3 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Work Out – Best Workout Motivation Tips

1. Do only 10 min

My favorite workout motivation is action and a 10-minute rule.

I like to give it a try even when I really don’t feel like working out. 

I’d anyway take my mat and start the video (yes, I’m watching and following my own workouts :)) and do at least the 10 min of it. These 10 min are like the minimum of time I need to understand my real feelings and to connect deeply with my body and understand its signals.

After 10 minutes I see things clearer and I can make a better decision, which is obviously to give up or continue.

If I’d still feel bad and unmotivated then the signal was real and I’d stop. I’d just intuitively go and do what I feel I’d like to do at that moment.

If after 10 minutes or more I feel good and energized I know that it was attempted fraud and I just continue my practice happy that I didn’t give up. 

Because sometimes you are trying to find workout motivation in the wrong place, in your head.

Actually, the head can be your biggest obstacle and you should avoid dealing with your mind if you want really to stick to your workouts.

Try just another way round – to find a workout motivation and boost your mindset with the movement, create workout motivation with the movement!

Believe me, it really works, it’s science. Action creates workout motivation, then motivation creates more action and this cycle keeps going.

And just to mention, the feeling after you did a workout which at first you didn’t want to do – is some of the best feelings ever. 

So regardless of what your brain is telling you, show up anyway and try at least 10 min of your workout, maybe you’ll realize that you actually need that exercise, and you’ll probably continue. 

Sometimes, the obstacle is not your goodwill or workout motivation, but simply you just don’t have time for a workout. 

Firstly, I don’t believe in “not having time” for anything, it’s always about how you’re setting your priorities.

I have time for my workout every day and that’s so important to me. Almost nothing in this world can stop me do my workout – but, I know, that’s my job, that’s what I do and that’s what I truly love.

But, for example, I “don’t have time” to work every day on my German language skills improvement.

I moved recently to Austria and didn’t learn German on the level that I feel completely comfortable at, and I always have several excuses to support the statement about my busyness: I work from home, babysitting my toddler boy at the same time, cooking, cleaning the house, and just don’t have even 30 min a day to learn German.

But, the truth is that besides all the other things I have every day on my busy schedule German is not as important as all the other tasks and responsibilities.

So, if you truly want something you will schedule it as one of your priorities.

And I honestly think that exercising, as a way of maintaining your overall health, should always be your priority.

Without health, you wouldn’t have had anything else. 

But, let’s say that you are really willing to exercise but have only 10 min for this. 

Here I can help 🙂 

Firstly, don’t let anyone tell you that 10 min is not enough – because it is.

You just have to have a different approach, to speed up a little bit and to change the main focus and have a good and organized workout plan.

For instance, you can use our program Summer quickie or Holiday season quickie – where you can find 5 or 4 workouts, all 10 minutes long, and each workout has a different focus.

So, for instance, you’ll be doing one day only legs, the other butt, third-day arms, and so on. 

The main goal of those quickie programs is to really focus only on one body part a day and completely cover that part. This also probably causes soreness the day after, but since that next day we’re covering other part of the body, that one can rest and “recover”. 

This method is extremely effective and helps you achieve amazing results if your goal is to tone your muscles, improve strength and increase flexibility.