What do you do when you just don't want to work out?

I do the WATP 4 mile. For some reason this particular one is motivating to me. I also have been breaking my treadmill walks into 12 minutes segments. I make myself do at least 2 segments per day so it doesn't seem as bad.

I want you to remember how you felt BEFORE you started working out! Do you REALLY want to feel like that again! Just give yourself a couple of days off and then get that dream butt movin!!! Yes I believe you can and will do this!!!! I have been told numerous times this summer how great I look and you know what? I say it does'nt get any easier, I do something 6 days per week and alot of days I do something two times! I refuse to be FAT again and if I can there is NO reason you can't!! I am your cheerleader so go get that GOAL and it is easier to reach when you move it!! Best wishes sweetie!!
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Reread the quote at the bottom of your signature over and over...and over.

I get bored very quickly, so I am always changing things up. Sometimes I am into going to the gym, sometimes being outside, sometimes at home doing P90X or other video. Right now, with the weather changing, I have found it motivating to go to classes at my gym, and just bought a 20 pass punch card for Zumba. I look forward to it all week, and even though its late and already getting dark out, I still want to go! I guess my point is that you should find something you love to do, and until you do, try everything and keep mixing it up! Good luck, w/ the working out...and finding the man! I am sure your hot self won't have any problems w/ that!

I became bored of my old routine and had to shake things up. My old PTL (Physical Training Leader) made me run a 5k five days a week and 30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical trainer to make it roughly one full hour per day of hard cardio. My knees were killing me from all of that daily running high impact and shin splints were on the rise.

I'm now running on Mon/Wed/Fri for only two miles and the rest of my cardio is split up between the elliptical, a new rowing machine at the base gym, and that evil stair stepper thing that the girls always use that have amazing bodies. If they look great and are always lined up waiting to use it then it must work! The rowing machine is fun because I can sit down and have fun with it with no impact. The elliptical is great because it's also no impact and I can watch the 20 hi-def tv's on the wall without going insane after 30-45 mins.

The key to my workouts and sticking to them is still in the works but so far what I have going is getting me by. I'll find a workout that I can do easily and pair it up with something that completely kicks my butt. I used to be horrible at running and the elliptical was always cake for me, so I'd run hard and reward myself with the elliptical. Then it became a 5k followed by 30 mins of elliptical time. Now the elliptical is useless to me because I can max it out at level 20 and go for 30 minutes at a high pace and I can't even break a sweat or get my heart rate up.

Currently I'm doing a few exercises that make my legs really sore for the next few days. I know that if I keep at them for a couple of weeks that they'll go from my weaker points to my stronger points. Every time I try a new exercise and it hurts like hell for the next few days my newfound motivation to go to the gym is to make it become a cake walk and move on to the next harder stepping stone.

Right now I'm torturing my wife with a fun workout that I only do once a week on Saturdays with her. She's not doing the full routine but is getting a nice taste of what the military makes me do. We start off with two quick laps of sprinting around the indoor gym. It's 12 laps per mile so they're small. Then it's 30 seconds of squats with a medicine ball. After every 30 second workout thereafter it's only one hot lap around the track to keep your heart rate up. In between each and every lap the exercise changes from the squats to lunges with a medicine ball, crunches, pushups, flutter kicks, leg lifts, and it finishes with six laps at your own pace. Since the track is so small and it only takes me 35 seconds to sprint one lap around it the following 30 seconds of exercise that follows keeps it intense. I'll admit that I get extremely light headed at the end of this so it's my new motivation to get things done.

I try not to think about it at all during the day...or I can talk myself out of it by about 8:00 a.m.

I have my workout clothes all laid out so when I get home from work - while the dogs are eating I'm changing my clothes...I grab my water and head out the door...

I'm fine once I get to the gym...It's the getting there that is the hard part for me..

I've also found something I can actually tolerate (spinning)...The class is only 45 minutes...I figure I can do anything for that length of time..

I'll never love it...but the music in the spin room helps the time go by really fast for me...And it's dark so nobody can see me...

Find something you love (or at least like) and you won't dread it so much.

Do what you love. If you do what someone says you should do say elipticle instead of what you may love, say cycling it will be hard to do. Do what you love.

when i was a gym rat I'd pack everything in my car at night. It was too much effort to go get it all if I changed my mind to stay home from the gym. So I would just get up and go. Now I just love the outdoors and its the winter that will try to derail me.