We’ve all had those moments that hopefully come a lot more intermittently than going gangbusters on working out. It’s those periods that can last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, where you swear you have to peel yourself off the sofa just to go get on the elliptical or the treadmill for a half hour and get some weight work in too.
It’s just those times when, you know what’s good for you, and you know you’ll feel a world better when you’re done working out, but somehow convincing yourself of that becomes a gargantuan task that seems all but impossible.
So, as long as these times of a lack of interest in physical activity only come along once in a while, it’s no big deal, but what if we find ourselves doomed to a life of potato couch-hood, or at least a few weeks? The answer is not that simple, but the best way to describe the remedy for lack of interest is to just get there and do it, no matter how long it’s for.
Even if you can only muster about fifteen minutes on the treadmill, that’s better than nothing, and at least it keeps the body used to getting physical activity and exerting itself, instead of the body becoming used to inactivity. Also, it’s easy to train our bodies to stop working out, and our muscles to get lazy, but it’s hard to train our bodies to keep in motion, but once we get there, we almost can’t help but “crave” physical action consistently in our lives.
So, if you can just get yourself there, on the workout machine, or at the gym, or outside to begin your fast walking or jogging, chances are that once your body gets into the swing of it, all those endorphins you’re creating will make it hard to stop. This has happened to me many times, where I really thought I didn’t want to work out, but then when I started I couldn’t stop, and actually found it - gasp - pleasurable!
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