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What Motivates You?

What Motivates You?

What motivates you? I mean in terms of your health and fitness what encourages you to do the training, to eat healthy foods, to get enough sleep and to basically care enough to take of your health? And not only is this different for all of us it is different for each of us at different points in our lives. For example, I'll admit that when I was younger my reasons for living a healthy life were different than they are today. Actually I should re-phrase that. When I was younger the reasons for my decisions were more aesthetic then performance or health oriented. Case in point, I would be diligent in training, eating quality foods and buying whatever supplements I could afford in order to look my best. On the weekends I would hope all my efforts would help attract the attention of the opposite sex. In fact, as a university student I quickly realized a few things about supplements: 1. Not all of them work as advertised. 2. They were all marketed towards helping me achieve my end goal. 3. They were expensive. Expensive in the sense that as a university student it wasn't cheap to find another $200 per month for bars, shakes, protein powders and creatine. So to that end I found a solution. I realized the Court Club in Regina was not selling supplements so I approached the owner Carm about letting me help set them up with an account to sell supplements. By doing so I was able to purchase supplements at cost through the distributor using the gym's account. So you can see I was pretty motivated to train, eat healthily and have access to discounted supplements. But nowadays my priorities have changed. Now my goals are more about my health, being able to...

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