I have come to the conclusion

missfittin_missy
missfittin_missy Posts: 184 Member
edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
That I am LAZY.... there is no way around it... I HATE working out.... I started doing the biggest loser DVD and got bored with it. Oh I have ALLLL kinds of excuses... no time, kids bugging me, to hot (its been 100+ every stinkin day for over a month REALLLYY??) I even tried sweatin to the oldies once with my buddy Richard....

The longest I ever "stuck" to any work out program was actually the hardest one I ever tried. A fitness bootcamp class. Maybe I just hate working out alone. Unfortunately I didnt have the 40$ a month to keep going. Maybe I just need to stick to walking... maybe I just need to stop coming up with excuses...


Anyone else have this problem??

Oh I forgot I even tried Curves once... them blue hair ladies will talk your ears off and I just didn't have the breath to talk with them LOL
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  • yeahfatty
    yeahfatty Posts: 228 Member
    totally!

    thank christ for my dear annoying mother .. or i'd skip out on exercise pretty much all the time.

    maybe get an exercise pal? someone who can give ya the push you need to get out & just do it.
  • KourtneyP83
    KourtneyP83 Posts: 319
    I think I could've written this post! Me too!
  • missfittin_missy
    missfittin_missy Posts: 184 Member
    LOL... glad it's not just me!
    I am on my feet a lot at work (Im a nurse in a diet clinic of all places) so if I don't do it before work chances are it doesnt get done!
  • melissatacker
    melissatacker Posts: 91 Member
    I feel like that EVERYDAY! BTW, I love your ticker :)
  • RoanneRed
    RoanneRed Posts: 429 Member
    I don't do the exercise because I like it!

    Unfortunately, I like my food too much and, after a couple of years, came to accept that if I want to stay the size I'm happy with then I have to work out at a certain level - now I've had to open my own gym to have the sort of facility I need!
  • kathleennf
    kathleennf Posts: 606 Member
    Ha ha I have that Richard Simmons video!! Been a long time since I used it.
    I go to Curves and I have found the blue hair ladies to not be everywhere- they vary a lot. It's worked well for me in general and I agree- it's good to have other people to work out with. However my best exercise motivator is my DOG- she knows what time she is supposed to get her walk and she INSISTS.
  • missfittin_missy
    missfittin_missy Posts: 184 Member
    I see all these people on here that run and I am completly jealous... I LOVE the THOUGHT of running however I lack the motivation to turn into one! Congrats on opening your own gym... you guys make a killing LOL!
  • foremant86
    foremant86 Posts: 1,115 Member
    sometimes i have trouble getting motivated but then i just think to myself...i can sit here and do nothing and be fat and miserable or i can get off my *kitten* and do the workout and get the kind of body i want. I have no problem completing a workout once i get started but yes sometimes getting started is the hardest part..
  • kathleennf
    kathleennf Posts: 606 Member
    Oops I wasn;t clear- what I meant was if you liked Curves except for the senior crowd you might try a different location. The one where I go when I visit my parents has a lot of retired ladies who don't seem to really be working out hard (but hey- they are there!!) but the one where I go normally has a lot of young people and professionals. If I lived near my parents I would probably look for a different Curves or another gym...
  • missfittin_missy
    missfittin_missy Posts: 184 Member
    I live in a pretty rual community so we just have the one Curves.... I had thought about going back and trying it at a different time of day! I'm not usually so antisocial but when I am doing good to catch my breath its hard to be involved in a conversation!
  • fiberartist219
    fiberartist219 Posts: 1,865 Member
    Do you have an MP3 player or Pandora on your phone? I listen to music when I workout, and it makes it so much easier to finish.

