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doesn't matter how fast, any one can do it :)

LiftBigtoGetFit
LiftBigtoGetFit Posts: 3,399 Member
edited December 2024 in Motivation and Support
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  • jenniejengin
    jenniejengin Posts: 784 Member
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    :smile:
  • Papillon22
    Papillon22 Posts: 1,160 Member
    :smile:
  • taliesyn_
    taliesyn_ Posts: 219 Member
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    This. I'm the slowest in the pool where I swim... but my half-mile is a half-mile more than everyone who doesn't show up.
  • peprwpr
    peprwpr Posts: 56 Member
    This moto got me thru my first 5K yesterday!!
  • monmcb
    monmcb Posts: 35 Member
    Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??
  • sanjoparolas
    sanjoparolas Posts: 549 Member
    Love it! I tend to take the slow but steady approach but as long as I'm making the effort I am making my health and fitness a priority.
  • LiftBigtoGetFit
    LiftBigtoGetFit Posts: 3,399 Member
    Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

    no good answer for that, i struggle with motivation to exercise as well. motivation will be different for everyone. keep at it, the more you do the more motivated you will become. good luck to you :smile:
  • mdianne58
    mdianne58 Posts: 51 Member
    Thank you for posting that. I
    will have to remember that when I don't feel like exercising.
  • scrapmor
    scrapmor Posts: 3 Member
    I think the trick to keeping to your exercise program is to make it into a habit. Make it part of your routine. Once you do it for a few weeks it gets easier. But everyone slips up sometimes so when you "fall off the wagon", just keep trying. We're all a work in progress.
  • nikkiprickett
    nikkiprickett Posts: 412 Member
    love it!
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    If you push the couch, they will always win
  • verapamil
    verapamil Posts: 94
    Ran my first 5k today and this thought made me get through it. I may not have been fast (definately not fast) but I wasn't last and I wasn't at home sitting on my couch eating ice cream. It can only get better from here :smile:
  • kellicruz1978
    kellicruz1978 Posts: 170 Member
    Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

    I was just like you, I'd exercise for a week, then quit for 3. I kept with this pattern until I read a book and it explained that it takes 21 days to form a habit. So I set a goal of being consistent with exercise for 21 days....and haven't looked back since.

    So give yourself 21 days, within those 21 days, workout at least 5 days a week. PLAN the workouts, write them on your calendar and do not let anything get in the way.
  • fernanda78
    fernanda78 Posts: 40
    That motto goes with anything and everything. That's my train of thought..at this moment. Good job on the 5k
  • Tanyaclare
    Tanyaclare Posts: 22 Member
    that is great !!

    I ran my first 10miles today, last november I couln't even run 3 km so just remember that anything is possible x
  • MrsM1ggins
    MrsM1ggins Posts: 724 Member
    To motivate myself to exercise I sign up for things. I started small with a 5k and I'm now training for a triathlon. I know that I have to get out and train so I'm ready for it!
  • LiftBigtoGetFit
    LiftBigtoGetFit Posts: 3,399 Member
    bump for a new day :)
  • Aperture_Science
    Aperture_Science Posts: 840 Member
    I disagree:

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  • EricNCSU
    EricNCSU Posts: 699 Member
    Yes sir! :)
  • giggles7706
    giggles7706 Posts: 1,491 Member
    Needed to see that this morning! Love it!
  • Sixalicious
    Sixalicious Posts: 283 Member
    :flowerforyou:
  • Sabresgal63
    Sabresgal63 Posts: 641 Member
    I love this~ Thanks for sharing.......:bigsmile:
  • pinkupooh
    pinkupooh Posts: 155
    I love it too. Thanks so much for posting this. I used to think that 30 mins of walking or any slow kind of exercise is not going to help me if I don't control my diet with it. With that thinking, I wouldn't work out nor I would control my diet. I was SO WRONG....:(

    Your post makes perfect sense.
    THANKS!!!
  • davepotter
    davepotter Posts: 3
    How true :)
  • sarahrbraun
    sarahrbraun Posts: 2,261 Member
    Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

    try exercising just about every day for 3 weeks...by the time you finish the 3 weeks, it will be habit.

    When I first started working out a few months ago, the first 2 weeks I went to the gym Monday thru Friday...then I cut down to m-w-f ( I was having endurance issues)

    the last month or so I have been trying to go 4 times a week--Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. In the next few weeks, I need to pick Saturday up--my daughter is training for Cross Country.
  • Spokez70
    Spokez70 Posts: 548 Member
    Thank you, I needed this! I get excited to exercise for a few days , and then I don't for a week....how can I get more motivated??

    Seeing the weight loss ticker moving to the right while I was eating more motivated me.

    I also try to keep a big variety in my workouts- In the last couple weeks I have been hiking, biking, swimming, kayaking, and working in the yard in addition to the treadmill/weights program I started in January. Keeping it interesting and eating enough to actually have the energy to workout made all the difference for me anyway.
  • tialynn1
    tialynn1 Posts: 884 Member
    I so agree. My motivation at the beginning was I was determined to lose weight. I was determined to exercise every day. At the beginning I was afraid to miss a day of exercise because I don't want to lose track and not have one day go to 2, to next thing being weeks. Now, after 5 months, I don't feel right if I don't get exercise in every day.
  • kyle4jem
    kyle4jem Posts: 1,400 Member
    I disagree:

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    I want one of those... can you get them at IKEA?
  • Penelope2Plyr
    Penelope2Plyr Posts: 166 Member
    Great post, thanks! I am taking my weight loss journey very slow, not because I necessarily want to, but because I was not totally committed evidently. I began Weight Watchers 21 months ago, and I have not missed but a couple of times going to my weekly meeting in those months. I am only at the 34 lb loss. That is ok though, I figure it means I have kept off what I was losing and as long as I do not give up, I will make it!

    Now, I have a fire lite under me it seems, and I have been working out with a personal trainer doing strength and cardio 3x a week, so maybe soon, I will begin to lose a little faster and more consistently. Before I was not tracking everything, and now I am putting down every bite, lick and taste.
  • killernut
    killernut Posts: 11
    thank you for sharing Tim.

    Also, Go Browns!
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