Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below im gonna say the motivation comes from the inside as everybody else has said but if you wanna try some new things going to the gym with your friends can help and if u are able cutting your workouts to bodyparts once a week if u currently do 2. if u stop and u start to get weak and less muscular, that should motivate you anywya.
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To be a bodybuilder or even better, a good or successful bodybuilder you require certain things to have and do to get the best gains and carry on going right through your career and be successful. Below are 10 needs in Bodybuilding in order to be successful. These won't be saying you must do a certain exercise to do or a supplement to take. These 10 things everyone needs to be the best they possibly can.
1. Dedication: "Dedication is the Key" a very true saying in bodybuilding. Dedication is like the backbone for bodybuilders. Without dedication you wont succeed and can't keep yourself going through each rep, set, show, diet or lifestyle. Dedication must be there u need to be dedicated to the game if you want to play it. If you not dedicated your as good as dead.
2. Patience: Now this is hard. You train 5 long hard days one week and dont see much happening on your body but be patient and time will take its toll. Especially in a cutting period. If you want to be cut you need a low body fat. So first you need to get your body fat down then start the cutting phase. This will take time and you need the patience. Patience is also needed in most aspects of bodybuilding. Be Patient and be Perfect after all the hard work.
3.Good Form: What's the point in playing soccer if you can't kick a ball or what's the point in playing tennis if you have no hand-eye co-ordination? The same type of question can be asked about bodybuilding. What's the point of bodybuilding if you don't lift properly or with bad form? Good Form is require to see any gains. Moderate weight, slow reps, 8-12 reps. Heavy weight, slow reps, 4-8 reps. This is good form working the muscle hard at all times. Slow and controlled reps = Good Form.
4. Goals: Goals are by you to aim at. Just like darts the goal is treble 20 and basketball the goal is the basket. See or set the goal/target, work your way towards it and score by hitting hit or reaching it. Simple. The goals you want to set are short term goals like getting to a certain weight or body fat within a month or 2. Set your goal and go get it !!
5. Motivation: Every so often you get bored, go off form or just feel down. Motivation helps get over it. It's a booster, but you always want to be motivated so you are always boosted and always do your best. Motivation will push you that little extra. For motivation buy posters, listen to music, go to shows or read magazines. There are lots of options. Dedication + Motivation = a boost of confidence which makes you strive to be the best you can.
6. Healthy Diet/Nutrition: The weight training part of bodybuilding is like the engine of a car. As you get a bigger engine the better the car gets. However for the engine to run it needs petrol (gas as you call it in the states). Just the same as bodybuilding we need food for us to function and get energy. Our food needs to be healthy though. Our food intake plays an important factor in our bodybuilding lifestyle. A healthy balanced diet is required for maximum gains. Find out about nutrition around bodybuilding.com there's loads.
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8. Rest: You need to rest to let your muscles grow. Your muscles don't grow in the gym they grow while you are asleep. Resting also allows you to recover properly. In order to recover properly and allow your muscles to grow many suggest 8 hours+ of sleep.
9. Learn: No matter how qualified you think you are you will never know everything about bodybuilding. There is so much to learn. So much you will learn al of your bodybuilding years. I am always learning. You will learn all the time too. You will find out what you are doing right and wrong. New supplements are always being introduced too. I have no idea about the stuff that's in all these supplements and everyone bangs on about them and to me it's all bullshit but they sound like they know what they are sayin'.
10. Enjoy It: You need to enjoy bodybuilding if you want to be the best you can be. Enjoy it in the gym, enjoy the food and enjoy the contests if you choose to enter. If you don't enjoy this lifestyle you wont be dedicated, inspired or motivated. You will hold yourself back saying I can't be bothered. Look at all successful bodybuilders, they train hard, eat right and enjoy it. That's why they are the best at what they do. If you enjoy it then you can be the best you possibly can be too.
1. Dedication: "Dedication is the Key" a very true saying in bodybuilding. Dedication is like the backbone for bodybuilders. Without dedication you wont succeed and can't keep yourself going through each rep, set, show, diet or lifestyle. Dedication must be there u need to be dedicated to the game if you want to play it. If you not dedicated your as good as dead.
2. Patience: Now this is hard. You train 5 long hard days one week and dont see much happening on your body but be patient and time will take its toll. Especially in a cutting period. If you want to be cut you need a low body fat. So first you need to get your body fat down then start the cutting phase. This will take time and you need the patience. Patience is also needed in most aspects of bodybuilding. Be Patient and be Perfect after all the hard work.
