Does the hatred of cardio ever go away?

I basically hated exercise at all until I found Zumba which is the only form of exercise that I have consistently stayed with for more than a season. I have seen some awesomely toned stomachs from ladies that have only participated in Zumba.

cardio is important for fat loss, increasing indurance, and heart health...you should be doing cardio at least 30minutes 3 times/wk IMO!! you have just gotta find something that you like to do!!! I love JM but I also hate her BFBM dvd!! Try her new kickboc fastfix DVD or TurboJam...I bet you like those!!!

Not actually required for fat loss at all. I'm currently doing ZERO cardio at all (not allowed to on this diet) and lost plenty of fat. It's a number's game remember.

Definitely good for the cardiovascular system (hence the name :P) but resistance training is also.

So if you just want to look good naked then you don't need cardio if you're nutrition is on point.

If you want to compete in some sort of endurance sport then that is totally different.

I love doing (certain types of) cardio - I find it almost meditative.......sweaty but meditative. On the other hand I don't like strength training very much, no matter what I do to try and vary it.

So as mentioned by some you could try out different kinds of cardio - but chances are that you will still hate it and that it will never go away. So you have to decide if you want to try and find a way around it - many people on here have positive results with weights and controlling their diet. Alternatively you can decide to just bite the bullet and get some cardio done if you decide that you absolutely think that cardio is the way to go.

Love cardio. Love to sweat. Love the pain. Love the way it makes me feel, after I showered, of course

activity that's part of life is what works for me... I walk 3 miles to work and back (uphill on the way too!) and walk a couple of miles with the dog everyday I'm not at work... I teach dance twice a week and boogie round the kitchen while I'm cooking... I garden, clean out the chickens... etc etc... these all require exertion and stamina... but I never think of them as cardio, so i don't think about whether i like/hate them... they are just part of my life.

try to find something that fits you, so you don't have to think 'oh right, now i have to go do my excercise' I do not do strength training ... wielding a shovel will do...

TURBO JAM! I hate cardio but this is pretty good!

Not actually required for fat loss at all. I'm currently doing ZERO cardio at all (not allowed to on this diet) and lost plenty of fat. It's a number's game remember.

Definitely good for the cardiovascular system (hence the name :P) but resistance training is also.

So if you just want to look good naked then you don't need cardio if you're nutrition is on point.

If you want to compete in some sort of endurance sport then that is totally different.

you know what i meant!!! LOL :P

Break it into several chunks of 15 mins. Still same calories burnt.

I learned to love cardio primarily because of a sport, and secondarily because I was not happy with the calorie restriction necessary to manage my bodyweight without it.

I like to eat. Strike that/ I love to eat fine food and fine wine. I'm passionate about it. The baggage of that passion is too many calories. That's the secondary reason that I burn 3,000 to 5,000 calories per week doing cardio. A lifestyle choice.

I love to ski. Going in to a remote spot in the Purcell, Monashees, Bugaboos, Rockies or Alps, I get that alone in the wilderness feeling that I crave. Its awe inspiring, exhilarating. And skiing endless, bottomless powder. Yummy. But to get to those places without a helicopter dropping you there requires sustained maximum effort.

I also love to downhill mountain bike. I picked up this sport essentially as the summer variant/equivalent to my winter skiing passion. Arguably I'm even more passionate about it than skiing, because it is newer to me. Going down the side of a mountain way too fast. Love it. Two years ago I didn't have the cardio fitness I do now. I could not BRING IT like I can now. That's the bottom line. So I ride my road bike for fitness. Hours each week. So I can properly enjoy my passions.

If you find another motivation for cardio, you'll grow to enjoy it. If it is just for external appearance, probably not. As others have expressed, there are definitely ways to affect your external appearance without cardio, especially if you are comfortable with the calorie restriction you individually must determine.

Bear in mind too that I am now 52 years old. In my 20's, I was motivated by external appearance (to get The Girl). I lifted. A lot. I'm naturally muscular. Bodybuilding was a good fit for me. But I lacked true fitness; I just looked good externally.

True physical fitness is primarily measured by VO2 max and is independant of muscle size or mass (although functionally there is benefit to optimum muscle mass).

This may not have helped, but hopefully I provoked some thought.

I love cardio. Burpees? Different story.

I dislike doing cardio DVDs too. But I looooove rollerblading, and my heart rate stays up and I burn more calories without really feeling like I'm working that much harder. Maybe you can find something you love?

I love lifting and strength training. After having my second child I have done weights mixed with light cardio (Jillian Michaels) about 5 times a week. Everything is toned but I cannot get rid of a few inches on my tummy... It's frusterating but I know I need more cardio or lipo which I can't afford haha. I did a cardio DVD today (Banish Fat Boost Metabolism) and I hate it. Question to the cardio peeps... Does it get better? Will my hate turn into love? I'm trying to stay motivated!

You don't need cardio to lose fat at all. All you need is a caloric deficit, since you don't have much to lose your goal should be 0.5lbs/week loss (250 cal/day deficit). That will help you lose the fat slowly so you don't lose lean muscle, on top of that do strength training to condition and retain the muscle you already have.

Cardio is great for heart health and endurance but is not needed to lose weight. For weight loss it is not needed unless you need to be able to eat more cals to have a deficit. Since you should be eating back what you burn cardio is a 0 sum game. If you burn 400 cals, you eat 400 more, so your deficit remains the same 250 cals/day. So if you don't like it don't do it, unless you can't stick to the original calorie goal.

i dont think so. i still hate it that's why i try to do HIIT as much as i can and when i'm too tired to do that, i close my eyes and think of england

I don't think of England, but I do HIIT.

Last weekend, I went out to the local state park, found a hobbit trail and followed it. Had to cross a stream, crawl over logs, go up and down hills....funny, it was a lot of fun, kind of like going for a walk in the woods. But I was doing cardio so maybe it wasn't as fun as I thought....

Find something to do, because treadmills suck.

I LOVE CARDIO!!!!!!!! I CAN DO 3 HOURS A DAY!!!I FEEL SO SO GREAT!

i like hiking. i don't mind the exercise bike; gives me a chance to read.

i started out hating exercise. i don't hate it now; it allows me to eat more than i could otherwise. do i love it or get a runner's high of some sort? not so much.

still worth it, though.