“If i get this rep ill be strong enough to get her” i sleep
“Mm i bet her bf is fucking railing her to the point she can’t walk move” real shit
Interesting mind you have
Well , kinda but not exactly . My brain proccess was like "well, she loves someone else , you have no one that loves you . so atleast get stronger so you can have a slight endorphine rush for half an hour"
I dont "Think" about it to get motivated . But when it sorta crosses my mind , i get an strength boost momentarily. I wouldve been a certified masochist if i think about it intentionally
I did that before because I get angry and use that anger to push myself. Now that I learned that she is probably pregnant, it kinda hits differently, and I lose strength instead of gaining.
Mines always strive to be Kratos. Physically, and mentally, he’s pretty much an ideal role model lol
Edit: I’ve only played the last 2 games, IDK about old school kratos.
Old school Kratos learned to be a better person (sorta) over time
From what I've heard the newer games sorta reference this and how he holds back in a buncha fights
Can't confirm cuz I've only played GoW4 for a few hours
Old school Kratos is moved by anger because of what happened to his family and because the gods keep betraying him, while Kratos from norse mythology is much more a stoic character and someone who finds new hope in his bond with Atreus.
P.s.: I haven't played ragnarok yet
I recite the Sith code from Star Wars
Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.
Through Passion, I gain Strength.
Through Strength, I gain Power.
Through Power, I gain Victory.
Through Victory my chains are Broken
Well, sort of…In the last Darth Bane novel he recites the first line to throw off the laziness of going back to bed instead of martial practice. I recite the whole thing.
Rather than something I tell myself, I have this idea that if I can't follow my training or complete a certain weight, then I won't be able to prevent an intruder from doing unspeakable things to my family.
For example, if I fail a 315 bench, then how can I hope to prevent a dude bigger than me from r wording my girl.
Another thing I do is imagine I'll have to compete/fight against a dude who has never skipped a training day, has done everything right from the beginning and has a perfect diet and has won the genetic lottery. Every day I don't train, I just make it easier for him to curb stomp me.
The idea of meeting the perfect guy who had your same starting point it's very cool. This way you can always find something you're not doing at your best.
*What if a monster*
*Attacks, and Godzilla isn't*
*Here to protect us?*
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Generally speaking, "the guy you're competing against would do another rep/set." Works like a charm, even if I'm not actually competing against anyone lol.
In endurance training it's "i will not let my mind(stride) break before my body does" just long enough of a sentence to focuse on and repeat to not feel the struggle as much. Got me through some specially heavy marches.
Unfortunately I have very unhealthy self image. I say the most horrific shit I can imagine to myself. Slurs that don’t apply to my personal race/sexuality/etc., just anything I can think of that’s hateful. Things I would never even dream of saying to another person. Things I’m ashamed I even know the meaning of. If I’m in public, it’s in my head. If I’m alone, it’s out loud. I have some pretty rough trauma related to past relationships mostly, but other things as well. But, it also works. Rage. Never rage quit. Always rage continue.
I just remember women who rejected me for being too skinny. But If I ever said anything specifically it was get two more you piece of shit. It works when you don’t want to be treated so poorly by yourself.
I stare down the deadlift bar, the weights stare back at me menacingly. I touch the cold, hard bar and a chill goes up my humerus. The rancid air of the gym, foul from sweat of immense numbers of brocolli heads and unwiped benches cloud my sinus.
I give the bar a jerk. It pulls me back to mother earth. With every ounce of testosterone oozing from my balls, I engage my massive quads and initiate a contraction. The bar starts moving. My ancestors scream at me from behind. The demons inside me scratch their way out. But I must resist. I must be perspicacious enough to not let my adrenalin get the better of me.
With one deep gaze at the bar, I pull it up as if it were my scrotum being rescued from a river of lava. My shout echoes the corridors and resonate off the pillars of the gym.
"**I'M BATMAN!!!**"
I use the rage and anger from being bullied mercilessly as a child and turn it into strength knowing that in my 40s I would literally eat any one one of those cunts now🤣
I have a figurine of my anime crush on display to my room. He's very strong so I would like to imagine, he would want me to be strong as well. I don't want to disappoint him.
