just put the shoes on!

icimani

I've been pretty consistent in my exercising, and I've been doing some sort of 'intentional' exercising just about every day. Sure there are days when I don't feel like it - I'm tired, I had a long day, I don't feel like doing 'that', etc, etc, etc. But I've found that if I "just put the shoes on" and start SOMEthing, ANYthing, then I'm fine and I can get into it. It might be going to the gym, it may be going for a walk, it may be doing something on my Wii; as long as it's something.

So that's become sort of my mantra for exercising - JUST PUT THE SHOES ON.

TavistockToad

Yeah!!!

DavPul

Solid. I wholly endorse this mantra

ChantalD75

***like!

Trudyr777

Excellent!!

jofjltncb6

Agreed.


(Well, at least until the barefoot/minimalist shoes people get here...then it will be absolute pandemonium.)

icimani

Agreed.


(Well, at least until the barefoot/minimalist shoes people get here...then it will be absolute pandemonium.)

LOL :laugh:

pinkraynedropjacki

I talk to myself about it, tell myself that I am the ONLY one who can do this for me. That rain, hail or shine nobody is going running for me, nobody is doing Zumba for me.... only me.

I say I'm not going for a run today, and at 8am as it is now here I'm not..... by 12pm I'm going to be dressed in my running gear or my Zumba stuff & I'll do what needs to be done. All without me even knowing I've gotten ready.

I spend 5 hours talking myself into going... only cause my back takes that long to 'wake up' (back injury) and allows me to move like I should. I then spend the next hour working my guts out running 10- 12km or doing my other workouts with hand & leg weights or do some resistance band training. No sluch effort either... I'll do it all 2 times if I feel like I didn't work out hard enough,

lizsmith1976

That's excellent! I love mantras that get you up and at 'em or get you through something. My spin instructor yells stuff all the time that I constantly hear in my head on long bike rides - use both legs, spin small circles, etc. One I like for running is "left, right, repeat".

I like yours, I will have to remember that when I am tired and sitting on my couch or don't feel like heading to the gym at lunch, thanks!

twerkthat

Love that

loadsandloads

You must be in my head......great Mantra!!