“Get up, Trinity. Get up! Get up, get up.”
Remember that scene in The Matrix when Agents were following Trinity at the beginning in the film? She said that to herself to overcome her fear, so she’d get moving again.
I said something similar yesterday morning at 6am when my alarm went off. I don’t have a problem getting up early, dear reader; I may even call myself a morning person if asked. My trouble wasn’t fear, it was motivation against lethargy or laziness. You see, I can’t get up early to go workout before work. Try as I might, I can’t make it through a week of workouts if I do that. (I did get up yesterday. I had a course all day and working out during my normal time wasn’t feasible.)
But, tomorrow? Probably couldn’t do it.
Let me run something by you, dear reader, let me know if this seems familiar to you.
You’re alarm goes off; you get up, take a leak, go make some coffee; you read the paper, make some breakfast, have a shower, then brush your teeth. You leave for work, smack your forehead, think to yourself, “Clothes!” You go back, get dressed, then go to work.
I could keep going, but you get the idea. I’m guessing you follow a similar sequence at work. You may not do all those things or you may not do them in that order, but my point is that you have some kind of routine.
I have to ask you: if you forget to brush you teeth, do you feel funny? How about if you miss your coffee?
When I get up early for the sole purpose of working out, I can’t do it; I have to motivate myself. If I go at 11 or 12 in the morning, I go without a problem. I feel bad if I don’t. So to keep working out, make it part of your routine. You’ll never think about working out again. Admittedly, changing your routine is a challenge. If you want to change your routine, you’ll only have to conscious of the change for two weeks. After that, it’ll seem weird not doing it.
If you’re motivated to workout at all, you shouldn’t have to muster the motivation for each workout. Let your routine take care of that.