Hyped-up activities that are actually shite.

[DarkestBerty]

Loads of my friends do yoga. It's really relaxing, they say. It's really mindful, they say. It's a good workout without realising you're working out, they say. It's a really nice community of people, they say.

So on Saturday morning I tried it.

It was bloody awful. Everything about it was bloody terrible. It wasn't remotely relaxing or mindful. I wasn't a very good workout and the people were cult-loke lunatics.

And I've felt a bit lightheaded, dizzy, and just not quite myself ever since.

Tell me about activities that everyone seems to have a wide-on for, but which you hated.

Same. I don't get it.
I can absolutely see the social/community benefits, but it's just feels 'off' to me and I can't put a finger on why.

I like most of the things listed, I must be very basic 😆

I'm so glad I am not the only one.
For me I hate the 'where will you be this Saturday' as opposed to 'will you be ding PR this weekend?' as though it's something obligatory and things that you may want to do with your partner/family have to 'fit in'.

For me, it’s the near constant talk about breathing . It’s actually really distracting and does the opposite to what I think it’s supposed to. Yes, breathing slowly can sortof help relax a tiny bit . It’s a filler sentence I think on repeat 😂 “learning to breath”, we’d all be in trouble by now if we didn’t have the hang of it .

😂 my son does these - thankfully in another city!

Also agree with work nights out... I skip as many as possible.

Same. We had someone come into our work to impart the mindfulness bollocks, around 2010. The session finished off with an excruciating visit to the (public) car park below the office where we were instructed to 'walk like Samurai'. Slowly, with actions. I refused.

holidays....always ends up in arguements

Crying with laughter at the man bringing a guitar 😆 yes very grim, 100 percent agree x

Sailing. Went once, got shouted at a lot. Screw that, I’m with Joey in Friends, I’ll just sit in the dock and drink beer

Hmmm, yoga can be amazing if you go to the right class and have a good teacher. Yoga in the UK is generally shite though.

Things that I think are overhyped;

Golf - it’s boring. It’s not a sport.
Pickleball
Walking, getting your steps in
Zumba
Mat Pilates
Aqua aerobics
Bootcamp
Going to nightclubs if you aren’t under 25

Team sports.
I suppose they're probably nice if you're good at them, rather than being the liability who can't control a ball/ projectile and cops the blame for the team losing.

Watching other people playing team sports (especially overpaid millionaires on TV) has always been mind-numbing to me.

I'll stick with my running/ yoga/ open water swimming where my ineptitude only affects me

(The great benefit of open water swimming over an indoor, chlorinated pool is that it doesn't involve navigating a leisure centre website in order to do it
Bonus points that it's nicer, and safer swimming next to swans than Splashy-Front-Crawl-Man.

I have loved reading this thread, because I don't actually like doing anything. I think almost everything is overrated and overpriced. And it's totally validated that!

Sport
Travel
Work.

I like yoga.

Spa days <shudder>
Cruises… the stuff of my nightmares
Work team building days….just fuck off, and yes, I’ll be sick for every single one.

Zumba! Particular when people have no sense of rhythm……..like me! i was always three steps behind the rest and it just turned to total chaos. Think the instructor was glad when I didn’t go back .

I hate Halloween!! Every year I can’t wait for it to be over.

Exercise classes, I don't want to be sweating and looking like a beetroot around other people. Running alone is much better.
Musicals = cheesy, naff, boring.
Mini golf, always turns into the kids arguing and waiting behind other people.
Also in the yoga front, cult leaders always start out as yoga teachers, then they turn it into some sex cult.

No one cares what anyone else looks like in classes, everyone is focused on themselves.

Well I care I don't want to be sweating and hot and 10 steps behind or near other sweaty people. Running alone with my music on is peaceful exercise, no one is bothering me, I can get through my own thoughts without someone screaming on a microphone. Each to their own though.

There's so many once you have kids and you have to do them on an annual basis, pumpkin picking is definitely up there, we do the light show "magical wonderland" at christmas too it's so £££ but so so shit, does't help it's usually freezing too. Bonfire night, we go to an organised event where our kids will want to spend on rides/hook a duck etc, we'll watch some fireworks (usually in the rain), look at a big bonfire and go home £100 worse off 😆. Halloween/trick or treating, I hate the whole concept of it really but my kids absolutely love it, some of the houses near us really get into it and go to town on the decorations, I just feel like it's pointless and I have kids!

I'll add going to the zoo, it's so expensive trudging around for miles looking at animals in boxes, it's my 4 year olds favourite thing to do so every school holiday/actual holiday abroad we have to go to a zoo.

We do all these things with faked enthusiasm for our kids though, I wonder if they'll turnaround when they're older and tell us they were faking too 😆?

They warn that meditation isn’t for everyone and it can bring on panic attacks in some.

I am interested that so many hate yoga. Stretching is good for you but perhaps yoga feels to many like a simple stretch class gussied up as some kind of spiritual exercise.

It feels like a mass delusion to me. Wondering round a muddy field so your kids can pick an already picked pumpkin for 10x the price.

Agree. Every time I see a golf course, I just think what a waste, there could be horses on there. 🤣🐴

I don't know but they choose a lot of Tom Jones played at top volume.