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adidas
04-05-2011, 09:53 PM
Will updated occasionally.
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joseph
04-05-2011, 10:12 PM
Nice:thumbsup: Subscribed
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Always brings a tear to my eye.
pf0sh0
04-05-2011, 11:47 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdd31Q9PqA
scboss
04-06-2011, 12:29 AM
not really motivational just dont be that guy!!!!
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SlickA70
04-06-2011, 12:45 AM
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering."
Helped me time and time again.
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04-06-2011, 09:11 AM
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04-06-2011, 10:21 AM
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04-06-2011, 08:07 PM
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msommers
04-06-2011, 09:47 PM
:thumbsup: I've been in a slump lately working out. This'll get me back on the horse.
Dave P
04-07-2011, 08:22 AM
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04-07-2011, 08:38 AM
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joseph
04-07-2011, 02:51 PM
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04-10-2011, 08:34 PM
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Pain doesn’t tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change. Don’t let it stop you from being who you can be. Exhaustion tells you when you ought to stop. You only reach your limit when you can go no further.
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04-10-2011, 08:42 PM
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Swank
04-15-2011, 11:45 AM
^That Is Awesome :eek:
Do you understand the second you look in the mirror and you're happy with what you see, baby, you just lost the battle?
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msommers
04-15-2011, 11:46 AM
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Jlude
04-15-2011, 12:19 PM
Great thread!!
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04-15-2011, 01:03 PM
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adidas
05-10-2011, 02:17 PM
"Champions are not born. They are made. They emerge from a long hard school of defeat, disencouragement and mediocrity, not because they are born tennis players, but because they are endowed with a force that transcends discouragement and cries 'I will succeed!"
- Bill Tilden
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life your living?-Bob Marley
"If I had your body, your life, your opportunities and youth, there would be nobody who could beat me. I would be out there every day at the crack of dawn. I'd kiss the ground, kiss the tennis court and thank god every day that i had this opportunity. I would go out and train myself into the ground. You dont even understand what you have. you only have one chance to go through this life and its up to you to see how bright your candle will shine. It's all in your hands. this is your life. You can make a comeback if you want it badly enough. You can do it"
-Jim Pierce to Vince Spadea
"You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." Robert E. Lee
"Know what is truly important to you. Don't lose sight of that in the face of opportunity OR in the face of desperation"
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max_boost
05-10-2011, 04:13 PM
Awesome thread. :thumbsup:
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scboss
06-30-2011, 08:30 PM
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scboss
06-30-2011, 08:45 PM
oops double post
Great thread you guys. A couple of those first videos brought a tear to my eye. The HBO Boxing and MJ one are awesome and so is the AMC one Dave.
Never subscribed to a thread on beyond before but I think I just did.
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07-01-2011, 08:06 AM
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flipstah
07-01-2011, 01:35 PM
Subscribed! I need to get IN SHAPE!
scboss
07-04-2011, 09:19 PM
Sick Vid ^^
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adidas
08-17-2011, 12:18 AM
Havent updated this in a long time. Tons of videos coming to you in the next few days!
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." — Charles Bukowski (Factotum)
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adidas
08-18-2011, 12:46 PM
22 Ways to Become Spectacularly Inspirational
By Robin Sharma, author of the #1 bestseller “The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life”
1. Do important work vs. merely offering opinions.
2. Lift people up vs. tear others down.
3. Use the words of leadership vs. the language of victimhood.
4. Don’t worry about getting the credit for getting things done.
5. Become part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
6. Take your health to a level called superfit.
7. Commit to mastery of your craft instead of accepting mediocrity in your work.
8. Associate with people whose lives you want to be living.
9. Study for an hour a day. Double your learning and you’ll triple your success.
10. Run your own race. “No one can possibly achieve real and lasting success by being a conformist,” wrote billionaire J. Paul Getty
