I don't ...I just work around my acreage and garden. I clear snow and cut my grass with a push mower and estimate walking about 5 miles to cut my yard. I cut and split wood for my stove. I can go hiking or canoing. I never understood why someone would own a home that takes no maintenance and then pay a health club to exercise?

Exercise needs to be the result of something I'm doing that I enjoy. How anyone can just do 45 mins on a treadmill or laps in a pool is beyond me.

Become a data junkie: weigh yourself 8 times a day. Track calories. Use a Fitbit. Check BP 3 times a week. Cultivate guilt and self-loathing. Neurosis is a gift.

I pay a trainer...that motivates me to show up even when I don't want to...once I get going, I am pumped and work out hard...after 15 years, I am still not motivated to do it on my own...I need a partner or other person to motivate me...I do walk on my own and I do like "fun" activities like swimming, rowing, playing tennis, gardening...

As you I have been active and doing weight bearing exercises most of my adult life. Somehow I feel strange when I skip a workout.

Having a peer group for positive reinforcement.
And, of course, the bathroom scale.

I am such a sluggish. The only thing that is motivating me to exercise is my family medical history. Not even the 25 pounds I need to lose has motivated me. I admire you!

If you treat "exercise" as a chore that reluctantly should be done then motivation will likely always be an issue. Especially if you aren't getting the results you wanted.

I lift 5 days a week. It's drastically helped my back pain, knee pain, and my self confidence. I am constantly getting stronger, and more muscular. I never do cardio yet my cardio has massively improved. Motivation is never an issue for me.

Truth is I became obsessed once I started making measurable results. I think about lifting constantly, I watch powerlifting on YouTube, watch videos on technique and programming, read about it, listen to podcasts.

The real trick is to find a sport you can fall in love with and let yourself. I started lifting to look more jacked, but then I began making strength gains and seeing those numbers go up, seeing what I am capable of... now I compete in powerlifting. I am not a natural, I don't have great genetics, it hasn't come easily, but that just makes me want it more because I know every pound on the bar I worked for. And honestly I like being able to do things other people don't believe they are capable of.

Motivation isn't my issue because I love to train. I love to train because I like being strong and seeing what's possible.

Biking, swimming and walking the beach are my 3 favorite "sweat-producers". A close 4th is tennis and golf....but they cost $$ and I can't find the time and energy to haul out the equipment and go to the clubhouse...but the bikes are in the garage, and he pool is out back...hence my two favorite "go-to" workouts.

Why work out? It's a high...I feel so much better after having "pushed" myself. I think when the day comes that it hurts too much to bike or swim I'll be ready to say....bye-bye...

I don’t. My dog expects walks/hikes several times a day. She’s my coach and trainer.
Now if she could somehow get me doing ab crunches and soup can curls...

I don't I'm fortunate enough to be active enough where I don't really need to exercise. Yet! BMI=23

Health has been my motivator. I began walking several miles a day in 1988 after my diabetes got worse, and continued that on a daily basis. After a heart attack and insertion of a pacemaker, I added weight lifting two to three times a week, adding additional weights and repitio9ns over time. At first, that was hard, but I forced myself to do it. After 13 years , it is habit.

I don't have to. I just do it, trite as that sounds. It also helps that most of my workouts are in a small-group class setting, so I don't need to think about what to do. Just show up. My best workouts are those where I least want to go. I always emerge energized.

You do the bench press … I do the French press

No motivation needed, I just made it into a routine.
Motivation works for short term, you need to develop discipline and routine.
So I get home after work, eat something light just to not go gym hungry, change clothes and go to gym as fast as i can.
Sofa and computer has a too strong gravity, so I never get there.
Also I use gym as a time to listen to podcasts and audiobooks, this way I have some immediate reward for going there.

And the thinking is... The day of win is when you are not feeling that you will go, This day is the day you win, you go, do the basic, do not try any record, or new things, just finish your routine and back to home.

On top of that, I change clothes in front of mirror, so seeing the evolution of the body sometimes is a game changer to put gym clothes and go instead of stay in home clothes.

I exercise the clicker finger every morning. Has been hard to work out the pain in my back only let's me do so much. It does suck because I love to hike and work till I drop those days are long in the past.

