To not understand the need for "walks"

[walkingDisaster22]

Anyone else similar to me and not understand the need for walks or enjoyment in walking.
My in laws are obsessed with walking and think i'm odd (or maybe a sloth!) for not wanting to go out daily walking.
Where is the enjoyment in mud and rain? I would rather chill with a good book. Please tell me I'm not on my own?

exercise?

i'm with you

I love walking. The more you do it then more you enjoy it, helps keep the body active and fit. I love curling up with a book too, you can enjoy both.

Totally with you. I don’t find walking enjoyable at all!! Especially since lockdown where I did it daily to get out the house with my baby/toddler, now walking has very negative connotations for me!

Agree

Do you do other exercise?

I dislike walking in bad weather, but it’s social and healthy to exercise.

Exercise. Nature. Sunshine. Lots of great things about walking. I don’t understand people who just sit about the house all day 🤷‍♀️

I have to exercise every day or I feel rubbish and struggle to sleep well. Maybe if they're older walking is their main form of exercise?

I love walking. Fast walking and reading are my hobbies.

I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would ever darken the doors of a gym, though. One man's meat, and all that.

A pointless activity.

Exercise, fresh air, clear the mind.

It’s one of the best forms of exercise you can do, for a variety of reasons.

We evolved to walk for several hours per day, so it’s the human equivalent of “taking the dog out”.

It’s a sensory experience.

Health, fitness, fresh air, talking - lots of talking, guilt free pub lunches as counteracted by more walking, nice to get home and veg out in front of the tv after a long walk, saves on electricity bills as not indoors, see new things all the time. Try it and see!

My DH is always suggesting a walk at the weekend.

Seems pointless to me, I'm happy to walk somewhere, or for a reason (eg, let's walk to see the view from X hill) but just randomly walking as a thing to do, just don't get it.

I only like walks when it's dry, sunny, not windy, and at least 16 degrees.

You are so right - deathly dull. Give me a stack of books & a sofa any day!

I don’t think a week goes by in which I do not read or hear a media report on the physical and mental health benefits of walking. You’re allowed not to if you don’t want to but I don’t believe you don’t “understand”.

I hate it, my nose runs constantly, my hair is normally blowing in my eyes even though its tied up, all the straggly bits get in my mouth and eyes, my feet get cramp. Hate it

Love walking
Got to get out every day

Understand that others don't feel the same . Odd , but true

It's so boring but each to their own.

I detest walking since lockdown. Reminds me of prison exercise. I don't mind walking with a purpose - to get somewhere.

I do exercise, but not by walking.

If you hate walking, do you do an equivalent form of daily exercise instead? i.e. is it just walking that you hate, or exercise generally? Would you go for a swim/cycle/run instead?

If it wasn't for my dogs, I wouldn't go for a walk either. Even walking with the dogs is boring, though they love it obviously.

Nope.

I’ll only walk if I need to go somewhere.

I do walk into town and back, a 3 mile round trip 3 times a week because I am too tight to pay for the car park or bus.

And I’m not adverse to a National trust on a sunny day.

But other than that, it’s no fun.

I loathe walking. My dad died when I was 12, my mum couldn't drive so we had to sell the car and after that we had to walk. Everyfuckingwhere. For miles and miles, just to get to where we had to be. It was two miles just to get to the bus stop to get the bus to school. Same again on the way home, in all weathers. I hated it.

Walking just for the sake of it will never be an enjoyable activity for me.