Best motivational aides! Song, video, picture etc.

rolexeagle1

What helps you to stay motivated, share your story, song, video or picture! What gives you the drive to work out?

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Hanley

squod

Dennis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1zFeHJzS5E

RobAMerc

a mirror and my impending 40th

calfmuscle

When the weather is really awful and I really don't want to get off the couch and go training in the mud I like to watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX39J_YyKbs

Hanley

Jacqueline Young Projector wrote: »

Hanley

But what motivates Hanley eh?? WHAT MOTIVATES HANLEY!!!!

Knockout_91

Kanye West & Jay Z - Ham

I just keep on running

Rubber_Soul

My belly

WHIP IT!

srumball wrote: »

What helps you to stay motivated, share your story, song, video or picture! What gives you the drive to work out?

A certain couple of unflattering holiday snaps from September 2010 when I was ~1.5 stone heavier and boyyyyy did it show... I like to scroll back through em on Facebook e'ery now n then to remind me to keep 'er lit!

IdidIt

Knockout_91 wrote: »

Kanye West & Jay Z - Ham

I just keep on running

I Feel like I could run through a wall when I'm listening to this

Run Boy Run - woodkid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmc21V-zBq0

WHIP IT!

calfmuscle wrote: »

When the weather is really awful and I really don't want to get off the couch and go training in the mud I like to watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX39J_YyKbs

I like this video but it's always slightly spoiled for me by the fact he's reading the words from a prompter sheet. Ruins the illusion that it's a from-the-heart speech... good message though. Americans - mental, eh

jugger0

squod wrote: »

Dennis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1zFeHJzS5E

Fuark thats depressing as phuck, poor dennis... lovely lad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKR9862aiiA

Watching people getting mashed makes me want to lift/play rugby

RidleyRider

I was gonna set up a thread today about motivation.. balls :pac:

Found this video on Kai Greene today, not that I intend to get this big or anything close but he's a good motivational speaker and the speech at the start is good.

TheBellJar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2laIPeiMtE

King of Kings

- diamond dallas page.
I used to love that guy.

siochain

Motivation, well if I don't lift something heavy or spar someone for two or three days I know I'm going to be cranky and feel like s***. And working out is a pretty good investment for the future.

Al Pacino speech in any given Sunday has been know to help the odd PR.

Knockout_91

Anyone else have the soundtrack to chariots of fire on their iPod? Really makes you keep going

Juan_Kerr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ

Don't even know why just think its your man in the video!

RidleyRider

If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practise,
if you don't love something don't do it.
-Ray Bradbury

Practice does not make perfect.
Only perfect practice makes perfect.
-Vince Lombardi

RidleyRider

If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practise,
if you don't love something don't do it.
-Ray Bradbury

Practice does not make perfect.
Only perfect practice makes perfect.
-Vince Lombardi

googled eyes

Henry Rollins essay Iron and Soul.

This is a link for it but I have it saved as a draft in my phone and if I'm feeling crap/ don't wanna get up of the sofa I give it a read. It's a bit long which is why I didn't just paste it all in here

http://rosstraining.com/blog/2009/12/04/iron-and-the-soul-by-henry-rollins/


"The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds."

tmc86

Came across this the other day thought it was a nice motivational quote!



I usually just watch various gym vids on YouTube to get me going. I like Kai greenes videos he's so disciplined and calm!

I also make sure I have a good playlist/album to listen to in the gym at the highest volume!

Last session was Metallica the black album but its usually a mix of tiestos podcasts or some kind of heavy rock or rap - anything loud and fast paced!

hefferboi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX39J_YyKbs

RobAMerc

googled eyes wrote: »

"The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength.

I hate to sound like a nanny but - this is terrible. It implies that depression is somehow a weakness and given the epidemic of suicide we face in this country at the moment this is not at all helpful.

Again, I normally hate folk being the forum nanny but that statement to me is just plain wrong.

/rant

WHIP IT!

RobAMerc wrote: »

I hate to sound like a nanny but - this is terrible. It implies that depression is somehow a weakness and given the epidemic of suicide we face in this country at the moment this is not at all helpful.

Again, I normally hate folk being the forum nanny but that statement to me is just plain wrong.

