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?
if it’s safe to bike to something so that the purpose is going to the library or sit in a park or whatever then the exercise becomes incidental and you’re not focusing on cardio you’re just going somewhere and maybe it’ll trick your brain
Climb rocks.
(But seriously, bouldering is the most intellectually stimulating form of exercise I’ve found.)
I wish there was a style of climbing gym that was just traverses.
Like, bouldering already gets to be weirder and more interesting than lead climbing. Why not take it all the way and do everything no higher than one meter of the ground?
I don’t want to get rid of my fear of heights it helps keep me from falling from heights
It kind of sounds like your workout is boring. Do something you think is fun.
It doesn’t matter what it is, but it should be fun and motivating to you. Maybe it’s water polo, soccer, jai alai, rock climbing, skateboarding, whatever.
Gyms are lame and boring and great ways to catch covid. Go do something fun outside.
Pretty much this, just walk around to various destinations, grow food, de-weed, forage for edible plants, etc. It won’t feel like you’re exercising but you will be
If you’re not weak to COVID, maybe learn how to fight with a sparring partner. Anything that isn’t (do x reps for y seconds) is better
Do something you think is fun
That’s the neat part, exercise isn’t fun. At all. I have to do it though.
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.
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
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.
Gyms are indeed lame and boring. I tried to go to a gym once and I got yelled at because I “didn’t have the right athletic wear”. What happened to exercise being part of what we do every day?
Unfortunately part of exercise is being able to tolerate monotony and repeat the basics day after day.
Cycling or running to places around the area I live in that I haven’t been to often/at all, and exploring them, is probably the most fun cardio exercise. When you run out of places to explore, you cycle or run further out. Unfortunately this can get unsafe sometimes, so don’t do it if you feel unsafe
