I set out my workout clothes and gear eg dumbells or execise ball beside the bed the night before. Also i set an alarm that says: Time to Workout to become your fabulous self. When i wake up and am drinking my first bottle of water upon waking i set my mind on track to having an awesome workout and to feel stronger by the end of the day.
How did i build my morning exercise habit? The preparation always starts in the evening. If you want to go for a run, put your running clothes next to the bed. If you just want to do some push ups, lye down an excercise mat. The lesson is to make as easy for you in the evening. Or just use the Fabulous app daily (every morning) this was the major help for me :)
I always remember, especially when Fabulous reminds me, for me the hard part is not hitting snooze through my workout time. As is, I’m lucky if I get 7 hours of sleep a night. Sometimes I feel like I need to choose sleep or exercise, and sleep usually wins.
Alarms. When I didn’t have my phone with it’s schedules (sometimes long and detailed other times just the basics) I would forget obvious things. For example, I would even skip breakfast, not because I wasn’t hungry or didn’t have time; I’d just forget, then I’d eat something unhealthy. When I do exercise, it’s because I have scheduled and I credit Fabulous.
You just make it a habit on your fabulous, you either respond to the reminder or remember it yourself by kepping the new to learn habits as low as possible Good luck!
These daily reminders, coupled with the crushing existential dread of aging and my own impending mortality, make it easy to remember to exercise!
I establish a morning routine of doing the same things in the same order each morning: get up, wash my face and brush my teeth, drink water, feed the cats, exercise, eat breakfast, and so on. After a few days, it becomes a habit and you don’t have to think about it.
Just before work and after the app reminds me to do all the other small routines it also reminds me to exercise and i ususally get out of the house and run for about 15-20 minutes.
Lay out my exercise clothes before I go to bed and have a full water bottle next to my bed. It’s a lot easier to just get going when everything is already prepared for me.
set alarm for the same time everday at 6am set up work out gear the night before plan my exercise for the week, considering when I can exercise.
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