11. Do something small yet scary every single day.
12. Lead Without a Title.
13. Focus on people’s strengths vs. obsessing around their weaknesses.
14. Remember that potential unused turns into pain. So dedicate yourself to expressing your best.
15. Smile more.
16. Listen more.
17. Read the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
18. Reflect on the words of Eleanor Roosevelt who said: “Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”
19. Persist longer than the critics suggest you should.
20. Say “please” and “thank you”.
21. Love your loved ones.
22. Do work that matters.
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Khyron
08-19-2011, 10:32 AM
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ddduke
08-21-2011, 09:02 PM
This thread is pure gold, bbm and desktop photos have already been changed.
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08-22-2011, 07:59 AM
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08-23-2011, 01:45 PM
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle
It's good that life can be a bitch. If it were a slut, it'd be too easy.
Lift until you can't lift anymore, and then do a few extra sets because you know it's a privilege to be there and to pay your respects to the Iron gods. Feel your hands wrap around the iron, listen to the clanging of the weights, and be thankful this is all part of your life.
I never compete against the competition. The only one I compete against is myself, because one day I will beat the competition and then who will I compete against? - Billie Akauola
Someone once asked me "why do you always insist on taking the hard road?" and I replied "why do you assume I see two roads"?
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
- Marcus Aurelius
a lot of people give up just before theyre about to make it. you never know when the next obstacle will be the last one - chuck norris
A lot of people sit around waiting for their ship to come in, I plan on jumping in the water and swimming out to it.
austic
08-23-2011, 03:16 PM
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Confusious
"It's easy to make progress when things are going great. When you're feeling fast, powerful, strong.
When you are feeling bad, when nothing is working, when everything is going against you, then you must bear down, and forge ahead. Those are the days that build character and make the most difference."
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08-25-2011, 11:43 AM
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trieu
09-07-2011, 02:37 PM
I don't know how to embed but this is a good one:
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joseph
09-09-2011, 01:33 PM
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scboss
09-13-2011, 03:05 AM
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This makes me want to train hard. The final obstacle is insane.
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max_boost
10-26-2011, 03:52 PM
I have to say this is my brah adidas best contribution to Beyond. :love:
After leaving the swimming pool demoralized last night, watching my free style stroke completely fall apart, I felt like as if I was a back to level 1 but with this thread I'm ready to go hammer it out again tonight. :werd: :whipped:
Keep the motivation coming!!!!!
JAYMEZ
11-04-2011, 12:15 AM
Ooooo didnt know this was around!
I watch movies everyday!
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THIS ONE IS WICKKKKEDD
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I watched this when I was super down in life.
adidas
11-22-2011, 05:29 PM
Havent posted in a while, but this should hold you till i find some free time.
"Nothing so conclusive proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step..
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument.. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie.... Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
26. Always choose life.
27. Forgive everyone everything.
28. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Don't take yourself so seriously.... No one else does.
32. Believe in miracles.
33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
35. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
36. Your children get only one childhood..
37. All that truly matters in the end is that you are loved.
38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
41.... The best is yet to come.
42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
43. Yield.
44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Hard work is deliberate practice. It’s not fun while you’re doing it, but you don’t have to do too much of it in any one day (the elite players spent, on average, 3.5 hours per day engaged in deliberate practice, broken into two sessions). It also provides you measurable progress in a skill, which generates a strong sense of contentment and motivation. Therefore, although hard work is hard, it’s not draining and it can fit nicely into a relaxed and enjoyable day.
Hard to do work, by contrast, is draining. It has you running around all day in a state of false busyness that leaves you, like the average players from the Berlin study, feeling tired and stressed. It also, as we just learned, has very little to do with real accomplishment.
The solution suggested by this research, as well as my own, is as simple as it is startling: Do less. But do what you do with complete and hard focus. Then when you’re done be done, and go enjoy the rest of the day.
