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2003/05/13, 12:40 PM
I would recommend these 25 tips for a starter; see http://www.exercare.com/exerinfo/motivation.htm
I'm going to take a different approach for you than a feel-good, pump-up, pep rally approach.
Understand this first; if you don't want to go the gym, you won't go. If you don't want to lose weight, gain muscle, look in the mirror and be surprised by the results, have members of the opposite sex drooling over you, feel better, look better, BE better, then you will not.
And there is a significant portion of the population who can remain PERFECTLY HAPPY being unhealthy, or semi-healthy. They don't need the gym, the muscles, the release of endorphins (think runner's high) or to have energy in their everyday lives that they never knew was possible.
You could be part of that portion.
Every reward costs something. You might know somebody who won $10,000.00 in the lottery, and you might think they are a scumbag who didn't deserve it, or you may know somebody who was fired from a job because somebody set them up, so you might subscribe to the theory that hard work in the gym is meaningless because even the best intentions can damage or not help good people, or vice versa.
The truth is that you have to feel it. There are 10 million possibilities on why you aren't feeling motivated. Could be over-training, depression, an unknown medical condition, diet, on and on.
My suggestion to you is to put yourself into one of two groups; one group finds some reason not to get in shape and then fortifies that reasoning will all of the logic they can round up. The other group, and many on this board fall in, have a burning, perpetual motion machine inside of them for whatever reason that just makes them workout, gym or no gym. Of this latter group, you will find people who cannot pay rent or afford car insurance, but are never late on their gym memberships. Their supplement bills rival their grocery bills.
That's not motivation that can be taught. You have to produce it or discover it, and then let it lead you.
Good luck, and picture yourself at both ends of the fitness spectrum before you have your next thought.
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--There are no versions of the truth.--
Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park II
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