just put the shoes on!

icimani
icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
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.

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Yeah!!!
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    Solid. I wholly endorse this mantra
  • ChantalD75
    ChantalD75 Posts: 680 Member
    ***like!
  • Trudyr777
    Trudyr777 Posts: 573 Member
    Excellent!!
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    Agreed.


    (Well, at least until the barefoot/minimalist shoes people get here...then it will be absolute pandemonium.)
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
    Agreed.


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

    LOL :laugh:
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    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
    lizsmith1976 Posts: 497 Member
    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
    twerkthat Posts: 23 Member
    Love that :love:
  • loadsandloads
    loadsandloads Posts: 353 Member
    You must be in my head......great Mantra!!

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