Ep. 175 - Training Burnout & Rekindling Motivation

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Motivation is for the weak, commitment is for the REAL lifers! Right! Right? Well maybe not so much. Join us on an existential journey into what motivation really means. What are our motives to train, how does this relate to our identity, and self determination? In this episode we comment on our observations of long-time lifters’ motivation to train in the public eye, and how that intersects with the research on motivation, identity and meaning. You might just come away with a better understanding of the meaning of lift.

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0:00.0	Eric.
0:02.2	Yes, sir.
0:03.6	In the last episode, we were on the edge of glory.
0:06.1	We were on the edge of something truly remarkable talking about gym environments, the ideal environment, home gym, home gym equipment, us, where we are, where people are.
0:15.0	We're right down to the people, with the people, above the people, in around, all around.
0:19.6	You know how it goes.
0:20.5	And in this episode today, I think, you know, it's a little while after, but there was kind of
0:26.5	this conversation underneath everything that we're talking about.
0:29.9	And the Colton knew.
0:30.8	They knew.
0:31.3	We didn't say it explicitly, but it was there for them to understand and feel.
0:36.9	Hmm.
0:38.2	What?
0:40.3	Well, let me read some of the comments here just to help get us acquainted.
0:44.2	So, Omar, these are comments on our gym environment episode, right?
0:48.4	Yes, absolutely.
0:49.3	These are very real comments.
0:50.7	And yes, it took us two weeks to get to them.
0:52.3	But that's how we do it, Eric.
0:54.0	This is how we do it. It also took us two weeks to actually record the episode.
0:58.1	This is true. This is true. Yeah, for whatever reason. We're not saying it wasn't recorded before.
1:03.2	We're not saying there was a mishap by one member, dash, owner, dash, co-figurehead of the cult.
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