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outsider
01-17-2012, 06:59 PM
Motivation
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01-17-2012, 07:58 PM
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01-29-2012, 03:01 PM
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What Seperates us from them
"So, what are you doing for a living these days?" Bob asked me. We're sitting on the couch at one of those tedious holiday get-togethers, you know, the ones where you're supposed to be nice to family members you never see except during major holidays and funerals. I think Bob is my wife's brother-in-law's second cousin or something.
"I'm the assistant editor and a writer for Testosterone magazine," I say. Bob looks at me with a blank expression on his face, as if I'd just told him I sell handmade testicle warmers beside the freeway and was looking to open franchises across the nation.
"It's a bodybuilding magazine," I say.
Blank expression. Deer caught in the headlights. Ronnie Coleman doing trigonometry.
"Oh," Bob finally says, "I heard you were, like, one of those bodybuilder guys or something. So, what's that like, you know, working out every day and stuff? I just don't have time to lift weights all day, but I have been meaning to get rid of this beer belly." He takes another sip of beer. "What do you suggest?" Sip.
At first I was a little offended. I wanted to grab him up and say, "You can't tell I'm a bodybuilder?! Look at my ass! Now, if that's not a nice round squat-built piece of sirloin, I don't know what is! You think that comes naturally? I can crack walnuts with this puppy! Wanna see? Huh, punk? Do ya? Do ya?"
Then I realize this just might cause a scene and could cost me several Christmas presents. I was planning on returning any presents I got and using the money to buy a power rack, so I didn't want to jeopardize this gift getting opportunity. I also realized that old Bob probably had a certain preconceived image of a bodybuilder and I just didn't fit that image. I'm not gorilla huge; I weigh about 205 at 5'11" right now. (When I first started lifting I was a pudgy 159, so that's not too shabby.) Also, I wasn't wearing clown pants, a fluorescent string tank top, a hanky on my head and one of those little fanny packs. And isn't that what real bodybuilders are supposed to wear?
Bob continued to sit there drinking his Natural Light, smoking a cigarette and waiting for an answer, oblivious to the fact that he'd come this close to seeing some serious walnut- crunching ass power. I tried to figure out how I could explain to the average guy what the typical T-Man does and why he does it. How could I get him to understand what it is we do, how we feel, how we live? So I took a deep breath and told him something like this:
"Well, Bob, I guess you could use the term bodybuilder if you really need a label for what it is we do. Most of us actually don't stand on stage and compete, though. We lift weights and manipulate our diets so that we'll look good naked. Sure, it's healthy too, and we'll probably live a longer and more productive life than the average guy, but mostly it's about the naked thing. Truthfully, it goes beyond even that.
"Let's be honest here. We do it because of people like you, Bob. We look at you sitting there with your gut hanging over your belt and we watch you grunt and groan just getting out of a chair. Guys like you are our inspiration, Bob. You're better than Anthony Robbins, Bill Phillips, Deepak Chopra, and Zig ****ing Ziglar all wrapped up into one. We love it when guys like you talk about not having time to exercise. Every time we see you munching on a bag of potato chips, you inspire us. You're my shot in the arm, Bob, my living and breathing wake-up call, my own personal success coach.
"You want to know what it is we do? We overcome. We're too busy to train, too, but we overcome. We're too busy to prepare healthy meals and eat them five or six times a day, but we overcome. We can't always afford supplements, our genetics aren't perfect, and we don't always feel like going to the gym. Some of us used to be just like you, Bob, but guess what? We've overcome.
"We like to watch 'normal' people like you tell us about how they can't get in shape. We smile and nod sympathetically like we feel your pain, but actually, we're thinking that you're a pathetic piece of **** that needs to grow a spine and join a gym. You smile sheepishly and say that you just can't stay motivated and just can't stand that feeling of being sore. (For some reason you think that admitting your weaknesses somehow justifies them.) We listen to you ***** and moan. We watch you look for the easy way out. Because of people like you, Bob, we never miss a workout.