3.Good Form: What's the point in playing soccer if you can't kick a ball or what's the point in playing tennis if you have no hand-eye co-ordination? The same type of question can be asked about bodybuilding. What's the point of bodybuilding if you don't lift properly or with bad form? Good Form is require to see any gains. Moderate weight, slow reps, 8-12 reps. Heavy weight, slow reps, 4-8 reps. This is good form working the muscle hard at all times. Slow and controlled reps = Good Form.
4. Goals: Goals are by you to aim at. Just like darts the goal is treble 20 and basketball the goal is the basket. See or set the goal/target, work your way towards it and score by hitting hit or reaching it. Simple. The goals you want to set are short term goals like getting to a certain weight or body fat within a month or 2. Set your goal and go get it !!
5. Motivation: Every so often you get bored, go off form or just feel down. Motivation helps get over it. It's a booster, but you always want to be motivated so you are always boosted and always do your best. Motivation will push you that little extra. For motivation buy posters, listen to music, go to shows or read magazines. There are lots of options. Dedication + Motivation = a boost of confidence which makes you strive to be the best you can.
6. Healthy Diet/Nutrition: The weight training part of bodybuilding is like the engine of a car. As you get a bigger engine the better the car gets. However for the engine to run it needs petrol (gas as you call it in the states). Just the same as bodybuilding we need food for us to function and get energy. Our food needs to be healthy though. Our food intake plays an important factor in our bodybuilding lifestyle. A healthy balanced diet is required for maximum gains. Find out about nutrition around bodybuilding.com there's loads.
7. cfgrtfg
8. Rest: You need to rest to let your muscles grow. Your muscles don't grow in the gym they grow while you are asleep. Resting also allows you to recover properly. In order to recover properly and allow your muscles to grow many suggest 8 hours+ of sleep.
9. Learn: No matter how qualified you think you are you will never know everything about bodybuilding. There is so much to learn. So much you will learn al of your bodybuilding years. I am always learning. You will learn all the time too. You will find out what you are doing right and wrong. New supplements are always being introduced too. I have no idea about the stuff that's in all these supplements and everyone bangs on about them and to me it's all bullshit but they sound like they know what they are sayin'.
10. Enjoy It: You need to enjoy bodybuilding if you want to be the best you can be. Enjoy it in the gym, enjoy the food and enjoy the contests if you choose to enter. If you don't enjoy this lifestyle you wont be dedicated, inspired or motivated. You will hold yourself back saying I can't be bothered. Look at all successful bodybuilders, they train hard, eat right and enjoy it. That's why they are the best at what they do. If you enjoy it then you can be the best you possibly can be too.
Gladiola
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Exodus said:i got your motivation
your fat, weak and ugly
now go do something about it..........
Gotta say... this is a good perspective to take. JUST GO DO IT.. & you'll feel so much better afterwards. After just a few weeks you should see some results & then you'll REALLY be motivated.
Much better than trying to live up to some ideal of perfection... personally I find that SO de-motivating. I will never look like a chick in a fitness magazine.. hell THEY don't even look like that!!! Can we say "air-brushed"?! No flaws to the skin, no pores, perfect hair...
powerbuilt
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Go out and get fu*king shitfaced drunk one day this weekend, have a damn good time, drink a lot of beer like it was New Years again! Then go home and think about how that probably fucked up a previous workout and make it up 5 fold by training and eating healthy that week until the next friday.
RE
Hmmm
Well just keep coming to the boards, eventualy you will see people chatting about how great they feel and how stunning they look that should definatly motivate you to go to gym etc.
Another thing try getting a training partner, this way you have to go go gym because you dont want to dissapiont him/ her or stuff up their training
PS> My boyfriend plays realy loud music in his car on the way to gum (Rave) and he says that motivates him alot, why not give it a try?
Hmmm
Well just keep coming to the boards, eventualy you will see people chatting about how great they feel and how stunning they look that should definatly motivate you to go to gym etc.
