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2003/11/13, 11:56 AM
Hey everyone. So, I am eating closer to how I should be, and I feel really good about that. BUT, I hate exersizing. I know its the only way to lose the weight I need to lose, but when the time comes for me to head to the gym, the simple animosity I feel about working out stops me dead in my tracks. I wasn't always like this. There was a time when I liked lifting, and even sorta liked cardio. What can I do to get myself to where thinking about exersize doesn't make me want to lock myself in the closet?? Anyone have any baby step advice to help me figure this out??
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2003/11/13, 02:19 PM
Its one of them things that you have to want to do.
It seems like the motivation comes when you figure out your own way to make it happen.
Ask yourself these questions?
What are my priorities?
How bad do I want the results?
How long can I wait to get the results?
Why cant I start now?
Always be proud of the Fact that "You are the only one in cotroll of yourself-no one else is".
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"Get everthing you want--just make a little change now"
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2003/11/13, 02:47 PM
For some people it is the fact that they have to go to a gym. Many are intimidated by working out around others and to others it is simply another pain to an already complicated schedule. Some people aren't comfortable with their exercise routines enough to where they really enjoy them. I believe motivation is enhanced by enjoyment and seeing positive results. Some people simply don't like to work out alone and need a partner. I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons. Intruder pointed out some of the questions that need to be answered by you that will get your heart and mind heading in the right direction. You just need to work out the details to make your experience worthwhile. Identify the problem and find out what it will take to solve it. You may want to work out at home. Change the time that you go to the gym. Change gyms. Manipulate your workout environment. Get a partner. There are many alternatives. Find what works for you. If it's important enough to you-you will find a way. Remember, most people struggled with some of these same issues in the beginning. Good Luck
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2003/11/13, 04:50 PM
You might find it helpful to take a walk befor you go to the gym in order to find the moivation you need to get there. Change your "lack of motivation environment" Put your workout clothes on or put your stuff in the car and take a walk down the street. Get out of the house and get your blood moving, swing your arms around, breath in..... breath out, do a little stretch, think about what your going to do when you get to the gym and how good you are going to feel about yourself when you leave the gym. Then when you are feeling good (the walk, the breathing, the stretch should get some endorphins flowing)get in your car and go. Good luck!!
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Anything is better than nothing so get off your ass and do something!!!
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2003/11/16, 05:00 AM
I agree with all above, and only hope to give you another angle.
I sat in a chiropractor's office reading some pages of "Body for Life," and the author mentioned that he'd decided one day, after looking at his fat, unhealthy self in the mirror, that he would (paraphrasing here), "Go to the gym in get in great shape, or die trying. Either is better than this."
That wasn't my engine to success, but it set me in motion, reading that. Now, I feel entitled to the gym, as if the world owes my membership to me. I own that land. There have been plenty of times my rent is past due (think of the Animal Stak ads here haha) but my gym membership has been paid on-time or early since the first day I started, 16 months and two gyms ago.
What you need to do is stop thinking it's a Hollywood dream; that the gym floor is roamed and ruled only by megalomaniac steroid-popping psycho's and understand that you owe your body a chance to be fantastic, and your body doesn't care who is in that gym or how hard the exercises are, it just wants to be it's best, so let it out of that cage you have it in and give it a shove and a holler and let that MoNsTeR BeCoMe! :D
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--There are no versions of the truth.--
Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park II
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2003/11/16, 08:45 AM
Lots of motivation here. Review your own personal goals of what you are trying to achieve. If dragging yourself out to the gym is the issue, look at buying some weights, dumbells, and keep them close around. Pick a time to lift, then go for it. Its the starting in to a consistent routine that will keep you going.
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