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Motivation Anonymous
How do you motivate yourself to do stuff, like going to the gym for example. I lack motivation, does that mean I'm depressed? Should I prescribe some Adderall
>> Anonymous
Girls. :P
>> Anonymous
Guys.
>> Anonymous
trannies
>> Anonymous
so I can crush my dick when wanking
>> Anonymous
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Pic related.
>> Anonymous
>>13286
God its like you're me.
>> Anonymous
>>13288
What's your MOS gonna be?
>> Anonymous
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This is my moto.

The biggest thing is to just go and do it and get it done.

Sure we could tell you your depressed, but you find me a doctor that doesn't want to say your depressed so you'll buy medicine. Quit being fat and just fucking go, is it that hard?
>> Anonymous
Not OP, but it is that hard to go. I have a gym literally a 5 minute walk, but I go MAYBE three times a week if I'm lucky, and believe me I need it.

I've noticed on the days I DO go, the night before I look at myself in the mirror and just stare at how disgusting I am, and the next day I feel the need to do -something-.
>> Anonymous
>>13359
I fucking hear that. I had depression for fucking YEARS and I never missed a workout. I dropped out of school and got evicted, but I never skipped the gym. Fucking perverse.
>> Anonymous
Idk, when I get depressed I used to eat a lot but when I gave up all the eating I started working out a lot, I think you just need to become addicted to working out.

I've heard that you can never get rid of an addiction, you can only trade it for another addiction.
>> Anonymous
see>>13361OP
>> Anonymous
Make it a part of your routine so that it is just another thing you have to do.

I suffer from depression, but by making the gym the place I shower before work, I 'have' to go there, even if I don't lift weights. Now, if I don't go I feel awful before the end of the day, so I ride my bike, swim or lift weighs each morning before the day has really started.
>> Anonymous
I just graduated college, and I'm getting in shape to goto Army Officer Candidate School. So at the end of it, is a 50k/yr job.
>> HALP! Anonymous
I've gained a lot of weight in the past few months but have felt some girl-related motivation to losing it. Problem is I can't convince my overlord to help me out for a gym membership and I'm trying to find alternatives to running publicly due to embarrassing stamina.

Tips on milking the cash cow?
>> Anonymous
>>13468

Who gives a fuck what other people think. Go running.
>> Anonymous
>>13468
I hate too hate running. When I first started getting in shape, I would just do push ups and sit ups. Every morning, get up and do as many as I could. 40 sit ups and 4 push ups when I first started.

Every morning, except on Sundays, I would do this. I eventually incorperated other exercises and experimented with them and started to drop weight (along with healthy eating.)

The big misconception in this country is you have to pay for a gym membership to get healthy. Bullshit, you just need motivation. Now, I do two sets of 200 crunches with squats and pushups worked in. Start small and evolve.
>> Anonymous
>>13484
Did you also gain muscles?
>> Anonymous
>>13484
valuable. Thanks anon
>> Anonymous
>>13484
uhh

UPDATE: pushups and situps will burn minimal fat. or nothing.

It'll give you good amout of torso strength but nothing else.

Dont expect to loose weight that way.

I agree on the healthier eating though.
>> Anonymous
>>13468
Find a safe place to run at night, build up your stamina like that. Plus its cooler.
>> BrodoFaggins
I read this every once in a while

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?"
>> BrodoFaggins
Cont'd


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.
>> BrodoFaggins
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"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.
>> BrodoFaggins
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"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.
>> BrodoFaggins
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"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.
>> BrodoFaggins
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"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.
>> BrodoFaggins
last one


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.
>> Anonymous
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>>13590

AWESOME! Thanks!
>> Anonymous
Getting started? I didnt want to be fat anymore, knew i needed to improve my health.

once you get going and you start to notice growth it gets almost addicting to keep working out.
>> Anonymous
>>13321
I know its the next morning, and you're probably not even on the thread any more, but I'll answer anyway. I'm a 15T but getting a chance to go ranger school after being MOS'qed' is hard, because of the amount of money they have spent on you. they don't want to see you get hurt in a school I simply don't need for being a crew chief.
>> Anonymous
>>13633
QFT. Working out DOES become addictive. Now, on the days where I work out, I can feel my energy just building up inside of me like I'm about to burst on the days that I know I'm going to work out. It's such a great feeling, and even now, on one of my resting days, I get really restless wanting to go to the gym. It's the best feeling in the world.
>> Anonymous
>>13988
Don't pay attention to the horrible third sentence btw
>> Anonymous
Motivation for the gym? Noticing those changes, whether it be clothes fitting better or being able to lift heavier weights. When I was finally able to bench my own body weight, I was ecstatic. Also, comments made by friends who are noticing your changes don't hurt. Makes me strive and keep going.
>> Saigaguy !n87gAqL9/w
I pushed myself really hard for 2 weeks, then it became a habit and I really wanted to do it.
>> Anonymous
>>13633
>>13988
This is true.
Once you actually get your ass to the gym, the endorphins and good feelings it gives you will make you want to return! You will crave it!