so why don't people want to exercise?

[teigyr]

I think Mimi has it pegged.

Also, if you don't exercise you get tired. If you're tired, you don't want to exercise! If you do exercise, you get more energy though unless someone has experienced it, they don't think that way. Not to mention that even though sometimes exercise isn't always fun (there have been times I've cursed quietly about wind, hills, or heat!) the feeling afterward could never be created artificially. It's all worth it at that time

Actually what gets me is this -- we have people at work who complain that they can't lose weight and yet they don't exercise!! Or else they exercise once and say it did nothing and therefore didn't work. Aaarrrgh!

[MINIskirt]

well what gets me is that my DH is more than happy to be a gym rat. He'll go in there, put in his 45 minutes on the elliptical, lift some weights and be happy.

I hate the gym. I only go when necessary and would much rather be out enjoying the day! I've been going nuts today sitting here at work wishing I was out on my bike on this sunny day!! If I had to work out at the gym everyday, I probably wouldn't be fit either. If I'm outside, it's less about exercise and more about just playing outside.

[Python]

well what gets me is that my DH is more than happy to be a gym rat. He'll go in there, put in his 45 minutes on the elliptical, lift some weights and be happy.

I hate the gym. I only go when necessary and would much rather be out enjoying the day! I've been going nuts today sitting here at work wishing I was out on my bike on this sunny day!! If I had to work out at the gym everyday, I probably wouldn't be fit either. If I'm outside, it's less about exercise and more about just playing outside.

My hubby will quite happily sit on the bikes at a gym, but for some reason refuses to get a bike. I've gone to the gym with him a few times but, frankly, I was bored out of my skull. Sitting on a bike in the gym, going nowhere, no nice scenery, nothing. Definitely not for me. Hubby had a major heart attack 3 years ago and did say he was scared he'd have another heart attack in the middle of nowhere if he went cycling. I said that can happen to absolutely anyone, anywhere, so why worry about something that may or may not happen. He is overweight which he really shouldn't be and I think if he took up cycling he'd lose weight quite quickly and steadily. I said to him that you're not pedalling all the time so cycling can be paced to what you feel comfortable with. I have suggested he might try an electric bike - pedal on the flat and slight gradients and if it gets too much, switch over to electric. I'm working on him and if I know him, eventually, he'll catch the cycling bug from me and get a bike

[lph]

Yeah, well it's exactly because I find it more an enjoyable necessity like eating that I have trouble seeing the hard/easy/chore/fun way of looking at it.

But I sure am a creature of habit, so I guess I'm just firmly into habit mode. Habit mode can be real practical if you have good habits Maybe that means that if I'm ever incapacitated for any period of time I'll go soundly into sloth habit...?

I have family who don't exercise at all, and it's not for any medical reasons. My father is very much an intellectual and I suspect he just feels that moving his body more than he has to is a waste of his valuable time But he seems quite happy living that way, so we obviously just feel the need for different things.