What motivates you to get off your butt?

Mexico is coming in a month!

Lots of weddings/reunions this year that I want to look great for. I want to look my best for myself. I want to feel good too!

chonji4ever wrote: »

I'm single, so I want to be attractive.

Don't say that to the ladies you date! What happens when you aren't single?


I guess my butt motivates me to get off my butt. It disappears if I do not work out. And I am motivated to stay lean and strong as i get older, don't want a sharp decline, and (warning, disturbing vanity) I like looking better than many women my age simply because I am lean and in shape. It pleases me that effort pays off in this - not something I was born with, or given, but something I earned.

I also set smaller goals, like this year:

I'm learning to do handstands

I typically don't have problems getting motivated to go because I've been doing it so long it's become a habit. But if I need some additional motivation, I check out pics or videos on youtube of fitness guys and girls and that gets me going. I guess I just do some personal shaming.

wilsoncl6 wrote: »

I typically don't have problems getting motivated to go because I've been doing it so long it's become a habit. But if I need some additional motivation, I check out pics or videos on youtube of fitness guys and girls and that gets me going. I guess I just do some personal shaming.

This is what my guy does too. Sometimes I come back from a run (I have to work earlier) and he's in bed with the laptop......watching workouts on youtube, LOL. Getting geared up to work out.

raymax4 wrote: »

I have found activities that seem like play.
Who doesn't want to play?
Some times I don't want to go to work but my employer would frown upon me if I did not go to work. I don't spend time deciding wether I will go to work or any of the other inevitabilities of life.

I love this idea of play! I teach tap dance and absolutely love it! I highly recommend taking a dance class. By the end of class we're sweaty and laughing and burned 300-400 calories! I also recently discovered spinning, my newest passion!! I think loud music with a great beat is a recurring theme here...

"It's just 'what I do'" is my new mantra. I used to tell myself that I wouldn't let 2 non workout days go by, or that I'd workout M, W, F, and one day on the weekend. Too much negotiation. Time to shut up or put up. Now, I just go. And my body feels it if I don't. I realized that when I go on the days that it sounds good, it ends up being a good deal. And on the days when I too, think my butt isn't that bad and I *could* take a day off, I go anyway, and it ends up being a good deal. It's ALL of the days that add up and give me results, not just the days when motivation is high. I already know what that other "plan" looks like: fat, inactive, making excuses me.

Go. Whether you feel like it or not isn't in the equation. "Feeling" and "doing" are two different things. And only Doing will get you the results you're after.

My motivation is age and condition of my body. I will be 80 in Dec and a weight heavy body is not conducive to good health. I don't worry so much how I look, I worry about how I feel and if weight loss makes me look better then that is another reward. I workout M,W & F plus I do all my gardening except lawn. My work out consists of
2 sets of 25 for lunge, push ups (not extended, but from the knees), squats and some exercises to strengthen my back. I can lift 10# weights with ease but I am not at the moment into weight lifting. Each of these exercises have to be done in 45 sec, a total of 10mins of exercise. Then a 30 min rest. My goal is to strengthen muscles in my legs and arms which seems to be working. My endurance is better but if I can't get through 2 sets of 25, I do 10 or 20 and don't beat on myself. I am losing my stomach and really am beginning to feel better. I say, don't set your goals too high at first. If you don't want to go to the gym, do the exercises at home...whatever works for you.
P.O. I do count calories and eat pretty healthy.

Being able to get off my butt inspires to get off my butt and go. 2 years ago getting off my butt was a major undertaking. Don't want to go back there. Ever. Get going!

the fact that I'm paying for a gym membership. also, since I'm doing a progressive lifting program, the knowledge that if I didn't work out for a while, I'd lose strength and likely have to deload when I went back, which would be discouraging and make me angry at myself.