You didn't get fat in a day and you won't get fit in a day.
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realizing u are wasting money if u arent going
trying on your clothes realizing they are a little loose from toning/losing weight.
having energy, stamina, not to mention overall feeling good
that should be the motivation u need
trying on your clothes realizing they are a little loose from toning/losing weight.
having energy, stamina, not to mention overall feeling good
that should be the motivation u need
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Originally Posted by wj4
I stay thirsty to go to the gym. I wake up, eat my cereal and a banana, and drink my whey protein. An hour later I'm at the gym. I'm souping up my routine..in addition to the 6 sessions a week I used to do, I'm adding 2-3 classes of spinning in the afternoon.
I'm trying to get that 6 pack by summer of 2010. I got 2 now, the other 4 are on layaway.
Sunday is the only day that I don't go to the gym, and sometimes I feel like I've been lazy of it.
Remember that Rome wasn't built in a day. You didn't get fat in a day and you won't get fit in a day.
You're gonna burn out in less than a month.
Good luck.
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i swear i look in the mirror at least 20 times a day no joke at all
