Pilates

[pegkerr]

Man, do I suck at Pilates. I don't do it often enough to get any good it. I don't do it often enough to improve any, so I hate doing it. I just do it often enough to remind myself, "This hurts and I'm not any good at it."

Do you have an exercise like that, that you keep trying to do, but no matter how many times you try it, you think, "I know that people get something out of this, but I just don't see it yet."

Running is like that for me, too. I have never gotten past the "I loathe this" stage of running.

Comments

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Pilates is something a lot of people recommend taking a class for, since it's pretty difficult to understand what's going on without an instructor.

[anya-writer.livejournal.com]

LOL! I know what you mean. What worked for me before was having to pay an exhorbitant for my old gym. I don't like wasting money so I'd go 3-4 times a week because I calculated that I'd get my money's worth that way.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

I feel that way about most exercise for exercise's sake. Give me a good game of volleyball or a martial art to practice and I'm happy. But lift weights or use an exercise machine? Forget it.

[redbird]

I think I spent at least a year, probably two, lying doggedly on the mat and muttering "I hate crunches" over and over as I did them. Eventually I stopped hating them.

But most exercises, if I hate, I just don't do. I just said this elsewhere on LJ: there is no One True Exercise that everyone should do.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I decided life was too short for running--it hurt my joints, I loathed everything about it.

[crowley.livejournal.com]

Running, running, running. I've hated it ever since I was in elementary school. And what's so bad is that I come from a family of runners; my father and uncles all ran track in high school and college.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

I have never gotten past the "I loathe this" stage of running.

Me, I've never gotten past the "OMG, I'll blow out my knees" stage of running.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Running on a treadmill. Leg extensions and leg curls on the weight machine.

[lilisonna.livejournal.com]

I hate running. I do it because it's the only form of exercise that seems effective for me, but I hate it.

When I started running some 8 years ago, I was assured by running fanatics that I would come to love it.

I'm still waiting.

[carbonel]

I've been running for several years now. I don't hate it, but I'm still waiting for the alleged runner's high. One of the things that keeps me going is a comment from Spenser to Susan Silverman about her habit of running two miles, that she's doing the hardest two miles -- the first and last mile. For me, that first mile is really the hardest one. I probably don't do enough for the last mile to be that hard (my long run is currently five miles).

The thing that I keep trying to do and failing isn't really exercise, but I always thought that if I lost weight I'd be able to do a cartwheel. Now I'm at my goal weight (just hit the one-year anniversary!), and I still can't do a cartwheel.