Exercise Is So Boring! Help?!

mix up the type of exercising you are doing until you find something that you LOVE. for me, its running, i literally hurt when i have to take rest days from running because I want to be running so badly (runner's high...its real). Try some circuit training or at home videos or grab a buddy and play some tennis. Just find something that makes you WANT to move.

Good luck

I am the same way. I have been doing these boot camp vids and I wish there was a way to do it with the music only cuz all the talk during hearing it day after day is SUPER ANNOYING TO ME. I yell shut up to the tv daily. However, I started putting my Ipod on while I work out so I can't hear them I can just see them. It;s amazing how fast it goes by with your own music playing. I will prolley continue to do that for now. Good luck to ya!

Find something you like to do and mix it up. I swim, walk and lift weights. This variety works for me, I hate lifting weights but do it twice a week which does not make it so bad. Also, if you can find someone to walk or ride a bike with once or twice a week it makes getting up the other days a lot easier.

Another vote for the ipod, also try several different things, I mostly go between swimming and running but I also do the elliptical, stairmaster, bike and rower. The different props work different parts of your body and makes it a bit more exciting.

Group Fitness Classes!!! I've been teaching several types of aerobic classes for 14 years and refuse to do any any type of exercise at home by myself. i will walk my driveway in the summer to get a suntan but other than that, my elliptical and wts at home dont get used much. i feel that home is my resting place, it's hard for me to motivate myself to exercise there. I've seen many woman have this concern and most will say the same thing, try a class at a local gym, zumba class at a church or whatever you have in your area. if you find an instructor who loves what they do and make it fun, you'll return! people who take my classes enjoy coming, it's the time of day they have for themselves, it's their "me" time, it's fun, they meet other ppl, they get a great workout and get helpful tips for fitness and nutrition. try a class in your area, you'll love it!

I wish I could help, but I am in the same rut. I used to be one of those people who really LOVED running...but I live in NY, and I cant be outdoors in the winter (especially this winter-snow EVERYWHERE!) and I really hate it inside.

The only thing that seems to help me a little is putting on my workout clothes and being lazy for a little while. Then when that one moment strikes that I want to be productive, all I have to do is walk down the stairs to my elliptical or turn on the workout DVD.

Hope it helped!

Ok for someone who doesn't like exercise in it's raw form it's best to incorporate more *effort* into your day to day things. Using stairs instead of lifts, walking/biking to work (then you're doing it by proxy of doing something else), park further away from places and briskly walk to where you're going, do 'speed' house work with some music on so you can have a little dance at the same time! Take up a weekly dance class - anything will do. Exercise doesn't necessarily mean going to a gym or going for a run and slogging it out for an hour - it just means getting off your behind and putting some effort in to keep moving around, all the time burning those calories AND keeping you occupied from snacking. Hope that helps :-)

I had the same issue-- I tried changing up my playlist, reading my kindle, & watching tv while on the treadmill or elliptical, but still found myself completely bored and counting down the minutes until I finished. Now I use workout videos-- I have several in rotation, and they keep me motivated-- at least until I can get outside again in the spring.

there are days when i feel the same way! i am more of the "buy a dvd exercise video" kind of girl but at my college we aren't allowed to do exercise dvd's so i have to PUSH myself to go get on the elliptical and do something. i absolutely LOVED doing the exercise dvd's, so maybe if you haven't tried that you do so,try to find what works for you and stick with it!!! but above all just keep your goals in mind!

Gym membership did it for me! Helped me not give in to the distractions at home:) And I have met some nice people!

I work out on machines only (not one for jogging outdoors like my friends and hubby) so I load up my Netflix instant queue with tons of favorite movies to have on my phone while I work out. Not new movies I've never seen before that I'd have to concentrate on, but movies that I've seen and love. I've loved catching up on so many favorite movies over the past few months. I also watched a few seasons of my favorite TV shows like Firefly and Castle as well. Sometimes, if I finish a workout for the night and I only have a short bit of the movie left, I'm actually chomping at the bit to get back the next night to finish it up. heh

And I love 80's movies while I work out because so many of them have such great music that it's these perfect little bursts of extra energy. Like last night I was struggling through a run/jog on the treadmill and had Karate Kid on. It got to the tournament scene and that song You're the Best Around came on and totally powered me through where I was at.

Just be careful not to get too focused on the movie itself (i.e. looking down at the little screen the whole time) because you don't really want to be doing cardio with your head cocked down, that's the other reason for picking movies you know. So you can till look ahead most of the time and know what's going on without having to watch it the entire time.

I used to hate it too..getting motivated to GET to the gym was always the hard part...
now it's all i want to do, and the change happened over like 2 weeks time.

1) i found that i used to be a half-hour exerciser and i wasn't motivated. now that i go for longer stretches i'm more motivated based on the mental benefits "highs" from all those endorphins. around 45 minutes to 1 hour they start really coming. around 1hr30minutes it's hard to want to leave the gym because you've hit your stride and the endorphins are really strong.
30 minutes just isn't enough. this high keeps me going back first and foremost. it's an amazing, positive feeling.

2) I don't have a tv so the gym is the only place i get to watch guilty pleasures like every show on bravo or hgtv or something. or the daily show. i usually look at the tvguide schedule and see when something i want to watch is on - then i'm not bored and the exercise happened like magic.

3) If you spend extended amounts of time at the gym you can still eat the foods you really like, and meet the 1200 calorie goal without feeling like you're starving. this means the occasional sweet can be ok!

Try doing the exercise that fits with your favorite activity. If you like dancing do dancing exercises. For instance I enjoy golf so I do exercises for balance and swing motion. If you like canoeing use the rowing machine. Be creative.