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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.<\/p>\nRun 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.<\/p>\n
For some people, hating exercise isn’t just a hurdle, it’s a wall, a barrier, a insurmountable obstacle that you loathe.<\/p>\n
How do you go from loathe to love? How do you overcome this hurdle?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
You’re the person who does other things. The real question is, “what are the activities that I can love doing”?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0But you don’t need to do those, and you certainly don’t need to “get yourself to like them”. Just let them go.<\/p>\n
Think outside the box to find what you do love, and do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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