Stay/get back in shape...Vol: Motivation

[al audi]

Originally Posted by pr0phecy718

^^ there's plenty of workout posts in the NT SPORTS & TRAINING

it needs to get more mainstream..........there are many who still dont go in there.

general stay with some crazy threads about cheesecake factory an other garbage.

 

[joseph camel jr]

yeah and even the threads that do pop up there get no posts.....that section is basically for sports talk not fitness

 

[al audi]

Originally Posted by Joseph Camel Jr

yeah and even the threads that do pop up there get no posts.....that section is basically for sports talk not fitness

this

 

[bruza]

I was at my worse this past winter. In high school and college I was always in descent shape. Things changed when I started working full time. Eating out allthe time and lack of physical activity definitely showed. I started playing ball and running again. Now I try for 2 to 4 miles every other day. I'vealready lost over 15 lbs. Its a good feeling when people who hadn't seen u in awhile can tell esp ur girl. I got a lot of comments on my weight while homelast wknd.

 

[al audi]

Originally Posted by bruza

I was at my worse this past winter. In high school and college I was always in descent shape. Things changed when I started working full time. Eating out all the time and lack of physical activity definitely showed. I started playing ball and running again. Now I try for 2 to 4 miles every other day. I've already lost over 15 lbs. Its a good feeling when people who hadn't seen u in awhile can tell esp ur girl. I got a lot of comments on my weight while home last wknd.

if this isnt motivation i dunno what else you need.

exactly my point

 

[36 ounces]

Originally Posted by boxer

Originally Posted by Lakersfan1

look in the mirror and ask if this is how you would like to look. Or just find a friend who already goes to motivate you.

this. you have to be naked though or it doesn't work.

seriously, at the end of the day working out has a lot to do with looking good naked. i know that's one (not the only) factor. when you are in shape and you and a new girl finally rip each others clothes off it can make things more interesting.

no karamo.....but QFE.

 

[patmc13]

Stay dedicated for atleast 3 months and then look at the results and it will eventually just become a natural thing to do...give it some time and girls will bethrowing compliments at you all the time and that is all the motivation you will need...

 

[kingk777]

Bar Raefali's smoking body does it for me.

 

[al audi]

Originally Posted by Patmc13

Stay dedicated for atleast 3 months and then look at the results and it will eventually just become a natural thing to do...give it some time and girls will be throwing compliments at you all the time and that is all the motivation you will need...

this is real talk......smh.......

i get more compliments from guys than women.....all the time.

cats be like damn son you swole...

yo you be workin out fam?

gotdamn you see that ___ veins?

yo son you should be in the army.

ive heard a lot of funny things, those are from from silly hartford dudes though

normal questions/serious would be, what do you eat? how long you been liftin. what do you take, how old are you?

imo you get looks/smirks from the ladies but the all the questions come from dudes. believe it or not a lot of chicks feel intimidated this is just from whatfemales have told me im cool with now. or they feel like they arent on your level. its really kind of flattering. if you like attention great physique willgive you that no doubt, same as we men break our necks for hot body women. its true.

 

[nipxd]

Originally Posted by Al Audi


this is real talk......smh.......

i get more compliments from guys than women.....all the time.

cats be like damn son you swole...

yo you be workin out fam?

gotdamn you see that ___ veins?

yo son you should be in the army.

ive heard a lot of funny things, those are from from silly hartford dudes though

normal questions/serious would be, what do you eat? how long you been liftin. what do you take, how old are you?

imo you get looks/smirks from the ladies but the all the questions come from dudes. believe it or not a lot of chicks feel intimidated this is just from what females have told me im cool with now. or they feel like they arent on your level. its really kind of flattering. if you like attention great physique will give you that no doubt, same as we men break our necks for hot body women. its true.

SON!!!!! QFTFT!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA You basically just typed what i wanted to type

Im not at that BUFF level yet, been hitting the gym only for 6 months now, and so far, since summer started, i got folks coming back from college and dudes belike "Damn you been hitting the gym?"

believe it or not a lot of chicks feel intimidated this is just from what females have told me im cool with now. or they feel like they arent on your level. its really kind of flattering.
This

 

[carolinapack04]

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 %@#! 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?"

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 %@# 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.

"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 +!@%!%* 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.

"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.

"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 +!@%!%* 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.

"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.

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.
excellent read

 

[nipxd]

Originally Posted by Al Audi

Originally Posted by bruza

I was at my worse this past winter. In high school and college I was always in descent shape. Things changed when I started working full time. Eating out all the time and lack of physical activity definitely showed. I started playing ball and running again. Now I try for 2 to 4 miles every other day. I've already lost over 15 lbs. Its a good feeling when people who hadn't seen u in awhile can tell esp ur EXgirls. I got a lot of comments on my weight while home last wknd.

if this isnt motivation i dunno what else you need.

exactly my point

FIXED!

 

[iiceman83]

Al Audi.....pics???!

 

[zerogravity23]

Fight Club Workout

 

[reeeem0]

Originally Posted by EveryDayKicks

this +%@$ making me hit the bench in 5 minutes


aint no +%@$ like watchin a vid of a youngin with a workout plan that straight doodoo's on yours...and can see you with the hands

 

[thaisativa1]

Originally Posted by ZeroGravity23

Fight Club Workout

there are no leg workouts?!


great stuff in this thread! keep it up guys!

 

[reeeem0]

Originally Posted by Al Audi


imo you get looks/smirks from the ladies but the all the questions come from dudes. believe it or not a lot of chicks feel intimidated this is just from what females have told me im cool with now. or they feel like they arent on your level. its really kind of flattering. if you like attention great physique will give you that no doubt, same as we men break our necks for hot body women. its true.

.........or dreads

 

[wj4]

Originally Posted by IICEMAN83

Al Audi.....pics???!

Iceman..if that's you in your avatar...dang you look like the Thing from Fantastic 4!

I remember Lurking had a pic of himself on his avatar, dude had that Deangelo "How Does It Feel" body.

I know what you're talking about though. I usually get the dirty looks from fat chicks, especially when they're next to me on the treadmill or inclinestation for the crunches/sit ups. I smile to ease the tension, but no good. I asked a girl I met at the gym why that happens and she told me that at firstshe was intimidated by me as well because I would run too fast on the treadmill making her look like a chump and such. I mean I only stay in the gym foraround 90 mins so I gotta go extra hard to make use of my time.

 

[wj4]

Originally Posted by thaisativa1

Originally Posted by ZeroGravity23

Fight Club Workout

there are no leg workouts?!


great stuff in this thread! keep it up guys!

The leg workouts come from the 90 mins of running on those 2 days. That has to be at least a 13 mile run judging by the calibers of the otherworkouts listed. My step dad is a runner, he's overweight, but his legs..especially calves are in great shape.

 

[sneakerfan93]

If you're too lazy to exercise, then avoid eating late at night

 

[joseph camel jr]

Originally Posted by sneakerfan93

If you're too lazy to exercise, then avoid eating late at night you're lying to yourself

fixed

 

[dacityslanga]

Originally Posted by Joseph Camel Jr

Originally Posted by sneakerfan93

If you're too lazy to exercise, then avoid eating late at night you're lying to yourself

fixed

QFT

 

[daytona 5000]

The fat to fit/frail to fit PYP on bb.com can help motivate you.
I really really really need to get on point with my diet though

 

[angryostrich]

As silly as it sounds, this as well as growing out the hair has gotten me a lot more attention.

Feeling like this.

 

[brettthejett]

I want to have sex with hot girls. Therefore I need to look better than I do. Simple. Have high standards for women and dont compromise