What is the best way to motivate yourself for morning exercise?

Question

I can plan for morning exercise, but I never seem to have enough motivation! It's so much easier to just hit snooze and roll over. Any tips? Please help!

Answer 1

post up a picture of a celebrity or a model with an amazing body, one you would be jealous of, one you wouldn't want next to you on the beach or anywhere near your boyfirend, realize that girls who look like that do exist and get outta bed. Once you get in the habit it will be easier. When you make excuses for yourself or allow yourself to skip work outs it gets easier and easier to slack. When you're in the habit of eating healthy and working out, you don't really want to mess it up. At least that's how it is for me.

Answer 2

3 tips:

1. Guilt is a great motivator. Before you hit that snooze button, remind yourself that you're going to regret it.

2. Coffee. Physically, it'll get you ready for exercise - and equally important, if you go through the trouble of making/buying coffee you're less likely to go back to sleep if only to avoid being wasteful :)

3. when you get up that first time and exercise, DO THE SAME THING THE NEXT MORNING. it gets easier every single time. before you know it, getting up and exercising becomes the norm. And then you can reward yourself every once in awhile by hitting the snooze :)

Answer 3

I am soooo not a morning person. I'm like you, I hit snooze and roll over.

The only thing that motivates me to get up early enough to exercise is friendship or money. LOL It's true. If I have a friend to exercise with, we both want to be supportive of each other.

If I don't have a friend to exercise with, I think to myself that I will have more energy to work more, thus more chances to make more money, then it makes it easier to get up and get busy.

So, I hope this helps. Good luck.

Answer 4

get an accountability partner. someone who will come over and work out with you or atthe very least call you at 6:00 am or whatever time you want to get up and work out. Otherwise the only way to do it is just get upand do it. at night , put a picture or a list on the alarm clock, covering the time, it should remind you of the reasons, your motivation for wanting to work out- it might make you think twice before hitting the snooze button. Something else we have done is put the alarm clock across the room- where you HAVE to actually get out of the bed to turn it off- once oyu are out of the bed - that is the first step!

Answer 5

It's hard, I teach both early AM and PM spinning classes, I use the potential gain as motivation. If you do intense cardio work, on an empty stomach, shortly after you rise you will see an extraordiary fat loss as our bodies are in a gylcogen deprived state when we awake.

Be sure to eat shortly afterwards and drink lots of water the entire time.

Other benefits will be better sleep, increased metabolic rate for hours afterwards, more energy and decreased appetite.

Your best motivation will be results. Go, work HARD for two weeks, if you don't see any improvement go back to the snooze button...

Answer 6

The more I hit snooze, the more miles I have to walk/run.

The best motivation for me is my dress size. I have a size 10 dress hanging on my wall. Every morning I don't want to get up, I look at that dress and think that I WANT to be able to wear that next year. That's my best motivation.

Another tip is to get an exercise buddy. It's not longer just about you at that point--it's also about meeting a friend and not letting him/her down.

Answer 7

I never workout in the morning. It's hard to do it by yourself. If there is someone else there it's easier, ie. team practices in the morning type deals. You're motivated because you don't want to let anyone else down. But when you are by yourself... it's harder. I always feel motivated to workout 2 - 3 hours after having dinner. Lift, stretch, and light cardio, then jog for 30 - 60 minutes depending on my distance schedule. By the time I'm finished, I'm beat and have no trouble getting to sleep.

Answer 8

Try going to bed earlier. Then you should wake up before your alarm is supposed to go off. When you wake up in the morning, get up. Don't stay in bed. Doesn't matter if it's like 3:30am. If you wake up, it's your body telling you, you're ready to go. You will find that you have the most inspiration and energy you have ever felt when you do this. It's exciting! Go outside and jog around the block, if it's safe. And if you're lying in bed telling yourself I'm still tired, I don't want to get up yet, remind yourself that life waits for no one and that you want to enjoy as much of your life as possible. We sleep to let our body's rest...it's vital. We're lazy when we decide we just don't have the motivation to get out of bed. Find motivation from within. That's where it comes from. You make a choice not to get up. You just have to make the choice to do it. So, stop saying you can't get motivated and Just Do It.

Answer 9

I used to be like you, but not anymore....I moved up. I like to excersize early on Saturdays and Sundays, like around 6:00 AM!!! So what i do is wake up, replay on my VCR some of last nights Laker game and get inspiration from Kobe making all of those amazing shots while I drink some really strong Coffee I make. Then when I go downstairs to my Gym in the garage, I bump whatever I want to hear to get me going, and I keep the music really loud throughout the entire workout to keep me motivated. Good Luck

Answer 10

I get up at 4:20 AM on work days, do my morning email routine and ride my stationary bike between 5 and 5:45 while watching an episode of Buffy or Angel on DVD. Then I ride again, either when I get home, or at around 7 PM. My motivation? I am disgustingly fat, at least in my eyes, so I ride to not die.