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How I Stay Motivated To Exercise For Mental Health

Tony Gjokaj
8 min readJun 13, 2022

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I started doing Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu recently. It’s rough on the body, but I’ve been having a blast doing it.

Last week, I was battling a lot of motivation as to whether or not I should get into a workout session and do a workout session.

I made it my goal to train 4 times last week.

On my fourth day, I questioned if I REALLY needed to do another.

I started to look towards the future and how I would feel after my workout session, and that euphoric feeling after the workout convinced me to continue onwards.

One of the most common questions I’ve been asked from our community on Facebook is how to stay motivated to exercise for mental health.

So today, I wanted to give you a few motivational hacks you can use to improve your mental health.

Hacks To Staying Motivated To Exercise

When you’re on your fitness for mental health journey, one of the hardest things is to stay motivated with…

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Tony Gjokaj
Tony Gjokaj

Written by Tony Gjokaj

I write about living an active lifestyle to battle depression & anxiety. | Instagram: @ibtonyg | YouTube: @iliftmoods

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