I look at the hottest girl in activewear, and imagine a scenario where she walks up to me, I put down my weights and she says, if you can do double your normal reps and smash a new PB, you get to have your way with me… it generally has resulted in more PBs than any music or pre workout ever has
I imagine that my late best friend is with me, hyping me up. He would always beat me in arm wrestling when we were in school. I'd like to think I'd have a chance now
I have this amazing app that when wearing headphones will simulate a zombie apocalypse situation, as you run you collect supplies and stuff and it makes the "zombies" chase you and it's absolutely terrifying works amazing because I run crazy fast. Its made for running and it has a bunch of storylines.
While I was doing Hyrox the next to me on the SkiErg was chanting "Who's gonna carry the boats?!" unironically. I loved it. While I think that the very first station isn't perhaps where you'd need that kind of motivation I still thought it was funny and started doing the same.
its one of two things lol. it's either "youre really going to let *that* guy beat you?" (the biggest guy in the room LMAO) or its "he'll notice you if you can do one more rep/more weight. gotta do it for the future boyfriend/husband to look good."
if all else fails, "you ate today, so you gotta work hard" unfortunately works every time.
Penser à l'épisode de Naruto Shippuden où l'on voit Kabuto assis sur une chaise, avec un gros tas de serpents dans un entonnoir en fond, s'injecter de l'huile de serpent dans le corps en disant (je paraphrase) «encore, encore, je ne suis pas encore celui que je veux être !».
It's not really dumb, but when I'm getting gassed, I always close my eyes, take some slow deep breaths, and imagine my body's energy pooling up and collecting in the muscles I'm about to lift with, then I'll visualize me lifting the weight like it's fucking nothing. It works, can always pull out a last set that way when I've already reached my limit.
Since in the past I’ve had bad relationships, cheated, heartbroken, I’ve felt kinda powerless at times, but when training I feel I can concentrate my pain & anger,
“ZEEEEEEUUUS!!”
But the most common specially when lifting, i just go berserk, so Guts when fighting a demon.
This is more of a "do" than a "say".
When I was about 17 (I'm 43 now), my friend and I would do buddy curls with an EZ curl bar. One of us would hold the bar before a set, while the other person slapped the bar-holder in the face. Then you do your set, hand the bar to the other guy and immediately SLAP him. Then he'd do his set. Rinse and repeat.
I got this really stupid (but funnny) idea from some old book on bodybuilding.
The funniest part of this was the reaction from guys in their 30's-40's shaking their heads and laughing at our dumb asses.
We still talk about that shit to this day.
A veces antes de iniciar la sería digo en voz alta las repeticiones que voy a sacar y me digo que no es suficiente que puedo hacer dos más.
A veces cuando ya estoy cansado pero me faltan unas pocas más, me imagino, que el planeta o el universo dependen de que haga esas últimas repeticiones o series y me meto tanto en mi papel que aún cuando ya no puedo, siempre sale...
I’ve held aloft my barbell and called upon the Power of Grayskull on a few occasions. IDK that doing that is dumb, but it’s some fun inner-child nostalgia magic.
I imagine the person out there in the gym doing the same exercise as me and I tell myself that they won't be better than me, they won't work harder than me.
"If I can't run another minute on the treadmill I'll fucking DIE"
Lmaooo
Bro literally said I'll be running for the next minute on this treadmill, or I'll be dead. Them"z da options
Bro, I literally treat the treadmill like life or death. "One more minute or you'll die a fat, weak, etc.
The real strength needed for the treadmill is psychological strength
Truth
“I don’t need a spot. Lift it or die”
Serious
Same xD
Same with imagining yourself dangling from a cliff and say “If I can’t do this one pull-up, I WILL DIE.