    Also, I think of exercise like brushing my teeth. It doesn't have to be fun, but it needs to be done as a way to take care of myself. Who cares if your workout is boring? Brushing your teeth isn't fun, but no one wants nasty breath or rotting teeth. It's the same way with your body. Working out can be fun, but it isn't for everyone. You just need to do it so you don't lose muscle mass and turn into a ball of goo.
  • bell33usx2
    bell33usx2 Posts: 77 Member
    Missie, go to the pool A LOT! I know you love the water park. I don't know if you have a pool there but I'm assuming you do. I am no where near being a runner but have always wanted to be and decided only one way to be it. You just have to do it. I have no one to exercise with either but as I told you on your wall, I don't like anyone messing up my exercise "mojo" and if someone is around they need me to talk. It's hard to talk when I'm gasping for air! :blushing: Don't give up! Just keep looking. You'll find that "something" soon enough.
  • missfittin_missy
    missfittin_missy Posts: 184 Member
    I think after the kids get back in school Jan I may go buy a membership to the community center pool... its like 60$ for a year but I could go in the mornings before work once they go back since I don't go in til noon!
  • silkysly
    silkysly Posts: 701 Member
    Try just taking a daily walk..., fresh air & the sun's vitimin D.
  • 69Jax69
    69Jax69 Posts: 32
    I'm the same way. My standard exercise I get bored with. Yoga is fun, but I get bored (does that make sense?), belly dancing was fun and now I've lost the video. Oh, yoga is hard to do because both my daughters will stand RIGHT next to me while I do it and climb under me and get in the way... it's really annoying.

    Jogging/Running
    Doing it again. I did this last year when we got our Husky because she needs lots of exercise. The first couple days were boring but I got some good music on my MP3 player and set a certain time to go out each day. It became routine and it was fun going up and down the different streets and seeing how many miles I did when I got home and mapped it out. Also, I was able to jog more and more each day, go faster, go further. It was "exciting" to see the progress once I got home. I stopped during the hot weather though but now I'm going to go out each morning before it's hot to do it. No excuses!
  • joyfulthanks
    joyfulthanks Posts: 155
    I don't like working out...and I'm lazy about it. The way I work around that is that I get up and work out very early in the morning (I'm not at all a morning person, either!)

    That way, I'm up and working out before my brain even has a chance to get into gear and protest. By the time I'm fully conscious, my workout is already over!
  • silkysly
    silkysly Posts: 701 Member
    I see all these people on here that run and I am completly jealous... I LOVE the THOUGHT of running however I lack the motivation to turn into one!


    I use to not have the motivation, but I pushed myself past it. I run & love it now...
  • Juniper88
    Juniper88 Posts: 142
    I sooo feel what you are saying with this! However, my LAZE shows itself in different ways.

    (1)- I am mostly only lazy to exercise when I am at home. For whatever reason, it seems sooooo hard to get it done at home. Just 'knowing' that the kids are around (4yrs and 6yrs) drains me of all energy. How sad (in a pathetic way) eh?

    (2)- I am so lazy to get the house work done. Like take now for instance, I should be cleaning the bathroom, doing the laundry and figuring out what to feed these kids for dinner - but none of it has been even attempted yet.

    (3)- This one is my MAIN AREA OF LAZE: planning a realistically healthy and balanced eating plan that I will stick to. I visualize it so often, but that's basically as far as I get. Gosh! Just thinking about doing the "right thing" food wise exhausts me! Funny enough though, I don't really have this problem when it comes to packing my food for work (breakfast, lunch and snacks). This particular area of laze is a MAJOR set-back when it comes to my weight-loss goals. Go figure?
  • Juniper88
    Juniper88 Posts: 142
    P.S - Your ticker message amuses me! LOL!
  • candykay89
    candykay89 Posts: 110 Member
    I have joined and canceled my Ballys membership also from Lucille Roberts. My excuse at Ballys was that the ppl there were too skinny and made me look extra large. Lucille Roberts did not cut it for me because they opened and closed at the same time as my job which left me with Saturday mornings and by the way they open at !0 a.m. and close at 1 p.m. I just saw the money as a waste. I went out and got DVDs which help a lot. I can exercise in my living room in whatever makes me comfortable without thinking about other people. Also, i went and bought a treadmill so now my living room is my gym. When i get bored i go for a walk outside. Just take your mind off the exercise and work and do it. You can and i believe in you. Make it happen!
  • JenBrown0210
    JenBrown0210 Posts: 985 Member
    This was me about 4 months ago. I completely despised working out. I lost 20 pounds without exercising. Then I plateaued. I had to exercise. Fast forward to now. I am down a total of 42 pounds I am doing my first round of Insanity, so I am exercising 6 days a week!

    You just have to find something you like doing. For me, originally it was running. I started with the couch to 5k program(www.c25k.com) and went from there. It gave me a half hour to myself 3 days a week. Exercising doesn't have to be much at first. Just something to get you going!
  • bmmadden
    bmmadden Posts: 499 Member
    sometimes i have trouble getting motivated but then i just think to myself...i can sit here and do nothing and be fat and miserable or i can get off my *kitten* and do the workout and get the kind of body i want. I have no problem completing a workout once i get started but yes sometimes getting started is the hardest part..