"You ask us for advice about diet and training and usually we politely offer some guidance, but deep inside we know you won't take our advice. You know that too. We smile and say, 'Hope that helps. Good luck,' but actually we're thinking, 'Boy, it would suck to be you.' We know that 99% of people won't listen to us. Once they hear that it takes hard work, sacrifice and discipline, they stop listening and tune us out.
"We know they wanted us to say that building a great body is easy, but it just isn't. This did not take five minutes a day on a TorsoTrack. We did not get this way in 12 short weeks using a Bowflex and the Suzanne Somers' 'Get Skinny' diet. A good body does not cost five easy payments of $39.95.
"We like it that while you're eating a candy bar and drinking Mountain Dew, we're sucking down a protein shake. You see, that makes it taste even better to us. While you're asleep we're either getting up early or staying up late, hitting the iron, pushing ourselves, learning, succeeding and failing and rising above the norm with every rep. Can you feel that, Bob? Can you relate? No? Good. This wouldn't be half as fun if you could.
"We do it because we absolutely and totally get off on it. We do it because people like you, Bob, either can't or won't. We do it because what we do in the gym transfers over into the rest of our lives and changes us, physically, mentally, maybe even spiritually. We do it because it beats watching fishing and golf on TV. By the way, do you know what it's like to turn the head of a beautiful woman because of the way you're built? It feels good, Bob. Damned good.
"When we're in the gym, we're in this indescribable euphoria zone. It's a feeling of being on, of being completely alive and aware. If you haven't been there, then it's like trying to describe color to a person who's been blind since birth. Within this haze of pleasure and pain, there's knowledge and power, self-discipline and self-reliance. If you do it long enough, Bob, there's even enlightenment. Sometimes, the answers to questions you didn't even know you had are sitting there on those rubber mats, wrapped up in a neat package of iron plates and bars.
"Want to lose that beer belly, Bob? I have a nutty idea. Put down the ****ing beer. I'll tell you what, Bob. Christmas morning I'm getting up real early and hitting the iron. I want to watch my daughter open her presents and spend the whole day with her, so this is the only time I have to train. The gym will be closed, so I'm going out in my garage to workout. You be at my house at six in the morning, okay? I'll be glad to help you get started on a weight training program. It'll be colder than Hillary Clinton's coochie in there, so dress warm.
"But let me tell you something, Bob. If you don't show up, don't bother asking me again. And don't you ever sit there and let me hear you ***** about your beer belly again. This is your chance, your big opportunity to break out of that rut. If you don't show up, Bob, you've learned a very important lesson about yourself, haven't you? You won't like that lesson.
"You won't like that feeling in the pit of your stomach either or that taste in your mouth. It will taste worse than defeat, Bob. Defeat tastes pretty goddamned nasty, but what you'll be experiencing will be much worse. It will be the knowledge that you're weak, mentally and physically. What's worse is that you'll have accepted that feeling. The feeling will always be with you. In the happiest moments of your life, it'll be there, lying under the surface like a malignant tumor. Ignore it at your own peril, Bob.
"Don't look at me like that either. This just may be the best Christmas present you'll get this year. Next Christmas, Bob, when I see you again, I'm going to be a little bigger, a little stronger, and a little leaner. What will you be? Will you still be making excuses? This is a gift, Bob, from me to you. I'm giving you the chance to look fate in those pretty eyes of hers and say, 'Step off, *****. This is my party and you're not invited.' What do you say, Bob? Monday, Christmas morning, 6am, my house. The ball's in your court."
Okay, so maybe that's not the exact words I used with Bob, but you get the picture. Will Bob show up Monday? I don't know, but I kind of doubt it. In fact, Bob will probably take me off his Christmas card list. He probably thinks I've got "too much Testosterone," like that's a bad thing. I think Bob is just stuck in a rut, and as the saying goes, the only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.
