Internal or External Motivation – What Drives You to Train?

| May 29, 2020 / 8 min read
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What motivates you to train? Internal or external motivation. If you reached your goals tomorrow would you stop, or would you make more goals and be back the next day desperate to start again?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. About how the place that a person’s motivation comes from affects how they train, how often they train, how they view their body, life and all the downfalls and setbacks they endure.

In my mind’s eye I visualize a list of names, in one column are the names of people who I see train regularly, who have ups and downs but overall seem to enjoy training and who see the best and most consistent results.

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