When Do You Workout? Do you fight with yourself to get off y

Usually work out in the evening. But since I'm on Spring Break, I've been working out in the early afternoon and evening. Trying to motivate myself to get that second workout in right this moment....funny that this thread should show up.

Some days are hard for me. Today was one of those days actually, but I work through it. I want to see results and I want to lose my weight so badly that I won't let myself skip a day. I know that if I make excuses for myself, then I'll start excusing everything and I'll fall off the wagon and probably won't get back on. On the days that it's exceptionally hard for me, I work through it in baby steps. I don't want to do it, but I make myself by breaking it all down into small tasks. I'll say to myself "Get off the couch" and then I move to, "go put your exercise get up on". When that's done I say "now fill your bottle with water", then it's "get on the bike" and finally "Now start peddling". It's so much easier to handle if you break it up in pieces rather than think of the whole picture. Then when it's all said and done I feel so much better that I didn't let myself stop me. That right there, the sense of accomplishment, is probably my biggest motivator. Feeling better physically and sleeping better at night are just perks.

I love working out!
I work out 3 times a week and lift heavy things.
Easy as pie!

I go immediately after work. There's a gym at my work so it makes it easy. Change from work clothes, work out, drive home and eat dinner that my wife has made

My best time to work out is around 10 am. I have trouble getting up and moving too early and by afternoon don't always have the energy I had earlier in the day.

I like working out in the evenings better because it helps me sleep. I also walk on my lunch hour when I don't have errands to run.

i cannot imagine myself working out in the morning! i don't think my body will ever obey to my orders of working out!

so i work out every afternoon, around the same time, 7pm. i get everything organized at home (kitchen, living room etc) so when i am done with working out i will have only shower and rest hour!

if i'm not in the mood to get on that treadmill, i push myself a little to do so even for less time that i would normally . only half hour makes me feel better .

I workout in the evening, right after work and love it then. I thought I should workout in the mornings, but it was too hard and when I did, I didn't give any effort into it. In the evenings I'm enjoying my workouts, able to give 100% and it's best for me.

I have to do it first thing in the morning (4:00 am) otherwise I the day just gets in my way and I find it hard to do it at night! I love that its out of the way and it really makes my day go better! It took awhile to get used to but now its 2nd nature to just get up!

Well, I'm up at 730AM with my first grader. Once he's on the bus and I've had my coffee, I'll workout. I find it best for me to get the workout done in the morning- it gives me the energy I need for the rest of the day. I know if I wait later in the day to do it, I won't have the energy or make an excuse not to do it. What motivates me? Seeing my old photos and reminding myself of where I don't want to be again in life. My children need a healthy mom to chase after them and a role model when it comes to eating. I don't want them to remember a mom who sat down all the time stuffing her face with junk food. I don't want them to be embarrassed of their mom.. like how my husband was of his mom.

I find it MUCH more difficult to work out alone than with a friend. I work out at home or go biking. I have an amazing biking buddy/mentor who is hilarious and helpful and has been very good to me, so I look forward to that. I also am a big believer in training outside as much as possible and switching things up. Mornings tend to work better for me, BUT I find that if I'm flexible in my mind about when I'm going to work out but NOT flexible that I am GOING to work out, it gets done sometime during the day. I don't give myself the option of bagging it. That helps.

I have a grind of a daily commute: an hour and forty-five minutes each way. Owing to the vagaries of train schedules and such, I leave the house at 6:15 AM and gt home at 6:50 PM. When I get home I have about 10 minutes to eat before a very demanding three and a half year-old's patience with my not playing with her wears too thin. Then it's an hour of play and reading books and dancing and hide and seek and making meals for various stuffed animals. She toddles off to bed at 8:00 PM and I have 90 minutes of me time before I hit the sack.

I usually manage to get in a set of calisthenics and stretch which is about 20-25 minutes. I don't like to do cardio at night because it keeps me up.

So the alarm goes off at 4:20 AM every morning. Sometimes I drag myself up and actually do a set of calisthenics and then hit the treadmill for a 15 minute walk and a 20 minute jog. Other times I hit snooze. If I hit snooze I make sure I walk during the day, either at lunch (3 miles) or an after work walk to the train station (4 miles). I also try to get three sets of calisthenics in during the day in my office.

Maybe it'll get easier for me eventually and maybe I'll come to love running and look forward to getting up and doing it, but I'm not holding my breath. Sometimes I use "if I get up and do cardio now, I won't have to do it during the day and finish work or ride home soaked with sweat" but as sleep is a strong opponent, that doesn't always work. I seem to be getting a little better about it as I start to see and feel progress, the "I'd be a fool to slack off now given how far I have come."

It's hard.

I do a mix of evening and morning workouts - would never get out of bed if I didn't do classes at my gym though; you have to book them in advance and there is a limited amount of spaces, so I know if I don't show up someone who might have wanted to go would have lost out. Makes me feel guilty and so I always go :-)
I think having some external factor helps - maybe you could find someone to work out with? Then you know you'd let them down if you don't show up.
I'm sure there's a whole bunch of theories about when it is best to exercise but surely whenever is better than never!