Do you really like exercise?

I love cycling.
I love the way weight lifting makes me feel and look, and how good I feel when I add weight or reach goals in the gym, but I do not love/like actually doing it.

I love mountain biking. I like weight lifting, road biking, and walking/hiking. I like to read and don't mind doing it on mindless machines like the elliptical when I have to. Spin classes are kind of fun too. I also like yoga videos, but have never done a class.

I love my early morning power walks. When I go to bed I can not wait to wake and hit the road. I get a "high" around mile 3 and my legs kick into gear. It is as if they have a mind of there own. I am usually out the door at 5 or 5:15 each morning.

I love kickboxing. I wake up every M, W, F excited for class. I like lifting ok but love what it does for my body and how I feel afterwards.

I love lifting. So much so that I now compete.

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No, I actually hate it. It feels like a waste of energy and time when I could be doing something that NEEDS to be done in the yard etc etc. As a whole any physical labor I put in the same categories... work and play. Lifting weights goes in the work category while playing basketball or something like that is play. Trying to marry the two has been very difficult, and there are sites out there trying to help like fitocracy... or for walking/jogging Ingress.... but those are just helpers, it is still work that I am doing but getting no instant results or "things" accomplished.

That said, I do it anyways as the long term goal, getting fit, getting in shape, getting "deem muscles" is the goal and that won't happen sitting on my *kitten* wishing. Do I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment or seeing my huge thigh muscles or monster calves while I lift? Sure, but not enough to where it is anything less than work still.

I have an entirely different view of exercise when I'm out of shape. I hate when I drop the ball for a month or two and struggle to get back into it. Once I get in my grove, I go into my own little world when exercising and it becomes a stress relief.

I would say I love hiking. I love being surrounded by nature and the hills add a bit of a challenge. I like walking and I like heavy lifting but I don't love it. I wish I could love running but I didn't care for it.

i love it. I've always had a lot of energy to burn so sitting still has never been something that i've done well. I was the girl climbing the monkey bars and and playing kickball and freeze tag with the boys in grade school, played multiple sports in high school and played a sport in college. i'm also a huge fan of doing active things like bike tours, walking tours, kayaking, etc.

even with that, i'm overweight :laugh: i think the only exercise i don't like doing is most exercise class stuff and cardio on most machines.

For me it is a yes and no. I love lifting, I love biking, I love swimming. I am trying so hard to get into running but it hurts my knee (I have screws in one knee and one hip from a car accident) I like walking with people, or with my dog exploring new areas. I love listening to music and dancing around like a goof.

I think you just have to find something you can do that you don't think of as work perhaps? I have never liked running but I want to, but I am finding it difficult. I have always loved swimming, I am part fish I swear so for me, swimming being "exercise" is like cake being vegetables!