Motivation. Why it is so important?

6. Do something new. Buy yourself a new supplement, go to a new gym, change up your routine, eat some new food, just do something out of the ordinary.

7. Imagine this…You’re on stage with five other bodybuilders, one by one you watch them get eliminated until there are two people left--you and your biggest rival. You know he’s bigger than you and has a better chance at winning this, but don’t let that bring you down. Keep your head up and always try to be better than him. If you always picture him as being bigger than you then it will keep you motivated to do better.

8. Watch a good movie. Rocky changed my whole view about lifting weights and that was actually the movie that got me into bodybuilding in the first place. If you haven’t seen this movie, go out and rent it right now, or tomorrow, but you get the point.

9. Take some time off weight training and cardio. Take a good week off to think about what you have achieve over the past couple months or so. When you are done with the break, you will want to go out and list weights all the time because you will miss it. Trust me.

10. Do it because the big guy said you couldn’t. Don’t worry about him; he’s a jerk anyway. Don’t let anyone put you down when it comes to lifting weights. Just go out there and prove them wrong by training smart and getting huge. It will be very fun to rub that in his face later on.

I have one last thing I want to talk about in this article. It’s about those days when just about everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Take this for example:

You wake up in the morning only to realize that you’re already a half an hour late for work at your new job. When you arrive, you find out that your boss had a very short temper and he starts going off at you. After that, you get into your cubical, and sit down to read your email. Just before you get online, the phone rings. “It’s my first day, no one knows my number here except my girlfriend, but she’s out of town,” you say to yourself.

Sure enough, it’s her, and she isn’t out of town, she’s with your best friend and she just broke up with you. Just when you think it can’t get any worse, you go out for lunch and guess who’s there—your ex and your best friend. You leave there quickly and try to erase it from your memory, but you just cannot do it. You then get back to work and your boss tells you that he wants to talk to you after work. The next thing you know, you’re fired.

Well, that may be a slightly exaggerated story but you get what I mean. If this has ever happened to you, you know how difficult it is to pick up the weights again. If you can focus all of your energy, positive and negative, into your routine, you should have no problem overcoming this horrible day. Channel all your energy into each rep of each set. If you feel like you cannot do it, just try as many as you can, then go out and have some fun for a little bit, then come back and start it all over. There’s nothing wrong with skipping a day of training as long as it doesn’t become habitual.

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Final thought – Motivation is one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, factor in bodybuilding. You need motivation to keep you going and to keep getting bigger and bigger. Without it most bodybuilders are useless. They wouldn’t be able to go anywhere with the proper motivation. However you decide to motivate yourself, I hoped this article helped you. I leave you with this quote,

“To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.” – Bunker Hunt

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