When you don't feel like excercising...

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  • meskew87
    meskew87 Posts: 27 Member
    When I have a workout that I pushed through and feel great after, I try and pause for a moment and really imprint that great feeling in my memory. I take a few deep breaths, close my eyes, repeat to myself how wonderful it feels to take care of myself, etc. That feeling is short lived for me, so I really try to soak it in! Then, when I don't want to work out AT ALL I try and focus on how good I felt last time.

    I also give myself permission to not want to work out. I don't try and tell myself that I do want to work out. I just say "I don't want to do this at all, I don't feel like it! But I'm going to do it anyway because its good for me." I feel like its important to sometimes do what we don't want to do even though we really don't want to do it.

    Best advice is to just power through it whether you feel like it or not. It will be worth it in the end!
  • brandycochran
    brandycochran Posts: 11 Member
    Willpower and I keep saying motivational things while I'm exercising....saying it out loud (no matter how crazy I may look to my fellow gym members, LOL) really helps me.
  • 40mpw
    40mpw Posts: 75 Member
    When the devil on one shoulder starts whispering reasons I should skip my workout, the angel on the other shoulder says, "It's not optional."* Taking the choice out of it is all I need sometimes.

    *Except when it is optional, like when I need a rest day more than I need a 7th workout that week. In order for this one to work, you've got to be honest with yourself.
  • tmm_0127
    tmm_0127 Posts: 545 Member
    I -really- really try to get myself to do it anyway. Generally I only have time to workout after work and dinner, so once I start feeling myself thinking "eh, maybe not tonight..." I get up and do it before I really don't feel like it.

    If I've already slipped into "no effing way" mode, I still get up and walk up and down the stairs 10-15 times and do a 10-15 minute weight lifting session.
  • laineybz
    laineybz Posts: 704 Member
    When I don't feel like doing my workout I just tell myself to do 15 minutes instead of 30. I can do 15 minutes and next thing I know 30 minutes has gone by and I feel great about it.

    I do this too.

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