If you don't like exercise, why not?

Exercise give me an unpleasant sensation, which sitting on the sofa does not.

I have never, ever got that buzz, or whatever, some people talk about.

It's a bit like going to work. I wouldn't if someone paid me to stay at home.

I liked doing stuff. I hated 'doing exercise'. Would much prefer to learn to row than go on a rowing machine, would walk to the gym then home again, could never follow what they were doing in aerobics etc

Though now I don't do any of it (apart from walk a lot as don't drive) because I get no time to myself and feel like I'm getting unfit. It feels like a downward spiral

32GG doesn't help

Exercise is immensely dull and painful

amillionyears - no, thanks all the same. :)

how can you run out of things to think about!

LOVE exercise even though I am actually a very lazy person, love the feeling of using my body and making it stronger and holding back the tide of cellulite that would probably engulf me without warning, what with my love of pizza and pasta and cheeeeeeese

Because I'm lazy!
I do like horse riding though, wish I liked running!

DukeHumfrey, do you want to talk a bit more about what happened to you?

I used to think I hated it too. I was crap at games at school. THen I realised that I was walking for miles and miles every week - to get to work and then for pleasure at the weekend.

I took up step, then body pump, then circuit training. The only thing I found boring was going to the gym. Now I run and I love it! Yes, there are times when I'd rather slob about doing nothing but I feel so much better for going, I get such a sense of satisfaction and exhiliration, and although yes, I get sweaty and tired and bits of me hurt sometimes, I also love the feeling of my body working as it was designed to, feeling the wind rush past, the sun or the rain on my skin.

I think the problem is if you aren't used to it, the first time you start to really get out of breath and red-faced and sweaty, it feels wrong and somehow bad. It takes a while to decide that it's OK and natural to exert yourself.

And it makes me feel less guilt about the times I do sit about with a bit too much to eat and a glass of wine!

I want akaemmafrost to come on here and solve everyones issues with sport.Shouldnt take her long!

I'm exactly the same, voidka. Watching the telly in the gym doesn't work either, because I run quite oddly, so end up having my ear plug yanked out of my ear.

The sort of exercise I can do for free, which takes the least amount of time i.e running, bores me and wrecks my knees and motley. Everything else takes too long and costs. Doing the same thing all the time kills me.
I have enjoyed it in the past, when I had time and money to do a variety. I love exciting things like windsurfing or skiiing, but they cost and eat time.
It is mainly time though. Up at six and out the house by seven. At work or with kids til 7pm when H is in. Then more work. By the time I am free it is 9pm and I need half an hour of reading to keep me sane! So, when?

To answer your question OP, I'm afraid I do hate exercising (as in going to the gym to break a sweat)
I come from a family of sedentary people, no one did any sports let alone go to a gym. And I'm also very lazy and not competitive at all... so sports really don't appeal to me, nor does running I'm afraid.
I'm a lost cause :(

I get bored so easily.

I do swim twice a week, but I can only last 20 minutes before I have run out of things to think about.

The only exercise I can do is Zumba and sex because they're both fun.

I hate going to the gym it's so dull. I hate running because I feel like I can't do it (probably from school an PE, had a horrible teacher) which is probably why I hate doing other exercise too.

I will take dc swimming at least once a week though

I'll play very badly tennis with you Charlton

I hate exercise. I like being active, but not exercising.

I have been a member of a gym for 7 years and, when not on mat leave, go twice a week.

I hate the boredom, the changing, the painful lungs, the boredom, the poseurs.

I LOVE tennis - but I have no partner

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I don't like exercise for the sake of exercise to be honest. I used to go to the gym, but I always felt guilty after half an hour that I should be doing something more constructive. I don't have enough time in the day as it is!

I cycle to work and back (12 miles a day all in) and walk everywhere I can. I used to row when I lived by the sea - and that was good because I loved being out on the water and the team element made sure I was always pushed quite hard so as not to let the others down. I used to race and that made it seem more worthwhile than just pounding a treadmill.

I am off work on maternity leave having piled on a couple of stones. I feel crap.

I quite like swimming but I never go. The pool is 5 miles away and only has public swim at silly, inconvenient times.
Don't like other sorts of exercise really - not enough to choose to do them in favour of other stuff which is either a necessary evil (domestic stuff) or enjoyable but sedentary (reading, music, computer, TV). I quite like walking but do that a lot less since something happened to scare me about walking on my own.

Ooh I hated Zumba, but those who love it really love it.

To me it felt like a lot of unnecessary twirling and not enough hard graft. If I'm going to spend an hour at an exercise class I want my body to know it! :)

It is expensive! I am SAHM and can't run as I have a dodgy hip. I did start last year and loved it but my hip went and I ended up needing a lot of osteopath treatment just so I could walk without pain.

So now it means I am stuck with classes or swimming, both of which cost money. I have the time but not the money to go regularly.

It hurts
It makes you all sweaty
It takes up time
Some forms cost a lot of money
Swimming makes you smell all chloriney and leaves you with wet hair and you have to get changed in the horrible cold changing rooms
It's just nowhere near as pleasant an experience as sitting with a glass of wine watching TV or MNing

I walk the dog everyday and really miss it if for some reason I don't take her.

But I really don't like any other exercise. It's the getting out of breath bit. I start to panic and think I'm going to die. I'm a size eight but I think I'm really unhealthy and should do something which gets the heart pumping.

Zumba is awesome. I also don't get why it's so controversial.

Originally, I was all "Zumba's so lame, you'll never catch me doing it" and then I went to one class, and that's it. I was addicted.

I've done some of the same things for years - yoga and body balance and eliptical trainer. For the classes, the instructor mixes it up so I don't have to think about it, and for going on the eliptical trainer, it's time to listen to music and/or contemplate, or (best ever) watch a movie

I only say Zumba is controversial as I've only really seen it derided around here.