Favorite Sayings To Get You Through A Tough Workout

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  • nwoww
    nwoww Posts: 15 Member
    "If it's burning, it's working!"
    "Anyone can push until it gets hard, it's the ones that push beyond it that get results"
    "Pain is temporary, quitting is forever"
    "Effort in, results out!"
    "Short term pain, long term gain"
    "You are an athlete, train like an athlete!"

    These are just a few of the ones I use to motivate my cycling and weight lifting classes. I also tell my class to "find your edge, and push the limits". Just for fun, "the bigger the gear, the cuter your rear":)

    I'm interested in hearing what other people use. I feel like I say the same stuff over and over.
  • sensationallysassyt
    sensationallysassyt Posts: 52
    Hope this doesn't offend anyone but my favorite word and I'm not one who uses profanity often is.......*kitten*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........I say this while I work through the pain and fight through wanting to give up! :drinker:
  • Loulady
    Loulady Posts: 511 Member
    Hope this doesn't offend anyone but my favorite word and I'm not one who uses profanity often is.......*kitten*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........I say this while I work through the pain and fight through wanting to give up! :drinker:

    Pretty much this and other colorful phrases.
  • MellyGibson
    MellyGibson Posts: 297 Member
    An adaptation of the Bene Gesserit saying:



    I must not fear pain.
    Fear is the fat-keeper.
    Fear is the little-death that stops fat obliteration.
    I will face my pain.
    I will permit pain to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will burn the inner fat to reveal myself.
    When the fat has gone I will see muscle.
    Only I will remain.

    Yep, I'd never have enough guts to post this - but I love it! Dune is my "go-to" sleeper...I put it on when I really need to get to sleep. I've seen it so many times....
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    I constantly tell myself....

    "This is making you awesome."

    When I was dieting (very low cal) I used the "nothing tastes as good as <insert whatever> (fit, ripped, skinny) feels."
  • slm0257
    slm0257 Posts: 72 Member
    oooh... I have several!

    Bob Harper (don't remember the name of the actual person he was talking to) - "Then do it (insert name). Stop saying words. Quit talking! Im sick of words, words, words, talk, talk, talk. Shut the ***k up and DO it!"

    Get up and finish what you started!

    You have no idea what you are capable of until you try.

    Just because you're not good at something, doesn't mean you can't do it.

    Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will. Feel the fear and do it anyway!

    Sometimes you just have to pull up your big girl panties and do it whether you want to or not.

    Jillian Michaels (I use this one a lot) - "Unless you puke, faint, or die....KEEP GOING!"
  • mondesa
    mondesa Posts: 61 Member
    no pain no gain...

    Sweat is just fat crying as it leaves
  • sidhe31
    sidhe31 Posts: 96
    "...Shut up legs..."

    ~Jens Voigt
  • Mundy86
    Mundy86 Posts: 167 Member
    •No great achievement is possible without persistent work - Bertrand Russell
  • Teresa712
    Teresa712 Posts: 32
    Embrace the SUCK is my go to saying when my legs are screaming!

    Also, the last mile of my long runs I imagine crowds all around me chanting USA USA USA!!!!!! Guess I am excited for the 2012 London Olympics!!!
  • doggiesnot
    doggiesnot Posts: 334 Member
    Bob Harper (don't remember the name of the actual person he was talking to) - "Then do it (insert name). Stop saying words. Quit talking! Im sick of words, words, words, talk, talk, talk. Shut the ***k up and DO it!"

    Joelle in Season 6. I'm watching that season now. She was so pathetic! LOL love that show!
  • azztkk
    azztkk Posts: 26
    I just think of all the people who are unable due to medical or physical reasons to fight their way back to good health.

    At least we still can ...
  • Anaconda62
    Anaconda62 Posts: 181
    I can waste so much time on this site, on the internet, whatever. 15 minutes goes by so fast, but not always when I exercise. So when I am on the elliptical I usually segment the time in 15 minute increments, thinking "I can waste 15 minutes watching YouTube videos, it's no time at all." If I'm doing intervals, the hard stretches are 1 minute and I just say "I can do anything for 1 minute." Fill in whatever time works!
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    This first one combines two of my favs:
    "Pain is weakness leaving the body, and all that sweat is your fat, crying in fear of its life."

    "The biggest failure is never to have tried in the first place. The second biggest failure is to quit before you've finished."

    "Anything worth having is worth the effort put forth to obtain it."

    "Today's resignation (to defeat) is tomorrow's regret."
  • ClassicPearl
    ClassicPearl Posts: 141 Member
    "Life is tough, but I'm tougher".

    THIS gives me motivation!
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 Member
    Bob Harper (don't remember the name of the actual person he was talking to) - "Then do it (insert name). Stop saying words. Quit talking! Im sick of words, words, words, talk, talk, talk. Shut the ***k up and DO it!"

    Joelle in Season 6. I'm watching that season now. She was so pathetic! LOL love that show!


    Ugggghhh! That's the last season I watched. The fact that they even let someone like that on the show ticked me off so bad that I couldn't watch it anymore. There were THOUSANDS of people who tried out to be on the show who REALLY wanted to be there. It irritated me that she got a shot and didn't appreciate it.
  • ClassicPearl
    ClassicPearl Posts: 141 Member
    Your mind will quit a thousand times before your body will. Feel the fear and do it anyway!

    Interesting. I like that.
  • mlclarke22
    mlclarke22 Posts: 551 Member
    you don't train to quit..you train to finish.
  • mlclarke22
    mlclarke22 Posts: 551 Member
    haha i say that too..this might taste good but not as good as being skinny feels!! love it!
  • Lee716
    Lee716 Posts: 150 Member
    Do not give up what you want most for what you want right now!

    I use this phrase to get me through a lot! When I'm at the gym and feel like quitting or to find the strength to keep driving past that drive thru window. lol, I want a fit/toned and healthy body, a BK tendercrisp will not help me achieve that goal.

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