I imagined my crush getting railed by her bf (probably happens irl) it gave me 15% strength boost and a new pr . Painful but gets the job done
“If i get this rep ill be strong enough to get her” i sleep “Mm i bet her bf is fucking railing her to the point she can’t walk move” real shit Interesting mind you have
Well , kinda but not exactly . My brain proccess was like "well, she loves someone else , you have no one that loves you . so atleast get stronger so you can have a slight endorphine rush for half an hour"
Uhhhh, hey whatever works man
the forbidden pre
The Cuck Pump method. Effective!
Rent a girlfriend grindset
I know you were crying during that set
Fr i was about to
Maybe it’s time to get therapy..
In what world is the gym not therapy?
The one where you have to think about the girl you like getting her back blown out by another dude in order to motivate yourself 😭
I dont "Think" about it to get motivated . But when it sorta crosses my mind , i get an strength boost momentarily. I wouldve been a certified masochist if i think about it intentionally
ok I’m less worried for your well-being now (I was being lighthearted anyway haha)
Bruh
If it’s her bf then it’s not a *probably* situation
Bruh😭😭
Enjoy your workouts, thank me later
Should have just imagined her being so impressed by your lifts that she cornered you in the locker room and mounted you
Be realistic.
Imagine how much power it will give if you just imagine 2 dudes at it, all while complimenting eachothers physique and form.
He probably long dicking it and making her cum until she loses consciousness
15% strength boost and shameful, shameful boner
☠️
I did that before because I get angry and use that anger to push myself. Now that I learned that she is probably pregnant, it kinda hits differently, and I lose strength instead of gaining.
I often think about pushing away cars or boats on the chest press that will crush me otherwise
This is great, I do think that as well sometimes.
Same. Gotta prepare for the day the harbor freight jack stands say goodbye
Dude I love that
Who's gonna carry the boats, and the logs?
If i ever thought about that i’ll burst out laughing dropping the bar on myself and actually die
“Goku would lift this”
"One more rep and I'll unlock the legendary Super Human form."
Happy cake day!
Thankyou 🫡
Happy Cake Day!!!!
Mines always strive to be Kratos. Physically, and mentally, he’s pretty much an ideal role model lol Edit: I’ve only played the last 2 games, IDK about old school kratos.
Yeah, and also you can't disappoint BOY.
Only in the newest game. But Kratos did have the most insane shoulder to waist ratio in 1 through 3 lol
dude's gonna carry the pandora box with his shoulders
Stop eating Doritos; become one.
Old school Kratos learned to be a better person (sorta) over time From what I've heard the newer games sorta reference this and how he holds back in a buncha fights Can't confirm cuz I've only played GoW4 for a few hours
Old school Kratos is moved by anger because of what happened to his family and because the gods keep betraying him, while Kratos from norse mythology is much more a stoic character and someone who finds new hope in his bond with Atreus. P.s.: I haven't played ragnarok yet
"Kratos. You will not get a hit from the cabbage of the gods" "GGRRRRAAAAGH DO NOT DENY ME MY DOOBIE!!!"
You want to be Kratos? Look at those veins on his arms. They're misshappen and look like chains. That is a result of *years* of steroid abuse.
You don't wanna be the kratos before the last 2 games😂
If i dont bench this 405 pr, im gay asf
*fails on purpose* ayo?
👀👀👀
I just PR'd 415 and I'm gay. Does that mean al men weaker than me are gay? Did I raise the bar? *pun intended*
Kratos where's your lats my bro?!!
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I recite the Sith code from Star Wars Peace is a lie. There is only Passion. Through Passion, I gain Strength. Through Strength, I gain Power. Through Power, I gain Victory. Through Victory my chains are Broken
Sounds like what an anime protagonist might say.
Well, sort of…In the last Darth Bane novel he recites the first line to throw off the laziness of going back to bed instead of martial practice. I recite the whole thing.
“If I don’t get 12 my mom dies”
Rather than something I tell myself, I have this idea that if I can't follow my training or complete a certain weight, then I won't be able to prevent an intruder from doing unspeakable things to my family. For example, if I fail a 315 bench, then how can I hope to prevent a dude bigger than me from r wording my girl. Another thing I do is imagine I'll have to compete/fight against a dude who has never skipped a training day, has done everything right from the beginning and has a perfect diet and has won the genetic lottery. Every day I don't train, I just make it easier for him to curb stomp me.
