To elaborate; I literally cannot focus on a workout, particularly a cardio routine, for longer than 5 minutes or so. If the best possible wourkout for me were to do 20 minutes of rowing, running, or cycling, I will literally want to kill myself after five minutes. Typically it won't come to that, so I'll just half ass it, call it quits and take the walk of shame home, bothered, unmoisturized, unhappy, out of my lane, unfocused, languishing. This is not due to over-exertion or the overall difficulty of the exercise but I guess some kind of latent inability to focus on any task for longer than the bare minimum.

I guess the simple answer is "Just mix it up, doofus", but when I do that I end up just half-assing even more. What is to be done?

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
    hexagon
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    2 years ago

    Do something you think is fun

    That's the neat part, exercise isn't fun. At all. I have to do it though.

    • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      There's like 1000 different physical activities from cultures all around the world, most of them literally built around the idea of being fun for people. You can't seriously be saying none of them are fun, like surfing, basketball, scuba diving, disc golf, snowboarding, you literally think none of them are fun?

      IDK if you really think that I don't think I understand.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Some people literally do not enjoy exertion in any variety, or their baseline physical condition or mental health actively causes friction when trying to exercise

      • Straight_Depth [they/them]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        On god, I could literally look you dead in the eye and tell you I do not find a single form of physical activity to be fun. What I like doing is binge eating donuts. The closest thing to a physical activity I enjoyed was airsoft, and even then, it's more of a test of your fitness rather than something to do to get fit, and since right now I can't even climb a flight of stairs without running short of breath, I can't even find airsoft fun anymore, plus none of the gear fits.