Love pushing myself every day!!

katrainer3
katrainer3 Posts: 17 Member
edited November 15 in Fitness and Exercise
There are days my motivation is low, but I workout anyway! Those are the days to train harder, to push harder!
How do you motivate yourself on those days?

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  • ticiaelizabeth
    ticiaelizabeth Posts: 139 Member
    I drink up some pre workout. It's gets me going about 20 mins later. Only on days i'm really struggling though because like livingleanlivingclean said, its part of the schedule now.
  • kaizaku
    kaizaku Posts: 1,039 Member
    One thing I noticed, the day I feel the worst and wish to skip training those days tend to be one of my best workout. I feel like that when I come back from work. I tell myself, work is work and training, is training. If your serious in reaching your physique then you gotta do what you have to. Being consistent is the hardest part of training.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    I realized that days when I feel like crap or don't even want to bother training are usually the days when I'll hit crazy PRs out of nowhere.

    The what-ifs keep me from taking a day off.
  • DevilsFan1
    DevilsFan1 Posts: 342 Member
    I just enjoy lifting. I'd do it every day if I could, but my 46 year-old body would protest.
  • katrainer3
    katrainer3 Posts: 17 Member
    Fantastic! Thanks for the tips everyone!!
  • Alisonswim46
    Alisonswim46 Posts: 208 Member
    edited February 2017
    The hardest part for me is to actually go and workout. Once I'm there it's worth it! I make it a part of my daily/weekly routine.
  • spiriteagle99
    spiriteagle99 Posts: 3,748 Member
    I have goals. Right now I'm training for a marathon at the end of March. I know what I need to do to be prepared for the race and that if I skip runs I'll regret it both at the time and on race day. As others have said, the days I really don't want to go out often end up being my best runs.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,598 Member
    Because, having been quite active for well more than a decade (even while obese), I know that if I don't get some vigorous healthy movement daily, I'll soon be feeling tense, moody, vaguely unhappy, and other bad things.

    If I keep up with the no-activity nonsense, I'll eventually add weakened, less cognitively capable, and more inclined to body aches and stiffness.

    Not being active is a non-win.
  • Fallfrenzy
    Fallfrenzy Posts: 118 Member
    I love the feeling I get after working out. It has become such a habit that if I don't work out in some way shape or form, I feel like a total slug. I've learned that I have to give myself one rest day. I do find that I do much better the rest of the week with that one rest day.
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