I know that for skinny ectomorph people like us, just the thought of our pathetic physique is enough to motivate us to go to the gym three times a week.

However, I do think more motivations are needed once you start to train properly for more muscle mass. After all, training then eating then eating then eating then eating some more then sleeping then training, and on and on, who doesn’t feel overwhelmed once in a while (and I haven’t even included school work and social life yet)? It is at these crucial moments that you need more motivations to push on through.

You need some motivation that makes you sooooo excited you cannot wait to go the gym to pump some iron. You need something that makes it super vivid to you the thrill of actually having a great physique, the pride you will get from having hot women checking you out and men envying your awesome body.

For example, after watching any of the three Bourne movies, do you wish you could be like Bourne (speak 4 or 5 different languages fluently, look awesome, kick some bad ass in just a few moves, drive around like crazy, read maps in 2 seconds, and always know exactly what to do, where to go, how to move, etc)?

Even though it is impossible for us to be like Bourne, the movie still makes us WANT to take some action to be like Bourne. Do you have a good motivation source that make you want to train for a bigger physique?

For me personally, Brad Pitt in Fight Club is greatly inspiring. Sometimes photos of people like Edward Norton, Taylor Lautner, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, etc. are all motivational because these celebrities all transform their body from scrawny to brawny in amazingly fast periods of time.

One more thing, daydreaming is good… as long as it is about your goals. It is the best source of motivation. It is when you stop daydreaming about getting a bigger and stronger physique that you should worrying. When we daydream about something totally unrelated to the task at hand, that is bad because we lose our concentration. But when we daydream about our goal, we become more motivated to achieve our goal, and we focus much more on reaching it.

RECAP: You need to find some sources of motivation that make it super vivid to you the thrill of actually having a great physique, the pride you will get from having hot women checking you out and men envying your awesome body.