Getting started again: finding motivation
Hi!
After months of inactivity for various reasons (first a lung inflammation, then a long vacation in which I have been active but not really exercising, and then simply lack of motivation) I started running again last week. After my second run, however, I broke one of my toes. Not by running but by stumbling over a treshold. Yes, as stupid as that. So currently walking hurts, it even hurts when I am still. The toe is swollen stiff. So running is out of the question for the moment. However I realize this does not mean that I cannot exercise, so I am going to start by going back to the very first sets of exercises. Since I know that they are intensive but short it is easier to get up motivation then by doing something longer like a run.
This is nothing new to me; I always get back to exercising, but I do have periods of relative inactivity.
Sounds familiar? So tell me, what do you do to find your motivation back after a time of inactivity? Do you buy new exercise shoes or sexy yoga pants? Do you watch exercise videos (hey, that would work for me! I know myself!)? Do you just look in the mirror, decide you don't like what you see and spontaneously start? Do you read books on exercise? Contact a friend to do something together? Sign up at the gym?
Leave me a comment! :)
After months of inactivity for various reasons (first a lung inflammation, then a long vacation in which I have been active but not really exercising, and then simply lack of motivation) I started running again last week. After my second run, however, I broke one of my toes. Not by running but by stumbling over a treshold. Yes, as stupid as that. So currently walking hurts, it even hurts when I am still. The toe is swollen stiff. So running is out of the question for the moment. However I realize this does not mean that I cannot exercise, so I am going to start by going back to the very first sets of exercises. Since I know that they are intensive but short it is easier to get up motivation then by doing something longer like a run.
Sounds familiar? So tell me, what do you do to find your motivation back after a time of inactivity? Do you buy new exercise shoes or sexy yoga pants? Do you watch exercise videos (hey, that would work for me! I know myself!)? Do you just look in the mirror, decide you don't like what you see and spontaneously start? Do you read books on exercise? Contact a friend to do something together? Sign up at the gym?
Leave me a comment! :)
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