Apparently today is the most depressing day of the year – brilliant! This teamed with the fact that here in Manchester it didn’t even get light today except for a small 5 minute stretch where the rain ceased and the sun actually came to show it’s face means that it’s that little bit more sad but do you know what helps – exercise!!
I had a lovely bunch of 5 mums come to my Urmston class this morning and we worked out as normal, even in the pouring rain. It wasn’t the best, I’m not going to lie – I’ve definitely prefer running my classes when it’s warm and dry but the resounding agreement from all the ladies was that once you’re out, it doesn’t matter.
So that lead me to thinking – how do I get people to get past the barrier of actually leaving the house to exercise rather than putting the kettle on and making themselves another brew?? So my thought process on this is the following:
- Get your workout gear out the night before. Surely if the first thing you see in the morning is your clothes in a pile next to your bed, then you’ll get up and put them on. One of the benefits of my morning classes is that you don’t need to shower or put make up on before coming!!
- Make it a date with a friend! You’re so much less likely to bomb out on a class if you’ve arranged to go to it with someone – personally it’s the hatred of potentially letting someone else down which would spur me on to get my ass in gear and get there
- Pay in advance for a class. If you’ve paid already, you might as well go otherwise you’ll lose money and that’s something I hate to do! You can bulk buy for 5 weeks at all my classes for just £20 and having that financial implication should really help you get out the door
- Remember how good you feel at the end. Endorphins are amazing things and they make you feel so bloody good. I was talking to someone on Instagram today and she commented about how she’d love to be able to bottle and sell endorphins – wouldn’t that be a dream. Instead they come from a damn good workout
So hopefully the above tips might come in useful this dreary January day. I hope to see you at one of my classes soon. Remember I’m offering free trials at all my classes for January so take full advantage and try something new – you wont regret a workout, you’ll only regret not doing one.
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