Comments on: Workout Motivation 101

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:10:52 +0000

Motivation can sometimes be hard to find. One thing I use is videos of real life fights especially the ones on real tv with cops. It makes me want to make sure I’m able to handle myself if a situation like this ever comes up. And it pisses me off and gives me an adrenaline rush.

By: Mike Cherone

Mike Cherone — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:42:13 +0000

Like M.A. Green said above, the effects of lack of motivation regarding your fitness workout slowly creep up on you. You start to notice that things that once were easy become a little harder to do, your endurance suffers, and all that. I got back into the swing of things with the information at http://www.fitclick.com. Check it out if you need some inspiration.

By: Jami

Jami — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:14:08 +0000

Thank you. I really needed to hear this today. Off to “to it anyway.”

By: Workout Motivation « Living the Dream

Workout Motivation « Living the Dream — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:00 +0000

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By: M.A. Green

M.A. Green — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:28:35 +0000

When I don’t feel like working out I often think of the alternative. I mean the alternative of stopping working out altogether. I did that once. I was in the middle of a major career transition from cooking to computer programming. I gave it everything I had. For six years I pretty much just forgot all about exercising and working out. I was very young, kept eating very well, and didn’t seem to suffer many ill effects. I did vaguely notice there were a few things I started lifting with both hands that I used to lift with one, but I didn’t think much about it.

Then one of my programming buddies got me interested in mountain climbing. It sounded like such an invigorating counterbalance to living on my computer keyboard I got very excited about the idea. So we did our research and found a basic climbing course we both signed up for. Due to our chance timing, we had about 40 days to get in shape for climbing before we would actually start to hit the slopes with our scheduled class.

They assured us that would be plenty of time to get in shape as long we started right away, so I did. And then it hit me. Holy mackerel, I’m out of shape!!! I had never been so out of shape before. I didn’t LOOK too bad, but my endurance was gone. My wind was gone. If I jogged 20 yards I had to stop and catch my breath. And it took a while! And it was painful. My chest hurt, my legs hurt, my head hurt… I was shocked. I couldn’t believe how hard I was finding getting back into even a moderately good level of physical fitness. It was grueling and painful and incredibly difficult.

It was so painful that I never forgot it and I vowed never to get that far out of shape ever again and, so far at least, I never have. When I don’t feel like exercising I reflect on the alternative, not exercising any more. This nearly always gets my butt in gear…

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By: Gain Explosive Strength and Build Muscle Mass

Gain Explosive Strength and Build Muscle Mass — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:27:38 +0000

I find that my greatest motivation is watching Dragonball Z and Rocky movies. The storyline behind dbz has always got my adrenaline up, but the training scense in the Rocky movies are awesome.

As for a personal motivation, I would say it’s my desire to be the best.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:13:21 +0000

Great post, thanks! Gratitude is always I great motivator. When I’m feeling down, I take out a piece of paper and start a gratitude lists.

Og Mandino… one of my all time favs also.

Lance Armstrong commercial, Love it! I just used it last week in a speech I was giving. Great message.

By: Liam | fitness coach

Liam | fitness coach — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:26:48 +0000

I’d not seen that Lance Armstrong ad before, very cool!

I’ve always believed that thinking about whether or not to do a workout is harder than just getting on and doing it. You always feel great when you’ve finished, so it’s a good idea to remind yourself of that when you’re motivation is flagging.

By: Richard Nikoley

Richard Nikoley — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the shout, Chris. Man, I feel like a lout for not keeping up better tabs on your blog and sending my folks over there.

I shall make it up to you!

So much to do, so little time.

Here’s to wishing you so much success without my help that my help doesn’t matter.

(but I’ll still make it up)

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:15:54 +0000

Nice post, Chris!

I think we often take #1 for granted…there’s a guy in my gym with MS that works out religiously and harder than most of the younger dudes who are in ‘great shape’…very inspirational…Need to always be thankful.

Thanks!!!!