Is it the exercise that sucks, or is it the way you've been taught to exercise that sucks?
Do you really hate weight training? Or do you hate doing pushups and sit-ups and squats?
Do you really hate cardio? Or do you hate trying to run as fast as you can for as long as you can?
I used to think I hated exercise too. Then I learned that every movement in the world can be modified to suit my level. I can also just not do exercises I hate. I haven't done a sit up in literally ten years. I never go for runs.
I walk and I play and I move heavy objects or manipulate my body weight in ways that feel easy and accessible to my body. I take really long rests and rarely work hard enough to break into a real sweat, and I'm still getting all the benefits. I'm getting way more benefits actually.
When I used to think that exercise had to equal suffering, I rarely ever did it. And there are no benefits in the exercise I won't actually do.
Now I train 3-4 days a week. Gleefully. Because I want to. Because I like it. Because I don't have to do a single exercise I don't enjoy and for every muscle there is to train, there's a ton of options.
Training doesn't have to be intense. Exercise doesn't have to feel like a punishment. There are so many more ways to joyfully move my body than I ever realized, because my grade school PE class taught me that exercise is always misery.
Because it focused on basically five, high level skills that I never learned the foundation to do.
Push-up, pull up, sit up, toe touch, and run
That was my entire "physical education."
And unsurprisingly I walked away believing that exercise is miserable and I just hate it.
Both things turned out to be wildly incorrect, and if you couldn't tell I'm really bitter about it.
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