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Heya, after a while of being absent I return to preach that indeed even for me there exists a type of exercise I don't hate while doing and actually look forward to.
Clickbait title, I know, but if any of you still remember me it's probably alongside my struggles of trying to do any exercise whatsoever and always failing and going back to doing nothing. I was always jealous of you guys enjoying your challenges and programs and workouts while the most I could ever hope for was not hating it completely and maybe feeling accomplished afterwards if I was lucky.
And now that I'm doing a very different form of exercise, a traditional gym with machines, I suddenly don't struggle any more, the workouts are fun, I almost look forward to going, my progress feels nice... it's like everything I previously disliked about exercising has been whisked away.
For one for me that's the exercises not taxing the entire body. In most bodyweight exercises many muscle groups are active at once, stabilising, enabling the movement, and for many people that's a plus, but for me that just means every single exercise is completely exhausting and I don't like exhaustion, I think it's a terrible feeling (my husband loves exhaustion, so this is clearly a me thing).
Secondly I finally don't have to sweat any more. Due to the muscle groups being so isolated I barely work up a sweat which means I look neat and tidy and at most a little flushed the entire two hours. That is a gigantic relief and made me realise how much I heavily disliked being sweaty and worked up before.
The third is that there is no more cardio component. I cycle to work and back and am on my feet at work so I have the luxury of not having to care about my cardio... because I despise cardio. Not only does it make me super sweaty and exhausted, it also doesn't offer the joy of using my muscles. All I do is a nice 50 Watt warmup for ten minutes that I genuinely don't mind.
I didn't think it could ever be this way.
I realise it goes pretty counter to the darebee method, but I feel like I can't be the only person on the planet, or even in this forum, who is trying hard to become friends with bodyweight exercises and despite years of trying, simply can't.
Clickbait title, I know, but if any of you still remember me it's probably alongside my struggles of trying to do any exercise whatsoever and always failing and going back to doing nothing. I was always jealous of you guys enjoying your challenges and programs and workouts while the most I could ever hope for was not hating it completely and maybe feeling accomplished afterwards if I was lucky.
And now that I'm doing a very different form of exercise, a traditional gym with machines, I suddenly don't struggle any more, the workouts are fun, I almost look forward to going, my progress feels nice... it's like everything I previously disliked about exercising has been whisked away.
For one for me that's the exercises not taxing the entire body. In most bodyweight exercises many muscle groups are active at once, stabilising, enabling the movement, and for many people that's a plus, but for me that just means every single exercise is completely exhausting and I don't like exhaustion, I think it's a terrible feeling (my husband loves exhaustion, so this is clearly a me thing).
Secondly I finally don't have to sweat any more. Due to the muscle groups being so isolated I barely work up a sweat which means I look neat and tidy and at most a little flushed the entire two hours. That is a gigantic relief and made me realise how much I heavily disliked being sweaty and worked up before.
The third is that there is no more cardio component. I cycle to work and back and am on my feet at work so I have the luxury of not having to care about my cardio... because I despise cardio. Not only does it make me super sweaty and exhausted, it also doesn't offer the joy of using my muscles. All I do is a nice 50 Watt warmup for ten minutes that I genuinely don't mind.
I didn't think it could ever be this way.
I realise it goes pretty counter to the darebee method, but I feel like I can't be the only person on the planet, or even in this forum, who is trying hard to become friends with bodyweight exercises and despite years of trying, simply can't.
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