What Do You Guys Do When You Start Losing Motivation

[babygetoboy]

Hey guys, I was just wondering what you guys do when you start to lose a liittle steam in your motivation, and you don't want to eat those six meals a day and do all the cardio and wake up early etc...

What do you do to kick yourself in the ass and get super-motivated again.

[Creator_11]

I watch the DVD Made in Germany, or Cost of Redemption, they always get me motivated.

I also do thing like stand in a mirror, look at what you've accomplished and see what you want to do next.

take a look through you would log books, see th weight you used to do and what your currently doing, give yourself some goals there too, like I want to deadlift 600 by the end of this year, it just helps sometimes.

[MsteveM]

i read the same thing as raul.. print a few of those animal articles out and keep them handy for when you need a little extra push.

or listen to 'this is now' by hatebreed

[bigbbrat63]

I think sometimes a lack of motavation can be cured by a few days rest, away from the iron
and a little extra rest, which is not to say get lazy but to let the body recoup.
just an opinion.

[Doggcrapp]

I watch Pinky the cat claw that guy in the balls

[berkshirebody]

I watch contest videos wher i did something stupip or lost by like 1 point, and no i wont get over it until i beat everyone in da building

[Pr0nDog]

I actually read CoP again...

[BigWilly]

or listen to 'this is now' by hatebreed

"How can I change tomorrow, if I can't change today?" :rocker:

[nemo]

well it really depends whether you mean when you don't feel very motivated one day or you lose your motivation for an extended period of time.

if you just need a kick in the ass once in a while because you don't feel fired up that day listening to music is good. watching a motivating movie whether it's a bbing training video or something like rocky works well too. i find some meditation helps if you are feeling a bit distracted and that is the problem.

if it is a more long term motivational problem for a couple weeks or months long stretch i have a different strategy. go on an extended cruise. just stop looking at the log book, lighten up the weights, bump up the reps, and decrease the rest between exercises for 1-3 months once every year or so. this will get you out of the gym fast and keep the gym stress level way down. for food i just eat enough so that my weight stays the same. that might only be three meals and two or three shakes a day. no big deal.

this is a chance for you to psychologically recoup and at the same time give your joints a break. i do this once a year and every time by the time the cruise is over i am ready to kick some serious ass in the gym and my motivation is through the roof

[GyM RaT 03]

Watch dorian yates blood and guts. Always gets me motivated, or watch tom platz squatting videos.


GR03

[MsteveM]

"How can I change tomorrow, if I can't change today?" :rocker:

exactly..those words just freak me out if i haven't been giving 100% at the time

[BigWilly]

exactly..those words just freak me out if i haven't been giving 100% at the time

how about "Facing What Consumes You"....

"Doubt me, Hate me
You're the inspiration I need
You're all the inspiration I need.
Your doubt, it fuels me.
Your hate, it drives me.
The challenge ignites me.
You make me fight harder."

[bigp3]

Mikey my work out partner keeps me going..... that little bitch,,, if I lay back for a couple of weeks he gets stronger than me,,,,, pisses me the fuck off

[tybolltt]

Henry Rollins the Iron.

[tybolltt]

IRON, from Details Magazine
By Henry Rollins
Posted on NaturalStrength.com on May 21, 2001


I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.
Completely.

When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me "garbage can" and telling me I'd be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. I was skinny and clumsy, and when others would tease me I didn't run home crying, wondering why. I knew all too well. I was there to be antagonized. In sports I was laughed at. A spaz. I was pretty good at boxing but only because the rage that filled my every waking moment made me wild and unpredictable. I fought with some strange fury. The other boys thought I was crazy.

I hated myself all the time. As stupid at it seems now, I wanted to talk like them, dress like them, carry myself with the ease of knowing that I wasn't going to get pounded in the hallway between classes. Years passed and I learned to keep it all inside. I only talked to a few boys in my grade. Other losers. Some of them are to this day the greatest people I have ever known. Hang out with a guy who has had his head flushed down a toilet a few times, treat him with respect, and you'll find a faithful friend forever. But even with friends, school sucked. Teachers gave me hard time. I didn't think much of them either.

Then came Mr. Pepperman, my advisor. He was a powerfully built Vietnam veteran, and he was scary. No one ever talked out of turn in his class.Once one kid did and Mr. P. lifted him off the ground and pinned him to the blackboard. Mr. P. could see that I was in bad shape, and one Friday in October he asked me if I had ever worked out with weights. I told him no. He told me that I was going to take some of the money that I had saved and buy a hundred-pound set of weights at Sears. As I left his office, I started to think of things I would say to him on Monday when he asked about the weights that I was not going to buy. Still, it made me feel special. My father never really got that close to caring. On Saturday I bought the weights, but I couldn't even drag them to my mom's car. An attendant laughed at me as he put them on a dolly.

Monday came and I was called into Mr. P.'s office after school. He said that he was going to show me how to work out. He was going to put me on a program and start hitting me in the solar plexus in the hallway when I wasn't looking. When I could take the punch we would know that we were getting somewhere. At no time was I to look at myself in the mirror or tell anyone at school what I was doing. In the gym he showed me ten basic exercises. I paid more attention than I ever did in any of my classes. I didn't want to blow it. I went home that night and started right in.

Weeks passed, and every once in a while Mr. P. would give me a shot and drop me in the hallway, sending my books flying. The other students didn't know what to think. More weeks passed, and I was steadily adding new weights to the bar. I could sense the power inside my body growing. I could feel it.

Right before Christmas break I was walking to class, and from out of nowhere Mr. Pepperman appeared and gave me a shot in the chest. I laughed and kept going. He said I could look at myself now. I got home and ran to the bathroom and pulled off my shirt. I saw a body, not just the shell that housed my stomach and my heart. My biceps bulged. My chest had definition. I felt strong. It was the first time I can remember having a sense of myself. I had done something and no one could ever take it away. You couldn't say shit to me.

It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything. That's the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn't ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you're not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

I have never met a truly strong person who didn't have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone's shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity. Strength reveals itself through character. It is the difference between bouncers who get off strong-arming people and Mr.Pepperman.

Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.

Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron. Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.

Everything in me wanted her. So much so that sex was only a fraction of my total desire. It was the single most intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far away and I didn't see her very often. Working out was a healthy way of dealing with the loneliness. To this day, when I work out I usually listen to ballads.

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you're made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it's some kind of miracle if you're not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.

I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you're a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.