http://healthandswellness.com/2010/01/20/hate-working-out-heres-who-to-blame/ Fri, 18 May 2012 17:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://healthandswellness.com/2010/01/20/hate-working-out-heres-who-to-blame/#comment-48 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:45:31 +0000 http://healthandswellness.com/?p=237#comment-48 I remember hating PE so much that I’d do anything to get out of it, even resorting to getting doctor’s notes so as to sit out PE for weeks at a time.
I totally agree with the U of A author’s suggestions that activities should be less competitive in nature. I think that would have made a world of difference for me.
I only got involved in working out in my 20s when I “discovered” that fitness didn’t have to be about competing with others and that I could feel good both physically and mentally by just challenging and pushing myself in the gym. I’ve attempted other forms of activity since then (running, swimming, triathlon) and found the eventually the competitive nature of these pursuits just turned me off. So now I focus on getting a great workout at the gym and I feel so much better about myself.

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