How do you find motivation to work out?

Question

Im finding myself getting lazy. Any ideas on stopping this cycle

Answer 1

Trying on clothes while shopping!
If I start to notice that my current size is moving up, it motivates me to get back to the gym. All the cute clothes come in small sizes (even Large runs small), especially if you shop at Forever 21, A & B, Charlotte Russe, etc.

Answer 2

Eradicate the excuses - always put a bag with your gym stuff in the car when you go to work in the morning - then it's always there and you can go after work, before work, or later in the evening without having the hassle of looking for stuff. Even if you go for 10 mins and get a shower at the gym, you've saved time showering at home, and still done something!!!

Answer 3

I did lots of Physical Education at School, every sport and enjoyed it. I then left school and started work but joined a sports club, where I played tennis, badminton, squash and went swimming. Sport is good and the social life not bad. At the young age of 21 I had the first sysmptom of Arthritis and at 29 I was diagnosed. 34 found me in Hospital flat on my back in severe pain, having lost weight, with heart and lung complications. The best they could offer me, a wheelchair. I explained I came in unable to walk, I left walking, perhaps this is a new theory? I had to relearn how to walk again and it gave me strength to take what time I had left being mobile and play sports with my nephews and nieces. If I was going to be a wheelchair user, I wanted them to remember me able. All went well for the next ten years, got a dog, walk three miles three times per week, do lots of house work, gardening, decorating, cooking. Two years ago had four bouts of lower right acute onset abdominal pain, so I took the body off to Pilates. It was a scream because I did not know left from right, arm from my leg and it only took me three months to sit on the Pilates Ball. However I did it. It toned up my body, I went screaming to my Doc because I found 'lumps' only to be told 'Umm they are Muscles?' Then six weeks ago I stood up from the chair and bang, Prolapsed Disc in my spine, resting on the nerve root to both legs, so enter the self-propelled wheelchair. Now friends all came back with 'Hey but you were at Pilates and you walked and you are doing Aqua Jogging, what a waste of money when you end up in a wheelchair!' I replied 'Hey look if I had not attended Pilates, kept up the walking and went Aqua Jogging, if I just went to bed, became a sloch potatoe, do you think I would be able to propell myself now or not?'
Today I went Aqua Jogging, walked the dog three miles and I think I am ready to pack away the wheelchair. Now far be it for me to point out the downfall of being lazy. None of us know what the future holds and anyone could end up disabled. However the fitter you are going into disability, the better and faster you will come out. If you are lazy going in, chances are you will not come out! The choice is yours and only yours. I do not go to a gym, find it boring, perfer to be with a group, so we all have a laugh along the way.

Answer 4

Motivation to look better and feel better should be enough. But, if you desire more here you go. You're going to die younger than you should. Exercising will increase your life expectancy. You will be sick more often. You will have to spend more money on BIGGER clothing. Girls will find you less disgusting if you exercise and look better. You will feel better. That should be enough inticement.

Answer 5

i weghtlift and do yoga for an hour everyday.
somedays you really have to motivate yourself....
health...energy....everything is easier when you are in shape.. even simple things like just walking to carrying groceries...or running up a flight of stairs ( notice i said running)
but exercise seems to " wipe the slate clean"...
it clears your head...and relaxes you.
if you keep at it enough..it becomes routine..like brushing your teeth....
do it for your health.

Answer 6

Set yourself a goal... if your goal is just to look better that never works. Try something like I want to look good for this person I like. Or, work out to vent your frustrations. I like to lift weights in anger about people or things that happened in my day that pissed me off. I feel better and look better.

Answer 7

Either trying on clothes that are too small or realising you'll lose weight faster if you work out.

Answer 8

seeing nice thin people on the street i tell myself that i am fat do something and i do,it gets easier
good luck

Answer 9

dunno but let me know when you find out. Did 4 months of gym then gave up finding all the excuses in the world but its boring!!!!!!!!!