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[JACKEDUPFREAK]

1) Reward yourself. Finish your workout and treat yourself to a magazine, a TV show, some extra time with your family, some new songs for your IPOD, or even a little extra time for yourself.

2) Or set up a punishment for missing workouts. Skip the workout, put $20 into a jar to spend on home repai...rs. Make sure your spouse controls the jar.

‎3) Review your goals everyday and every night. Keeping your goals fresh in your mind will help you stay on track.

4) Realize that the hardest part of the workout is often getting your butt to the gym. Once you get 5 minutes into the workout..., you will be over the hump. So tell yourself, “I’ll just go in and do 1 set of the first 2 exercises, then I can go”. Next thing you know, you’ll have done the entire workout.

5) Visualize yourself doing a great workout and finishing strong. Get yourself mentally prepared and you will literally have better workouts each time.

6) Crank the tunes. Seriously, nothing motivates like music.

7) Get social support. If you have a workout partner, you’ll feel like crap if you let them down. Or become accountable to everyone post your workout results and when and if you don’t post your workouts, they’ll track you down and demand to know why you’ve fallen off track! So online or offline, get everyone on your side!

[BLUESTORM]

Oh man, if I could get my wife to do tip number 2, we would have tons of vacation money!

For myself, one of the best things is keeping a log. I have an insane amount of old workout logs with weights used, sets, etc.
If you are always trying to do better, lift more, whatever, it helps not only to keep track but to motivate you.

[IronInsanity]

4 and 5 are key for me