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Pick a fun activity that gets you fit as a side effect. Mine was rock climbing, but cycling, snowboarding, surfing or pretty much anything will work, provided

Pick a fun activity that gets you fit as a side effect. Mine was rock climbing, but cycling, snowboarding, surfing or pretty much anything will work, provided it is captivating, addicting and you genuinely consider it fun. Eventually you'll want it to be the thing that takes up your weekends and that you find yourself booking flights to unexpected places just because that's the place where the best "X" is. But nobody does this. Instead, they go to a health club and lift a few weights or spend half an hour hating the stairmaster. Twice. Then they give up. So don't do that. Buy a mountain bike, take it out in to the woods. Get muddy and come home sore. Wait until you're not sore anymore than go back and see if you can get farther down the road before ending up in the bushes. Make sure you always come home with a smile on your face, and repeat until you find yourself researching powerful LED headlamps so that you can get out after work in the winter. Then you've won.

darrelld 10y ago
This is one of the better pieces of advice on this thread.
seanwilson 10y ago
> But nobody does this. Instead, they go to a health club and lift a few weights or spend half an hour hating the stairmaster. Twice. Then they give up. It's great you've found something you enjoy what if you're just not into the outdoors?
- mikestew 10y ago
  So not "into the outdoors" that you don't go outside? I think the point is find an environment that you are "into". Like being inside? Like being dry and listening to music while you lift weights or use the Stairmonster? Then do that, no shame, no excuses need be made. But most people, my self included, don't particularly enjoy being in a gym (I'd rather run in a blizzard than on a treadmill, and my wife will tell you that she's witnessed my sincerity with her own eyes). I think the parent's point was, if you're not really "into the indoors", then don't go to the gym. If a gym suits you, then go do that.

darrelld 10y ago

This is one of the better pieces of advice on this thread.

seanwilson 10y ago

> But nobody does this. Instead, they go to a health club and lift a few weights or spend half an hour hating the stairmaster. Twice. Then they give up. It's great you've found something you enjoy what if you're just not into the outdoors?

mikestew 10y ago
So not "into the outdoors" that you don't go outside? I think the point is find an environment that you are "into". Like being inside? Like being dry and listening to music while you lift weights or use the Stairmonster? Then do that, no shame, no excuses need be made. But most people, my self included, don't particularly enjoy being in a gym (I'd rather run in a blizzard than on a treadmill, and my wife will tell you that she's witnessed my sincerity with her own eyes). I think the parent's point was, if you're not really "into the indoors", then don't go to the gym. If a gym suits you, then go do that.