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What's your continuing motivation? Live long? More sex? I see sex is a big one, but I'm married so more bitches is kind of off the table. Looking for different reasons now.
getting stronger is addicting
looking good feels amazing
also i have a lot of inner turmoil and feeling like i've just beat the shit out of myself graces me with a very calm, concentrated sort of anger. it's euphoric
>>36397833
We've had this thread a thousand times before, and the only right answer is: discipline.
Stop looking for reasons.
A more legit question would be: why did you start lifting?
But that would be a boring thread because most people would tell you honestly to lose weight or get a girl or both.
I want to look good for my husband and also myself. I am the type of girl that is embarrassed if I am out of shape when I meet my husband's friends. I don't want that to reflect poorly on him.
>>36398665 interesting. I also have my demons, and I can see where you're coming from. I'll take note of that
>>36398690 gotcha. I've only barely lurked these boards.
>>36398704 I honestly feel the same sometimes when meeting my wife's friends, though I've been told differently. It's an internal thing I think. Your husband loves you no matter what. My wife is a thick woman. She's the sexiest woman I've ever met and vice versa. If it's a positive motivation then harness it, I think. Just don't beat yourself up too bad.
>>36397833
Chasing that next PR is extremeply addicting. Literally like level up your hero like in WoW, D2 or HOMM3
>>36398800
It's a good motivation! :) He's never pushed me at all to lose weight and get fit but he's always supported my efforts. He's really good to me so I want to give him a hot ass wife in return.
So one day when I'm old and I've let myself go due to stress and life being pretty shit I'll be able to look back at me in my prime, and I'll be happy I didn't waste it
Self hatred.
>>36397833
That ring didn't put a force field around your cock you know.
Attention from women and to be better than men I dislike past and present. It is also nice to define myself by what I see in the mirror everyday instead of past mistakes.
Watch anime and use the characters as inspiration
my grandmother can't walk and often pisses herself because of it. i don't want my kids to have to clean up after me like that
>>36397833
>motivation
I feel rather under motivated long term
But l can usually motivate myself short term
Fight in the grand crusade at the end of times. Not even trolling.
>>36398704
Good wife material
I just want to look in the mirror and like what I see. That's it really.
>>36397833
The energy bro, not being a lethargic piece of shit all the time. Best feeling in the world when the weather turns and I get out hiking on the weekends. Fuck yeah. Get your wife in on this shit too.
>>36398823
this might be why I am losing my motivation, I don't get my ass to the gym enough to keep improving beyond my current 1/1.something/x/3, so my bench and dead are still shit.
It's not like I am in danger of not eating clean or quitting the gym, but my progress has simply stopped. feels like shit.
>>36397833
my reason to keep going is so I don't look like shit. I like to be "strong". I am afraid of being average, skinny, fat, ugly, lazy. I love skinny females who practice some kind of sport and I hold insane standards when it comes to how a woman has to look for me to be attracted. I feel less hypocritical because I try to look okay myself, even though I'll always look like shit because no roids
fuck I feel so dead inside right now
>>36397833
I know what it's like to fell weak and powerless, I'll never let that happen again.
>>36400312
Thanks, haha. I try.
>>36398665
Amen to this right here.
I constantly beat myself up for stupid little shit that I can never take back or undo. I beat myself up for my very existence - how much better everyone I know and love, along with the world at large, would be without my existence.
It's this lack of anything to truly validate my existence that drives me to strive for success.
>>36400580
this
>>36397833
Every time I lift, I hope my wrists give out and the bar crushes me. Every session is another opportunity for it to happen.
"Best pace is a suicide pace, and today is a good day to die."
No reason bro, l just do it because l want my waifu to be proud
>>36397833
the look on her face if we ever see each other again
So I can achieve the greatness of the long dead ancestors that watch over all of us.
A lot of pent up hatred and a lifetime of being the 'loner kid.' Instead of focusing that disdain inwards to yourself, it's better to shit it outwards and train like hell because fuck it its therapy for my anger issues.
>inb4 edgy teenager
>>36402208
>tfw lifting for ancestors
>2016
>not lifting for Kevin Ogar the greatest crossfitter who ever lived
>>36397833
It just hurts more than cutting myself
>>36397833
I like exercising, and I want to be stronger and healthy.
>>36397833
My motivation is the one-eyed one
Immediate is it gives me a euphoric buzz.
Mid range is it increases my self confidence, health, and my abilities to get and satisfy women.
Long term is obviously immortality.
>>36397833
Being stronger feels amazing, I love looking in the mirror and not having ribs and clavicle protruding. I want to be the father that can run around and keep up playing with his kids without tiring or getting winded, I want to be their superhero and set a good example for having physical standards. Also the mires are a nice bonus and the increase in libido is fantastic. I'm not gonna and my life saying I didn't better myself in every facet of life in which I was capable of doing so.
>>36402027
pathetic
I want to feel like a fucking viking. For some reason, I like to envision myself going on a hike through the wilderness and becoming one with nature, wading through ice cold streams with my top off and feeling like an animal, one who could outsmart a pack of wolves or wrestle and wrestle and kill a boar with my own hands. I want to feel like a warrior of old, knowing I have the ability to tear someone's head off and take on the elements.
Fucking weird I know, but whatever.
>>36405899
>wrestle and wrestle
dun goof'd
>>36405899
>>36405899
are you me?
>>36401306
RPW unite
>>36405899
yeah totally bro
>>36405986
How do I into techno viking mode?
>>36398844
>>36402208
Yes
>>36397833
That one quote from Aristotle or Socrates. Something about seeing your body in it's full potential before you die.
i feel stupid strong. i dont let anyone tell me what i cant achieve
>>36397833
For fun and because I'm vain.
There's something about lifting that deeply satisfies me to a level nothing else can. I used to be a ball sports fag and lifting is contrary to anything I would consider fun, and that's exactly why it's so good. It complements me. It has done something to my brain that nothing else has come close to. It grounds me and taught me how to approach simple things, when I used to overthink matters.
>>36398704
How do you get him to prep the bull?
>>36397833
I was a skinnyfat teenager, mocked a lot mostly because of that. Now I'm lifting to get revenge on life. That bitch.
>>36397833
To be stronger than Max Chewning so i can call him out for being a self obsessed trust-fund baby faggot with an over-inflated sense of importance.
>>36406112
Um...there's no bull to prep?
>>36405023
>My motivation is the one-eyed one
Your dick?
>Because I watched too much DBZ as a kid and now I wholeheartedly believe if I train hard enough that I'll ascend into a super saiyan
I need to look better than everyone else and make all my past gf's regret breaking up with me
I NEED TO
>>36397833
Looking better than I do right now.
Every day I look better and better. It's in small differences, but at the end of each week I can feel better about myself just by looking in the mirror.
That, and lifting is actually pretty fun. I like getting stronger and stronger (not happening lately, on a cut, gains are slow). Like when I hit 57.5kg on bench today up from 55. It's a small amount, and at the cut i'm on I won't see a big increase in that for a week or so, putting on more plates and pushing more weight each session feels amazing.
Just wish I was at my goal weight (80-90kg) so I could eat big and get big.
Not really fitness related, but I have a job interview next week for my dream job and I'm currently lacking the motivation to study up for it after doing a little too much volume on the bench yesterday and need something to motivate me. Don't fail me please /fit/
>>36397833
the Army i went from 256 to 178, literally i said to myself you do well enough OCS it is, I kept telling myself you can be elite and be the best just push
I want to be the best I can be, because I only get one chance.
I'm disgusted every time I look in the mirror
>>36402341
Lot of truth there, nothing edgelord about it.
