What ACTUALLY motivates you to go to the gym?

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1. Hate

2. Mental health.

3. I want to be healthy and independent for as long as possible, and I want my wife to be attracted to me.

4. Not wanting to be the skinny dude ever again

5. Testosterone for pussy

6. Looking good tbh

7. Mental and physical health are at an all time low, so I have to do something.

8. Because Socrates was the wisest and he said too. Do you want to offend the ghost of Socrates?

9. Literally just feeling good about myself. I like to look good.

10. Health and fitness. As I approach 50 I realize that if I want my best days to be ahead of me, I need to exercise more and eat better.

11. 3 things.

    1. Family history of cancer.

    2. Mental health and chronic insomnia improvement.

    3. My wife has to see me naked for the rest of our lives. The least I can do is make it appealing.

12. I’m fat as fuck and nobody will love me until I’m muscular as fuck.

13. I just go anyway, like I’m on autopilot. Even when I don’t want to go I put on my gym clothes and next thing you know I’m in the car on the way there

14. For some reason when I go to the gym time just flies. I feel better and look better as time goes by. It started as a way to get over some feelings I was having (Both romantically and non-romantically), but over time it’s just something that I really can’t go without. I love going to the gym. I want to be the best version of me that I can be.

    Also I used to be really fucking obese and I don’t even want to get close to that ever again. I’ve been on both sides of the spectrum. Very fit, and obese. People treat you a lot better when you’re in shape. Like it’s honestly kind of ridiculous but I guess I understand?

    Motivation really has nothing to do with it too. It only gets you started but discipline keeps you going.

15. Mental health and desire to be the hot dad

16. Hot body today, healthy b9dy when I get old

17. That jerk on twitter who called me skinny and weak.

18. Endorphin released at the end of workout makes me wanna go everyday

19. Health: Family history of heart disease.

    Confidence: I like knowing I look good naked and clothed.

    Social benefit: Being in shape tends to command more respect than having an average or fat build.

    Practicality: Being strong is useful

    Discipline > motivation though. Motivation is fickle

20. I’m horny af, have the hottest gf in the world, and I’ve gained so much weight my dick barely works. So yeah, now I go to the gym.

21. My 17 year old son needs to know that despite him being now stronger than me…Im still fighting the good fight 👍🏼

22. Keeping Type 2 Diabetes at bay.

23. I’m ugly and was bullied a lot in school. Once I got bigger and could defend myself against bullies, I no longer got bullied. After that, I was hooked.

    I have a great physique, but my mental health issues still persist (OCD, anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia). I’ve been going daily for 16 years and at this point, it’s as much apart of my daily routine as is sleeping. I am healthy though and can still participate in sports and activities at a high level.

24. Pick big thing up quiet bad head voice

25. Feeling strong is nice.

26. To make her regret the decisions she made.

27. Mental Health

28. breakups

29. I will let you know as soon as something does.

30. I wanna look like Goku

31. When ever in having sex with a woman and she compliments specifc parts of my body that look great cause of working out. Makes it feel like all the time in the gym has paid off

32. Back when I was going to the gym it was because it felt good. I would get up at 4am and do my two hours before starting my day and going to work, and it felt spectacular.

    To put in the words of my chill co-worker, “you work out for like two hours and you pretty much spend the rest of a day on a natural high.”
    Truer words were never spoken by a co-worker.

    Then there was my therapist who was the one that recommended it to me in the first place. I vibed rather well with her because I came in for a session about a month after I had started, she described the feeling rather well. Her words were, “It feels good to head in for a workout and work up *a sweat*.”
    Something about her emphasis on ‘work up a sweat’ is the most accurate description that I’ve heard about the gym experience, to this day. Not in the least because there was like a glazed look in her eye when she mentioned it lol

    Something about working up a nice sweat, letting your brain go nuts on endorphins and letting those pheromones kick off, is like the only motivation I actually need.
    There’s the whole ‘looking good naked’ and all that, but that’s just the icing on the cake.

33. To look better naked

34. Everyone starts with some reason,until it becomes an addiction.
    A Real good addiction.

35. To make them all regret…

36. not wishing to look anything like men my age.

37. The more gym I do the more guinness I can drink

38. The expensive membership

39. Back pain. If I don’t stay in shape I get back pain.

40. I don’t want hypertension, diabetes, or any other medical issues to deal with.

    Beyond that, great stress relief.