need to shake this laziness off

Indiana47362
Indiana47362 Posts: 6 Member
edited November 18 in Motivation and Support
Hi everyone I need help with staying motivated to exercise! I love to walk or hike, but can not seem to get motivated. Its like laziness has taken over my personality! As soon as I'm off work I just plop my butt on the couch. What kind of things do some of you do to stay motivated to Move? I'm 43 and I feel like if I don't do something now I never will

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  • stevesample76
    stevesample76 Posts: 248 Member
    Have you tried exercising in the morning before work? When we started our journey we tried to do it after work and we just found it to easy to let life get in the way. We would get home and then it was time to get kids fed and homework done so it seemed the workouts always got pushed back. We forced ourselves to go to bed a little earlier and get up an hour earlier so we could workout.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,024 Member
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    Hi everyone I need help with staying motivated to exercise! I love to walk or hike, but can not seem to get motivated. Its like laziness has taken over my personality! As soon as I'm off work I just plop my butt on the couch. What kind of things do some of you do to stay motivated to Move? I'm 43 and I feel like if I don't do something now I never will
    Sorry, if you LOVE to walk or hike, YOU'D DO IT without question. Same reasons why dancers dance, piano players play piano, and gamers game. Sounds more like you just like it for exercise preference. Motivation comes from within. You can be inspired, encouraged, etc., but till you want it enough just for you, it'll fall on deaf ears.


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  • Indiana47362
    Indiana47362 Posts: 6 Member
    stevesample76 wrote: »
    Have you tried exercising in the morning before work? When we started our journey we tried to do it after work and we just found it to easy to let life get in the way. We would get home and then it was time to get kids fed and homework done so it seemed the workouts always got pushed back. We forced ourselves to go to bed a little earlier and get up an hour earlier so we could workout.


    That's a great idea, no I have not tried it in the morning. 12 yr ago I accepted a GM position and that's where it all went down hill, I stay mentally stressed so after work I have a defeat attitude. So this may work for me!
    Thank you stevesample76 , I never even considered it...bong
  • Indiana47362
    Indiana47362 Posts: 6 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    Hi everyone I need help with staying motivated to exercise! I love to walk or hike, but can not seem to get motivated. Its like laziness has taken over my personality! As soon as I'm off work I just plop my butt on the couch. What kind of things do some of you do to stay motivated to Move? I'm 43 and I feel like if I don't do something now I never will
    Sorry, if you LOVE to walk or hike, YOU'D DO IT without question. Same reasons why dancers dance, piano players play piano, and gamers game. Sounds more like you just like it for exercise preference. Motivation comes from within. You can be inspired, encouraged, etc., but till you want it enough just for you, it'll fall on deaf ears.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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    You reply seems hateful and confrontational. Thanks but no Thanks
  • nineteentwenty
    nineteentwenty Posts: 469 Member
    I also work out before work! It's a pain in the butt, but my butt IS shrinking. try it :) it makes me feel very productive for the rest of the day, too.
  • bug1114
    bug1114 Posts: 268 Member
    edited May 2015
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    Hi everyone I need help with staying motivated to exercise! I love to walk or hike, but can not seem to get motivated. Its like laziness has taken over my personality! As soon as I'm off work I just plop my butt on the couch. What kind of things do some of you do to stay motivated to Move? I'm 43 and I feel like if I don't do something now I never will
    Sorry, if you LOVE to walk or hike, YOU'D DO IT without question. Same reasons why dancers dance, piano players play piano, and gamers game. Sounds more like you just like it for exercise preference. Motivation comes from within. You can be inspired, encouraged, etc., but till you want it enough just for you, it'll fall on deaf ears.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
    9285851.png

    You reply seems hateful and confrontational. Thanks but no Thanks

    LOL. I've seen his responses on the message boards before. I don't think he's being hateful or confrontational, he's just very "to the point". You'll find a lot of people like that on these boards. These types of people are the ones you want to listen to, because typically they have the best advice and know what they are talking about.

    I also suggest working out in the morning. That's the only time of the day that I know I will have time to do, and it's the only time I know I won't be interrupted.