The way out of the rut is to make major changes in your life, most of which won't be too pleasant in the beginning. The opportunity to make those changes seldom comes as bluntly as I put it to Bob. Most of the time, that opportunity knocks very softly. What I did was basically give Bob a verbal slap in the face. You can react two ways to a slap. You can get angry at the person doing the slapping, or you can realize that he was just trying to get you to wake up and focus on what you really want and, more importantly, what it'll take to get it.
If you're a regular T-mag reader, I doubt you need to be called out like Bob. But maybe you've caught yourself slacking a little here lately. Maybe you've missed a few workouts or maybe you started a little too early on the usual holiday feasting, like, say, back in September. Just remember that the time to start working on that summer body is now. The time to get rid of those bad habits that hold you back in the gym is now. You want to look totally different by next Christmas? Start now. This isn't because of the holidays or any corny New Year's resolutions either. The best time is always now.
Christmas day I want you to enjoy being with your family and friends. I want you to open presents, sip a little eggnog and have a good meal. But if your regularily scheduled workout happens to fall on December 25th, what will you be doing at six o'clock that morning?
That's what separates us from guys like Bob
Unknown303
01-29-2012, 03:25 PM
That last story makes me feel fat. :rofl:
Looks like Monday is gym day.
adidas
01-29-2012, 10:17 PM
^ Dont thank me, thank yourself for building up the courage to say "fuck it" and doing something about it.
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Einstein:
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” –
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“If there is any religion would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.”
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. “
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
“Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.”
Upon refusing surgery at the age of 76, he said: “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
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Ray Lewis has some great short speeches
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If you dont have time to watch any video in this thread, at least make the time to peep this one
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statick
01-30-2012, 08:20 AM
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high." - Ayrton Senna
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02-07-2012, 10:07 PM
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THIS ONE IS WICKKKKEDD
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I watched this when I was super down in life. [/B]
Thank you thank you thank you for posting this one. I've been working out 3 times a week for the last 3 years and was never ultra committed. I watch this video on a daily basis and have been more into training than ever. I have lost about 15 pounds in 3 weeks and increased every physical aspect about my gym session since seeing this video for the first time. It is the last video I watch before going to bed at night and it drives me to wake up at 6am every day to hit my rower and swing my kettle bells in my basement.
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02-23-2012, 12:52 PM
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Never like using females as "motivation" but this one here is a fine specimen
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adidas
04-01-2012, 05:50 PM
If you dont feel anything after watching this video, well then watch it, till you do!!
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scboss
04-04-2012, 12:10 AM
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04-04-2012, 02:03 PM
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everyone should see this movie.
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04-05-2012, 01:26 PM
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04-13-2012, 10:04 AM
Follow the lyrics:
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Sorry, can't link the photo directly from the Muscle Insider (http://www.muscle-insider.com/category/image-galleries/bc-provincials-part-two-2011) site (1st page, 4th row from the bottom, 3rd pic). This is from the current issue. The reason this is motivating is that it is my wife's cousin and I know a bit of her background. She got into working out because she broke her back falling off a horse when she was in her 20's. She's now 40-something and has been competing for only 2 or 3 years, iirc. Has one of the best physiques there--best tone and symmetry, imo--but I'm not sure how she placed.
Let's me know that at 37 I can still get in the best shape of my life.
Edited to add: Sorry, just noticed that every time you open that Muscle Insider link the pics are in a different order. Hopefully the Facebook one works and you can then find her in the Muscle Insider pics.
scboss
05-09-2012, 02:14 AM
Anytime I see these I want to train!
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zipdoa
05-09-2012, 05:10 AM
Excellent thread. Subscribed.
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05-10-2012, 09:54 PM
One of my favorite videos! I've lost count of how many times I've seen this one!
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scboss
05-23-2012, 09:51 PM
Co-worker/training parnter/client 5month transformation. Decided he wanted to compete as a fitness model and made it happen all natural.
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Ended up winning first place INBF calgary classic. If its important to you it will happen. If not you will make excuses.
