What do you say to keep going? What's your Mantra?

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  • juliebeannn
    juliebeannn Posts: 428 Member
    for general weight loss/getting healthy: "slow & steady"
    when i don't think i can squat the last few reps: "YOU GOT THIS!"
  • GodsGirl37
    GodsGirl37 Posts: 348
    Strong is the new skinny
  • sunshine29225
    sunshine29225 Posts: 29 Member
    Bump
  • Jeepjenn2
    Jeepjenn2 Posts: 7
    I want to be my own superhero.....

    or self-rescuing princess
  • KiltFuPanda
    KiltFuPanda Posts: 574 Member
    I know I posted once with a song I use, but this popped up in my head and I had to share:

    I tend to play devil's advocate against myself, so I get myself pumped with something like this.

    Insult: "You're the newbie in this gym. You're a desk-jockey computer nerd. You're fat. You belong on the treadmill, not lifting with the meatheads."

    Response: "NO. You are a FREAK of nature. You are a TITAN. You throw TREES. You're not technique, or skill, or lean muscle. You are raw POWER. You are here to bring that power to its fullest potential."

    And in the middle of the workout, here's what I'm gonna try to pump myself up for the big lifts:

    "Are you the biggest? SHO'NUFF!"
    "Are you the meanest? SHO'NUFF!"
    "Are you the ugliest? SHO'NUFF!"
    "Now go use some UGLY STRENGTH!"

    "Ugly Strength" is my mantra when I throw - I don't throw pretty, I don't throw easy. I throw big and UGLY.
  • mevalentina
    mevalentina Posts: 362 Member
    I have 2 favorites.

    If I am being tempted by food (which is all the time) "nothing tastes as good as being skinny feels!"

    And as I am working out it's "Quit crying like a b*tch" its also my most motivating song on my playlist..
  • red_road
    red_road Posts: 761 Member
    haha "sitting on your *kitten* wont make you a size 8" made me chuckle
  • Weight_less
    Weight_less Posts: 102 Member
    I say nothing. I just know I MUST! :happy:
  • doggiesnot
    doggiesnot Posts: 334 Member
    Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going! -Jillian Michaels

    http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/110687
  • secretcylon
    secretcylon Posts: 5
    I don't have mantras as such. I try and visualise myself at certain events in 2, 6, 12 months time and think about how I want to look and what I want to wear.
  • direwolfprincess
    direwolfprincess Posts: 261 Member
    "RUN YOU FOOL!" in a deep Gandalf voice...

    Don't want the Balrog to get me!
  • sed1217
    sed1217 Posts: 228 Member
    Three syllables: "BI...KI...NI!!!!!"
  • NaurielR
    NaurielR Posts: 426 Member
    "RUN YOU FOOL!" in a deep Gandalf voice...

    Don't want the Balrog to get me!
    Or the goblins. Those things are scary!
  • 25daniow
    25daniow Posts: 121 Member
    Mine is simple...I use it when I'm running to keep going a little farther every time..."You're stronger than you think you are!"
  • red_road
    red_road Posts: 761 Member
    "I have to be fit if I want to survive the apocalypse"

    wise words:laugh:
  • beebee0925
    beebee0925 Posts: 441 Member
    bump
  • laurels12
    laurels12 Posts: 54 Member
    when im on the treadmill i just look at my *kitten* and that keeps me running lol :-)

    How exactly do you do that? :wink:
  • MireyGal76
    MireyGal76 Posts: 7,334 Member
    One more...

    one more step, mile, minute, second, push... just one more.

    There's a song by superchick that I listen to, or think of that spurs me on - it's one that gets into my head and is great when I'm running a long distance if I put it near the end, or when I typically gas out...

    ***LYRICS*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3zkaUJqUw

    It feels like I have lost this fight
    They think that I am staying down
    But I'm not giving up tonight
    Tonight the wall is coming down
    I am stronger than my fears
    This is the mountain that I climb
    Got 100 steps to go
    Tonight I'll make it 99

    One more
    Go one more
    Yeah, yeah
    Don't stop now
    Go one more
    Yeah, yeah
    One more
    Go one more
    Go one more
    Yeah, yeah

    I have everything to lose
    By not getting up to fight
    I might get used to giving up
    So I am showing up tonight
    I am my own enemy
    The battle fought within my mind
    If I can overcome step one
    I can face the 99

    One more
    Go one more
    Yeah, yeah
    Don't stop now
    Go one more
    Yeah, yeah
    One more
    Go one more
    Go one more
    Yeah, yeah
  • vallemic
    vallemic Posts: 278 Member
    If hunger's not the problem, eating isn't the solution.
  • KinzieElise
    KinzieElise Posts: 584 Member
    I don't want to be here in a year. And also, just a little bit further!
  • iCACTUS
    iCACTUS Posts: 113
    I really am a fan of OHM. It just sounds pleasant and feels good when I say it. So I say "Ohm. Patience. Ohm."

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