Don't wanna exercise

I basically started back to my diet n exercise yesterday and I already don't want to do it. I'm finding it very difficult to make myself get up off my butt n go do my laps in the pool. I'm freezing, it'll be cold, and I'm just having a very unmotivating day.

How do you guys make yourselves do it even when you REALLY don't want to?

think about how good you'll feel after you worked out

then, GO DO IT!!!

Oye, I know how you feel... Umm, sometimes I promise myself a reward -- i.e: a little nonfat frozen yogurt for a job well done, or I convince myself that I'll get to have more food later if I'm hungry cause I will have worked out already.

I know I shouldn't reward with food, but at least I try and keep it healthy and/or reasonable. Recently I tried rewarding myself in clothes, but my bank acct has subsequently protested! :(

Good luck!

<3- Krissy

Is there something more *fun* you could do?  Something that you'd actually enjoy?  So -as I'm typing this, I'm thinking to myself, you hypocrite, you dread it too, take your own advise!!!!  And I'm trying to think of something that I'd actually do that I'd ENJOY, and I'm coming up blank.  So if you think of something, let me know!!! :)

Tough one.  I try to take a pilates class every sunday morning, and it's never easy to get myself there.  I've found the best way to do it is to give myself the option of not going up until the last second.  It feels like a silly little bit of mental trickery but it does seem to work.  Like, well, if I'm going to go, I'd better get up now and have a little breakfast.  So I eat breakfast and dink on the computer for a little bit.  Then, well, if I'm going to go I should brush my teeth now.  If I'm going to go, I should put on some shorts... If I'm going to go, I should put on some shoes....  Well, I'll just get in the car.  I can always go get coffee instead...  Turns out, if I'm in the car, wearing shorts and shoes (and presumably a top...), I'll most likely make it to the class.  A little goofy, but whatever works, you know? :-)

     Well if you do not like swimming and dread getting into the pool just say that is not your exercise.  I used to spend 30min on the treadmill every day and hated it.  Now instead I take martial arts classes that are offered by my college during the week.  Both of these activities take almost the same amount of time during the week and the martial arts even burns more calories compared to the treadmill. It is all up to finding something that you enjoy.  Excerise is a activity that should improve your life and make you happier overall not some type of dreaded medicine that you have to motiviate yourself to take.  

   Not sure where you live but mabye if you like the outdoors find a small hiking trial near your house you can walk along instead of going swimming.  Even better if you do not like the outdoors just pick up some random little activity like a spinning class at your gym.  Just haveing a class you are expected to be at will motiviate yourself to go.

It's not that I don't like swimming ... it IS my exercise of choice. When I was swimming last year, I had my routine down and my muscles were used to it ....

Now, I'm just starting back to an exercise program, my muscles are protesting, and I'm just in the "I dont' wanna" stage ... I just have to somehow get myself motivated. Don't worry though, I DID swim today, and just because I was complaining, I pushed myself further than I'd planned to.

Nice to have somewhere to complain, huh???
Helps me get back to it to see it in print!
What I am having trouble with - learning exercises on exerball. Soon soon soon!
Kathi

On days you just don't wanna, tell yourself you're just gonna do a short session today. . . say, half the time you normally would.  Often that's enough to get you started, at least.  Once you get into the swing of it, you may find yourself going your full time instead. . . but even if you don't, you can at least say you got in some exercise, even if it wasn't as much as usual.  You'll feel like much less of a slacker if you can at least say you tried!

Once I'm in the pool, I find it's an all or nothing workout. What's the point in getting wet if I'm not gonna finish my workout?

I put some of my best and most common excuses for not exercising in my profile so that I'd call my own bulls**t if I try to weasel out of doing what I know is in my best interests.  I wonder if these excuses are the same ones that you use or if you have others? 

Swimming and water aerobics are my choice of activity too. Just think of how refreshing it is to get in the water and get those muscles moving. And maybe you can think of it this way, you are burning way more calores swimming than pretty much any other exercise so you'll be slimming down quicker!

I see you live in MI, so do I. If we lived near each other, I'd swim with you. It is always nice to have someone to kinda keep ya going on the days you really don't want to.

I see you go to Saginaw Valley... I live in Lapeer, not too terribly far :)

I do a few different things. Most importantly is I do exercises I like. If you don't like it, you will not be consistant with it. Second is I ask myself, when I get to my goal weight, do I want to look like a flabby skinny guy, or a fit and tight inshape guy? And finally, a big motivatior is I can eat more food then. I can fit in rice, or a low cal desert, or more protein which seems real hard to ever get enough.

Take it from me, as someone who has always LOATHED exercise (I mean it, hate is not a strong enough word in this case) - after 6 weeks of sticking to a regular routine... now I cannot wait to get on my treadmill / elliptical or go outside for a run every single day. I am being dead serious - not only are you happier because of the endorphins, but you are more energized and your body feels FIT.

I promise you, I used to be the laziest, most unmotivated, unfit person ever. I would make any and every excuse NOT to exercise. But then one day, I realised I have to do this - not only to look better, but to be healthier. That is all it took, one little push closer to the gym or out the door and I was set. You have to just put your mind to it and DO it. Start off slooooowly, build up and up over a number of weeks. And I GUARANTEE that you won't regret it. 

Then don't do it, It's as simple as.

Follow it up by rewarding yourself with something fun, or a nice hot cup of sugar free hot chocolate which you have brought in a thermos.  But DO IT. Its just getting back into the routie thats got ya in a slump.

I am having a hard time getting into a routine of going to exercise and when I have a babysitter I just do not want to go and work out I want to do other things with free time I know I need to get my exercise in I just need to get better motivated to do it. 

I have felt the same way.  I bought myself an IPOD, put some disco and fast rock music on it...I use it when I use aerobic/cardio machines at the club like the ellipital.  Makes the time fly and I go faster w/the music.

I also use swimming as a reward.  I am hot and sweaty after elliptical and weight lifting, I know that gliding into that cool water in the lap pool is going t feel soooo good.

Like NIKE says, you have to just DO IT.

Do you want to join me in my posting quest?  See my post about Stay Motivated this Month.

GO FOR IT...

you know how great u will feel afterwards! DON'T let mind get over matter...just think right this will all be over within...say an hour? and then just start...becaue the sooner you start the sooner it's over.

i love my sport and exercise and train 7 days a week (swimming and running and dumbells) and i feel great once i've done it! sometimes i really wont wana do it but i make myself and then afterwards i feel so happy that i've done it

SO JUST DO IT!