Does anyone else dislike exercise?

If you like exercise you are either crazy or delusional.

You don't LIKE exercise, you like the way you feel afterward, or you like how you look after spending several weeks on a program.

No one LIKES exercise itself.

Want to lose weight?

Learn to control hunger.

Skip breakfast and make your mornings useful without stuffing your stomach.

I agree in part. Most people like the results of exercise, although they don't necessarily like the exercise. I must disagree about skipping breakfast 'though!

If you like exercise you are either crazy or delusional.

You don't LIKE exercise, you like the way you feel afterward, or you like how you look after spending several weeks on a program.

No one LIKES exercise itself.

Want to lose weight?

Learn to control hunger.

Skip breakfast and make your mornings useful without stuffing your stomach.

Yea, going to have to disagree with pretty much all of that.

+5 on that one.

I keep seeing people who love working out, doing dvd programs etc... 1.5 year later I still don't. I force myself to do it, typically really doing half of it because I can't keep up. I've tried lots of different things. . None of that 'exercise high'. At this point I realize I just don't want it hard enough.

Is it just me?

You might want to try reading Gina Kolata's book Ultimate Fitness. In it, she reports there really are some people who just don't respond to exercise. I appear to be lucky. I do respond to exercise and love it.

I didn't think I hated it, but I've been having such a hard time getting back into it (um, like a year or more it seems since I exercised consistently aside from walking from the train to work). I guess I have not found the thing that clicked yet - it used to be running, but now I just come up with excuses - it is too hot, we live in such a hilly area, etc. I hope you find something you like! I hope I do, too!

I really disliked it until I started to lift. I forced myself to do DVD workouts for months and I really did not like them. Got into New Rules of Lifting and started to look forward to my workouts - now that I'm 8 weeks into Stronglifts, i cannot wait until 7pm when i get to go and throw around some heavy stuff! These days, the thought of completing Insanity again makes me want to run away and hide lol!

Gotta find what you like to do - try different things, get inventive! Yesterday i played 'soccer' with my nearly two year old for an hour and a half - it was fun and a ton of running and i loved it!

Nobody loves exercise.

Umm, it's my favorite time of day. I am absolutely pumped beforehand. I go to bed anxious for the next day's workout.

I know most other guys into bodybuilding feel the exact same. Surprising comment coming from a bikini competitor really.

I apologize for not fitting into your pre-conceived notion of how bikini competitors should feel and act. What can I say, I make waves everywhere.

Ah. I read his post before the edit. This actually does make sense as you almost have to exercise for work?? Exercise is one of the things I do to take my mind off the jerks I have to deal with at work. If I needed to exercise for work, I could see getting somewhat resentful of the activity

Interesting response to his bikini competitor comment; I'd think you'd welcome that sort of talk judging by your own post about everybody's attitude towards exercise!

It depends. I don't really enjoy running at all. But I enjoy challenging myself and tracking my progress, as well as eating back the calories I burn. My smartphone and HRM make exercise so much more enjoyable for me. I love the stats at the end.

I have been lifting for a month and am still actually enjoying that, not just enjoying the feeling at the end. But again, it is tracking my progress over time and seeing the changes in my shape that keep me motivated.

Nobody loves exercise.

Umm, it's my favorite time of day. I am absolutely pumped beforehand. I go to bed anxious for the next day's workout.

I know most other guys into bodybuilding feel the exact same. Surprising comment coming from a bikini competitor really.

I apologize for not fitting into your pre-conceived notion of how bikini competitors should feel and act. What can I say, I make waves everywhere.

Ah. I read his post before the edit. This actually does make sense as you almost have to exercise for work?? Exercise is one of the things I do to take my mind off the jerks I have to deal with at work. If I needed to exercise for work, I could see getting somewhat resentful of the activity

Interesting response to his bikini competitor comment; I'd think you'd welcome that sort of talk judging by your own post about everybody's attitude towards exercise!

Where did I say the comment was not welcome? All I did was apologize. You're reading an awful lot into several comments that were never directed at you in the first place. So you don't agree with what I said in my first post. Great. Don't care. Kindly get off my back, peaches. :flowerforyou:

The only thing I like more then training is spending time with my girls. When I don't have the barbell in my hands, I want it in my hands. Okay, I may not have loved it in the moment of my last deadlift today when everything was screaming, but the second I achieved lockout and was able to drop my bar I was back to loving it

Franci you probably keep trying to start at too high an intensity level for your current level of fitness.

My suggestion: read about target heart rate, then use it to moderate your level of intensity doing something that you like as exercise. For example, walking a dog, or along a beach or a river-bank, or even window-shopping while power-walking inside a mall.

Be creative on where you go and what you do. Use a phone app like MapMyFitness or Runkeeper to track how far you go and how many calories you burn (if you don't have one of those life-monitor wrist thingies).

Those DVDs are great for people in their teens and twenties who have a fairly high baseline of activity, but if you are older than that or have been less active for a long time, they're way too hard to begin with.

PS: when you first start exercising, the first few weeks it is not unusual for your sweat to be sticky and sometimes stinky. As you get more fit it becomes more watery and requires a few hours to start smelling (typically you are done with your workout and showered before that happens, but your laundry pile can remain a stink pit).