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Exercise Lazy

Of course we all feel lazy sometimes. If we worked hard and need to do nothing for a day is not the same laziness as the one making people spend every free hour they get on the couch when they could have been at the exercise getting healthy instead.

Lack of motivation can depend on a lot of different things such as lack of nutrition, lack of sleep, lack of energy, no self-motivation or just pure laziness.

There are luckily a numerous things you can do to break the pattern of being lazy. Whatever it takes for you to get off you butt and move is the first step whether that is to schedule appointments with a friend to go to the exercise or with a personal trainer it doesn't matter as long as it gives you a feeling of obligation to go.

The hard part is not to perform the actual physical exercise once you get to the exercise even if that does require some energy output from you. The difficult part is to get off that couch when you are so comfortable just lying there doing nothing. It gets especially hard in the winter time when it gets dark so much earlier outside and all you want to do is to get home and collapse on that couch. The trick not to let that happened is to bring your workout clothes with you when you leave in the morning so you can go straight to the exercise after finishing work.

You have to basically trick yourself to keep going for another two hours after work before you are allowed to sit down and relax.

If doing the same routine in the exercise is what made you lose your motivation and made you get lazy about working out, just buy a one or two sessions with a personal trainer to get a new program put together.

You should change your workout program every 3-6 months anyway so if you have been doing the same old exercises for longer then that, it's no wonder you are bored and have lost interest in it.

Sometimes just changing the order you do the exercises in can help getting your excited about working out again. Buying yourself some new workout clothes can also make you feel more motivated to workout and get in better shape.

When it's dark outside your body start producing the hormone melatonin in your body a lot earlier in the day and that's why you get sleepy around 4 or 5pm already when fall comes. Have a cup of coffee on the way from work to the exercise. By the time you pull up to the exercise you feel energized and ready to hit the weights hard. Have a snack 1 ½ to 2 hours before you intend to work out so your energy won't drop before you have a chance to get to the exercise.

If you are use to working out and you just kind of fell out of your routine somehow it's very easy to fall into a slight depression if you stop working out. The happy hormones, your endorphins that your body start to produce when you workout work as mood elevators which is why you usually feel a lot better when you leave the exercise then when you first go there. If you stop working out your body doesn't produce these hormones when you lie on the couch and your mental alert level is not as high as if you work out.

To have a friend come and pick you up even if you are just going to take an aerobics class is another good idea to force yourself out of the house and into the exercise.