#HURDLEMOMENT: 5 Easy Strategies for Working Out When You Don’t Want To

Hurdle

Emily Abbate

Health & Fitness

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Sometimes, hitting a workout feels great. Other times, it feels like climbing Mount Everest. I’ve come a long way from my time despising fitness back in college, now finding some way to move my body every single day. For the moments that feel hard, use these motivational strategies to get you going. SOCIAL @hurdlepodcast @emilyabbate --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hurdle/message

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0:00.0	Hey, hurdlers, it's Wednesday, which means you are listening to another hurdle moment from
0:05.2	Hurtle, a podcast that talks to everyone from entrepreneurs to top CEOs and athletes about how I got through tough times, hurdles of sorts, by leaning into wellness.
0:14.6	My name's Emily Abadi, and over the weekend, I was doing a recovery run on the treadmill and I tried to pass the
0:20.9	time by asking you guys for your questions on an Instagram story.
0:25.1	And in the sea of questions, at least six people wrote in asking me where I find my motivation
0:30.5	to work out, which believe me was definitely dwindling at 4 p.m. on a Sunday when it was raining and all I wanted to do was sit
0:39.6	on my couch and veg out. But I got the workout done and now I also have a fresh topic to talk
0:45.8	about today. How to find motivation to work out. I'm offering up some really good strategies
0:51.9	so please make sure to send me a photo if you are
0:55.0	making the list that I suggest that you make on your own.
0:58.5	Or if you're reposting takeaways from the episode on Instagram, please make sure to tag
1:02.9	at hurdle podcast, tag me at Emily Abadi.
1:06.3	Let's get a dialogue going and motivate each other to be just one percent better. I'm not going to talk
1:13.3	too much nonsense today. So with that, let's get to this week's hurdle moment. I probably work out
1:26.6	six days a week. Okay, maybe seven days a week. Now with that said, work out on the seventh day. It could mean something as simple as foam rolling or doing some light yoga or whatever feels right. I'm really keen on listening to my body, but I also recognize that working out just makes me feel
1:45.8	better. With that said, there are definitely plenty of times I don't want to. When I feel lazy
1:52.6	or an inspired, there are a few things I think of, the first of which is where I come from.
1:57.9	I think about the journey that I've taken to get to this place that my body is in today.
2:01.9	And if you want to hear more about that and you don't already know about the 70 pounds I lost in
2:06.7	college, then click on over to episode one of hurdle. I also think about the feeling I get after
2:12.4	I'm done. You know, I feel less foggy. I feel more productive. My body just feels better. I feel better about
2:19.4	myself. I feel capable. I mean, why would I not want to feel that way? And I know we hear this all
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