I can plan for morning exercise, but I never seem to have enough motivation! It’s so much easier to just hit snooze and roll over. Any tips? Please help!
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Have a two-year old kid who gets up at 6am
Get a few friends to join you. You will wake up when you know someone is waiting for you. You have to go or they will be left waiting for you.
the day before..make a list of like 15 reasons why you should exercise. when morning comes, you better think of all the reasons why you should exercise. if you press the snooze button, you’ll feel bad later that you didn’t exercise.
The more I hit snooze, the more miles I have to walk/run.
The best motivation for me is my dress size. I have a size 10 dress hanging on my wall. Every morning I don’t want to get up, I look at that dress and think that I WANT to be able to wear that next year. That’s my best motivation.
Another tip is to get an exercise buddy. It’s not longer just about you at that point–it’s also about meeting a friend and not letting him/her down.
You have to literally force yourself out of bed and then begin exercise…once you do it for a few days, you will begin to have more motivation to do it on your own because exercise gives you more energy and you will feel good too, thats a pretty good motivator.
put the alarm clock on the other side of the room so you HAVE to get up
Have a baby
Get an alarm clock that plays CD’s or has a radio. Wake up to a rock or dance radio station or CD. When it rings start dancing. It wakes you up and you get a nice work out.
you need to have a want to exercise, and stop being LAZY because you will never lose weight or look fit if u are lazy.
“release the bowels” or “drop the kids off at the pool”
I exercise during the night while I sleep, and with my eyes closed. So I don’t know I’m doing it.
The best motivator is a girl riding you or sucking you off! That always motivates me to go running, cuz I feel light and satisfied!
I get up at 4:20 AM on work days, do my morning email routine and ride my stationary bike between 5 and 5:45 while watching an episode of Buffy or Angel on DVD. Then I ride again, either when I get home, or at around 7 PM. My motivation? I am disgustingly fat, at least in my eyes, so I ride to not die.
Mobidus Lee has the best answer – things you don’t want to do is better when you do it with a group!!@
my mum doesn’t allow herself to eat breakfast until she exercizes.
Roll over and look at my large wife?
get up and do it right away. If that doesnt work, get an annoying husband or boyfreind. Maybe a dog that licks your feet in bed
Just do it..Dont think about it..Just find yourself outside getting ready, like I do…Bring a bottled water with you….Start jogging slow for a couple o minutes..then stop and stretch…
wake up an hour earlier. be awake. eat some fruit. and go for it.
I have the same problem, lol
I find its easiest if I get up, have a good breakfast, then wait about an hour to start exercising. Exercise for an hour and your done!! Best to get it done early, the more you procrastinate doing it, the less likely you will do it
Think of what you’ll look like once you’ve excersized for a month. You’ll look GOOD. Also try thinking of how much healthier you’ll be.
sleep early …
wake up in a good mood
Blast some good music along the way. Just open up to new experiances and know how beneficial it is. You feel so much better after working out that that alone should be you motivation for the work-out days to come. Just remember to be happy. Try it out.
Imagine to yourself how hot you will be when you are finished. Once you get going, you will feel better.
And don’t forget to eat breakfast afterward! It is the single most important thing to do to look and feel good.
just stick a poster of a fashion model in your room, see her figure and tell urself i want to be like that fashion model.
it´s very simply:
you have to buy a mirror and put it very front of you!
People who generally do morning exercises tend to be the happiest people in the world.
It comes with habit. Try hard the first few days until you notice a difference in your lifestyle, then continue for the next 20 days until it becomes a life habit.
u can drink cofee or have friends walk wit u.
tell you husband or kids to squirt you with water guns,if that don’t work than drop some water balloons,if that don’t work a pale of water.
OR
Put your alarm clock on highest volume but place it in other room ,so you will have to get up and walk to it in order to shut it off.
Make a decision to get up regardless how you feel the night before. It is all about your attitude and determination. Motivation comes from a decision of your will!
Take a look of yourself at the mirror, if you see something you like, don’t exercise, if you see something you don’t like,…..well get down on it right away cause others see it as well!!!!
get an accountability partner. someone who will come over and work out with you or atthe very least call you at 6:00 am or whatever time you want to get up and work out. Otherwise the only way to do it is just get upand do it. at night , put a picture or a list on the alarm clock, covering the time, it should remind you of the reasons, your motivation for wanting to work out- it might make you think twice before hitting the snooze button. Something else we have done is put the alarm clock across the room- where you HAVE to actually get out of the bed to turn it off- once oyu are out of the bed – that is the first step!
Put the alrm clock on other side of room.
You have to get out of bed to reach it
.Take a shower .get dressed and you will as ready as your ever going to be.
