What is your secret that keeps you going?

johnpacuta
johnpacuta Posts: 8 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Is it the knowledge that you can do it? Is it the fact that being tired doesn't matter? Is it your previous athletic experience? Is it the sexy people at the gym? What is fueling the burning desire within you? Please, do tell...
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  • EmilDimov
    EmilDimov Posts: 5 Member
    Well, the secret can be quite different for everybody but for me it is the sense of accomplishment after finishing a workout and the energetic feeling that it gives for the duration of the day. Why wanting to feel sloppy and moody, when you can feel healthy, happy, confident and excited?
  • minniestar55
    minniestar55 Posts: 350 Member
    Maintaining my weight, healthy cardiovascular system, stay strong, avoid osteoporosis, maintain fit & healthy lifestyle as I get older. Use it or lose it!
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    Here with the use it or lose it philosophy too.
    Especially as I am getting older and there are a lot of places I want to see and things I want to do.
    Vanity plays a part too. I would rather look fit and healthy, than fat, frumpy, and well over fifty.

    Basically so I can live the life I love.

    Cheers, h.
  • Pandora_and_her_box
    Pandora_and_her_box Posts: 240 Member
    Reminding myself how good I feel for exercising: my mood instantly lifts, I feel positive and happy. I get quite cranky if I don't do enough and fall into a bit of a slump in general. I work in an office so i spend most of my day indoors in a temperature controlled environment with strip lighting, sitting on my backside - that's really not good for a person.
  • rybo
    rybo Posts: 5,424 Member
    I have no secret, I have no inner or external motivation, its just what I do
  • jimmmer
    jimmmer Posts: 3,515 Member
    To crush my enemies. See them driven before me. Hear the lamentations of their women.

    The usual stuff...
  • giantrobot_powerlifting
    giantrobot_powerlifting Posts: 2,598 Member
    jimmmer wrote: »
    To crush my enemies. See them driven before me. Hear the lamentations of their women.

    The usual stuff...
    /thread
  • HealthyChar1223
    HealthyChar1223 Posts: 17 Member
    Well my journey is in the beginning part but I decided to start lifting which is something completely new to me. I have always ran in the past. So my motivation right now is seeing how much more my muscles can do each workout, because at this point I don't see my results, but I can feel them ;).
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    re-opens thread

    'cos I like being fit; I like the effect I have on people when I walk down the street; I like my shoulders and I like crushing my 14 year old at push-up competitions

    back to lamenting women now


  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    ... all the lamentations of the keto threads here. That keeps me going.
  • riffraff2112
    riffraff2112 Posts: 1,756 Member
    edited December 2015
    I like me a lot better now, and I know what it takes to stay here. Not wasting another decade hoping I would magically get in better shape.
  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    minniestar55 wrote: »
    Maintaining my weight, healthy cardiovascular system, stay strong, avoid osteoporosis, maintain fit & healthy lifestyle as I get older. Use it or lose it!

    These are all the key things for me as well, along with being able to eat a couple of extra hundred calories every day.
  • kimiuzzell
    kimiuzzell Posts: 611 Member
    My ex husband used to tell me on a daily basis to "shift yer far ar S e". My new husband of six months cannot get enough of my curves. Therefore it is my wifely duty to ensure he's got quality as well as quantity..... ;)
  • Misspinklift
    Misspinklift Posts: 384 Member
    I take a lot selfie of myself. I wanna see the difference. They are also a great reminder of where I was and how far I came. I also love the feeling after the workout. It is really a high. It also has to be fun for me. If it is boring, yea it is torture but it hasn't for a long time.
  • Phrick
    Phrick Posts: 2,765 Member
    I don't have a secret. I found an exercise that I love. LOVE. It's the passion for running and the want to be able to do it forever that keeps me going.
  • alyssagb1
    alyssagb1 Posts: 353 Member
    rybo wrote: »
    I have no secret, I have no inner or external motivation, its just what I do

    Same.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    The secret is that there is no secret.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    jimmmer wrote: »
    To crush my enemies. See them driven before me. Hear the lamentations of their women.

    The usual stuff...

    I take it back, I'm stealing this answer instead.
  • MsJulesRenee
    MsJulesRenee Posts: 1,180 Member
    edited December 2015
    I like when my jeans fit perfect...yup, that's my secret motivation :)
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    My personal weight-lifting PRs. I keep competing against myself to get better, and it feels awesome when I do!
  • ThickMcRunFast
    ThickMcRunFast Posts: 22,511 Member
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    (there is no secret. Its just part of what I do. I would feel weird and depressed and like I was missing something if I didn't)
  • MostlyWater
    MostlyWater Posts: 4,294 Member
    I was given more grit than the average bear.
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    Real talk - looking so much better naked! :D
  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    My natural competitiveness.
  • rstrobridge10
    rstrobridge10 Posts: 10 Member
    Instagram girls. :D I love looking at "fitspo" pics; I love how they look and I want to look like that, too! In all honesty though, the way I feel. Since I've started logging and exercising everyday, I've begun feeling better and I've only been at it for 3 weeks. The first week was hell and I was so sore, but now that my body is used to moving again, I almost crave it. It's like a positive feedback; the more I do it, the better I feel, which makes me want to continue. I've also noticed small changes in my appearance which is SUPER motivating. Reminding myself that I need to compare myself by the week, not by the day, helps when I feel frustrated.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,615 Member
    johnpacuta wrote: »
    What is your secret that keeps you going?
    Is it the knowledge that you can do it? Is it the fact that being tired doesn't matter? Is it your previous athletic experience? Is it the sexy people at the gym? What is fueling the burning desire within you? Please, do tell...

    If I tell you ... everyone will know ...

    OK, here it is ...

    I enjoy being active.

    I really dislike being inactive. I have had to be inactive a few times in my life because of injury or illness ... and I get almost agonisingly restless and grouchy and unhappy.

    A day without activity ... exercise of some sort ... is a sad wasted day.

    But if I can do something ... walking, cycling, climbing stairs, weightlifting, swimming, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, canoeing, or something ... I'm happy and it is a good day. :)



  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    I enjoy being active, particularly hiking, and a life goal of mine is to hike Kilimanjaro. Fitness is going to be important, even if it is the easiest of the seven summits.

    It's also a good way to get me into the mindset of pushing through all the times I don't want to go on - compared to summit day where I'll have to get up at midnight for six hours of steep nighttime high altitude hiking to reach the crater, feeling a bit tired after work doesn't seem so bad.
  • manueldelreal
    manueldelreal Posts: 28 Member
    I got tired of looking in the mirror and remembering the good old days. I'm was 32 and already started wasting away being a couch potato (having a job that has me sitting in front of a computer 8 hours a day certainly didn't help). One day I decided that I didn't want to be that guy anymore and been going since; now I dread when I don't get to do any type of exercise for a day.
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    It's pretty sublime for me. But I think it's because now I know I can, even when I think I know longer can. I've proven myself wrong about not being able to keep going that stopping just seems wrong.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    No secret...but lifting keeps me going. Strength, physique, PRs, watching my body change, experimenting with nutrition.

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