Can someone drag me to the gym !!!!!!!

Looby47 · June 2013

Thanks for all replies. I've only just realised I got some! My phone didn't tell me! I'll read them all when I get to work later (night shift!). My ipod arm strap arrived and I've bought a new rucksack so now feel very inspired to get fit to get hillwalking again! (I need to stop buying things and planning and just DO IT!

TheBitSlinger · June 2013

if you want it bad enough?

Perfectly stated!

shirleylmartin · June 2013

Any ideas / pep talks to get me to the gym? yeah yeah I know only I can do it but ...... I nearly cancelled it as not been for a few months, persuaded partner to join so we can go together ...... we both not been yet - he works late!

I've tried getting my gym clothes on in the morning .... but I just keep having one more cuppa, one more house job and then don't go.

I've tried packing bag into car to go on way back from work .... but I drive past, telling myself I'm tired and I'll go tomorrow.

I've made a playlist for gym on my ipod .... armband arriving tomorrow to make it easy to wear. Off work tomorrow until 9pm, maybe I'll go when armband arrives !!!!????

Quick run down - I'm not fit, need to lose about 50lbs, want to be able to hillwalk again, recently did 13 mile marathon walk but now unfit again, work shifts full time, no kids, no excuses.

Any ideas?

Since it is so difficult for you to get to the gym, why don't you bring the gym to your place?! I'm going to be joining a challenge group in a little bit, and it's all at-home exercise. If you want, I can send you the info about it. Think about it: no gym memberships, daily motivation from other people with similar goals... that sounds like heaven for me!

loothi · June 2013

I prefer classes as I enjoy the relationship with other class members and the teachers. If no one noticed if I was there or not, I'd find that much harder. Also, pick something you genuinely enjoy - spin or bodypump appeal to me much more than just jumping on a treadmill.

Agreed too about the get dressed for it first, although I hear it didn't work for you. I read somewhere that people who watched videos of themselves exercising were more motivated to do more (was a science thing, so not sure how you make this happen in real life?) Maybe a motivational pic of lifting some weights by your bed?!

Best of luck!
x

cwaters120 · June 2013

At some point you will either decide to go or you will not. No one here is going to drag you there.

THIS! ^^^ You have to decide if you really want results and work for them or not. Someone can take you there, but that means nothing if you don't want the results bad enough.

MightyDomo · June 2013

You need to make it a rewarding experience to want to go and not only that but you also need to make it a habit.

Creating a habit means doing it whether or not you are tired, motivated or excited to do it until it no longer feels like you have to do but feels more like you want to do it/love doing it.

Best of luck!

rcclcruiser · June 2013

Sounds like you need to cancel or freeze your gym membership. I did and have done better without it. I work-out with exercise DVD's at home - Turbo Jam, Pilates, Ballet, and more. Living in the Houston area, I do enough driving as it is, without having to add somewhere else to drive to in my schedule.

I walk the dog as soon as I wake up, then do the exercise DVD's. When I had the gym membership, I kept getting distracted before I ever actually left the house. I did use my gym membership a lot, but found that I really wasn't enjoying it.

I also started the Flat Belly Diet. It is a book by the Editors of Prevention Magazine. I eat great food, am never hungry, and have no cravings.

Inshape13 · June 2013

I could drag you to the gym because that would add to my calorie burn, but you would have to want to be there. A little over a year ago I was the person that HATED exercising. I hated every thing about it and I literally had to kick my own *kitten* out the door every single day until it became second nature. It took about 2 months of getting over the mind set of "this is just showing me how bad I let this get and I should give up because I can barely do anything anyway." I set small goals and did better each day and I have really come to love the hour and half I spend on exercise most days now. You will get there when you decide the benefit is better than the excuses.

jesuison · June 2013

Have you tried signing up for classes? I don't know about your gym, but where I go, you have to sign up to be in a class. If you cancel within an hour or don't show up, it is considered a Late Cancel. If you have so many Late Cancels they won't let you sign up for classes for a month. I find that pretty motivating.

If your gym doesn't do that, or offer classes, find one that does offer them. It really is much much easier to go when you have someone telling you to workout.

If getting there is your problem, I agree with a previous poster that you should find a physical activity that you enjoy doing. That way it is not such a pain to go.

Looby47 · March 2015

Late reply/update: thank you to all of you who sent positive or otherwise inspiring replies. I have only just read some of them as after initially being upset by 'harsh' words that missed the point of my intentionally self critical posting, I have only just gone back onto the forum boards and there's some good advice and quotes here.

I am, in any case, totally turned around, changed my lifestyle, lost 2 stone, got loads fitter and addicted to exercise of whatever form fits in that day, usually gym on way to or from work. another 2st 8lbs to go !!!!

Roxiegirl2008 · March 2015

Try finding a class that you enjoy. If you are doing the same thing over and over it gets boring and hard to stay with the program. None of my days look the same. They all vary just a bit so I don't get bored and enjoy my workouts. It has become something that if I don't do my day will not feel finished.
Good luck!

Can someone drag me to the gym !!!!!!!

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