How to find the right excercise for you

I get bored easily so really I just do whatever sounds fun or appealing at the time. With the weather warming up I'm trying to get out and ride my bike more because that is the one thing that I always like doing. I have a YMCA membership so that gives me a lot of options. Some days I feel like doing a class, some days I'd rather just put in my headphones and spend some time on the elliptical, and some days I take my son with me and we just play in the pool. I figure as long as I'm doing some type of exercise on a regular basis it doesn't matter much what I'm doing just as long as I'm moving!

I hate the gym with a passion. I ran on a treadmill at hotel a few nights ago and thank god for wifi and a good show on Netflix because it was painfully boring. I don't love moving heavy things around for no purpose. It is all just mind numbingly boring. So, I don't. I walk and hike a lot, I do yoga, I do an activity that somewhat resembles running, and I dance. Occasionally, I pull my road bike out and go for a proper spin (that will probably happen more often come spring). When I do all of it regularly, my body changes and while I might not be swol, I'm happy with the looks, I'm strong and flexible, and I can easily hike to the top of a mountain without feeling like I'm going to keel over. This is what matters to me.

I still get the most bang for my buck in weight loss when I watch my calories....but it's easier when you're burning some extra ones most days.

melissajmeek35 wrote: »

Hey guys, so here's the thing, I've lost weight mainly just logging my food, which is great, but my weight loss now has kind of slowed down so I think I need to step up my game and be more active, but I'm having so many issues with this. I hate using the machines at the gym, I've also tried workout videos and apps and I just get so bored and I never stick with it. I enjoy walking and try daily to get 10k steps in, but even that sometimes can be overwhelming. Any tips or sharing what you do would be great.

The rate of loss frankly should be slower the less you have to lose.

And it's better if you do this purposely rather than the body forcing it on you.

Daily non-activity, and walking to help burn more calories may be helpful - but gives your muscles very little reason to be considered needed in the face of the body deciding what stays and goes in a steep deficit if you attempt to keep one going.

Finding some sort of resistance training you enjoy would be very beneficial now - and frankly for the rest of your life.

Lose some more muscle now (you've likely lost some already) won't be a great setup for maintaining healthy weight and will be difficult if not impossible to reverse if you don't enjoy doing much physical already.

Walking would at least tell your body the leg muscles are somewhat desired.

I'm a huge advocate for pole dancing. It's strength and cardio all rolled into one. Plus you feel like a flying badxss. But if that's a bit too risque for you, you can try trapeze, silks, or lyra (hoop).

I also like weight lifting, which supplements my pole dancing. I haven't done actual cardio in probably 6 months.

But occasionally, I do like to attend a spin class or a boxing class for some added cardio, but that's been really rare lately.

Find what you will stick to. Try different things. You'll find it eventually.

If being easily bored is really your problem, then I have a solution: Volunteer at your local animal shelter. Mine is always looking for people to walk and play with the dogs so they're more 'adoptable.'

Try a bunch of different things ... make an adventure of it. Be the one in the kitchen at work on Monday morning telling everyone about the great things you did on the weekend.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports ... start checking options off the list. Yeah, OK, maybe not card games ... that probably won't do much for your fitness. But there are lots of other options.

Or orienteering.