How do you motivate yourself to go to the gym when you really don’t want to?

Well, I am just thinking how am I going to feel after doing it. Also, I know that the hard part is getting the decision to stand up and get ready. Once I’m at out of the door, nature already motivates me with only breathing fresh air.

I don’t go to the gym per say, but i exercise and stretch twice daily, once in the morning and once in the evening. I just try to remember how much better my body feels when I do the work. If i skip either session i dont feel myself or as fluid in my movements. That feeling is enough to make me follow through everytime. Once you recognize what you feel like at your best, it makes it easier to follow though and keep it going

Going to the gym is my time to myself, my only time to myself. I create a workout plan and do my best to stick to it. I try to create a streak and I picture it as a paper chain. If I miss a day I break the chain. Most days I stick to my plan but I have days when I go and do the bare minimum just to spend some time alone. :)

- A great playlist helps - This is probably unorthodox, but sometimes you just gotta do the thing and complain dramatically as you start out! Like dang it I really don’t want to go but look at me go anyway! Get it out of your system as you drag yourself to the car and then you’re on your way

I dont go to the gym, I just work out at home but I just tell myself to just freakin do it the next morning and I get it done before I go to work. I know not everyone can do it like me but if you keep holding yourself to it and then eventually do it, it makes you feel amazing. If you hold it to yourself long enough, it digs at you and then I do it xD

I try to remember the sensation after the workout and how good and energyzed I feel. I prefer to make the effort to go even I don’t want to, than have the regret of not going.

Thinking, behaving and becoming a sports man, an athlete. That way I feel bad every time I can’t go to the gym (because I had to stay with my family or at work or whatever more urgent and impossible to move). Also, I had the tremendous luck to find climbing sport, which I love, and it pushed me to practise other sports, such as yoga and the gym, so I can became, little by little, a better climber.

•Can listen to a motivational video that will motivate you to workout. •Think about the Fitness Goals you want to Achieve. •Think about benifits if you go gym and workout and the consequences that you will face if you don’t Workout.

I just ask myself 'Is not going going to help me in any way?' If I have severe cramps during my shark week, I give myself a day or two off. But if it is just lack of motivation, I get in my car, drive to the gym, and in the car, I just think about why to go back just because I don’t want to gym 🙃. So I get in and get my workout done. (Also, thanks to fabulous, I get motivated much faster.)

I’ll say this, if you’re having ‘a day’ and you really dont want to go to the gym, go for a long walk or if you run or jog, do that instead! Sometimes we don’t want to go because we need to switch up the routine, be in nature, do something healthy but different. If the issue is that you do want to go but just need to get motivated, I always ALWAYS motivate myself by reminding myself a few things: 1) I’m going to feel so good after I get a workout in; mentally clear and much happier, 2) I’m worth it to myself and this is the designated time I’m purposefully taking to just spend solely on me and my mental and physical well being, 3) I’m going to feel so good and proud of myself that I even though I really didn’t want to, I pushed through and went and I don’t regret it. Lastly, sometimes I can subconsciously have an all or nothing attitude towards exercising which has been self-sabotaging! I have learned that it doesn’t have to be 30+ minutes or nothing! Some days, all you can give is 8 minutes or 10 minutes and that is still good! It doesn’t have to be an hour workout or nothing. Be easy on yourself.