Set up a home gym

I do miss my personal trainer. We got the weight bench put together and I've started the program my trainer wrote out for me. The next step is consistency....setting up a time 3X a week when I just do it...like I did when I drove to the gym......

Exercising had always been a foreign phrase to me. I woke up, took care of kids, did laundry, cleaned where it yelled loudest, went to work, went shopping for food, cooked it, cleaned up, cleaned some more, chased kids....isn't all this exercise? I was also blessed with enough metabolism to fake out the foodie in me....then horrors of horrors, I got older....and without telling me, my metabolism slowed down. I had developed a lifetime of enjoying gourmet delights and it totally took me by surprise that I didn't have the energy, stamina or the body to fit into two or three closets full of size 6. Bummer. Worse yet, I fell in love and love to dine with my new husband.\n\nSoooo, long story short, I, a steadfast exercise naysayer got myself a personal trainer. It's all been going great for about a year and a half. My extra 25 lbs is a lot firmer, and I only have to grip the car door with one hand instead of two to get out of my low sporty car.\n\nNeither my husband nor myself are going quietly into the elder years, and we're sure as shootin' not giving up food, so last week we decided that a home gym is the answer. Of course we started watching infomercials for inspiration and ideas, bought tapes and programs and just to hedge our bets, we bought the special pills that Troudeau was selling that promised that we didn't have to do anything but take these things and zipo, zapo, we'd lose 3-8 lbs overnight while we slept. \n\nI buy from girl scouts, cub scouts, any grade school kid who comes to the house....no way was I not buying those pillls.....just in case. Yes I know, you have to open the container to take them....what's the matter with me?\n\nOK, you have the idea, I'm not a great candidate for developing into a world class physical specimen, but gee, I doooo want to lose those 25 lbs and continue to be able to handle running jumps from my young grandchildren.\n\nSo the upshot is, we bought a 'total gym' for the house. In addtition, we bought the special weight bench, the big ball, the step up, the mat, and some free weights. It was delivered and set up two days ago. My husband has shown it to any company brave enough to get near the house, but I have yet to start. \nGee, it's the weekend......\n\nHelp!!!! I'd like to hear from the hesitant and reticent exercisers like me who can relate. I'm blocked, I'm trapped in my own inertia. Please share what you've done and how you've overcome your psycological block to get going. What works for you?