I have come to the conclusion

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  • tameko2
    tameko2 Posts: 31,634 Member
    Thanks... I went for a walk tonight around the fancy neighborhood lol... I played the when I grow up I wanna live there game LOL!

    I play that game too! also the houses are pretty so its nicer scenery than the gym.

    I bet your big problem is not so much the 'working out alone' vs ' with other people' as the fact that when you worked out with other people you were ALSO paying money AND scheduling yourself to go work out. I mean you paid for the boot camp,and it was a "get here at this time on this day" type of thing. So you couldn't be lazy because you felt like you HAD to get up and go or you felt like "on Monday at 8 am this is the thing I am doing".

    You probably need to do that for the videos - schedule your time, tell your kids to go away and leave you alone (They're old enough to do stuff on their own right?) and work out during that scheduled time. And add a punishment -- presumably you have some discretionary fund of money you can spend just on stuff YOU want - makeup or a fancier brand of shampoo or a new shirt every month or something. Take that money, take how many workouts per month you expect to do (4 per week = about 16/month?) and divide it up. You can either subtract from that fund when you DON'T workout (stick that amount in an envelope) or you can "pay" yourself wehn you do. Some people do better with rewards, some people do better with punishment. At the end of the month, take all the money you didn't earn or that you "lost" by not working out and give it to something you don't like. Donate it to a cause you don't support, hand it to your kid and let them buy that loud obnoxious toy you refused to get them, whatever. Make it something where you will say "I have to work out today, I do NOT want my 3 dollars going to the North American Man/Boy Love Association".
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    Check out your local library. Here, they have a good selection of exercise videos. You can check it out for a week for FREE. Love it, you can get it again later. Hate it, you're out no money at all. It's great, because you can always be trying something new. Boredom could be the issue, as much as (or more than) laziness -- especially since the one you stuck with the longest was the hardest.

    Also, if you have Netflix, they have a pretty good selection too, both DVD and instant watch.
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