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Thanks for the advice, but I hate cardio and running and aerobic exercise especially. Bench pressing and "cardio but done 'worng'" - eg. heavy biking or thredmi

Thanks for the advice, but I hate cardio and running and aerobic exercise especially. Bench pressing and "cardio but done 'worng'" - eg. heavy biking or thredmill running, but with rare/insufficient breathing. Maybe swimming. Problem is I fee either afraid I'm doing the exercises wrong so I stop doing them, or I find others impractical (eg. swimming or freediving). Probably I should research into anaerobic that are actually considered helpful or somethig, since my brain seems to dislike the least these low-oxigen-effort types of exercises. Dunno... It's frustrating because all the exercise advice I find seems targeted at people that are practically a whole different species from me...

pdimitar 4y ago
That will not help you of course but before I began I hated all exercise with all my heart. It will pass if you keep at it though. :) That "hate" is just hormonal dis-balance. And yeah I know that explanation doesn't help because you can swear on everything that's sacred that this is exactly who you are and it can't be false... But yeah, it still is false and no that's not you. Hormones are a b1tch, a chemical programming agent that's specifically designed to lie to our brains. It's how we're wired. Not trying to convince you of anything. I know how I felt 6 months ago and I know nobody and nothing could have changed my mind back then; I would have likely physically lashed out at somebody if they tried to press the matter even. I am only here to tell you that it can get better even if you are 100% sure that it can't. That feeling is false and it's our brain trying to avoid a change and that's why it fills us with doom scenarios and unreasonable hate to the source of the change. It's still just a facade for "but I don't wanna, I am comfy now!" and that facade can fall relatively easily. > It's frustrating because all the exercise advice I find seems targeted at people that are practically a whole different species from me... Nope, you just don't belong to the statistically significant group, that's all there is to it. If you keep looking you'll find your exact alien homies. ;)

pdimitar 4y ago

That will not help you of course but before I began I hated all exercise with all my heart. It will pass if you keep at it though. :) That "hate" is just hormonal dis-balance. And yeah I know that explanation doesn't help because you can swear on everything that's sacred that this is exactly who you are and it can't be false... But yeah, it still is false and no that's not you. Hormones are a b1tch, a chemical programming agent that's specifically designed to lie to our brains. It's how we're wired. Not trying to convince you of anything. I know how I felt 6 months ago and I know nobody and nothing could have changed my mind back then; I would have likely physically lashed out at somebody if they tried to press the matter even. I am only here to tell you that it can get better even if you are 100% sure that it can't. That feeling is false and it's our brain trying to avoid a change and that's why it fills us with doom scenarios and unreasonable hate to the source of the change. It's still just a facade for "but I don't wanna, I am comfy now!" and that facade can fall relatively easily. > It's frustrating because all the exercise advice I find seems targeted at people that are practically a whole different species from me... Nope, you just don't belong to the statistically significant group, that's all there is to it. If you keep looking you'll find your exact alien homies. ;)