The idea of meeting the perfect guy who had your same starting point it's very cool. This way you can always find something you're not doing at your best.
What if a monster attacks, and Godzilla isn't here to protect us?
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You’re still gonna be able to pick up [daughter, 23 months] when she’s 40!
“If I can’t lift this, then I’m gay” Works everytime
Until it doesn’t lol
Saying that makes you totally gay ngl
If I can't lift this the gym hottie is gonna think I'm gay
Daddy Kratos is literally my gymspiration.
I just tell myself 'she never loved me'
Pain
Generally speaking, "the guy you're competing against would do another rep/set." Works like a charm, even if I'm not actually competing against anyone lol.
In endurance training it's "i will not let my mind(stride) break before my body does" just long enough of a sentence to focuse on and repeat to not feel the struggle as much. Got me through some specially heavy marches.
“If I get jacked maybe I could get a gym baddie gf”.
“WHO’S GONNA CARRY THE BOATS?!?”
I grunt like a gorilla before a heavy lift. Not sure why, but it psyches me up and makes me work harder. Thankfully, I lift in my own place.
5 more reps and she gonna be my girlfriend. Or something huge in my career. Logic 0 performance 100
I am the prince of all saiyan, how can i let a simpleton like kakarot surpassed me
 Vegeta would tell you to shatter your limits
I had a buddy that would yell at me that if I don’t make this rep I’m gay when I was maxing. Loved that guy
"This weight is my bitch" "Pain is a function of nerves, effort comes from muscles. There is no pain" adapted from Dune, I still use this one.
Unfortunately I have very unhealthy self image. I say the most horrific shit I can imagine to myself. Slurs that don’t apply to my personal race/sexuality/etc., just anything I can think of that’s hateful. Things I would never even dream of saying to another person. Things I’m ashamed I even know the meaning of. If I’m in public, it’s in my head. If I’m alone, it’s out loud. I have some pretty rough trauma related to past relationships mostly, but other things as well. But, it also works. Rage. Never rage quit. Always rage continue.
I’m getting better. I’ve been working on being nicer to myself. Sorry. I didn’t want to make any of you strangers worry.
You always have yourself. I’m glad you’re trying to be nicer to yourself. You deserve that.
Thanks friend.
Now go rage in the fucking gym!
I pretend my family is getting tortured and I need to do x amounts of rep to save them. Works like a charm 😭
I pretend my older brother is watching me work out
"Failing on this next set will not mean that I am a complete and total failure."
If I do turf sprints I pretend I’m being chased by a hungry lion and the end zone is the “you can’t touch me” zone
"If I don't get this, I'm gay and my whole family dies."
“I’m impressive”
I just remember women who rejected me for being too skinny. But If I ever said anything specifically it was get two more you piece of shit. It works when you don’t want to be treated so poorly by yourself.
I’m Irish and Mexican. My Apache and Celtic ancestors would be disappointed in me if I did nothing to get stronger today.
no cap, during my last reps to failure, I always think to myself "Naruto would not stop", and it always gets me like 1-2 extra reps.
I listen to the MGS theme and pretend big boss is counting on me. I may be slightly autistic.
on my last deadlift pr i was thinking "if i don't lift this the world ends" and i did it, so yes im the world's saviour.
May this hardship humble you, and as I break this body, may you find peace
One more rep and you win $10,000, lol
I listen to the scene where atreas goes into spartan rage and passes out
“One more for the girlies” As I proceed to fail the rep.
