Struggling to go to the gym

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  • Fitscorcher
    Fitscorcher Posts: 47
    Sit down close your eyes in imagine what you will look like in 12 months time if you consistently work out at the gym 3+ times a week for the next 12 months. Then picture what you will look like 12 months from now if you don't. In which vision are you most happy and how will the decision you make affect your life? This really helps me on a bad day. :-)
  • freakymonday
    freakymonday Posts: 11 Member
    yes! exactly what i do as well. I think of the clothes i want to wear two months from now and tell myself that I don't have much time to sit back and relax if I want to wear it in 8 weeks.

    And also, what pushes me as motivation to go to the gym is that i paid for it. It's so costly and i'm just wasting my money if i won't go even thrice a week. haha
  • Omarr00
    Omarr00 Posts: 4
    Motivation is all in your head if you want some thing you must go get it for example if you want to be more lean you'll have to eat less and workout, but some people wouldn't want to eat less and just give up. yet the person that forces them self to doing it will be the one who achieves and might eventually realize they like it so maybe motivation should be what keeps you going but it's what you decide either go to the gym or not ... your kinda lucky though i'm 17 and i can't afford a gym so every morning except Sundays i go to a park near by from where i live to workout so hey maybe you should just try working out at home if you at least want to stay fit per say and don't want to bother going to the gym.
  • hmoffatt
    hmoffatt Posts: 51
    I think you've gotta find something you enjoy doing. I love cycling so I don't think of it as exercise, I just love to get out on the bike.

    Second best is to just keep going until it's a habit. It's taken me ages to get back into weight training, but I'm glad I have. I find the soreness/fatigue really satisfying.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    Sit down close your eyes in imagine what you will look like in 12 months time if you consistently work out at the gym 3+ times a week for the next 12 months. Then picture what you will look like 12 months from now if you don't. In which vision are you most happy and how will the decision you make affect your life? This really helps me on a bad day. :-)

    Visualization doesn't work for everyone.
  • toutmonpossible
    toutmonpossible Posts: 1,580 Member
    Thanks guys for some *kitten* kicking and I appreciate your valuable comments. I guess the way forward is to commit myself to go to the gym atleast 2 days in a week minimum no matter what. It is not that i am shy of the gym or dont enjoy the exercise, once I am in I am there for atleast 90 min or more.

    I also think that bcoz of the better weather I want to burn cals outside the gym and thats what I have been doing. May be during summer i can stay outdoors and do the gym twice a week. This is the plan I am going to follow.

    Sounds like a good plan. But if you think that you get a better workout at the gym get there twice a week as well as enjoying outdoor activities.
  • hmoffatt
    hmoffatt Posts: 51
    I also think that bcoz of the better weather I want to burn cals outside the gym and thats what I have been doing. May be during summer i can stay outdoors and do the gym twice a week. This is the plan I am going to follow.
    Well if you're working out outside the gym there's no reason to force yourself to go. Over summer when it's warm and there's lots of daylight I am riding my bike outside more than going to the gym. Come winter I'm less inclined to go out on the roads after dark.

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