Hey there! I'm in need of some serious advice so I'll get straight to the point:
Before I continue, let me give you some background. My "work-out" consists of walking/jogging for about 45 minutes to an hour. I'm currently overweight but not really obese or anything akin. My goals are just to shed pounds and and get toned. I'm not really all that interested in some body builder type look... yet.
I can't motivate myself to work out. Now, I'm sure there have been plenty of people that have claimed this but hear me out.
First and foremost, I don't like working out. I hate doing it, I hate how I feel after wards (I feel like crap), and I despise the amount of time and energy spent doing it when I don't even feel good after a work out. I sincerely wish that this wasn't the case; however, it is and I've tried many things to change it.
I've tried pulling the ol' "before and after" mental images out where I think about how I'll look like later - not enough motivation. I've tried rewarding myself for every work-out and that doesn't work because any enticing reward would either be counter-productive to the exercising or completely independent from it. Plus, I just manage to convince myself that playing this "reward" game with myself is stupid so I give it up anyway. I've tried reading motivational articles and that works for about a day or two before the motivation dissipates and isn't much regained by the same article. I've tried meditating everyday for 10-15 minutes right when I wake up and before I go to bed--a practice I have now adopted into my daily routine by the way--but that didn't help to motivate me to exercise. I've tried to just sit my butt down and talk myself into it - nope. I'm close to trying to walk/jog right after smoking marijuana to see if that would help make things more interesting. And no, I don't smoke marijuana regularly at all so it's not any sort of a "demotivator", so to speak.
Also, I don't have enough money for a personal trainer at the moment so that's not an option.
Perhaps I should somehow find a way to exercise for 21 days or however long the estimated time is for something to become habitual.
I'm beginning to think there's some deep rooted problem within me but I'm not willing to give up on myself just yet. I want to, nay NEED to find a way to get myself physically wanting to exercise or else I'll be doomed into a unhealthy lifestyle forever. And eventually maybe that fact alone will motivate me.
So, based on all this, what advice would you guys give? Have any of you experienced similar things and have overcome this disgusting obstacle? If "Just Doing it" where just as easy as it sounds then, believe me, I would have had a rock-solid body by now.
Before I continue, let me give you some background. My "work-out" consists of walking/jogging for about 45 minutes to an hour. I'm currently overweight but not really obese or anything akin. My goals are just to shed pounds and and get toned. I'm not really all that interested in some body builder type look... yet.
I can't motivate myself to work out. Now, I'm sure there have been plenty of people that have claimed this but hear me out.
First and foremost, I don't like working out. I hate doing it, I hate how I feel after wards (I feel like crap), and I despise the amount of time and energy spent doing it when I don't even feel good after a work out. I sincerely wish that this wasn't the case; however, it is and I've tried many things to change it.
I've tried pulling the ol' "before and after" mental images out where I think about how I'll look like later - not enough motivation. I've tried rewarding myself for every work-out and that doesn't work because any enticing reward would either be counter-productive to the exercising or completely independent from it. Plus, I just manage to convince myself that playing this "reward" game with myself is stupid so I give it up anyway. I've tried reading motivational articles and that works for about a day or two before the motivation dissipates and isn't much regained by the same article. I've tried meditating everyday for 10-15 minutes right when I wake up and before I go to bed--a practice I have now adopted into my daily routine by the way--but that didn't help to motivate me to exercise. I've tried to just sit my butt down and talk myself into it - nope. I'm close to trying to walk/jog right after smoking marijuana to see if that would help make things more interesting. And no, I don't smoke marijuana regularly at all so it's not any sort of a "demotivator", so to speak.
Also, I don't have enough money for a personal trainer at the moment so that's not an option.
Perhaps I should somehow find a way to exercise for 21 days or however long the estimated time is for something to become habitual.
I'm beginning to think there's some deep rooted problem within me but I'm not willing to give up on myself just yet. I want to, nay NEED to find a way to get myself physically wanting to exercise or else I'll be doomed into a unhealthy lifestyle forever. And eventually maybe that fact alone will motivate me.
So, based on all this, what advice would you guys give? Have any of you experienced similar things and have overcome this disgusting obstacle? If "Just Doing it" where just as easy as it sounds then, believe me, I would have had a rock-solid body by now.
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