I haven't had one of these in a while but today is one of those days where the absolute LAST thing I want to do is workout. I'm tired, my tummy kind of hurts, I've got tonsssssss of homework to do... I could give you a hundred reasons. I JUST DON'T WANT TO WORKOUT TODAY. But I need to. Theres like a war going on inside of my head. Half of me is telling me to shut up and workout already, the other half is trying to justify taking today off. I CANT THOUGH!! I neeeeeed to workout. The debate in my head is ongoing as I type this. SO what do I do on days like today to summon up enough inner strength to get my butt to the rec center? I shall blog right along as I go through the steps.
1. I start texting away. The first person that gets one is the one and only Ashlee Hoffman (the best personal trainer in the whole world). I know that within minutes I will get some type of a response that will make me think twice about skipping a day. Then I send texts to all the other worker-outers in my life, one of them usually has something good to say.
"Hulk" is saved in my phone as "Hulk" for obvious reasons... As he advises, if you want a great body, you just have to workout anyway, even when you don't want to.
2. As the texts start rolling in I go and get changed into my workout clothes and put on my gym shoes. This seriously helps. I'm only on step two and my mood is already changing for the better. I think my body kind of goes into like autopilot gym mode after my gym shoes are laced up.
3. Next, I sit my butt down in front of my computer and get online (I guess I was already doing this...) I go to Google and start typing in phrases such as "working out when you have no motivation" and then I start clicking away on webpages. The first thing that popped up today was "Top 10 Shallow Reasons To Workout." That definitely caught my attention and lets be honest here, the shallow reasons tend to be the most motivating... Some of the shallow reasons that appealed to me are #10. swimsuit season #6. feeling good about yourself #5. feel good when you run into old friends (love this one) #1. the opposite sex (love this one too - the opposite sex ha) ... Pretty decent website, i'd suggest checking it out...
Okay.. I'm nearly in the mood. Next website.... hmmm . Okay so I got distracted, I didn't make it back to Google. Bodybuilding.com has become one of my favorite websites and again the past thirty minutes of browsing through it reminded me why. Check this out.....
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/index.html . There is soooo much info on here.. From specific exercise how to's, to nutrition and supplements - you will find just about anything you could possibly want to know about fitness on here. Theres also an entire huge section on motivation. One of my go to things to look at when I'm in need of motivation is other peoples transformations. Theres a whole page dedicated to this ...
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bbmainmind.htm ... Unlike the transformations that you see on TV infomercials the people that you find here transformed their bodies from just diet and exercise alone - photo-shop had nothing to do with it. It shows in detail the different workouts and diet plans that each person followed... Seeing tons of other people that have made incredible body transformations reassures me that I can do it too.
Okay. Somehow two hours have passed since I started writing this thing. I could continue blogging all night but if it gets any later I really won't go and workout and this new found motivation will go to waste. SO. with that said. I am going to go and workout now :)
