Motivation to exercise

Well, for me, my situation might be a little different because I don't know if you have kids or not. I have 3 boys ages 7, 6, and 9 months so it is challenging at times, but I seem to find the time. I primarily do Wii Fit Plus just because I can those exercises when my kids are downstairs with me. Believe me, I know what you mean because I have a nice treadmill and eliptical and I rarely use them. I don't get as much enjoyment out of them at home as I do at the gym. I don't have the time to run to the gym a few days a week, so once I got in a routine for using my Wii Fit Plus, it is a normal part of my day. What I am saying is that once you get into a workout routine with your home gym, hopefully it will be a lot easier for you. Feel free to add me if you want. I can try to keep you motivated while I motivate myself!!

I do find it hard to find motivation to exercise. I love it once I get started, but getting started is the hardest part for me! I do better when I exercise early in the morning, it makes my whole day go better. Right now I'm doing daycare for my nephews so we walk the oldest to school, it's only 15-20 minutes, but great way to get the blood pumping!

2 ideas: The way I motivate myself - goals. I have a goal of 280 minutes per week - and log it in a spreadsheet. You can use a calendar - put a "smiley" face sticker on it for each day you exercised. It sounds silly, buy anything you can do to build up consistancy is a good thing.

Make it fun. Mini trampolines - (I totally want one). You can do bootcamp, kickboxing, hip hop dance, LOTS of different stuff. Check out "Urban Rebounding" exercise videos. Youtube will have some free videos. Switch things up.

There are treadmill videos! Tracey Staehle videos incorporate intervals, lunges, and weights. There are also lots of "scenic" videos. Take a walk thru ..... wherever. Anyway collagevideo.com will have video clips & reviews of various exercise DVDs.

I think my biggest motivation to do something at home is having someone who keeps me on track. I feel resistance all the time and I just don't want to exercise, but my boyfriend is on his on weight loss fitness challenge so we check up on each other almost every day to see how things are going. I always want to give him a good report, so when I don't want to get up and exercise I think about that disappoint look on his face when I say I haven't done anything yet. For you this might not be a boyfriend. It could be a friend or family member that you check in with on a regular basis. It really helps me.

I do what I love - put on my favourite tracks and boogie on down - look a complete fool no doubt - but gets your heart rate up and I feel soooooo good (helps that it's usually 60's soul, motown, Abba or good old fashioned disco!!) I think we should all meet up for a cyber boogie every evening at 6.00pm - half an hour of dancing knowing that others are joining in and thousand of nrighbours all over the world are staring bemusedly through lounge and kitchen windows everywhere!!!! Who's with me???? :bigsmile:

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I definitely do, I have a full gym including pool, tennis courts etc... at my disposal 24 hours a day and can't seem to drag myself to make use of them. I am considering paying to go back to curves because when i was going there, i was motivated make some friends and had a great time exercising. Just wish there was one a little closer. Then i think why don't i use what i have? ahhhh! i did break the barrier today and went to exercise in gym, last all of 15 minutes, i was bored, the tv wasn't working, oh i have a list of excuses. Thanks for posting this, it has given me some things to think about and act on!!! Have a great day