Does anyone else dislike exercise?

I have absolutely no desire to reproduce.

Does that make my life pointless :huh:

I've never really thought about it before, but when it comes down to it, I'm indifferent about working out in and of itself. I don't love it or hate it. I like the endorphin rush I get after the cooldown, how much I feel better physically (I feel sick and have no energy if I go for more than a week without working out), and because I'm a problem sleeper and I sleep much better when I workout regularly.

Honestly, when I get home from work, I would much rather lay in bed and watch On Demand TV or take a nap until it's time to cook dinner and I enjoy the heck out of my rest days, but I get up and do my workout because it benefits me. Still, I don't see it as onerous or a chore. I'll pick working out over, say, loading the dishwasher or vacuuming any day.

Nobody loves exercise. We do it for the benefits. It's part of being an adult, doing things we'd rather not.

That said, I am never sorry after a work out. But I am almost never pumped to go beforehand. It's always the reward afterward that makes me glad I did it.

Huh? I love a lot of forms of exercise, including biking, swimming, diving, kayaking, climbing on stuff, lifting barbells, and probably a bunch of other things I didn't think of off the top of my head.

I don't know why someone would think that jumping up and down in front of a DVD over and over, or using a treadmill, would at some point become fun.

If people can cultivate a taste for bourbon, they can darn well cultivate a taste for exercise.

I feel good after exercise, like the feeling I have after sex. The next day the sore muscles feel luxurious somehow.

When I'm in the swing on running it's meditative. When I'm in the swing on weight lifting, it engenders powerful feelings. When I'm swimming I feel weightless.

All of those things can be pleasurable. If I push to hard or make it unpleasant by being careless or injuring myself, it's not so great.

Cultivate a taste for these behaviors; learn how to do these things in a way that positively reinforces them.

no. skateboarding is the most fun I can have, and it's a decent workout.

and you are doing it wrong. don't worry about finding an 'exercise' that you like. just find something you like to do that makes you sweat. and do that. you will never be able to stop looking because there are a bazillion things to do on this planet. (skateboarding is just the best :smokin: .)

I can think of more exciting things to do, however seeing the results is what drives me to do it. Some days I wake up ready to run or exercise, some days I wake up and want to go back to sleep.

It all depends on how I feel, but I know for sure when I do actually do the exercise, I feel fantastic by the end of it..not to mention proud of myself.

-Dance
-Gymnastics
-Swimming
-Hiking
-Horseback Riding
-Golfing
-Riding a bike
-Canoeing or kayaking
-Playing frisbee
-Playing a sport, like baseball
-Gardening
-Hopscotch
-Visit the zoo
-Zip lining
-Martial Arts
-Roller Skating

I'm allergic to horses... Don't know how to ride a bike, and I'm afraid of heights (which makes riding a bike difficult too, because yeah, it's THAT bad). I should try martial arts one day though. I've tried most of the other stuff...

going to the gym and getting in the pool is the highlight of my day. i feel really sorry for anyone who hates themself enough to just plod through a workout they hate every day without exploring other options that might actually be satisfying and enjoyable.

I'm 36, I've tried a lot of things, believe me... still haven't found anything enjoyable except walking. I'm not sure how it means I'm hating myself for forcing myself to exercise though... on the contrary, it's because I don't want to hate myself that I do.

Then just give up.

Dead serious. No one has to exercise, and if you hate it so much and you're going to shoot down dozens of suggestions, maybe it's just not for you.

If you're going to do it because you understand the benefits, then just woman up and do it without whining about how much you hate it. I don't let my kids whine so I don't understand it coming from adults.

Just go work out.

Or

Don't work out. Either way.

i dislike typical exercises, so i do things that help me be active and keeps me moving! I love to dance, so there is that. Then there is walking, hiking, playing sports like badminton, tennis etc and also just fell in love with Yoga!

Nobody loves exercise. We do it for the benefits. It's part of being an adult, doing things we'd rather not.

Gosh, really? I love to 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.

:laugh: This is perhaps the most absurd thing I've read on MFP all week. (Previous Poster: If you don't share my views, you're insane or delusional.) That's a really dysfunctional worldview. :huh:

I stand by the post.

People aren't made to exercise. Exercise is a means to an end.

People aren't made to eat food.

It is a means to an end.

The point of all humans are to reproduce.

Everything else serves that purpose.

Even if it takes delusions or insanity to serve that purpose.

Of course, all people who say they love exercise aren't crazy- not even half of them.

By far most are in a delusional state conditioned by culture, or have a secondary objective, i.e. get people to enroll in their work-out class.

People who are rational know that exercise is not fun. But they need to to look good and be healthy.

We are talking repetitive exercise here and not a competitive sport like tennis or golf.

Truly an exercise in the absurd.
Reducing the capacity to enjoy things and think to a pure repoductive function is ridiculous.

If the only purpose you have is to reproduce what are you doing on the Internet, Steve?

^^^^ this

plus the fact that natural selection favours animals who enjoy doing what's necessary to be able to survive and breed, because those animals do those things more and that gives them a greater chance of surviving and breeding. That goes pretty much right across the animal kingdom, and enjoyment itself evolved as a mechanism that gives positive feedback to animals that do what's necessary to survive and breed. And for animals that need to exert themselves to find/catch food, that includes enjoyment of the exertion necessary to catch it, i.e. physical exertion, as in physical exertion itself is enjoyable. People who don't enjoy it exist, because of variation and the fact that there's possibly a conflicting selection pressure in favour of people who don't like exercise so much, if they can find ways to get out of it that don't endanger their survival (e.g. in post-neolithic society, learning a craft rather than being a farmer, or you could argue even that you can be a farmer without exerting yourself too much if you pay, persuade or force other people to do the heavy work for you).