/rant

I disagree. It's an opinion based on experience - the iron is the greatest antidepressant HE ever found...

Working out was his sanctuary - for other people it might be listening to Mozart, running, horseriding, anything...

I think when he mentions 'weakness' he's referencing his own physical weakness and also his weakness when it came to standing up to his tormentors as a kid... everyone takes their own thing from this sort of quote of course, but I don't feel like he's labelling depression as a weakness.

Liam90

Now go to the gym and have the best workout of your life.

RobAMerc

WHIP IT! wrote: »

I think when he mentions 'weakness' he's referencing his own physical weakness and also his weakness when it came to standing up to his tormentors as a kid... everyone takes their own thing from this sort of quote of course, but I don't feel like he's labelling depression as a weakness.

Just goes to show two people can see the exact same words and read two completely different things doesn't it !

googled eyes

RobAMerc wrote: »

I hate to sound like a nanny but - this is terrible. It implies that depression is somehow a weakness and given the epidemic of suicide we face in this country at the moment this is not at all helpful.

Again, I normally hate folk being the forum nanny but that statement to me is just plain wrong.

/rant

As WHIPIT said its in reference to his eassay and his own experiences with feeling weaker than others when he was younger and his own experience with being depressed.

I like the quote because these are both things that have affected me during my life. When I first read the essay and spoke to my cousin about it, I told him I wished I had read it years ago. Although I probably would not have appreciated it at that time.

Don't worry about coming off like a nanny. It's a forum for discussion ain't it

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Find it hard to read anything but positives into Rollins essay myself. I think the weakness he refereed too is that percieved by the depressed person caused by the depression. The iron gives them strength physically and emotionally.

Farting on about semantics with depression is only going to make it more of a taboo to talk about, as everyone dances around it afraid of causing offence.

narwog81

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional"

I say this to myself a lot. Sometimes you just have to laugh and start enjoying the grief of a hard session. 400m intervals on the track spring to mind,

"the only antidote for mental suffering is physical pain" Marx

insert exercise for pain.

Hanley

Liam90 wrote: »

Now go to the gym and have the best workout of your life.

That video doesn't have enough disabled children for it to be motivational.



















...people will either find that funny, or hunt me down and kill me.

nice_guy80

this has to be in there

Old school training hardens you up. FACT

Liam90

"The more pain you endure today equates to more peace you'll have tomorrow."

nice_guy80

I do like this...

papu

This works
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=136079509886101

Pace2008

Liam90 wrote: »

Now go to the gym and have the best workout of your life.

I come across his videos from time to time on fitness forums, and the only emotions they stir up in me are amusement with a smattering of annoyance. This is a dude who screams his head off squatting 90kg in a smith machine wearing nothing but a pair of briefs. Absolutely absurd.

Maybe I'm a bit of a cynic. I genetally find stock motivational phrases to be about as encouraging as having a burly German instructor in a leopardskin leotard standing over me and telling me to go past the max and push it to the limit. I'd be motivated by seeing people in better shape than me or performing incredible feats of athleticism. Whatever doe sit for ya, I guess.

Knockout_91 wrote: »

Anyone else have the soundtrack to chariots of fire on their iPod? Really makes you keep going

Does that not feel a bit like getting freaky to Let's get it on by Barry White?

Sea The Starz

Most articles/videos from Ross Enamait i find motivating but as he says motivation comes from within, from a passion deep inside. No song, video, or picture is going to make u squat to failure or do hill sprints in the pissing rain, that's something u have to want to do. Anyhow i always find this video from him gets the blood flowing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-ini-Ru4w

And this song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_VTfrF6TWU

link_2007

Liam90 wrote: »

Now go to the gym and have the best workout of your life.

It's like he's reading from a Paulo Coelho novel.

That's not a good thing by the way.

kedrek1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x5xXsdWRaFw

I like this lad

double GG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTFnmsCnr6g

alienacademy

big posters in my gym

rain on

Imagining I'm going into the last round of a fight and my coach is telling me "if you can do this, you've won" or "you're grand, you can do this, you've cardio for days". Positive mental visualisations I guess.

Liam90

rolexeagle1

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=115566711953102 can someone embed this??