Do You Hate Working Out? Let Me Help You With That.

“Exercise doesn’t have to suck”, I tell my client as someone decides to take a photo of me awkwardly. It came out pretty good, so here it is in this post.

Do you HATE exercise?

I used to when I started my fitness journey.

The thought of me running or lifting weights made me shudder.

Especially more so when dealing with depression and anxiety, where everything just feels so much worse.

But consistent exercise in small spurts made me find that there was a hormetic response to it.

This meant that over time, this pain began to feel more pleasurable.

And as time progressed, I was hooked.

Exercise Can Feel Like A Chore… At First.

To some, exercise is a chore.

We no longer live in a society where we had to be active to get paid or to survive tribes or dangerous animals in the wilderness.

So we need to go out of our way to make it a part of our lifestyle.

This makes it fairly difficult to get to because it’s correlated to more pain and more stress at first — who wants to take time out of their day to work out when they could be doing other things.

But we don’t think about how living more actively can save our lives.