I use the same technique of bullshitting myself and then reneging. The subconscious seems perpetually naive and highly suggestible.

I pay a fairly heavy price for exercise due in large part, I'm coming to find, to unresolved issues with my past brush with Lyme Disease, specifically, PTLDS, Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome. So for me there is no endorphin rush, just physical pain, stiffness, sometimes neurological pain or numbness, and some balance issues lasting 24 to 72 hours after a good workout. I am still experimenting trying to find ways around it. Improvement in diet has helped some; beyond that the only remedy is dogged persistence. All science knows about the phenomenon so far is that the organism leaves behind some sort of enzyme that the body can't clear, which causes a low grade autoimmune response.

I do have a lot of muscle knots (passive trigger points) -- it's like there's a half dozen plastic easter eggs hiding in my calves -- and I bear down on those with a styrofoam roller every day, which is eye-wateringly painful. I also stretch my calves by standing on foam wedges while working at my stand-up desk -- I've gotten to where I can stand that for about 20 minutes at a time -- and I use a custom strap to stretch my legs in various ways. The hope is that over several months I can at least partially undo years of disease, or failing that, prevent any further deterioration.

Mostly I take it in stride; I've been dragging my sorry ass around like a sack of unwilling flesh for 50 years now, since the initial infection, and I hide it well. No one wants to hear about it anyway.

I work out with a trainer for 60 minutes once a week (he also professionally stretches me after, and sometimes before), try to get in 10,000 steps of walking daily (I'm heading out now at dusk to polish off today's quota) and now and then I work out at the gym or on my stationary bike a couple other days a week, only not as strenuously as with the trainer -- good grief, I can't be a basked case ALL week. Balance has improved and I sometimes see erratic manifestations of better endurance and strength. My trainer says I can tolerate more stretching than at first (he says I am tighter than anyone he's ever worked with).

So it goes. Understandably, it took me a long time (about 20 years) to change my relationship to formal exercise from one of loathing to embracing it. My motivation comes mostly from a desire to not worry my wife, not wanting to become totally decrepit, and needing to be as functional as possible for my stepson, who is a young adult on the autism spectrum who I am mentoring in my profession and in life. I was getting to the point that I moved more like a 92 year old than a 62 year old at times, and that just won't do.

Well … when I am hungry and need to buy food, I mount my bicycle and ride to the shops or if my neighbour needs exercise we walk together. Having a small or no fridge helps. So when people tell me that they want to lose weight I tell them to sell or donate their fridge. I am about 10% overweight (70kg/162cm) despite regular walks (probably about 20km/week) and cycling (3-10 km/day) [[metric-conversions.org]].

Some of us remember the ultimate motivator:

In other things what seems to motivate me is fear.
I work to stay ahead out of fear of falling behind.

Exercise motivation? When I last exercised and did yoga regularly, I think I was driven by anger/ frustration. During, right after divorce and dealing w/ psycho biz partner.... Hitting back in some way?

I've never really exercised much anyway, so this spirt was a bit unusual

Now that I am alone and adrift, I don't exercise, just some minor stretches and a few planks.
I capture taking care of myself through diet and work.@ 165 lbs, sometimes less, I feel great!

What would or could motivate me again, IDK. But if it's being pissed off again, I ain't gonna like it!

Well I was back at the gym this am after being on holidays for 2 weeks but usually spend half hour doing 16 Weight machines 15 reps on each one every other day. Plus doing more walking and hiking hope to be better in tune. May get a bicycle aldo

seeing my daughter post runs on strava. and getting texts from my daughter that she hasn't seen any runs posted form me on strava.

I have an optimum time for my swimming, bicycling and walking, so when that time comes for each activity, If I'm able to, not working and it's not raining, then I have no excuse not to.

It's rare that I get lazy and don't do these activities at the time I've designated for myself, but it does happen that I have to miss my exercise by having to work. Missing my pool time in the summer isn't too big of a deal, as then I can swim at night, with the stars above, and the pool water is warm.

I don’t go to the gym now, I put my body into all that I do on this land. I must break projects down most of the time which causes me to walk a lot. I love the work so much that I always exercise without a second thought! But, I do dislike housework and repairs that are hard to get to.