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06-07-2012, 11:07 PM
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for all you bodybuilders
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and one of my favourite powerlifters. BEAST!
GotRice?
07-20-2012, 09:21 AM
Originally posted by adidas
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Never like using females as "motivation" but this one here is a fine specimen
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What does fuark mean? I need some motivation! Anyone got some new ones?
zipdoa
07-23-2012, 01:54 PM
Originally posted by GotRice?
What does fuark mean? I need some motivation! Anyone got some new ones?
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scboss
07-23-2012, 08:48 PM
Originally posted by zipdoa
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Didnt that guy die in a sauna because he overdosed on ephedrine and steriods? Guy was a crazy party animal!
acura_el
09-06-2012, 08:24 PM
I'm sure this has been posted elsewhere, but I thought I'd add it to this thread. You may have heard about Alex Zanardi's story, but if reading this doesn't inspire you to get off your ass, there isn't much that will.
Paralympics: Ex-Formula One driver Alex Zanardi wins gold in cycling
http://www.thestar.com/sports/london2012/article/1251621--paralympics-ex-formula-one-driver-alex-zanardi-wins-gold-in-cycling
LONDON—Alex Zanardi just loves to race. But what he really likes to do is win.
The former Formula One driver took the Paralympic gold medal Wednesday in paracycling — a hand cycle powered by the arms — at the Brands Hatch race track, posting a time of 24 minutes 50.22 seconds.
The victory capped an incredible journey for the 45-year-old who almost died in a horrific accident at a 2001 CART race in Germany.
“It’s an amazing feeling,” a clearly exuberant Zanardi said. “I’m really, really happy for the result.”
Zanardi celebrated by sliding out of his cycle and lifting it over his head with one hand and raising his other arm, fist clenched, to the sky.
It was unusual. It was on purpose.
“I’m Alex Zanardi,” he said with a huge grin, his Italian accent dragging each syllable. “I always have to come up with something. I have a little bit of a big head.”
Zanardi’s journey to the Paralympics began at the American Memorial 500 on Sept. 15, 2001, at the Eurospeedway Lausitz in Germany — the only American-based series to go forward on the weekend after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Zanardi, a former two-time CART champion, had had a difficult season. He started 22nd in a field of 27, but the car was responding well. He was enjoying the drive, passing one car after another, until with 13 laps to go he was in the lead.
Zanardi went into his final pit stop and the crew chief waved him off urging him to “Go, go, go!”
But as he built up speed to get back into the race, the car spun out of control and he veered onto the track. Canadian driver Alex Tagliani, travelling at close to 320 km/h, could not avoid him. The reinforced carbon fibre cone of Tagliani’s car sliced through the area beside Zanardi’s left front wheel and cockpit, the weakest part of the vehicle.
On the track, Dr. Terry Trammel slipped and fell as he raced to the wreckage. He thought he had fallen in oil, but it was Zanardi’s blood.
The crash had severed Zanardi’s right leg at the knee and his left at the thigh some five inches above the knee. The driver’s lower legs had disintegrated like those of land mine victims, said Dr. Steve Olvey, director of medical affairs for CART at the time. He had lost 70 per cent of his blood, his pelvis was fractured in five places and he had a lacerated liver.
But Zanardi was alive.
At the hospital, Zanardi’s wife, Daniela, told him he had lost his legs. But that was only part of the problem. He had been in a coma for three days, his heart had stopped at least once, and he was alive only because of the medical response to his injuries.
Much work for his recovery lay ahead.
NASCAR driver Max Papis, who has known Zanardi since they were kids in Italy, recalled visiting his friend in the hospital, where Zanardi glanced at Papis’ new shoes.
“He said to ‘Look at the positive side of this. For a long time I will not have to spend money buying those,’” Papis said.
