Superficial Motivation

This was super amusing.
I also do the sticker thing on my calendar when I have really great nutrition/workout days. I guess second grade really has a way of sticking with you.

I also like to listen to super sassy, fairly slutty songs (pretty much the opposite of what I listen to outside of the gym AND my personality). So, I pretend I'm one of those obnoxious divas & I somehow burn more. Haha. Would never admit that to anyone inside of the gym though.

I watch TV when I workout, so now I've gotten to the point where I can't sit still to watch TV. It's more a Pavlovian response than motivation, but, STILL. Plus, I have an excuse to watch slightly more trashy TV (Teen Wolf, and, uh...Teen Wolf).

I also have a slightly less amusing motivation, which is getting fit enough that I won't get mugged again or that I don't have to worry about them catching up should I have to run from another mugger. It's also my motivation for learning Krav Maga (well, that and the fact that Krav Maga was developed by Jewish prisoners during WWII to fight the Nazis, which is totally effing BAD *kitten*).

I'm a bit of a closet survivalist, too. I figure, the CDC has a contingency plan for the zombie apocalypse, so I should, as well. Outrunning them is in important part of that plan. See also vampires, werewolves, serial killers, velociraptors, and Cujo in relation to this. Why fight them if you can outrun them?

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My motivation is that I will look better than my boyfriends ex-wife! Shallow, but it works.

Non-superficial motivation is that I want to get healthy and want my kids and me to live long, healthy happy lives, Lord willin. My fitness background is that I've never liked exercising in front of people, and always thought myself too uncomfortably bouncy to run, but knowing a friend who runs and seeing her in my mind makes me want to do it too, looking all hot and fierce. (Enter superficial.) I want to get a sexy body where I can wear a tank or heck just a sportsbra that shows off my fierce tattoos and makes other people want to be a runner when they see me going, like I feel when I think about Jamie (my friend) running. I want to look so good that all the dudes who've took a dump on me (not literally, thank God!!) will be sorry they lost me. (Way superficial I know, but I have 2 ex husbands who made me feel insignificant and cheated on me, not to mention at least one ex boyfriend who must think he's God's git to women... but ANYWAY...) I hear songs all the time that motivate me, much as others have mentioned. Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Rhianna, Black Eyed Peas, but for me, especially Nickelback. I want to run to songs like Animal and Side of a Bullet and feel STRONG!! And Strength isn't superficial. :-)

I'm gonna have to go with surviving the zombie apocalypse.

The main point would be to outrun the zombies and live BUT! in the unlikely event that I get my brains eaten and turn into a zombie myself... I don't want to be the overweight zombie in the back not getting any brains because all the fit zombies beat me there.

Oh, the horror!

1. Silence of the Lambs! The creepy guy making a suit of skin from women he's killed...if I'm fit he can't use my skin. What a win.

5. Any horror movie ever the girls can't freaking run in the woods, I trail run, I won't trip over a leaf and get killed by Jason bc I am getting AWESOME at running in the woods.

I LOVE these. LOVE.

A trick I use when I feel like I might want to quit is...I can do anything for XX minutes. So when you get to the 26 minute mark, tell yourself, I can run for 4 minutes. For some reason, when broken down, it sounds so much more doable!!!

Keep it up!