Motivation for Exercising

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  • MichelleWithMoxie
    MichelleWithMoxie Posts: 1,817 Member
    Just keep doing it, and it will become as habitual as brushing your teeth every day.
  • rsclause
    rsclause Posts: 3,103 Member
    I like exercise that I can get to quick and early in the morning so nothing can get in the way. I like to run so I walk out my front door and go, if I go to the gym I run to the gym. If I ride my bike I pull it out and ride strait from the house. Somehow I can wake at 4:30 am without a clock and go. To do that you need to go to bed early though.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    wxlaw wrote: »
    I have this problem in which I feel good and satisfied after working out; however, the thought of not going for exercise keeps on creeping into my head every time before I exercise. I just have to force myself to go work out, and I feel great afterwards, but during the next day, I became demotivated and again have to force myself to exercise. Does anyone had any suggestions or able to share the story how you motivate yourself to exercise?

    Find something you enjoy doing that is active and do it. "Exercising" sucks...riding my bike, which is as much hobby and recreation as anything is fun...bonus...it's exercise.

    Doing some "workout" or DVD or droning away on stationary cardio machines sucks. I love riding my bike and that makes up the bulk of my exercise...I lift 2-3x per week at the gym and that can often be a chore because I'd rather be riding...but the aesthetic results keep me going in...and my lifting program only takes me about 45 minutes, so not really a big deal.
  • novakbrennan
    novakbrennan Posts: 2 Member
    I can totally relate, I always had something that was more important, less effort or more interesting to do, I ended up being 121 kilos and feeling like it was too hard to do anything about it..
    The thing that motivated me was the challenge to see if I could make myself fitter, healthier, one day at a time.
    Like you I didn't enjoy sports as such so there wasn't motivation there, I don't follow any sport as it doesn't interest me, none of my family follow sport either so I guess that culture never got passed on to me maybe.
    All I remember was a moment I thought If I was fitter I would be able to do that (a task or movement) more easily, then I made myself the challenge and every time I felt like giving up at the gym or not going at all I would think that my challenge is to play the mental game and win by going and prove "Me" wrong, the ultimate game is with yourself

    Me= "I need to go to the gym"
    Me2= "yeah but it would be more enjoyable to lay on the couch and watch that new movie"

    After awhile, Every time I won the mental game and went to the gym, it got easier, I started focusing on the goal, and when it was hard, it wasn't hard for long.

    Me= running for 1 min "Just stop and walk, its too hard to keep running, no one will know you stopped"
    Me2= "A minute has already passed, 1 less minute to do, keep it up, your getting there! the more you do the easier it will be and.. its only for short time then you can go and realax if you want"

    I started wanting to be able to Run, When I was a kid I was forced to run in sport ect but it was never enjoyable, I had to do it because they said i had to do it!
    I decided to see how far I could go.. 30 seconds later I was walking and out of breath.. I'm now running for 8 min then walking for 1 min, running for 5 min, walking for 1 min, running for 3 min.. it my OWN personal achievement that I'm proud of, I'm getting better and actually starting to enjoy running for the first time in my 43 year life!

    Do it for YOU
    don't do it for anyone else, yes you can use the "I want to look better for... or I will go to help ...." but ultimately go because YOU want to see a change and get better, feel better.

    I'm not sure if this is what you can use, not sure if I was able to explain my concept to you lol but hey I hope your still going, I hope you have had some improvement in your own motivation.

    P.s. I also find motivation on YouTube
    "There are some amazing people with amazing stories out there that succeeded, I can too, Lets go!!"

    Have an awesome day People!!
  • LiLee2018
    LiLee2018 Posts: 1,389 Member
    wxlaw wrote: »
    Thank you all for the response and suggestions! Many have recommended me to do exercise that I like, but as for the time being, I haven’t discovered a sport that I truly enjoy doing and have fun from it. My current plan would be trying to make myself to exercise everyday until it becomes a habit of mine while I will look for more exercise options in the meantime and hopefully I will be able to find something that I enjoy doing!

    Do you have a good imagination? You could walk around your neighborhood, or if you have an elliptical or treadmill at home.. pretend you're being chased by a monster/zombies/killer whatever.

    I've been at it for 3 days in a row. Taking a rest day today.
    What is helping me so far is just taking it easy at first. I'm not trying to do some super rigorous exercise that I'll be super sore from. I'm just doing easy cardio on my elliptical while I watch some netflix. I still have to talk myself in to doing it and ignoring all of the excuses I want to come up with to NOT do it, but taking it easy at first is helping me to stick with it.

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