How Do You Stay Motivated In The Heat / Cold ?

donyellemoniquex3
donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
in Motivation and Support
You know the "It's too hot / cold / snowy outside"

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  • tarashley13
    tarashley13 Posts: 114 Member
    I just remind myself "no excuse". That I'm stronger than it. :)
  • workaholic_nurse
    workaholic_nurse Posts: 727 Member
    to me those excuses go right up there with I don't have the time, it's too expensive to eat healthy and I'm sore.
  • RachyD21
    RachyD21 Posts: 83 Member
    I'm really struggling with the heat at the moment. I hate getting sweaty anyway so the heat is really making me want to forego any form of exercise. I'm trying to be good though, getting up early when it's cooler to get moving, and waiting until it's cooled down in the evening. It's hard though!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I like training in the heat...it makes me stronger for my late summer and fall races. In the winter (off-season for racing) my primary focus is on lifting and getting stronger...muscle development, etc, so I'm inside most of the time anyway. In the winter, I do enough cardio for heart health and to keep my general level of fitness up, but I'm not actively training...so I might spin a little...indoor swim possibly...if it's reasonably nice outside I'll go for a jog or a bike ride.
  • btsinmd
    btsinmd Posts: 921 Member
    For the heat, first, I get up early and get out to do my runs or whatever workout is scheduled for the day, but second, I try to have backup exercises. There are some weeks, like last week in particular where even at 4 am, it is still too hot for me to feel comfortable exercising. I've had heat related illnesses and do not want them again. If I'm being told to stay inside because we are having a severe heatwave and poor air quality, then I stay in. There are still yoga DVDs and other things that I can do during that relatively short period until the heatwave breaks.
  • HeyGoRun
    HeyGoRun Posts: 550 Member
    Its mostly good weather here all year except right now when it starts raining all of a sudden. I like getting up before my kids and just walk with my husband, we always end up at starbucks! So thats a lil fun
    But because im a big scary cat of the world i do my runs in my treadmill.
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    I learned to get over it
  • Nissi51
    Nissi51 Posts: 381 Member
    Motivation is overrated. You move the machine whether you feel like it or have feeling if motivation or not.... Then weather does not matter

    How? Stop relying on motivation. Do what Ned's to done, period, full stop

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