  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    Hi everyone I need help with staying motivated to exercise! I love to walk or hike, but can not seem to get motivated. Its like laziness has taken over my personality! As soon as I'm off work I just plop my butt on the couch. What kind of things do some of you do to stay motivated to Move? I'm 43 and I feel like if I don't do something now I never will
    Sorry, if you LOVE to walk or hike, YOU'D DO IT without question. Same reasons why dancers dance, piano players play piano, and gamers game. Sounds more like you just like it for exercise preference. Motivation comes from within. You can be inspired, encouraged, etc., but till you want it enough just for you, it'll fall on deaf ears.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
    9285851.png

    You reply seems hateful and confrontational. Thanks but no Thanks

    TBF he makes a valid point, that you cant love it that much otherwise youd be doing it. You are being rather defensove to put it mildly. Motivation comes from you, nobody else can do whats needed for you and so that requires you to have to want it enough to do something about it. The fact you arent would indicaye you dont want to get to wherever it is more than you want to sit on the couch. Bit hateful or confrontational thats just a fact. You yourself admit you are lazy, so perhaps you should have a rethink if you wnat a mmore successful stragey.

    Are you trying to lose weight or just get fit? You dont say.

    When you want it badly enough then you will do something about it.

    I'm quizzical how you just mention exercise. If you are after weight loss, then focus on deficit delivery and worry less about exercise, its less importnat for straight weight loss, although it has a lot of benefits.

    If you want to exercise more just start small and build, keep adding time or distance if you are going to use walking as a starter.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    Hi everyone I need help with staying motivated to exercise! I love to walk or hike, but can not seem to get motivated. Its like laziness has taken over my personality! As soon as I'm off work I just plop my butt on the couch. What kind of things do some of you do to stay motivated to Move? I'm 43 and I feel like if I don't do something now I never will
    Sorry, if you LOVE to walk or hike, YOU'D DO IT without question. Same reasons why dancers dance, piano players play piano, and gamers game. Sounds more like you just like it for exercise preference. Motivation comes from within. You can be inspired, encouraged, etc., but till you want it enough just for you, it'll fall on deaf ears.


    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
    9285851.png

    You reply seems hateful and confrontational. Thanks but no Thanks

    He is being correct. You just can't handle the truth of it.

    I weight train. Love it when I first started 10 years ago. Loved it through hurting myself while weight training.

  • DogRiverDude
    DogRiverDude Posts: 433 Member
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    Hi everyone I need help with staying motivated to exercise! I love to walk or hike, but can not seem to get motivated. Its like laziness has taken over my personality! As soon as I'm off work I just plop my butt on the couch. What kind of things do some of you do to stay motivated to Move? I'm 43 and I feel like if I don't do something now I never will

    I'm a post-work plopper too! I dread the 2-3 minutes before I start "treadmilling" (which I see is not actually a word) but... once the earbuds go in and the music gets cranked, I'm always good to go. Maybe you're experiencing the same anxiety (and I use that word loosely) as me. If, somehow, you can just push through that excruciating pre-walk (or hike) routine you might be good to go!?

    And as stevesample76 suggested, mornings work great for some... not for "me" but worth a go.
  • Indiana47362
    Indiana47362 Posts: 6 Member
    OK first off, I didn't say anything about losing weight I asked what suggestions did anyone have for staying motivated in exercising. And I do walk a lot and hike, just got back from North Carolina vacation and I hiked, do I love it as a full time job? No. But I try. So to say I must not because I'm lazy is silly! I call my self lazy...yes! I work a full time job and have kids and such. All I was asking was for tips to stay motivated. Sorry but I do feel attacked here so obviously this is not for me. Thanks to those who sent me some pm of encouragement instead of slamming me
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    edited May 2015
    Indiana47362 wrote: »
    OK first off, I didn't say anything about losing weight I asked what suggestions did anyone have for staying motivated in exercising. And I do walk a lot and hike, just got back from North Carolina vacation and I hiked, do I love it as a full time job? No. But I try. So to say I must not because I'm lazy is silly! I call my self lazy...yes! I work a full time job and have kids and such. All I was asking was for tips to stay motivated. Sorry but I do feel attacked here so obviously this is not for me. Thanks to those who sent me some pm of encouragement instead of slamming me

    Well considering most people coming here are looking to lose weight then it was a reasonable question to ask on a calorie counting website. Pardon me for attempting to be helpful. For goodness sake you called yourself lazy and then start with all the hateful nonsense when we merely repeated what you had told everyone. If you want to exercise then you find enough moivation to do some and then believe it or not you just do it, even if its starting off on 5 minutes a day and building on that. Everyone starts somewhere. Find soemthing you like to do because that will seem less like exercise maybe not the hiking though.

    Oh and for the record you shouldnt let it put you off using the forums, which are pretty mild compared to most others.
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