what keeps you motivated?

what keeps you motivated to trian and reach your goals?

A deep dark hatred for anyone that has slighted me over the years that one day I will have the strength to simply snap their necks in their sleep.....im also quite vain.

Results/progress and being a little sadistic.

Nothing, I just train for fun now.

Looking back at fat photos used to motivate me diet wise, to stop me overeating.  Now I just enjoy lifting, look forward to my sessions.

Just eat what I want, so nothing to worry about. 

Health/Vanity/Fun

lots of things. First and most important is that I really enjoy training so find it easy to stay motivated. I started training as I wanted to get fit and in shape, look more like a V than a b. Now years later and I am in good shape I enjoy the chase of progressing in my lifts and genuinely get pleasure from hitting a PB. So what started as vanity/health/fitness has evolved into vanity/health/fitness/passion/enjoyment

Nothing. See my other thread - being consistently underwhelmed with the achievement of fitness related goals means I don't pursue goals with as much dedication as I once did. These days I just enjoy lifting weights and pushing myself in the gym, I progress slowly towards my "goals" over time this way and don't end up obsessive in pursuing them. 

Jeez well Im 35 now so the goals are different now in my 20's I would have said competition, but now the fear of being a chubby middle aged man with belly and 13" biceps motivates me to keep going. I never want to be Joe Public, lost in the crowd as it were.

I dont know why but I have always pegged you as being much older Barrel from your posting style!

^^ Perhaps that's not such a bad thing!
Feel like an old man with the training, first joined a bodybuilding gym at 15, so almost 20 years training on and off! Makes me a little sad that I have to say I've been a lot less than consistent over all that time, made lots of mistakes along the way and perhaps could have been much bigger/better/stronger than I am now, if I knew then what I know now. But I guess its that way for a lot of us, although still I think I'm in better shape than most :)

Firstly I don't want to be fat and I want to look healthy and fit
 
Secondly I'm loving seeing my strength go up at the moment.. have added 20kgs onto my deadlift within the last 2 months and it's a fab feeling

i see people in the street who look how i used to and think to myself how the feck did i ever live that way. i swear every time that im not going back to being that way ever again

If I didn't train and look healthy then I'd never get laid.

To compete and win BJJ comps is what keeps me training....Ther is no better feeling than winning after weeks/months of hard training leading up to a comp.
 
The prospect of becoming the best BJJ fighter I can be also keeps me motivated...
 
I love to push myself to the limit physically and see what I can achieve whether it be in BJJ or S and C workouts etc.
 
 

What keeps me motivated?....The certain knowledge that, with 42 approaching....my physique would be a disaster if I stopped! If you've been training since your teens and been in shape it's quite simply impossible to imagine not working out and letting myself slide. Plus my strength and energy levels would be much lower. Plus I love working out! The common ingredient I think we all share! :) At present I still feel like I did when I was 20! Although I may not look it! Lol

What keeps me motivated?....The certain knowledge that, with 53 approaching....my physique would be a disaster if I stopped! If you've been training since your teens and been in shape it's quite simply impossible to imagine not working out and letting myself slide. Plus my strength and energy levels would be much lower. Plus I love working out! The common ingredient I think we all share! :) At present I still feel like I did when I was 20! Although I may not look it! Lol
 
Thanks whiteSnake

Nothing in particular apart from I want to be active and fit when we have children. I don't have any real goals or any ideal size or shape I want to be. I just want to stay active doing something I enjoy.

 
This quote sums it up for me-love it!
 
"You know you're alive when you have expectations, goals, and dreams. I can't understand somebody who doesn't have any passion…something to get them working harder or achieving something. Life is too short not to have any passion. It's passion that keeps you alive, keeps you dreaming, keeps you wondering, keeps you trying."-Hugo Girard
 
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What keeps me motivated?....The certain knowledge that, with 53 approaching....my physique would be a disaster if I stopped! If you've been training since your teens and been in shape it's quite simply impossible to imagine not working out and letting myself slide. Plus my strength and energy levels would be much lower. Plus I love working out! The common ingredient I think we all share! :) At present I still feel like I did when I was 20! Although I may not look it! Lol

Thanks whiteSnake

Lol!
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