How To Make Exercise Fun

[jannette723]

There are plenty of people out there who love to exercise, I am not one of them. I have been exercising 3-4 times a week for almost a year and I find that the only thing that motivates me is music.

How much do you run?

To make exercising fun you definitely have to pick music you enjoy, but you shouldn't pick anything slow. That will not motivate you.

Here are some of the songs that motivate me:

Black Eyed Peas – Pump It

Neon Trees – Animal

Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance

Watsky – Moral of The Story

The Beatles – Help!

Meatloaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk

What motives you to exercise?

[AleDeEurope]

I don't exercise anymore (I want to start, but I'm too lazy xD), but when I was on a soccer team we had games every weekend, and before every game I used to listen to some motivational music, for example:

Fort Minor - Remember the Name

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDvr08sCPOc

2Pac - All About you (actually any 2Pac song will get me going)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRBhKKqRYL0

Eminem - Lose Yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmXumtgwtak

Eminem - Go to Sleep (basically any of Eminem's song with an aggressive beat and lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xpAqxH2Kzw

The Game - Westside Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2zeHdfruQ

I need something aggressive to get me going.

[MaskedSanity]

My motivation comes from the fear of becoming this:
i.dailymail.co.uk/.../...3000005DC-965_468x513.jpg

[jannette723]

That, too

[emerald77]

I have been running since I was in elementary school. My dad has always been very active, so from a very young age he taught me to play sports. The first one I started practicing was tennis, because that's his favorite. He got me a tennis coach by the time I was 10, and my dad and I would play a few times a week. Then he asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I wanted to run. So I started running with him, and I eventually joined my school's Cross Country and Track & Field teams once I got to middle school.

And as for music, for me it depends. There are days where I'm in a great mood and just wanna get out the door, blast my favorite music through my earphones and run as fast as I can. While there are other days where I have a lot on my mind. Any time I feel I have to think something out, I go for a run. I go somewhere quiet where there's no people, and I turn my music off. I like to run through forests and listen only to the sounds of nature. It relaxes me and helps me clear my mind, or it gives me a nice quiet place to think. Running has become such a therapy for me throughout the years. I have never thought of it as something that I HAD to do just to work out. It's truly something that I enjoy doing.

[apple24]

Same feeling and experience.

[Hannah591]

My motivation is seeing the results, music, doing something I genuinely enjoy and don't see as exercise (kick boxing), feeling the burn, buying new workout clothes, the satisfaction of getting up and doing something and also the fear of becoming overweight/unhealthy.

I was never interested in exercise but my ex was addicted to it and now I've become one to crave it so it must be doing something psychologically. It's also given me a new perspective on food and given me way more self control, especially when I've been working out. I'm going to be on an exercise marathon during the summer. Jogging in the beautiful weather and hopefully a gym membership. :P

[justbanANNAz]

this is awesome=]

omg when i saw pump it i was like wooaaa !! :))) love that song.

what motivates me is progress pics. i love seeing my results in photos more than the scale. i also like shopping- being able to look good in clothes without having to cry in the fitting room is a great feeling. that wasn't even a joke, iv done that a few times.
^^ so that's if it's a gym workout.

if the opportunity is there however, ill pay a sport. it's such an epic workout and it's being done in a competitive fun setting. feels great.

lastly, people. working out with someone else pumps me up so much as we keep each other motivated. try ur running routine with a group of friends sometime. u dont even have to talk, but just running beside each other with the music blasting will give u a different workout experience=]

[xcassiopeia]

I just LOVE working out. Cardio, lifting, etc.

Of course there are those days when I'm so tired that I just don't feel like going to the gym. All I do is thinking about that time when someone called me fat-ass lol. I wasn't fit at all, not happy, no life goals. My brother took me to the gym, I got fitter and now I can't stop because I love it AND if I stop, I might go back to my former ugly shape.

If I really need motivation, I look at people like Michelle Lewin, Paige Hathaway, Emily Skye, Cassey Ho, Frank Medrano, Marc Fitt, Antoniette Pacheco, etc. Love them :')

[loveisbeautiful]

I hate exercising, there's nothing to motivate me because I know why I'm doing it and that's to be thin and I don't care about that. So, the motivation to workout only lasts a couple days. I usually just dance, that's suppose to be the best form of exercise and it's something I love to do.