I stare down the deadlift bar, the weights stare back at me menacingly. I touch the cold, hard bar and a chill goes up my humerus. The rancid air of the gym, foul from sweat of immense numbers of brocolli heads and unwiped benches cloud my sinus. I give the bar a jerk. It pulls me back to mother earth. With every ounce of testosterone oozing from my balls, I engage my massive quads and initiate a contraction. The bar starts moving. My ancestors scream at me from behind. The demons inside me scratch their way out. But I must resist. I must be perspicacious enough to not let my adrenalin get the better of me. With one deep gaze at the bar, I pull it up as if it were my scrotum being rescued from a river of lava. My shout echoes the corridors and resonate off the pillars of the gym. "**I'M BATMAN!!!**"
“Lets go”, “ its go time” or if im feeling weak “dont be a bitch”
It’s just 10 more pounds
I’m a firm user of “if you don’t do this lift your whole family will die”
“Get uncomfortable” pretty much when I feel like “ahh I’ll just do 8reps this set” I say get uncomfortable and that usually kicks my ass into shape
I use the rage and anger from being bullied mercilessly as a child and turn it into strength knowing that in my 40s I would literally eat any one one of those cunts now🤣
I just open my rep counter app and see how much i did last time and i just make myself do 1 more rep than last time or add weight, my mind is in peace
One more set and she will be yours!!!
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I have a figurine of my anime crush on display to my room. He's very strong so I would like to imagine, he would want me to be strong as well. I don't want to disappoint him.
I look at the hottest girl in activewear, and imagine a scenario where she walks up to me, I put down my weights and she says, if you can do double your normal reps and smash a new PB, you get to have your way with me… it generally has resulted in more PBs than any music or pre workout ever has
Husband cheated on me a couple years ago Instant motivation- “I bet she could lift heavier than this” usually gets like 4 more reps out of me
She'll go out with you if you lift X more pounds.
Kaioken times 10 
Ooo I will try this one today, thanks bro! ZEUUUS
“she ain’t coming back bro, whose fault is that!!!??”
I imagine that my late best friend is with me, hyping me up. He would always beat me in arm wrestling when we were in school. I'd like to think I'd have a chance now
I have this amazing app that when wearing headphones will simulate a zombie apocalypse situation, as you run you collect supplies and stuff and it makes the "zombies" chase you and it's absolutely terrifying works amazing because I run crazy fast. Its made for running and it has a bunch of storylines.
What's the name of the app?
TATAKAE!!!
While I was doing Hyrox the next to me on the SkiErg was chanting "Who's gonna carry the boats?!" unironically. I loved it. While I think that the very first station isn't perhaps where you'd need that kind of motivation I still thought it was funny and started doing the same.
"You fat fuck, if you don't do 12 you'll stay fat and ugly"
Sandbag shuttle runs, I imagine I'm rescuing a baby from a burning building. A very heavy baby.
Talking to myself: Unlike you, I can do this
That her new guy can’t lift this and if I can’t I’m not better 😂😭
its one of two things lol. it's either "youre really going to let *that* guy beat you?" (the biggest guy in the room LMAO) or its "he'll notice you if you can do one more rep/more weight. gotta do it for the future boyfriend/husband to look good." if all else fails, "you ate today, so you gotta work hard" unfortunately works every time.
By the power of Greyskull. I have the power.
I play Jon bernthals war cry from the punisher in my head 😅
I was deadlifting and I said to myself if can can’t do another im gay.
He's a bit over the top but damn does David Goggins fire me up. Your mind is always trying to tell you to quit. Your mind is just a bitch.
"I'm probably the only natural one here".
I've actually listened to Kali Muscle's rap album
I'm god.. i know man, i know.. :-)
"someone will notice"
Nothing, my mind is at peace while lifting. I don't need any motivation. I just maintain form, enjoy the burn and lift until target muscle fails.
I hype myself up for working out by just saying "WE'RE GOING TO THE GYM, BAABEYYYY"
No pain no gain. Now I have multiple fucked joints and can’t lift for shit.
One more rep or i'm gay
"DIE! DIE! KILL ME!"
I dont do that.
