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There has to be another way (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 213 points 3 months ago (22 children)

The worst part is, after a short while, you actually cross this sort of threshold where you enjoy it and begin to look forward to it, and then you start to notice it is helping your mental as well as your physical health.

Just atrocious. It's almost like we were evolved for this.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 months ago (18 children)

This has never happened to me. I still hate it and I run at least 18 miles a week for going on twenty years. I feel like shit if I don’t run, but I still hate the actual activity.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Just do something you actually enjoy instead? Fucking hell people are ridiculous, there's so many options to exercise, find the ones you actually enjoy!

[–] the_doktor -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Some people don't enjoy any exercise, ever think about that, musclebrain?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a whole lot of stuff that people consider to be activities that are a perfect replacement for what the same people consider to be exercise, they'll love the former and hate the latter without realizing that if they just did the former often enough they wouldn't feel the need to do the latter at all.

I used to run a ton, got a smallish dog and now I go on walks and hikes instead, most people only consider that running is exercising of those three things but all of them are a form of exercising.

I've always hated team sports but I love climbing, kayaking, canoeing, snowshoeing... should I force myself to do team sports because that's what people think about when they think about sports or should I be doing the stuff I actually find enjoyable?

The goal is just for people to move.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m the guy that originally responded saying that I dislike running even though I’ve been doing it religiously for a long time.

All your suggestions are wonderful here. I will get right on kayaking, hiking, and the like as soon as my wife miraculously is cured and I have free time to do all this stuff that someone with a good life can do. Otherwise, I will continue to do what I can (running at 5:30am before my wife wakes up) because my wife needs me all the time when she is awake because she is in hellish pain.

Please stop being a jackass to people. There is another person in this thread that did this the right way. Gently suggesting an alternative and not assuming they knew best. It would behoove you to understand that your particular situation isn’t universal and other people have different wants, needs, and responsibilities than you.