How Do You Stay Motivated to Hit the Gym After a Long Day?

Teaching surf lessons all day leaves me wiped, but I still want to squeeze in a gym session. Some days it feels like a battle just to get through the door. For those of you with demanding jobs or packed schedules, what’s your secret for keeping the momentum? Do you have a pre-workout ritual, or maybe a mindset shift that helps? I’m all ears especially if it involves stamps or skydiving metaphors!

Think of it like momentum in physics once you’re in motion, staying in motion takes less energy. My trick? Treat the gym like a required lab session: non-negotiable data collection for the experiment of you. Bonus points if you visualize sets as stamping variables into your fitness algorithm.