I’m not sure why it’s so dang hard to exercise. Or why it’s so dang hard to get up in the morning. This is something that I’ve had issues with for quite awhile. Being at a job that doesn’t require a “strict” arrival time, there’s not a whole lot of incentive for me to get “up and at ’em” at any specific time. Except maybe the dirty looks given by my wife as I lay in bed while she gets all the kids ready for the morning? 🙂
But even having said that, I do want to do better. I have set the goal to wake up with the alarm. And I have a goal of exercising 4 total days this year. But for some reason those are not motivating me. When I came to the great awakening last October that to hit my goal of exercising 1000 miles I needed to do 62 miles a week, that was very motivating to me. I would go to the Y most mornings, and would go sometimes in the evenings, including one evening when I rode the exercise bike for nearly 39 miles.
But 2008 has not been great for me. I started out okay, but then I horked my back, and couldn’t really do anything, and got out of the habit and boom – here I am.
I do have those above-mentioned goals. I am also planning on repeating my adventure in the Miami triathlon. But maybe I need more immediate “harder” goals.
Thoughts anyone? For the record, as you can see over to the right in my handy exercise log widget, I did exercise this morning – I went 25 minutes and did 2.79 miles.
5 responses to “Why is it so hard to exercise?”
maybe if you had to get the kids up and going in the morning you’d be more motivated to get up at 7…like me? if i sleep in, then i don’t have time to shower before the kids are all up in my face asking for food or help with stuff. so i feel highly motivated to get up at 7 and get a shower before the morning madness starts.
or maybe you could “pretend” like you had to be at work at a specific time. even if it really didn’t matter. you could just say to your self, hey i’ve got to be to work by 9 or i’m going to get fired!
as for exercise, maybe you need to find something more fun to do. i think exercise is really boring. but step aerobics is SO FUN. they’ve got step classes in the evenings. 🙂
there’s my 2 cents.
i just remembered some other motivators for me to exercise. one is that i’ve got friends to take the step class with. it’s fun to see them. and if i didn’t show up for a while, they’d start asking where i’ve been.
also, i don’t get many breaks from out dear sweet children. when i exercise and put the kids in the nursery, i get to have a little break and have fun with my friends too.
i always feel better when i exercise. when i miss a day, i really notice. i feel sluggish.
also, i have a fear of getting fat. and since it seems like i can’t stop eating chocolate and ice cream…then i better dang well exercise!
Boy, if you can solve those 2 mysteries and market it, you’d be a billionaire. I know I’d buy it.
Ahh, so this is a case of like mother like son. 🙂
absolutely