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While by no means a replacement for such a post, here's some easily-followed advice for reducing the motivation threshold to initiating exercise.
Exercise makes you warmer - if keen, don't go out of your way to prevent yourself from becoming cold.
Purchase a removable doorway pull-up bar. Place it outside and next to the door to your most frequently used loo.
Warm yourself up (pull-ups〔anywhere〕, push-ups using the bar〔or any surface whatsoever〕, high knees, running from parked car to destination, etcetera〕. Pep yourself up (when in a negative mood). If not already present, hacking in some vanity, then exercising and looking at yourself might also help with motivation. Try to have fun with it (id est try not to reluctantly force yourself to exercise or guilt yourself for abstaining).
This is an example of what I mean by "very-confidently-given advice not grounded in evidence". [citation needed].
What evidence do you require? That exercise warms you and peps you up, or that placing a pull-up bar by the loo will decrease exercise initiation motivation threshold?
The latter is a low-cost test one might as well try; do you expect studying factors that influence others' motivation will benefit you more than giving it a go yourself?
On exercise warming the body.
A good review on endorphins and: exercise; depression; anxiety.
Agreed. You don't need to see studies verifying that something works for everybody if you can just directly verify that it works for you. A hypothesis affords testing.
I used to use a desktop background of a well-muscled guy; just the image made me want to work out.
I suspect subscriptions to workout magazines featuring the same might also work for those for whom the first work, and is probably more socially acceptable if that is something you concern yourself with.
Among my friends, a big picture of a well-muscled guy would be much more socially acceptable than a workout mag :)