Anyway, the reason I'm commenting is because you said music motivates you to run and I have a couple songs that I listen to a lot that I find to be adrenaline boosting. 1) Right Here Right Now by Fatboy Slim. 2) Original Don by Major Lazar. Maybe you can check them out and it would give you a couple more songs to run to.

[Buzzed]

I started working out every day about four months ago, I've gotten massively into it and it's the thing that I look forward to the most every day. I don't listen to music when I work out, I like to hear the noise of everything around me and focus solely on the weights. I also don't do any cardio but that's because that's not my aim and I don't really need it. Then again, I'm probably so into it due to my "trying to forget" relationship status and the fact that I have to see her again after nearly a year in three months...

[thealphamaleishere]

Exercise is fun to an extent...

I do find that the people have a need to make things that are very hard 'fun' when they're just not. The truth is exercise for the most part is not fun especially if you aren't just a casual gym goes. If you train hard often you won't feel like working out sometimes because there isn't much joy in doing the exercise itself. For many like myself they joy comes from inspiring others and reaching goals. So basically thinking about the big picture instead of an workout at hand is a way to get past the lack of fun in an exercise.

[Slavanna]

I like to listen to pagan music when running, odd as it is. It gives me a kind of rhythm to follow, you know. With Omnia for example, my favourite band, the beat is very linear, but it speeds up as most of the songs progresses, so I start out walking and then speed up to a run almost automatically. It's odd.

[PiuBelloAmante]

running is great but, running for long distances multiple times in a week is really not the best for your health
You can make exercise fun by doing box jumps, sprints, and doing other cool functional workouts
try boxing! kick boxing etc, those are great forms of cardio that aren't boring like running!

[rocelot]

Running is cheap and good for your cardio.

[Random_chick_2384]

I think it really depends on the person. I like listening to
Sexy bitch ( not sure who it's by just type it on YouTube)
Pumped up kicks by the fosters
Sexy back by Justin timberlake
My humps by the black eye peas
Toxic-Brittany spears
Give me more- Brittany spears
I'm sexy and I know it.- LMFAO

A lot of songs saying how hot u are or has the word sexy in them really gets me pumped to workout.

[Mustachekitteh]

For strength training i listen to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOdmlVflcBQ&index=5&list=PLYPeGyDTfTSv0HLW49Q21GQy7Ej-8sxoL

Cardio-Either watch an episode of Game of Thrones while on the treadmill or I will listen to number 6-12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xL9AvCJISw&index=6&list=PL4qwqslyixw4YDN43FVWyzIyd81ca9zJ8

[Mustachekitteh]

Well the thing didn't add the list i have these 2 on lol

[Phoenix98]

Yea no thanks fun to me is that tightness that makes your muscles feel like they will pop right off your body, being soaked from a workout, being in complete fatigue and being so sore and stiff the next day that I can't move. What motivates me is my end goal and having fun doesn't get me to that goal working my ass off gets me there.

[meatballs21]

A good melodic/liquid dubstep/drum n bass mix gets me going.

Some days though, it's just being outdoors and seeing the world around me. I leave the headphones off and soak up the world around me as I walk through it. And I never listen to music while riding my bike - the sound of the gravel or trail beneath me is all I need.

[hardboiled777]

Ever since I stopped aspirations of a sports career working out SUCKS!! Such a waste of time and energy that could go into something else.

Aggressive music helps and super setting, thus not WASTING time looking what other people are doing etc. Get in, get out, FUCK THE GYM and all the STUPID muscleheads wasting their lives in it

[Joshua2332]

What motivates me to work out? When I started to see results. Working out shouldn't be something you hate. If you don't like running, then pick another cardio activity. I don't like running either, so when I do cardio it's swimming.

[IAmMellow]

This exactly! ^

[Werewolfy]

You want motivation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIbOKGTB1Po

[shyguy227]

I approve of this message !

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[snowboarder720]

Basketball has always been fun for me. It keeps me distracted from time and loosens me up before I hit the weights. Team sports always keeps me motivated to push myself.

[dartmaul15]

i'm disappointed in the lack of rocky music XD
I tought "eye of the tiger" was obligatory in comps like this. Same could almost be said about "burning heart" ^^

[dartmaul15]

totally forgot about "gonna fly now"

[BumbleDeev]

This song definitely motivates me when I'm doing my squats

https://youtu.be/v4gHa-7Fgqg