Another thing try getting a training partner, this way you have to go go gym because you dont want to dissapiont him/ her or stuff up their training
PS> My boyfriend plays realy loud music in his car on the way to gum (Rave) and he says that motivates him alot, why not give it a try?
buffal2001
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ok if no one else is gonna do it then..................GET BACK IN IN THE GYM.........LOOK HOW SKINNY U ARE!!!!!!!!NEXT TIME THE WIND PICKS UP ULL SNAP IN HALF!!!!!!!!!!!.............only jokin, it is true that u need to motivate ur self, try watching rocky or something else that involves training or take a look in the mirror and see what u need to improve......really tho its up 2 u to motivate yourself.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Have a goal and start measuring your progress:
If your goal is to get bigger - get a good excersise program, eat and measure change of muscle mass and how much more you are lifting.
If your goal is to get leaner - throw away your weight, measure bodyfat, start doing aerobic work (something you like) and get on a diet.
If your goal is have a better cardiovascular level - quit smoking, start aerobic work and measure your resting and working pulse rate.
Well, I'm a technical guy - that's what's motivating me. Please see my thread on "my fitness plan" for my motivation.
If your goal is to get bigger - get a good excersise program, eat and measure change of muscle mass and how much more you are lifting.
If your goal is to get leaner - throw away your weight, measure bodyfat, start doing aerobic work (something you like) and get on a diet.
If your goal is have a better cardiovascular level - quit smoking, start aerobic work and measure your resting and working pulse rate.
Well, I'm a technical guy - that's what's motivating me. Please see my thread on "my fitness plan" for my motivation.
GenetiKing
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I initially wrote this a few months back to Maximum Intensity, an attorney who couldn't understand why his motivation was waning. I think it's applicable here:
This very well may be physical in nature (in which case you will need more time off), but it sounds more mental to me.
If it's a lack of drive you are experiencing, you must reevaluate why you started this lifestyle in the first place. If you can feel good about yourself through training and allow it to define you, you will never want its absence in your life. Let training validate your existence, let it differentiate you from the masses of those who eat Burger King daily and could care less about about their vitality, health, and looks. Being an attorney, you have a white collar job, like myself, and as such you spend the majority of the working day physically inactive...dealing with mental challenges and stresses. When your work day is over, look forward to the physical onslaught that hardcore training provides. You've used your head all day, now use your body.
Fear becoming soft and weak. Cherish the mental fortitude it takes for you to command your body to withstand the pain of balls-to-the-wall training. Take those mental characteristics that enable you to physically outperform others and wear it like a badge. You have withstood the pain of training and the discipline of proper dieting...those rewards are yours and yours only, you reap them. Very few things in life are so simple, with such a clear cause/effect equation. Where else in life is all your hard work reaped only by you? The inspiration and motivation is internal as well as external. You must stay mentally tough. If you quit training, you will lose all of this. How are you any different from the masses then? Where will your pride rest, what kind of badge will you wear then?
Envision what you want to look like. Bring it back, be superior, put gravel in your gut. You are a warrior and the gym is your domian, your battlefield. Show us why God made you a man...validate yourself. This is your lifeline. It gives you reason for existence. Strap in, dig in, clench your teeth, and go. Once back in the game you'll thrive.
Good luck MI.
This very well may be physical in nature (in which case you will need more time off), but it sounds more mental to me.
If it's a lack of drive you are experiencing, you must reevaluate why you started this lifestyle in the first place. If you can feel good about yourself through training and allow it to define you, you will never want its absence in your life. Let training validate your existence, let it differentiate you from the masses of those who eat Burger King daily and could care less about about their vitality, health, and looks. Being an attorney, you have a white collar job, like myself, and as such you spend the majority of the working day physically inactive...dealing with mental challenges and stresses. When your work day is over, look forward to the physical onslaught that hardcore training provides. You've used your head all day, now use your body.
Fear becoming soft and weak. Cherish the mental fortitude it takes for you to command your body to withstand the pain of balls-to-the-wall training. Take those mental characteristics that enable you to physically outperform others and wear it like a badge. You have withstood the pain of training and the discipline of proper dieting...those rewards are yours and yours only, you reap them. Very few things in life are so simple, with such a clear cause/effect equation. Where else in life is all your hard work reaped only by you? The inspiration and motivation is internal as well as external. You must stay mentally tough. If you quit training, you will lose all of this. How are you any different from the masses then? Where will your pride rest, what kind of badge will you wear then?
Envision what you want to look like. Bring it back, be superior, put gravel in your gut. You are a warrior and the gym is your domian, your battlefield. Show us why God made you a man...validate yourself. This is your lifeline. It gives you reason for existence. Strap in, dig in, clench your teeth, and go. Once back in the game you'll thrive.
Good luck MI.
