to fucking hate exercise?

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Just HATE exercising. I know it's good for your health and blablabla but fuck me I find it dull. I wish I was someone who enjoyed it.

The only thing I really do is walking because I don't drive so it fits into what I'm doing anyway - eg walking into town rather than taking the bus. And I don't actively enjoy that either, just don't actively hate it.

Hate running, hate aerobics of any sort including zumba (I'm SO uncoordinated), quite like swimming so I do that occasionally but our nearest pool isn't very easy to get to, can't cycle for the same reason I can't drive, hate the sodding gym, HATE yoga and pilates.

Anyone else just a lazy fucker at heart? Or am I being VVU and exercise is amazing and I just haven't discovered that yet?

It's okay to hate it. I genuinely do. But I do it because I know I feel better in my mind, I can eat more without putting weight on, and I like having nice arms.

I have a cheap rowing machine and kettle bells at home. To force myself to use them I choose a tv program, and only allow myself to watch it when I'm exercising. No exercise, no program. When I went to the gym, I listened to story-based podcasts like This American Life, which made me feel a lot less bored.

So distraction (at least for me) is the way forward.

I have accepted I hate exercise and it tends to make my knee hurt. I went to consultant level of medical care there and he said if gym makes my knee hurt to stick to walking. So I've done that and not really noticed my fitness fall.
If you enjoy it fine, but actually I don't.

I actually think if I had a treadmill at home I'd use one as could do it watching tv.

Sadly flat is too small.

Why do you have to exercise though? Can you not just stay active through other means? Dog sit occasionally and chase after them in the park? Spend a weekend rambling through a new part of London you don't know? Set up a DIY project that is physically challenging?

Also look into a Nordic Walker? We got one for a previous rented flat because it's a lot smaller than a treadmill, and I'd use it while watching tV.

I'm not a runner.
But I like stupid classes - insanity, body pump, circuits.
I have gym associates who I talk to for 60 seconds a week and that's it.

I like eating, so I need to burn so of it off... or I turn into a fatty.

Why do you have to exercise though? Can you not just stay active through other means? Dog sit occasionally and chase after them in the park? Spend a weekend rambling through a new part of London you don't know? Set up a DIY project that is physically challenging?

Well yes - I do.

Not the last one though, the only thing I hate more than exercise is DIY. Maybe that's what I need to help me do it - a choice between exercise or DIY!!

You can ramble in London. I'm in zone two and have got Walthamstow wetlands, the Stoke Newington reservoirs, three fairly big parks and the walk from Finsbury Park to Highgate. That's mainly Hackney - other boroughs have their own nice places.

Or - have a look at Jessica Smith videos on YouTube. She has lots of different levels and a cute dog.

Exercise can be a bit boring, but so can teeth brushing and making sure the laundry is done, it's just something that makes your life easier if it gets done.

I said on another thread that I think there's a need for proper gym buddies, "someone with whom you attend your first exercise class," they'd have to carefully chosen, but thee seem to be loads of people who's only barrier is that they don't like going on their own.

My mind is boggled at doing an activity that you hate every minute of. I have an extremely low tolerance for doing things I don't enjoy. I can't say that when I run (I've given up at the moment as let it go in first trimester and didn't fancy trying to get back my cardiovascular capacity in second trimester) that I love every minute, but it's varied and engaging enough for me to keep doing it.

Mind you, my boyfriend is an 'exercise is a punishment for being fat that I must endure' type and I've never managed to persuade him that just being more active might be morefun...

You dont have to exercise if you dont want to.

I exercise all the time. Cant say I enjoy iy all that much but I prefer having nice firm thighs to having fat wobbly ones.

I have firm thighs with nil exercise

Maybe I won't in ten years though

Hate. I'm never going to wean because BF is the best calorie burner there is.

I'm never going to wean because BF is the best calorie burner there is.

That was so not true for me 😭😭😭

You don't have to choose between sitting down with a glass of wine or exercising. It's possible to do both.

I don't love it but feel much better once I've done it. I try and do mine in the morning to get it out the way

I rolled my exercise bike in front of the tv and lazily did that but forced myself to do intervals where I thought I may die then slow again.
I'm extremely lazy and hate group exercising or any other socialising whilst sweaty and and rough ( also did the typical expensive gym membership for 12 months went 3 times...) tried outdoor boot camp, Zumba blah blah and got thrown out of yoga with my friend as we talked too much ahhh I found it soooo boring.
Bike in front of tv worked for me. About to invest in a fold up treadmill that will also sit in front of tv as got bored of bike. Good luck.

Oh meant to say I also don't need to lose weight so haven't got hat incentive but know it's better to exercise. Also please note tv was always in and being watched loudly whilst I huffed and puffed away on the bike ha

Walking is great for your heart and your blood vessels and your health. It might not be "as good as" exercise like running but it's vastly better for your joints and also vastly vastly better than being sedentary. 10,000 steps a day is a lot more than a lot of people manage.

However if you want a "thing" I would recommend rowing (and rowing machine can often be split in two and stood up so might be fittable into a cupboard). You also say you can't cycle for the same reason you can't drive - obviously I don't know what this is, but depending unicycling is great fun - you don't have to be on a road so much lower risk, it's much lower speed so again lower risk, its smaller and cheaper and easier to store and because you don't have the handlebars etc of a bike you never really "crash" - if you're going out of control you just let the unicycle fall from under you and then your feet land flat on the floor. Obviously it may be wholly unsuitable but it is really good fun and some groups meet in sports halls etc so it would then be totally indoors. It's also much less hard than people anticipate.

I've been an exercise dodger all my life. I drive to work, sit at a desk all day and drive home. I do less than 2000 steps in a normal day. I geared myself into joining a gym in January as I was ready to get fitter and lose a bit of weight. I was talked out of it by DH who knows how lazy I am. So I reverted to lazing.
Now that my youngest is in school I decided to take it up properly. I'm only 3 weeks in but I LOVE it. I've surprised myself at how much I do actually love it. I'm already able to do a minute or 2 more than I was to start.

Should clarify on my post above that I am a massive exercise dodger and am currently halfway through couch to 5k for the second time as I just totally gave up after moving. Only consolation is that I do a vaguely decent amount of walking and cycle places sometimes etc so have a semi-functional level of underlying fitness so it only takes me a few weeks to get to 5k point. Don't enjoy it really though - keep telling myself I'll sign up to some race or swim to force myself to exercise in order to avoid total humiliation!

I have honestly gone from being an exercise hater to an exercise lover. For me it took two things for that to happen. The first was having small children and being absolutely desperate for some time to myself. 3 times a week I'd get an hour to myself for a run / gym class / yoga and it saved my sanity! The second thing was exercising with a goal that's not about weight loss and not as vague as 'for my health.' So at first it was doing the harder versions of exercises in classes, now I've moved on to weight training so my goals are about lifting more weight. It feels more like a hobby than exercise for the sake of it.
It has taken a long time for my mindset to change though, I dreaded PE at school and still shudder at the thought of team sports or anything that requires good hand - eye coordination!