    Exactly! Its hard you just gotta find something that you really like and do it at the time that works for you and do it at first will be hard but before long it will be habit and you will be proud of yourself for it, I used to use the excuse about no body to go to the gym with because everyone of my friends/family have memberships there too but never go and we'd make plans and they would fall through so finally I just started going by myself
  • Tangerine302
    Tangerine302 Posts: 1,509 Member
    I would say to try Jillian Michaels dvds. 30 min shred to start. Early morning is good to get it over with and you don't have to think about it the rest of the day.
    She tells it like it is. I found that it motivates you to keep at it. At first you think it's not going to end. Each time you do it the dvd gets easier and seems shorter. Just press play and she does the rest to keep you with it. After you get used to the moves and are not needing her so much it is great to play your favorite music in the background.
    Her dvds are cheap too. I believe around $10.
    If you want to see what it's like, I believe level 2 is on youtube.
    Good luck! :)
  • cheri0627
    cheri0627 Posts: 369 Member
    I was the same way, Missy. I never would even get up off my behind and try. A friend talked me into joining a boot camp class that they started offering in my office building. That's the absolute best for me, because it's right there. She's had to drop out (hurt her knee) but I've kept going.

    I have to have classes or I won't do it. (I will occasionally play on my Kinect, but even that is rare.) I do go to a couple of classes at the gym now, too, but to make sure I go, I have to make a commitment to it. Usually, I tell the trainer that I'll see her next week or whatever. Or I get one of the girls in my boot camp class to say she'll go to CrossFit on Friday. She's said she'd be there twice. One of those days I really, really didn't want to go, but I went because she said she would. She didn't show, but it was one of my favorite WODs we've done in a while. (She didn't show the other day, either, but I did.)

    Once I can get to class, I'm fine, and I usually enjoy it. It's the making myself go. I also have started adding it to my Google calendar. It's written down that I'll be there, so I have to go, right?

    My suggestion is to figure out what you need to do to make yourself go to a class or workout on your own. Figure out how to make it a commitment that you can't break.

    Best of luck to you!
  • rschmmidt
    rschmmidt Posts: 296
    I have a little post-it on my desk that says,
    "I have never regretted a single workout, but I have regretted every single one I skipped."

    That helps me get going. I also hated exercise. Just go out for a walk for starters...it's free, and easy. That's how I got into the habit. Once the walking got boring, then I started a slow jog. From there it grew. It took time. You have already lost some weight, so congrats...you are doing well!
    Good luck :-)
  • missfittin_missy
    missfittin_missy Posts: 184 Member
    Thanks... I went for a walk tonight around the fancy neighborhood lol... I played the when I grow up I wanna live there game LOL!
  • janiecorona
    janiecorona Posts: 248
    I don't like to exercise because of my size and my fitness or lackthereof, exercising is not fun, yet. I fight myself for each workout. I also want to be a runner and so I've started running in place. I started doing 10 minutes of running in place last week, every day. This week, I'm doing 15 minutes of running in place. One day, when I can last longer, I'm going to take that running outside. (:
  • earthnut
    earthnut Posts: 216 Member
    My child motivates me to exercise. I know getting outside is so good for her; I'll walk to the park with her for HER sake, but not my own. But it gets me to exercise anyway! Plus, yelling and roughhousing outdoors is a lot less stressful for me than when it's indoors.

    What can you do with your kids? What active games do they like to play?
  • missfittin_missy
    missfittin_missy Posts: 184 Member
    my kids are older so they no longer like to hang with mom LOL... however I did drag my 9 year old along with me on my walk which I regretted halfway through because she talked NONSTOP and included such lovely conversation as WOW old ladies sure do sweat when they cant breath!! I like the jogging in place idea I might hafta give that a whirl tomorrow as well!!
  • espinozAgal
    espinozAgal Posts: 160 Member
    OMG.. yes!! I thought I was just a lazy butt!!! I will go for a walk.. anytime. But when it's a thousand degrees here, which it is all summer, I don't go and I won't move!! I'll do housework, laundry and say to myself at least i'm up and off the couch, but then I tell myself to shut up. That's exactly what's happening right NOW!!
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