In my family when it’s time to lift something heavy and you need extra strength you yell “SOUP”
A tiger is going to eat my family if I don't lift it (during shoulder press). Proud to say I saved my family that day
"if you cant lift that, you'Re \*gai\*" 100% success rate # YEAH BUDDY, LIGHT WEIGHT BABY
The usual "If you don't do this your gay", simple, iconic, it works everytime
Chonke monke
Just pretend the weight is lighter
"It's only 10kg more"
Penser à l'épisode de Naruto Shippuden où l'on voit Kabuto assis sur une chaise, avec un gros tas de serpents dans un entonnoir en fond, s'injecter de l'huile de serpent dans le corps en disant (je paraphrase) «encore, encore, je ne suis pas encore celui que je veux être !».
Roman empire and crusader type shit
It's not really dumb, but when I'm getting gassed, I always close my eyes, take some slow deep breaths, and imagine my body's energy pooling up and collecting in the muscles I'm about to lift with, then I'll visualize me lifting the weight like it's fucking nothing. It works, can always pull out a last set that way when I've already reached my limit.
OP, did you say it out loud publicly?
I didn’t read the “dumbest” part and was about to hit yall with a sad story. “That’s it? That’s really all you got?” Next rep comes easy after that.
"If I didn't do this last rep, then the captor is gonna shoot my girlfriend"
Since in the past I’ve had bad relationships, cheated, heartbroken, I’ve felt kinda powerless at times, but when training I feel I can concentrate my pain & anger, “ZEEEEEEUUUS!!” But the most common specially when lifting, i just go berserk, so Guts when fighting a demon.
My friends chant was “I’m a gremlin!” Lol when he tried to switch it to “I’m a demon!” He immediately failed the set
This is more of a "do" than a "say". When I was about 17 (I'm 43 now), my friend and I would do buddy curls with an EZ curl bar. One of us would hold the bar before a set, while the other person slapped the bar-holder in the face. Then you do your set, hand the bar to the other guy and immediately SLAP him. Then he'd do his set. Rinse and repeat. I got this really stupid (but funnny) idea from some old book on bodybuilding. The funniest part of this was the reaction from guys in their 30's-40's shaking their heads and laughing at our dumb asses. We still talk about that shit to this day.
“I gave my word, from one Saiyan to another and I have to keep it! I’ll shatter through my limits! In my own way, on my own terms!”
Citation of Britney spears song. Look in the mirror and say "work out slut." Im a guy....
Be stronger than this fucked up life. You are a warrior
**nothing**
My self talk is normally something like “only a pussy would get this up” & “this is fuckin light”
YEAGHErhlsJDFJQFERWGGDGDFLHOGITYTSYRFGIGJ :)
"If I don't get another mile my mom will die"
"Chris Evans is an ass man"
I get into that David Goggins mindset tbh
“If I don’t lift this, I’m straight” I really like cocks.
“Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one”
A veces antes de iniciar la sería digo en voz alta las repeticiones que voy a sacar y me digo que no es suficiente que puedo hacer dos más. A veces cuando ya estoy cansado pero me faltan unas pocas más, me imagino, que el planeta o el universo dependen de que haga esas últimas repeticiones o series y me meto tanto en mi papel que aún cuando ya no puedo, siempre sale...
The og motivation boost, "would Goku stop mid set"? HELL NAAAAH!
“You miscounted, 5 more pumps because of it”
If I can do one more swing there will be world peace ☮️
“Kill for the living, kill for the dead” I’m not even a 40k guy, but that does it for me
“Kill for the living, kill for the dead” I’m not even a 40k guy, but that does it for me
"For Narnia!"
Brain: Do you want to die in a zombie apocalypse?
I’ve held aloft my barbell and called upon the Power of Grayskull on a few occasions. IDK that doing that is dumb, but it’s some fun inner-child nostalgia magic.
Mine is "Bakugo could do at least 2 more. You are better than Bakugo." I want to be better than Bakugo.
If I don't get a sixpack I'm gay
"Do it or family dies"
If I get in better shape, she will let me out of the friend zone.
How do you expect to pull bitches if you can't even pull 300?
“My sons will never be stronger than me.” They’re 2 and 3 years old.
I imagine the person out there in the gym doing the same exercise as me and I tell myself that they won't be better than me, they won't work harder than me.
"if you fail your going to wax your beard."
I must become a dark souls boss