Stressed the F#@* out

[Cid]

The more you work out the more motivated you are to work out. Even if you don't feel like it get off your ass and go at 60%. You'll feel better for it.

 

[AdamJackson]

The more you work out the more motivated you are to work out. Even if you don't feel like it get off your ass and go at 60%. You'll feel better for it.

This is a massive point!! The more you work out, the more you feel like working out. When you sit around doing nothing, you don't feel like doing anything. You have to get the wheel spinning. It might take some effort to begin with, but then it develops it's own momentum. It's like pushing a car. It's a lot harder to push a car from 0 miles and hour to 2 miles an hours, than what it is to push it from 2 miles an hour to 4 miles an hour. Get momentum!

 

[JauntyAngle]

This reminds me of a post of Glenn Pendlay's that I read on the Stronglifts forum, before it suckily became members only.

The gist of it was that he thought that people who needed to get psyched up before lifting needed more recovery time. He didn't say don't get psyched, but he did say don't do it all the time- save the getting psyched for the odd killer session.

Personally, I don't want to get psyched in the gym. I like to be calm and collected, and to focus on what I need to do. Although that being said, it's not working for me that well at the moment. Maybe I need to try getting psyched. Euphoric trance music works wonders for me with my cardio- a steep hill sudenly feels almost flat when the trance kicks in. Maybe it will help me to push through and finish my sets when it is feeling tough.

 

[ssdd]

Be not under the control of feelings. If you have to complete a task to get somewhere in life you must do it no matter what your mood is. This is applies to anything not just weight lifting. Time is not a renawable resource
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[Tosa]

This reminds me of a post of Glenn Pendlay's that I read on the Stronglifts forum, before it suckily became members only.

The gist of it was that he thought that people who needed to get psyched up before lifting needed more recovery time. He didn't say don't get psyched, but he did say don't do it all the time- save the getting psyched for the odd killer session.

The same thing is more or less said in "the Science and Practice of Strength Training", and by anyone who properly describes ME work. Get psyched up fatigues the CNS extra.

 

[Zorbario]

Just treat it like work. I have to goto work tomorrow, i don't want to, but i will, all day.

It's a trick i sometimes do, act like it's a job and i have no choice "come on, if you don't lift those weights you won't pay the bills!". But seriously, jogging at 6am before work really needs that tactic, it's pitch black, drizzle rain, waterlogged fields, freezing cold and you're shattered. Only a psycho would enjoy that.

 

[Raiman]

anger is more than enough motivation for me IN the gym. Might not be a good thing but as soon as I enter the gym I hate ieveryone and everything.

I hate the silly trainers at my gym walking around puffed up and showing people how to do exercises wrong, I hate the other people at my gym for just coming to the gym to hang out and watch TV, I hate the bodybuilder wannabes with their invisible lat syndrome wearing a belt for every exercise (only reason they wear the belt is to look like they have a V-shaped upperbody), I hate the people looking at me like IM THE ONE DOING EVERYTHING WRONG. I hate the octagonal pound plates, I hate the shitty barbell collars and I hate the fact that I cant use chalk.

If you need motivation to even get to the gym I dont know how to help you tho..Anger in combination with some heavy metal/death metal is a great way to let out some steam on the weights. I almost knocked myself out a few times doing cleans, so if theres one exercise you shouldnt attack with pure anger its cleans..

This is where I'm at. I hate everything and have to because it seems like the only way to motivate myself. I have to be pissed to lift heavy.
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[RukshawM4st3r]

You must punish gravity. It has been working against you your entire life.