How to create an exercise addiction

You force yourself to do it until it becomes and addiction. When you are creating the exercise endorphins on a regular basis, you will not want to live with out them. Seriously, you have to exercise through the hate to find the love. It is not as easy as say a food, alcohol or drug addiction, but way more worth it in the long run.

I also found that exercising with a buddy also helps a great deal.

Good luck!

You force yourself to do it until it becomes and addiction. When you are creating the exercise endorphins on a regular basis, you will not want to live with out them. Seriously, you have to exercise through the hate to find the love. It is not as easy as say a food, alcohol or drug addiction, but way more worth it in the long run.

I also found that exercising with a buddy also helps a great deal.

Good luck!

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it's gonna be a struggle if your unmotivated..there is no getting through it. but if you can push through it...you'll tip the scale into an obsession

You are not doomed. I used to hate exercising as well. Start out small. Here's what I did: I knew I had to do some kind of physical activity to continue weight loss efforts so I made a commitment to go for a walk 3times per week for 5 minutes at a time. I forced myself to do it (that's how much I hated it). After two weeks I increase to ten minutes, trust me I was looking at my watch the whole time. I did that for about 4 weeks then I went to 30 minutes 5 times per week then everyday and within 4 months I was walking an hour at a time and doing group exercises at the gym. I became obsessed with it. That was 20 years ago and I have done some form of exercise every since then, weight lifting etc... It helps to try different things too, rollerblading, bicycling, etc...to keep it from getting boring. At the moment I'm obsessed, again, with pilates and yoga. I kinda like laying down while exercising. Good luck to you. You can do it.

I feel like I'm constantly forcing myself to even lift a finger when it comes to exercise and yet i know plenty of friends and family that do it on a daily basis at 5 oclock in the morning! When i ask them how they do it they say they either love it or feel the need to do it. So my question is am i just doomed and cursed to hate exercise for the rest of my life or can i train my body and mind into actually needing exercising?

Do you like washing dishes and doing laundry? Probably not.

Do you do it anyway? Probably yes.

Why? Because it's a job that needs doing.

Treat exercise the same way. Whether it's "fun" or not is only relevant for those taking it beyond basic fitness.

I've actually tried to do this. Well I wouldn't call it an addiction but I've done what I can to turn my life completely around. I've tried total immersion for a bit. When I started (again) a few months ago I realized that I needed to do something different so I started to exercise daily, log my calories but I also chose an exercise I think I would like and then swat up on it. I decided triathlon was the way to go so I just watched loads of videos on youtube and TV about it. I also watched TV programmes about general fitness and foodetc. I I started to learn to swim freestyle, I've brought a bike. Joined a Gym (and actually use it) :-)) I brought some running shoes and run - very slowly and short distances at first. I now exercise when I can. I live a busy life but I get up early a couple of times a week, get moving at dinner time at work, and have a couple of evenings where I can do exercise. . I also got involved with MFP, sought out people who know what they are talking about (rather than talking a lot and not knowing) and listen to what they say. I've entered a a couple of events - at a time that will be challenging but possible to achieve. Above all I worked out what I wanted to be like "when I arrived" and actually started to act like that now.

It is possible to change. I did it because I was so fed up with trying and trying again and failing. I finally worked out i needed to change me as much as temporarily what I eat

good luck

Do i need to change up my exercise routine and do something different all the time or can i create a addiction or need by just walking or running everyday? Will that be enough to create those endorphins?

Right now i am not doing anything i have just come back to MFP and i want to start again, i used to do some running and gym classes. but only for a few months so i could never get over the hate for exercising i guess it must take years.

How much it takes to create endorphins differs. I think most of us need to get into an elevated heart rate zone for more than 20 minutes. I think research also shows that should be a minimum you shoot for, say 5 days a week. You definitely can do it walking, just be brisk. And you can do the same thing daily or change it up.

For me, the endorphins alone aren't worth it. I have to find other reasons.

I think the people who love it are good at it and also have days they hate it but do it anyway. Also, people use "I love it" as a script. If you know it needs done, why not focus on the tiny things you love about it instead of the many other things you hate about it? They probably rarely love the act itself so much as they love the after-effects and benefits and beating personal goals and things like that.

Lesa_Sass nailed it on the head! I used to hate going to the gym too.. However, I also would do workout classes and couldn't wait for them to end! Then I started working out with a friend who taught me how to use weights and different exercises for different muscles... I realized I enjoyed lifting more than I did the "bootcamp" classes I was taking before... Once I understood how to workout I became more excited about it. However, it wasn't until I noticed my body changing that "the addiction" kicked in! Give it time though, it doesn't happen over night.

I would definitely suggest trying different ways of working out and bring a friend! You might just need to find a workout that you love!

you really need to just make it a habit. i would suggest doing something like walking ..or if at a gym do something like play basketball and do hoops or go swimming .. try a few things and just be active a half hour a day if y ou can muster that up. eventually your body starts to crave more and that is when you start finding your way in to the exercise world

I think exercise is nothing more than a 4 letter word....
But like lots of things in life sometimes I think it's something that you just kinda learn to like. I am not a fan of working out but there are some high points to it, it gives me some self respect and a feeling of accomplishment whether I'm as successful as the other people in the gym or not. But before you can get that feeling of accomplishment or a sense of pride you have to do it, I'm not afraid to say that I was profoundly nervous when I walked into the gym the first time. I was afraid of the same old things, are people going to stare at me and ask what am I doing here, or look at each other and roll their eyes etc etc etc, the reality is that no one gave a damn if I was there or not, nobody at this gym is chatty, hell I have a hard time getting a response from anyone if I say a polite hello.

What I have found that I like is when I'm tired, really tired and the muscles in my legs are burning and I think I have to stop I look around at the others in the gym and I know I'm just as good as they are and I wonder if they would stop if they felt like I do right now, so I find that extra 5 minutes or 1/2 mile or 10lbs or what ever I have to give myself to push just a little longer.
I had/have to convince myself that exercise isn't something that I have to do to punish myself it's something I have to do to reward myself.
Overthinking it is your worst enemy...