I hate to exercise -

Simple. You have some equipment in your home it sounds like. Do it in the morning shortly after getting up. Make a small breakfast with coffee to get energized then do the exercise.

Instead of telling yourself you're going to exercise for 20 or 30 minutes, just say you're going to do 6 minutes and then you'll be done. You'll find your motivation and want to keep going while you're on there.


Good luck!

Find something you like to do. I love walking (not hill/mountain walks) and find i can do it daily, it's free and i can go just about anywhere i like! I do have a bike too to join the family on a cycle ride around the local wetlands however we're trying to teach my youngest to ride without stabilisers so my role is to hold the back and run - not my favourite way to spend an afternoon but bloomin useful to burn off the calories! I would prefer to be on the bike, needs must however.

Have you got a local friend that can join you for a swim/game of badmington or something else that you fancy trying? I quite fancy aqua zumba but planning that for easter time as the location is a good half hour walk away (and not that well lit!), one of the girls also fancies it - unusually neither of us drive so easter classes it'll be!

Good luck xxx

On the bike, I fire up my kindle app and read while I bike. Easy peasy. Or, you can do the tactic I do with laundry. I hate folding it, so I only allow myself to watch episodes of a certain show while I'm folding laundry. You could try that with the bike

Have you tried reading the book while you're on the exercise bike?

I like being rewarded for working out. I do Wii Fit and a dance game every day. I make it into a game. "Let's see how many calories I can burn in an hour." I like earning achievements and seeing if I can beat my high score.

You have to find a way to make it fun. I struggled at the gym just walking on the treadmill. I never was able to do a full hour in the gym. But by playing these games it's pretty easy for me to do an hour or more of physical activity almost every day.

Everyone always says you'll learn to love it. I never did. I always fall off the excersize wagon because I hate it. I need to do it to loose weight but I despise working out. I have 30 more lbs to loose so I am back on the wagon again LOL. Good luck.

I'm exactly the same! I hate exercise, and I've never learned to love it, or become addicted to it. I had a PT 5 days a week for 2.5 years once, and at the end of it, I still hated exercising. That whole time, the only thing that actually got me to the gym was the fact I had prepaid and would lose my money if I didn't go. And that someone was standing around waiting for me. If I didn't have those two things, I wouldn't have gone.

I also really hate the outdoors (my idea of hell is camping, with dirt, dogs, spiders, and retracting vacuum cleaner cords thrown in somewhere). I hated trying to go for a jog outside. The further I got from my house, the more annoyed/frustrated I was, because I knew I'd have to turn around and go back at some point. At least on a treadmill, when you're done, you can just get off and not have to worry about the return journey!

And like some others have said, exercising in the morning was better for me, too. At least I could get it over and done with and not have to worry about it for the rest of the day!

I don't know OP, I think some people are just never going to like exercising. But maybe just do it to achieve your goal, and perhaps at the end of it, you'll be able to maintain a slightly more active lifestyle to maintain your goal.

My idea of a good evening is a warm fire and a good book. I spend a lot of time staring at the exercise bike but not much time on it. Any suggestions for getting motivate to work out?

Gotta hate being fat and overweight more than you hate exercise. That's pretty much it.

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If you like to read - read on the bike. Another thing that works for me - play your favorite smartphone games to pass the time. I sometim es play suduko, or word games, anything to distract me. While playing the games on my smart phone I also listen to up beat music.

I have a photo on my fridge, right where I can stare at it while on the computer. Taken 11 months ago when I started losing weight....I'm at my biggest. 95kg..... taken right after a zumba workout here at home, I'm looking wrecked, sweaty & just not happy. Under it is written "try harder cow".

I use it as motivation. As well as my fat face photos.

356 days of working out in a row so far. It takes 3 months to re-train your brain to want to workout daily. If you can't make 3 months.... then you need to really find some way of just cutting down your eating.