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What motivates you, and what do you hate? About bodybuilding/strength sports...

jj80

jj80

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Was just wondering what elements of bodybuilding some forum members like. What keeps you going?

What elements of the bodybuilding or strength sports scenes do you find distasteful or try to avoid?


For me I like to challenge myself in terms of weightlifting and what I can achieve. Even if it's just numbers on a bar the process of pushing it and overcoming adversity draws me to weight training.

I also like keeping fit and it helps prevent me turning into a complete couch slob.

I don't like the body dysmorphia some people develop and that the media helps to propagate with ridiculous images of 'the ideal'. It seems in bodybuilding some people take 'keeping in shape' too far and fall into their own reflection... like Narcissus... Perversion through obsession.
 
I just don't like what I might become without training. A skinny fuck. That scares the shit outta me.
 
Like
It makes me feel good
Keeps your body and mind young and healthy
I can still see my toes. :D

Dislike
People through the Internet have made it unnecessarily confusing
The constant searching of a magic program
Obsessive chasing of numbers with little regard for anything else
Group training and all the rah rah bullshit that goes with it
Calling fat bastards who lift athletes. :D
 
Although I'm old and most here are still much younger

Likes; the by products lifting weight produces for me.

Dislikes
What dorko wrote, I mean I like what he wrote his dislikes I like I mean....

Was different when I was much younger.
 
I love food, therefore I train so I can eat more. I also enjoy testing my body and pushing it to the limits. I dislike the judgmental attitudes of people within the gym, hating on obese people doing there best etc... and the general stereotypes of loving yourself, flexing all the time and eating chicken & broccoli every meal.
 
The self love does get a little tiring on occasion. More than occasionally actually. Excessive vanity in a person is not an attractive trait.

Though, I do like being able to squat four plates so hard the bar leaves my shoulders. That bit is nice. As is nothing I do outside of the gym being actually hard.
 
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