How do you stay motivated to achieve your fitness goals?

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WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

Vanity, first and foremost😂I like to look good, I like to dress well. Sometimes…. you gotta tuck in your shirt. Honestly, I feel like so much of looking good in clothes as a male is just the dimensions of your body. And unfortunately the easiest place for most of us to store fat is the worst place for it to go in terms of our silhouette. If you ARE going to have some stomach fat, you need to be big in your shoulders, chest, and arms to balance it, and have decently developed glutes in back, thick legs, etc. You gotta go full grizzly bear.

Men make a dollar more an hour, and I feel like, maybe somewhat contrary to popular opinion, women have a little more forgiveness in looking good in clothes without always having a conventionally ideal body/features. I think they’re a lot tougher on themselves than they should be, and I think dumbass dudes on the internet or wherever, these nerds who DEFINITELY exclusively date bikini models, talking shit and boasting about how they have some impeccable standard, they’re full of shit, they don’t help things, and they should STFU. But the point is I would suggest in the truth-serum’d eyes of most men, a woman with a little too much this or not enough that, by traditional beauty standards, I still feel like a very strong percentage can still come out in a nice outfit and I’d be like “girl, you look GOOD”👍 Some of these dumpy dudes, no disrespect…. uphill battle, haha. It’s not your fault, women are just more beautiful than us by default, it’s not a fair fight.

So…. I’m a dude. At times, I’ve been a dumpy dude. I see pictures of that guy, and I’m glad I brought old me back, haha….. and the older version of old me can finally afford all those clothes I wanted😂 So looking good in clothes is big for me.

Health is an obvious other one, and I’m still playing sports even though I’m an old chunk of coal, so staying fit for that is important to me, so I can feel less like my youth is slipping away if I play well, lmao. And also just like going around the gym, and being around youth, even though it makes me feel old sometimes, haha. There are all kinds of high school and college kids at my gym, and I think im getting to that age where you start warmly smile to yourself just at the sight of them walking around being young, and remembering yourself that way.

By now, it’s just part of my life-routine. I’ve done it consistently my entire adult life, minus a few months-long-or-less interruptions, and during those times away, I just felt off because I wasn’t going. Now it’s just like “I’m not going to the gym? Something must be wrong, what’s wrong?”

GuyAnswersGirls123 · Accepted Answer

I'm motivated by athletic progress and that tends to be something we can quickly notice and accurately measure whenever we try something new.

There was one time a few years into marriage when I started to get quite the gut going. My wife would pinch my belly and call it "happy fat" since it came from being happy together, dining out all the time.

Yet one day we passed by a pull-up bar at a park so I said, "Look what I can do!" And I expected to be able to do a very good number of pull-ups, at least 12+, since I held the high school record when I was a teenager for pull-ups. Then embarrassingly I found I couldn't even do 2 sloppy pull-ups!

So after that I became obsessed and started eating right, quit drinking, and started training at that pull-up bar twice a day (mornings and evenings) along with doing sprint intervals, stair climbing, and mid-way got into resistance training at the gym.

In the process, I lost around 35lbs in 6 weeks. But I wasn't trying to lose weight. I don't think I have the discipline if I was motivated specifically by a weight loss goal. I was just trying to do more and more pull-ups and the fat just sort of melted off in the process.

That's generally how I get and stay motivated. I try something physical that's brand new or something I haven't tried in a long time, find I totally suck at it, and then all I want to do is get better.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

I've got races on the horizon I've trained for over a year for. I'm not going to F it all up now by not staying in shape. COVID already set me back a little bit, so I have less than 30 days to get back to where I was.

NathanDavis · Answer

I don't really care for it... as in, not being a goal, it is just a direct result of me being into sports, I like the fun of it, sometimes the challenge of it

health is a must, so being physically active is part of that... been doing it all my life, so even if I slow down or miss it for some weeks, it's just as fine

so, I don't need the motivation is just something I genuinely enjoy doing, sports... that is

Anonymous · Answer

If you can motivate yourself enough to stand on a metal plate... then you can do my routine. Even if I don't feel like having a workout taking that first step is all I need to do.

Zestyassmf1997 · Answer

I show up at the gym. Once there, I want to get out. The faster I get my workout done, the faster I can get back to sitting around and doing nothing. Works like a charm.

incorrected · Answer

I exercise for its anti-depressant effects, and have no real 'fitness goals' as such. I just run and run, and lift weights, just to get out of my head.

Sonorous · Answer

Vanity is the biggest reason. Also I enjoy being able to wash clothes on my abs. It's very convenient for when the machine is occupied.

Paris13 · Answer

Stay at a Good Weight. lolxxoo

The_Sexpert · Answer

The food after workout..

Anonymous · Answer

Seeing the scale go down everyday

BlissfullyCurSed · Answer

I don't😉😉

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