Pushing the limits, he began to walk again only months after the accident. Always tinkering, Zanardi used technology and his experience from working with elite race cars to forge a new life — to adapt to his new circumstances, to learn how to use prosthetic legs.
“You don’t know how many times I fell just taking ridiculous small steps,” he told the BBC. “It was bloody hard.”
Two years after the accident, he returned to Lausitz to finish the 13 laps, and later began racing specially modified touring cars. But he had many other races to run. Pity didn’t occur to him.
“He’s a lion,” said his former teammate, Jimmy Vasser. “He just never gave up.”
Zanardi thought of it as part of his destiny, just something that happened to him, said Chip Ganassi, who owns the team that Zanardi once raced for.
“That was like a speed bump for him,” Ganassi said.
Zanardi took up paracycling to stay in shape. A hand cycle is powered by the arms and features two coasting rear wheels and one steerable front wheel. In 2007, he was invited to attend the pasta party at the New York City marathon that was thrown by his sponsor, Barilla. He decided that if he was going, he should take part. At the race, he finished fourth. By 2011, he was first.
On Wednesday, he defeated one of the best in the world — American Oscar (Oz) Sanchez, who won a gold medal in the time trial at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing and a bronze medal in the road race. Sanchez took the bronze in London with a time of 25 minutes, 35.36 seconds.
Norbert Mossandl of Germany won the silver in London with a time of 25 minutes 17.40 seconds.
Zanardi knew the Brands Hatch course north of London would be tough — he once drove it in a race car. To make things worse, he had a bad crash with his favourite bike a few weeks ago — a picture on his Twitter feed showed a crumpled vehicle, its front wheel askew.
But by Wednesday, all that was forgotten. He said Vasser had called him Tuesday night and promised him a car for the Indianapolis 500 — if he won the gold.
“I’ll have to call him back tonight and say ‘Jimmy. I got the gold medal!’ “ he said. “’How about the car?’”
scboss
09-11-2012, 12:25 AM
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Kai is such a inspirational man. "Your dream must become a vision"
adidas
09-15-2012, 03:48 PM
"Any fool can see the sun set, but a dawn you have to earn"
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Mr. Olympia the rules for qualifying are always changing it seems. Back when I was an active Mr. Olympia contender, the top six instantly and automatically qualified for the next year. Some would take all year off. Not me – I loved the thrill of competing and kept a busy schedule of contests all year long. Fans want to see us!
Competing I did it for those who’d supported me in my career, the ones writing fan letters, sending e-mails, and paying to see me up on stage. I loved every minute of the ride. Contest prep and the actual show made me feel alive. It was proof I was living, proof I was breathing. I needed it, and I put everything into it. That was my choice.
Looks like the days of choice are over – bodybuilders don’t get to choose whether they want to take the year off or go full blown. New IFBB rules encourage more competition between Olympia showdowns. The top three still automatically qualify, but all other athletes are on a points system, and it’s through that process they qualify for the Olympia. In short, they have to go full blown if they want to stay on top. That’s what’s up.
I love this new rule. If you compete and earn enough points, you’ll be part of the greatest bodybuilding show conceived by humanity. Win a Pro show, and you’ll automatically qualify. Every bodybuilder should jump at the opportunity.
Bodybuilding is part performance art, part business, and if you’re a competitor with an eye on the bottom line, promoting yourself is part of the never-ending game. Get out there and strut your stuff. Flex your marketing muscles online. Tell the world who you are, and be an innovator in every sphere of public life, on and off stage.
Competing helped me build a property, a brand, a business known as Kevin Levrone. Today, I look back on that experience with fondness. Competition is the name of the game. You hone your skills by trying and falling down, picking yourself up, learning and overcoming, until you sharpen everything to a steely point. That’s what I did.
What annoys me is when people assume I became a bodybuilder out of insecurity, or as a reaction to childhood trauma, and that I’m compensating for old pain. The average person doesn’t understand why we do this, what drives us to physical perfection. Their psycho-babble doesn’t even scratch the surface.
