People who say that exercise is boring

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People who say that exercise is "too boring": my prejudice is to guess is they spend a lot of time watching tv or scrolling social media or watching paint dry... Things I would find too boring. I'm wrong, right? Tell me about how you find exercise "too boring" and what purposeful or constructive activities you are doing instead with the same time you could have exercised.

Or maybe "too boring" actually means "too tiring and I need brain dead time instead" (xx) which I could completely understand needing. But too tiring is not what some posters say. They specifically say "boring."

(xx) or some other thing that doesn't mean too boring but people choose the wrong words.

I run and do yoga. Don’t find running boring as I run outside which I really love. Also can listen to podcasts etc.

Yoga- I feel I’ve been through every feeling under the sun in relation to my yoga practice, including boredom, and have come out the other side to the point where all these feelings are just part of the practice. A bit like Bill Murray at the end of Groundhog Day 😂

I do find weights a bit boring but at least it’s quick. The gym is deadly boring for me so avoid that.

Walking to where I need to be - not boring.
Walking the hills and dales just for the sake of walking - boring.

Exercise for the sake of exercising - boring.
Playing a game of badminton with friends - not boring.

A fitness class - boring.
A dance class - not boring.

Wild horses would not drag me to a gym.

Each to their own.

I exercise for at least an hour every day and I think it’s boring. I really enjoy HIIT classes and loved doing those for hours at a time, sadly I have to lift weights to maintain the body type I want and it is the most boring thing ever!

If only cardio gave you glutes.

I find it hard rather than boring.

@Gwenhwyfar

I think we're more interesting people than her. We need mental stimulation while she doesn't.
What, like zombiing out on Social Media?

I quite like some forms of exercise, but tbh there are almost always other things I'd rather be doing. You are being unreasonable to suggest that brainless scrolling is the only thing that people might prefer to exercise. There are many other hobbies, interests and activities.

The reason I don't exercise much any more is because my job makes me tired and busy. I know in theory that exercise would actually make me feel better and more energetic, but after a long day at work I don't feel like it. I go for a walk at the weekend, but that's about it.

You are prejudiced, yes.

(xx) Perhaps the word you are looking for is 'tedious', which also conveniently describes your attitude towards people whose idea of boredom is different from yours.

I hate exercising. I'm in my mid fifties and have never found any form of structured exercise that I enjoy. I find it tedious and time wasting. If I was forced to do it,I'd think of all the things that I'd much prefer to be doing instead,such as.
Walking the dog,working in my horses field,farm work,gardening,family history,writing,sewing, bookbinding,cleaning,washing up,laundry,cataloguing my library,reading,picture framing.
Those are just what I can think of off the top of my head.

Reading to inform myself and typing messages for others is not 'being a zombie'. Jogging through my own street for the 100th time is a bit more zombie like!

Same. I run and walk the dogs multiple times a day. I have seen everything there is to see around where I live. I go hillwalking on the weekends sometimes but because it requires travel it's a whole day affair and with kids etc it's not possible all of the time.

The only exercise I enjoy is dancing at a gig anything else is just dull. I'd rather discuss the plot of a good book than listen to somebody drone on about their PB at the local parkrun or whatever.

I am with you @daisym00n I exercise 3 times a week too- a mix of zumba, clubbercize, gym or swimming type classes. I dislike every second really its tedious! 😣 It adds no joy to my life I do it because I have too!

I have tried all sorts of exercise too, the only one that I don’t mind it aqua zumba!!

Surely you cant really concentrate on the scenery if you are running, and often it is the same scenery. You could see it better by walking or just sitting on a bench outside. I don't find that boring, but I do find running boring. And swimming. The gym is a step too far on the exercise/boredom front for me, and on the occasions I go, I have to have a podcast or music, because exercise just is not mentally stimulating. Sorry. Your body is being exercised, your brain isn't. Especially by doing a repetetive action over and over again. I swim precisely because it is not mentally taxing. I go up and down, sometimes I think I may do a bit of backstroke, I have a daydream. I sometimes count the lengths to see if I've done more. That's it. My brain has done nothing but possibly had a nice 30 minute rest.

Surely it depends what exercise you do?

I love walking- that's exercise but walking circuits round the park in lockdown drove me to distraction. Now I have lots of regular walks and its good again
I do pirates, I don't find it terribly exciting in itself but the instructor is entertaining and we have a laugh.
I do go to the gym a few times a week, I'm glad of the TV screens.

I have an allotment - that's exercise and it's my happy place
A friend plays golf, I'd find that really tedious, cricket the same
When there are so many different things to do I can't,see how you would just write off 'exercise' as boring

I exercise plenty and watch little TV but exercise is boring. I like a nice podcast on a long run, and I enjoy long fairly dull ones where they take deep dives into things. At the half way point when I go out into the country I take a moment to switch my headphones off and stop and enjoy the view. But then it’s back on and back down the hill. It’s almost unbearably boring without anything to listen to.

I exercise. It's bloody tedious doing it and having to continue doing it as you get less fit very quickly if you stop. Couldn't give a flying one what anyone else does as long as it's right for them.

I'm really a music person so when I think about playing my fav playlist, I get motivated to do exercise. I find it tedious not necessarily boring

Music does it for me

Tell me about how you find exercise "too boring" and what purposeful or constructive activities you are doing instead with the same time you could have exercised.

Why do you care? It makes zero odds to you if someone else doesn’t exercise. Crack on with your treadmilling.

My user name suggests that I like exercise. I do, but it took a while to find stuff that I do willingly. I enjoy classes more because when you go regularly they become a social thing, and we have a chat and a coffee afterwards. My gym friends keep me going.

I'm surprised this needs explaining to you. You wrote:

Swimming lengths can be boring for sure but it doesn't take too long so I can stomach that boredom. And I'm lucky to get a great high after swimming.

Only a select number of people get a high after exercise - they tend to be the ones who really get into it, as they have extra motivation to get the high, and extra reward (the high) from putting in the effort.

Most people don't get that runner's or whatever high. Exercise is boring and repetitive (and often an obsessive focus of narcissists and meatheads, with little else going on for them).

I do genuinely find it deathly dull and wish I didn't- I wish I did enjoy it because I'd be fitter if I did. Of course we all enjoy different things. Just because someone says they find something boring doesn't mean it's an attack on people who do enjoy it.

You find everything you’ve ever watched on TV boring? Surprising, but people are different. You said it yourself: things you find boring (because you’re morally superior and on a different intellectual plane to us plebs, of course). Yes I often watch TV and I suppose I could be spending that time exercising. I exercise when I want to feel like I’m doing absolutely nothing with my brain. Watching a good drama, or comedy, or film, is completely different.

Definitely
Endurance zone 2 on the peloton I'm mostly listening to music, the instructor etc
FTP test I can't think about anything except please don't let me throw up
Same with weights really

The gym is boring as hell. Hate it. Other exercise I have to really enjoy it. I joke that I’d swim faster if a shark or crocodile was in the water with me.

"Too boring" is the opposite of "I need brain dead time". Physical activity without mental stimulation is boring.