💪🏼 🧠 Episode 34: Six strategies to counteract your inner couch potato
Description
Ever sit down on the couch and not have the motivation to get back up again?
After a long day of work, caring for Caleb, and taking care of the house I used to flop on the couch and say “I’m going to sit for a few minutes before I go exercise.”
Two hours later I would still be sitting there, frustrated that I couldn’t get myself to stand back up. My inner couch potato had gotten the best of me, once again.
Join me for episode 34 of The Disciplined Educator where I share 6 strategies for counteracting your inner couch potato when it’s time to exercise!
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0:30 Sign up for my free Demystify Dinner Roadmap
1:45 Which series of The Disciplined Educator podcast best serves you? Go to the list and find episodes with the right icon for you:
- 💪🏼 Fit Finder
- 🥙 Fuel Right
- 🧘🏻♀️ Stress Less
- 🧠 Be Productive
- 📚 Authentic Learning
3:47 Episode 10: You don’t just HAVE energy, you GENERATE it!
3:57 In today’s episode you’ll learn 6 strategies for getting yourself up off the couch to exercise!
4:08 Strategy #1: Don’t sit down on the couch to begin with!
5:36 Strategy #2: Future pace: don’t focus on how you feel now, focus on how you’ll feel when you’re done
5:38 Episode 8: Get yourself to exercise even when you don’t want to! The power of future pacing.
10:45 Strategy #3: Use the 20-minute rule
12:40 Strategy #4: Watch someone who inspires you
13:56 Strategy #5: Get someone to nag you
14:40 Episode 33: 7 strategies for incorporating your kids into your exercise routine
15:25 Strategy #6: Scale back your workout
16:08 Research shows that spending 20 minutes outside gives you energy!
17:14 4 things to avoid when sitting on the couch
20:15 Episode 14: How to overcome the What the Hell Effect
Learn more:
- Which series of The Disciplined Educator podcast best serves you? Go to the list and find episodes with the right icon for you:
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- 💪🏼 Fit Finder
- 🥙 Fuel Right
- 🧘🏻♀️ Stress Less
- 🧠 Be Productive
- 📚 Authentic Learning
- Sign up for my free Demystify Dinner Roadmap!
- Subscribe to the Disciplined Educator podcast
- Subscribe to The Disciplined Educator blog
- Sign up for my free, three-part mini-course on building discipline
- Sign up for my free, three-part mini-course on how to make time for yourself
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