Let me break it down. An IFBB Pro is a real person who’s taken their love, hardships, education and life’s wisdom and put it to work, regardless of race or background. The seed is your thoughts and your emotions, it’s in your DNA. We want to build something incredible, and make a vision a reality, and emerge a champion. It’s not about self-hatred or over-compensation. It’s about relentless pursuit of a vision, the yearning for greatness, the conviction of ideals. The audacity to imagine something impossible and defiantly bring it into reality.
When you’re living the iron life, you just might find your way to the IFBB stage. And that, my friends, is an unbelievable moment, as powerful as it is rare. There are unusual, unexpected rewards that make our sacrifices and battles so worthwhile.
One day, a kid came up to me at the gym. I was two weeks out of the Olympia and focused completely on my program, and he asked if I’d mind training arms with him. This kid was bright, about 17, and of course, I said sure. It suddenly occurred to me that he should’ve been in school, instead of hanging out at a gym. The reason had to do with his father: they didn’t get along and had fought that morning about skipping school.
I gave him my heartfelt thoughts about responsibility and doing the right thing, even if it’s tough. I let him know that I’ve been there, and that the best choice is to gut it out and hang on, overcome. The workout ended, we said our goodbyes, and that was it. Or so I thought.
Much later on, I picked up one of the fitness mags and read the letter section. What did I find? Something from that same kid I trained and talked with! He’d included a picture of us snapped in the gym. The letter was titled, “How Kevin Levrone Saved my Life.” On the day we’d worked out together, he’d planned on killing himself. But our talk had changed his mind. Right then, I knew: there’s more to Bodybuilding than just muscle. It can be a cosmic endeavor, touching many people and taking competitors and fans places none of us thought possible.
After the Olympia, I received a call from a mother whose child had undergone cancer surgery. She asked if I’d come to the hospital and see her terminally ill child. He was unresponsive, and the doctors were fearful. I was dead tired that day, spent from the hardest show prep of my life, but I dragged my bones to the hospital pulled by a force I can’t explain, I somehow found the strength.
When I arrived, I took off my shirt, walked toward his room, and popped around the corner. Positive energy within me exploded, I felt 110%, and I didn’t know where the energy was coming from. It must have been infectious because the boy, previously unresponsive, raised himself up on one arm and just stared at me.
I did what fate designed me to do: I flexed with everything I had. This poor, sick boy started laughing. Laughing – after all he’d been through. That was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. His mother and grandmother were crying tears of joy to see the life force in their beloved child, ignited for a brief moment by an IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, of all people. “Thank you,” they said. “Thank you for being so kind.”
And why wouldn’t I be kind? Should I be a selfish, angry, underground, roid ragin’ animal? Things aren’t always what they appear on the surface. We’re pro bodybuilders – IFBB Pros. Forget stereotypes and misconceptions. Beneath the skin and muscle, all of us are human. Before you find your inner IFBB champion, find your inner human and get in touch with it. Humans make muscles and not the other way around.
This has been a good session. Now stop analyzing things and go lift something.
Kevin Levrone
scboss
10-08-2012, 09:57 PM
One day
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zipdoa
10-17-2012, 01:07 PM
Alistair Overeem is one of my favorite athletes. The guy is just a monster. It takes hard fucking work to be as deadly as he is.
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acura_el
10-21-2012, 12:17 PM
Fuck yes.
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statick
10-21-2012, 03:53 PM
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bigbadboss101
11-02-2012, 08:10 PM
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"Somewhere out there, a girl is warming up with your max"
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11-21-2012, 08:10 PM
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11-23-2012, 06:58 PM
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jjmac
11-24-2012, 02:22 PM
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brucebanner
04-28-2013, 12:08 PM
Anyone got some new material?
Tej.S
04-28-2013, 12:41 PM
I'll post a handful once I'm home :D
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04-28-2013, 11:02 PM
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