Does anyone else dislike exercise?

Its like anything we all have different likes and dislikes. I have been exercising regularly for 6 years....have tried a wide variety of things and nope I dont like it, I will never enjoy it, but I appreciate the benefits of it - I dont regret the workouts ever I simply dont enjoy the process.

Dislike, despise, detest exercise in any form. Never learned to dance, swim or skate; I have hated physical activity all my life, even as a child..Exercise makes me hostile and agitated-- I am told this is "adrenaline." I REFUSE to exercise!

Dislike, despise, detest exercise in any form. Never learned to dance, swim or skate; I have hated physical activity all my life, even as a child..Exercise makes me hostile and agitated-- I am told this is "adrenaline." I REFUSE to exercise!

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?

I hated exercise until I found something that I liked to do. Now I like exercise.

Yeah it's you. Learn to love exercise. Keep looking to find what you like to do and build it into your daily routine! You need to move and then work a healthy diet. Good luck!

I suspect that you might not like the exercise you are doing. I tried aerobics once, but found that I was the only chubby person in the class (this can be somewhat intimidating).

Now my exercise is, largely, walking--either walking myself to work or to errands, or walking our Bluenose Pitbull.

Benefit to walking to work: save on gas and getting exercise.
Benefit to walking to errands: errands get done, and I get exercise.
Benefit to walking the dog: Kita learns to behave on-leash, I learn how to get her to behave on-leash. And I get exercise.

So there you are, getting exercise doing everyday stuff.

YES!!! I've found that I'm extremely ADD when it comes to exercise so I'm trying to change it up. WII fitness is fun,and has lots of options (but now I'm getting bored with that) HOWEVER-I am facing surgery for my back and have been doing my physical therapy "core muscle training"' religiously for more than a year. I hope you will find something to stick with because exercise is much more beneficial than surgery!

I disliked exercise for quite some time. Especially when I became a stay at home mom and I always felt so tired! But just a week ago i joined up on MFP to help me get on track to lose this weight. And i have finally been going to the gym and i feel great afterwards! Altough i am tired after and go back to sleep before my kids wake up. It sucks that it hurts.me.so bad to try to jog/run due to a knee injury that never healed. But i do enjoy doing the elliptical trainer and i am curious if its just as good doing that for 30 minutes as being on a treadmill for 30 mins?I

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?

I know my problem is stamina, and I have to get that up first before I can do the rest more comfortably.
I've learned to start easy, focus on the goal, remind myself that 'this is good for me', know I will be stronger later - and most of all, listen to or watch something I love whenever possible. It makes the effort less noticeable (so eliminates the negative messages) and makes the time go faster. No, I don't like it either, but if I can think of my results it's more likely that I'll continue. I know some people who don't like exercise like Zumba, but I haven't tried it. I feel for you Keep on keepin' on! Find something you like that burns energy... Best wishes, dear!

I will expand.

That some group exercise activities are successful (albeit temporarily) and personal trainers make out like bandits proves the point.

It is not fun to exercise. And the older you get, the more outright pain there is.

But bring in a social aspect, and the positives of social interaction outweighs the negatives of doing pointless and repetitive physical activity. Look at the franchised exercise programs.

For that matter, look at the diet programs that are "successful."

There is a big positive social component.

You can realize intellectually the positives of exercise, and then do it and get used to it. It becomes painless and routine after a while, but...I'd rather be in Paris, and so would you.

For that matter, eating food is fun and satisfying.

Learning to skip breakfast isn't "fun" but you learn to get used to it- especially if you realize the long-term benefits.

Grand sweeping statement is grand and sweeping. It's also incorrect.

YOU don't think exercise is fun. Your personal feelings are not the personal feelings of every other member of the human species. This should be rather obvious.

^^^^ this

there are several kinds of exercise that I have done in my life that are enjoyable that I did for no other reason that that they're enjoyable. Skating is a prime example - not just hockey, skating too, as in going to a public skating session, without friends (usually with friends but if they weren't around I still went without them), and just skating around in circles (because what else can you do at a public session in an ice rink) - health and not getting fat were not on my mind at all. I just did it purely for fun. It was a lot more fun on the public sessions where there were few enough people that I didn't have to just skate around in circles and could do all kinds of other things like sharp turns, circles and all the rest though... busy public sessions were less fun because you had to skate slowly to avoid collisions with people who couldn't skate so well.

most of the exercise I've done in my life I've done for fun. Ice hockey, judo, hiking, cycling, playing games in the street with the other kids... some kinds of exercise, like cross country running, netball and rounders, i hated and would not have done at all had PE teachers and judo coaches not made me do it.

I didn't get fat until I quit ice hockey and carried on eating like I was still doing all the training i used to *facepalm* - only then did the concept of doing exercise to stay healthy and get thin even dawn on me. So no, the above is not just me intellectualising the benefits of exercise or enjoying the after effects of it........ I enjoyed it all for its own sake, other than running and sports that I found boring like netball. (netball isn't even exercise anyway, mostly it's standing around as players aren't even allowed in the entire court, hence why it's boring)

My kids too - they love running around and playing outdoors. I don't need to make them exercise. They do it all by themselves. I'm also inclined to think that this is the natural way for humans to be, and people get conditioned out of enjoying exercise, probably due to a combination of overbearing PE teachers and becoming unfit due to being too sedentary, so they lose the ability to enjoy exercise, and may never regain it (although I think people do regain the ability to enjoy exercise).

For people who genuinely hate all forms of exercise... well I admire your dedication for sticking at it. And also, coming at this question from the opposite perspective... I do find it hard to believe that anyone would hate *all* forms of sport and exercise (not saying that these people don't exist, just that it's hard to imagine)... I totally get not liking specific ones, but it is hard to imagine someone hating every single kind of exercise there is.... I guess that's because it's hard for people to imagine other people having vastly different experiences to their own. I also want to know if this is a genetic thing, or if people are conditioned to hate exercise through negative experiences, perhaps due to a combination of being unfit as a child and unable to keep up with the other children and overbearing PE teachers who humiliate kids for not being good at sport (which was very common in the 70s and 80s unfortunately).

Is there an ice rink in Paris? I might rather be there... or, even better, in Canada skating on natural ice (never had the chance to do this, would love to one day).