Overcoming Fitness Hurdles, Like Hating Fitness

Run on a treadmill? I’d rather chew on a tree. Join a gym and go grunt with the other hairy sweaters? I’d rather get habanero pepper juice in my eye.

For some people, hating exercise isn’t just a hurdle, it’s a wall, a barrier, a insurmountable obstacle that you loathe.

How do you go from loathe to love? How do you overcome this hurdle?

Basically, you don’t. Just own that for a minute. If you hate the treadmill, or spinning, or burpees, or whatever that doesn’t mean you’re destined to be unfit, it just means that you’re not the person who does those things.

You’re the person who does other things. The real question is, “what are the activities that I can love doing”?

Golf? Putt Putt? Bicycle riding? Walking? Throwing a Frisbee? Laser tag? Freeze tag? Hide and go seek with the kids …. None of these are traditional, but all of them are things that get you moving.

The point is that we get stopped because we think the only way to be fit is to do the things you see the most of — which you most likely hate. But you don’t need to do those, and you certainly don’t need to “get yourself to like them”. Just let them go.

Think outside the box to find what you do love, and do that.