The rest is ultimately up to you
make sure you are sleeping with me… i’ll wake you up in the morning.. and will have an exercise together
dont need anything else…. easy and comfortable
I never workout in the morning. It’s hard to do it by yourself. If there is someone else there it’s easier, ie. team practices in the morning type deals. You’re motivated because you don’t want to let anyone else down. But when you are by yourself… it’s harder. I always feel motivated to workout 2 – 3 hours after having dinner. Lift, stretch, and light cardio, then jog for 30 – 60 minutes depending on my distance schedule. By the time I’m finished, I’m beat and have no trouble getting to sleep.
I used to be like you, but not anymore….I moved up. I like to excersize early on Saturdays and Sundays, like around 6:00 AM!!! So what i do is wake up, replay on my VCR some of last nights Laker game and get inspiration from Kobe making all of those amazing shots while I drink some really strong Coffee I make. Then when I go downstairs to my Gym in the garage, I bump whatever I want to hear to get me going, and I keep the music really loud throughout the entire workout to keep me motivated. Good Luck
I am soooo not a morning person. I’m like you, I hit snooze and roll over.
The only thing that motivates me to get up early enough to exercise is friendship or money. LOL It’s true. If I have a friend to exercise with, we both want to be supportive of each other.
If I don’t have a friend to exercise with, I think to myself that I will have more energy to work more, thus more chances to make more money, then it makes it easier to get up and get busy.
So, I hope this helps. Good luck.
post up a picture of a celebrity or a model with an amazing body, one you would be jealous of, one you wouldn’t want next to you on the beach or anywhere near your boyfirend, realize that girls who look like that do exist and get outta bed. Once you get in the habit it will be easier. When you make excuses for yourself or allow yourself to skip work outs it gets easier and easier to slack. When you’re in the habit of eating healthy and working out, you don’t really want to mess it up. At least that’s how it is for me.
think of the girls who would look at your body after some time … and your new dress style to fit your body and that smile on your face when u walk to college canteen, club, play ground and market… wow what a change … ooze out the snooze and over roll the roll over wow wow wow… and he lived a happy life
start exercising as soon as you wake up in bed,doing leg lifts,bun lifts etc.,then roll out of bed and start walking in place………..Good luck!
well, i use that clean and clear burst face wash, it really wakes you up! you can get it at Walmart and it is only $10, it is orange and has exfoliates in it. And about getting up out of bed I set my alarm clock and my phone alarm for 5 minutes later so i will be awake, but I wouldn,t drink coffee it will make you bigger and then whats the piont of working out! But it helps when you motivate yourself, i get all my things ready the night before ( like shoes, ipod, shirt, shorts,) so then it makes the prossess even quicker to get out of the house. and if you have an ipod use the nike workout playlist, they really motivate you when you run. GOOD LUCK
It’s hard, I teach both early AM and PM spinning classes, I use the potential gain as motivation. If you do intense cardio work, on an empty stomach, shortly after you rise you will see an extraordiary fat loss as our bodies are in a gylcogen deprived state when we awake.
Be sure to eat shortly afterwards and drink lots of water the entire time.
Other benefits will be better sleep, increased metabolic rate for hours afterwards, more energy and decreased appetite.
Your best motivation will be results. Go, work HARD for two weeks, if you don’t see any improvement go back to the snooze button…
3 tips:
1. Guilt is a great motivator. Before you hit that snooze button, remind yourself that you’re going to regret it.
2. Coffee. Physically, it’ll get you ready for exercise – and equally important, if you go through the trouble of making/buying coffee you’re less likely to go back to sleep if only to avoid being wasteful
3. when you get up that first time and exercise, DO THE SAME THING THE NEXT MORNING. it gets easier every single time. before you know it, getting up and exercising becomes the norm. And then you can reward yourself every once in awhile by hitting the snooze
when u wake just take a cold shower if u can get up. while ur in the shower start to sing a little and dance to wake u up more and to get xrsize. when gettin dressed do the same to get u more pumped up.so your wet and cold to be awake, dancing to feel alive and to get a little more xrsize, and u r sing in to make u dance. i guess u can listen to music 4 a bit more. but dont drink coffee it shunts your growth.any way good luck. (^_^)
just regard morning exercise as a kind of religion obligation that MUST be fulfiiled like praying and eating daily
eat a healthy breakfast and look at yourself in the mirrior and say today i will concor one of my fears and a mirical will happen. wich one is funner sleeping or discovering.
go for it
1) Finding someone(s) else to do it with you.
2) Rewarding yourself at the end of the week for having stuck to your weekday plan/program.
3) Vary where you exercise… and thus make it more of an “outing” that you look forward to for other reasons.
4) Exercise at night instead of in the morning
5) Go to bed earlier.
and lastly,
6) Weigh yourself and stand in front of a mirror just before you go to bed…this “data” might be fresh in your mind when you wake up… and the motivation to maintain or improve your body image might prevail.
i do some yoga stretches while still in bed. this warms up my muscles and circulations makes my brain start to function. you’ll find some great routines for yoga in this article