It is not uncommon to hear from runners that they lack motivation to go for another run... I myself have often suffered from this ailment when I need to train, but it is very difficult to force myself.
But about half a year ago I wrote an article in a local newspaper about the success of athletes with disabilities in our city at the last regional sports day among people with disabilities. And in order to prepare good material, I decided to watch the recordings of the Summer Paralympic Games for the first time in my life. Since I myself am an athlete, I chose the types of athletics in the first place. After that, my attitude to motivation changed.
Weak people need motivation
This is how I began to reason after watching wheelchair races of athletes at a distance 100 meters... People without legs do not just find the motivation to live. They find motivation to continue to play sports and defend the honor of their country. After watching such videos, you understand that if you have arms and legs, then the question of motivation should not be at all. It just shouldn't be. Of course, I knew about the very fact of these competitions before. But when you watch it, when you see with your own eyes how a person gives all one hundred percent for the sake of victory, then the sensations are completely different.
In general, I like how sport has begun to develop among people with disabilities. IN wheelchair store you can find many options that are designed for sports. Of course, you need special strollers for high-speed driving, but, for example, for playing table tennis, such strollers are perfect.
And if those who, logically, cannot do it, find the strength to go in for sports, then healthy people do not even need to think about laziness and lack of motivation.
Children are flowers of life and the best motivators
But watching the Paralympics was just the beginning. While looking for videos from the Paralympic Games, I came across a video where, just like their adult comrades, on wheelchairs for children very young athletes are already competing.
Imagine that a person already in early childhood has such problems with physiology and health, in which he cannot function like all children. At the same time, with a still not strengthened consciousness, he finds the strength to compete and live the maximum possible full-fledged life.
This is really amazing. Since then, every time I I run and it becomes hard for me, I remember these people who, gritting their teeth, rush to the finish line, no matter what. And then I, a healthy young and strong guy, just cannot stop and start feeling sorry for myself.
Here it is - the real motivation that I found for myself.
