how do you learn to love exercise?

Answer 1

Do some kind of exercise you enjoy. For example, you can take up dancing, so that you have an artistic interest in it. Or tennis, where there is a challenge to master the technique and beat the opponent. Or karate, if you like it. Or pilates and callanetics, which are not so fast-moving, but have results. Or running in the nature, where you enjoy the view. Or swimming, if you like the feeling of the water. Or horse riding, if you like horses. See what I mean?
Every start is hard. Once you get used to it, you enjoy it after a while.

Answer 2

I have gone to the same gym 4-5 days per week for the last 12 years. I think that is the key. Find some place to workout and go at the same time each day. You will start to make friends with people there that time of day. Not only does it make it more fun - you feel more motivated when you know if you skip a day - you have someone who will ask you why and sometimes give you grief about it! Routine is the key. I go directly to the gym after work each day. It helps get rid of stress and not going home first really helps. When you are as old as I am (53) exercise becomes something you do because it will make you live longer and acts to prevent many diseases. That is enough to make me love it!

Answer 3

Easy
30 minutes at least twice a week

Begin a Time Habit
The single hardest thing about exercise is scheduling. Everything else seems to take priority. Exercise is viewed as a free-time activity, and who has free time anymore? Before getting wrapped up in buying the right shoes and finding the right exercise routine, practice setting time aside.

consistently reserve 30 minutes at least 3 times a week
set aside your time and do nothing with it (see below)


Follow your Bliss
Here's your task: for 30 minutes, at least 3 times a week, think about exercise. Just sit somewhere and think.

Do not answer the phone
Do not surf the internet
Do not write.
Do nothing but think about exercise.
Think about what exercise you could be doing during this 30 minute period.

Could you be walking?
Marching in place in front of the TV?
Going to a gym?
Doing yoga at home?
What feels right? Do this exercise for 3 weeks or until you feel ready for the next step. Don't miss the minimum of three times.

Substitute with Real Exercise
Now that you are used to thinking about exercise at least three times a week, begin experimenting by substituting thinking with exercise. Choose what feels right:

walking
going to the gym
stretching.
You've already overcome the biggest obstacle -- time. Now have some fun experimenting with your style.

Do you like group classes?
Do you like to work out at home?
Don't worry about intensity or results. Just continue to establish the habit of exercising 3 times a week. Continue for another 3 weeks or until you are ready for the next step.

Set a Minimum
Set a minimum number of times each week that you will exercise. Commit to yourself that you will NEVER drop below that minimum.

If you are sick, traveling, or just incredibly busy, you can still honor your commitment through gentle stretching, walks, or massage.

If you do this every week for the rest of your life you will have more health and energy. Adhering to your minimum is the single most important action you can take. Sometimes you will exceed the minimum, sometimes you will have bad exercise days where you just walk on the treadmill. All the is fine, just NEVER drop below the minimum.

Change Your Goals
Those magazine perfect bodies are hard to obtain and harder to maintain. Those perfect bodies take years to get. Let go of that goal. Exercise instead for health, energy and vitality. You will feel those benefits immediately.

Make feeling good the goal of your exercise, not weight loss or muscles. Those will come, but let them be a bonus to the increased energy and health you get. Tell yourself each time that you exercise that your goal is health and energy. You will accomplish that goal even on light workout days just by reinforcing your minimum amount of exercise.

Answer 4

Personally I don't think its possible. But if exercise to you is a session at the gym you may want to look at another type of exercise. Cycling is fun for some, or walk your dog. What about canoeing, golf, or basketball. Dancing is really good exercise... belly dancing, pole dancing, rock and roll. Maybe just be more active in your day to day life. Don't park your car right next to the mall entrance, take a parking spot on the furtherest edge of the parking lot, or depending on how far away it is... consider walking there.

Answer 5

find an acitivity that you like doing. don't do the same one every day. I ride my bike to work. on my days off, I go for a walk with my radio and headphones. if I can't get out, I do aerobics to a tape. I love to swim and will do that when I can get to the beach. here are some tips to get more exercise without exercising.

Answer 6

Incorporate something you enjoy doing so that it doesn't seem so much like exercise such as hiking, biking or swimming. Find a workout partner and make it fun or competitive. Listen to your favorite music and pump up the jams while you're pumping iron!

Answer 7

You endulge in something you don't normally do when you exercise. For example, I watch court shows only when I exercise. It worked for me. Also, the more you do it the better you feel. It gets addictive to feel that type of good.

Answer 8

in all honesty the only thing that has worked for me is to just do it.i'm the kind of person that needs to exercise daily otherwise i get lazy and it takes me a while to get back into it.
So do a bit of exercise a day,even if it's just a little walk

Answer 9

Just do it, and when you see your body transforming you will learn to love to exercise

Answer 10

Find music you love, and dance to it. Exercise that is fun is the best.