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" Sometimes when you&amp;#039;re getting ready to exercise the last thing you feel is &amp;quot;motivated.&amp;quot; There are those days when you&amp;#039;re tired, or when it&amp;#039;s rainy and cold outside and all you want to do is snuggle up on the couch and watch Disney movies. You don&amp;#039;t even want to think about putting on a pair of sneakers and hitting the gym! Well, too bad, because if you really want to change your lifestyle, then going to the gym is exactly what you&amp;#039;re going to have to do. If you haven&amp;#039;t gotten motivated enough to pick yourself up off the couch, then it&amp;#039;s time you did, because without motivation it&amp;#039;s pretty much impossible to get anything done-especially when it comes to exercising. I&amp;#039;ve got 3 tips that I think will help all of you get ready and excited to start working out if you haven&amp;#039;t, or will get you to keep going if you have.  Picture how great you&amp;#039;ll look and feel. Every time you&amp;#039;re feeling a little lazy, think of something that will get you excited about exercising. Picture yourself at your healthiest and strongest. Imagine how good you will look and feel once you reach that goal! When I feel incredibly unmotivated to work out, I force myself to snap out of it. I psych myself up by envisioning myself doing whatever it is I don&amp;#039;t feel like doing at the moment, and more importantly, I envision a healthier version of me happily performing those exercises. I think about how I will feel after I&amp;#039;ve completed my workout and how bad I will feel if I don&amp;#039;t!    Just start moving! If I&amp;#039;m still dreading the idea of running on a treadmill or hitting a punching bag for an hour, I do a quick warm-up by throwing myself into motion. Whether it&amp;#039;s jumping jacks, sit-ups, or squats, I do something to get energy moving through my body. By the time I make it to the gym, I&amp;#039;m pumped to work out, and I know that one more work out will bring me closer to a healthier me.  Finally, give yourself a mission! Set a goal for each workout: tell yourself to run 10 minutes longer or faster than you did last time. Make it your mission to keep building up your fitness level and you&amp;#039;ll feel like you have a purpose for working out; you&amp;#039;ll stop wondering why you&amp;#039;re even bothering in the first place.   Try these tricks whenever you need a little boost to get you going. No matter how tired you are, force yourself to get up and at least try to exercise. Remember why you are doing this in the first place! You&amp;#039;ll be surprised how quickly that lazy feeling passes once you start to see a healthier, happier you. And always keep your goal in mind. An hour at the gym is a small price to pay in order to feel great. -Whitney "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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