You might want to watch this video from Elliot at Strength Camp, entitled "Motivation is Bullshit".
Honestly, you're not going to be motivated every day that you need to work out (or do anything else). What you really need is the discipline to stick with your program when you feel like crap, have skipped a week, feel fat, feel weak, etc.
If I could distill fitness down to two things, it would be this:
- Use a good programa good program.
- Adhere to it. When you fall off the horse, get back on.
If people just did those two things, the entire world would be phenominal athletes in ripped shape running around with washboard abs high-fiving each other.
Good programsGood programs are a matter of putting your ego in check and following the science, and sticking to the program is a matter of self discipline and good life choices.
From Wikipedia:
Discipline is the suppression of base desires, and is usually understood to be synonymous with restraint and self-control. Self-discipline is to some extent a substitute for motivation. Discipline is when one uses reason to determine the best course of action that opposes one's desires, which is the opposite of fun.