What motivates you to get your exercise done?

Set goals. Weekly, monthly, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month and a year from the start. Examples, weekly.. go for a run 3x this week. 3 month climb 200 step staircase without having to stop. 6 month.. go hiking in the mountains with my son. And so on… maybe in a year, go backpacking in another country. Always have something to work towards and to dream about, or plan while you’re working out. Keeps your mind off the difficulty, and makes time go by faster.

Working out keeps my anxiety down & helps motivate me to do something with my day. It helps me get in my me time. And know its helping to reach my goal weight!

A trick I recently learned in “Faster Than Normal” (Shankman) has helped me get motivated to exercise when virtually nothing else would. In the book, Shankman explains that folks with ADHD have brains that need a little help producing the right amount of dopamine, and exercise is an excellent, easy, free, non-pharmaceutical way to stimulate the production of dopamine and endorphins. Understanding the connection between what I’m doing with my body out in the world and my internal experiences helped me understand that I have all the power to change my habits, and in turn my brain, thus improving my entire quality of life. Another tip from the book is that you can do small bursts of exercise to help bring your focus back (Shankman calls it taking a “dopamine break,” which I like) anywhere, anytime, and this small shift in how I think about “scheduling” my exercise helped me get over the obstacle of feeling like I had to go to the gym everyday or something – it freed me to play around with different kinds of exercise in different intervals and things, and not view it as some huge chore or commitment. Now I include lots of short “dopamine breaks” for exercise throughout my day, and I even look forward to them!

Exercise can be very difficult to keep up. What helps me is: 1. Being able to exercise right at home, or without getting into my car. The thought of exercise can be a little bit overwhelming sometimes. If you have to add the thought of driving to a gym, it’s a totally different story. I have an exercise bike and treadmill and can go running outside. 2. Exercising when it works for my schedule. For me that’s early morning or late at night. 3. Exercising a reasonable amount of time. I’ve settled on about 30 minutes. More than that and it becomes too much of a chore. Less than that and it becomes insubstantive. 4. Varying it up when the mood suits me. Switching to weights and a much shorter exercise routine, for example.

I have a knee injury whichm prevents me from playing badminton. This motivates me to keep the exercise up, so I can empty my mind once again in a sport which I am great at

My backpain I know I need to do my exercises on a regular basis because another wise ot will get worse. Even if it’s just 5 min and ligt I still try to do it 5 times a week

I tell myself in my head that I want to be more healthier and skinnier. To be happy in my own body. I want to be proud about the way I look and feel accomplished that I completed a difficult task. And I also wanna get that summer bod.

Look, i faced many things in my life, that just demotivated me, but never stopped me, and I never gave up, I always wanted to keep myself fit and also wanted to be motivated, happy and to feel energetic, so I just found this app, and now I really don’t wanna give up, as I never did, but I’ve realised one thing, that this is the time to make myself fabulous and perfect in everything, so I just did it, as I want to achieve many things in my life, so why not start from now?

I focus in on my body and see what part doesn’t feel well. I have RA, so I know if I stop moving my joints will hurt. So I remind myself exercise will make me feel better.

I feel better and have more energy if I do exercise 🙂 Before I did exercire actively. Now I do it slowle without sudden movements and have more pleasure. Good luck