My friends and girlfriend would help me a lot by making me go to the gym and always include a set schedule for us to go to the gym daily so that we don't have other plans that might be considered more fun and neglect our gym time. 

The gym community there also greatly helped not only me but others such as sharing the equipment or teaching me how to use a machine as well as help with my form. They also act as a role model because most are bigger and more muscular than me so it gives me something to look forward to achieving.

Albert Bandura talked about how people can be shaped by their surroundings but people also can shape their own surrounds. So when I started posting on Instagram when I hit a new personal record and had people comment their support it really motivated me to keep going and if there were hate comments it motivated me to try harder next time because I wasn't going to let it affect me negatively.