I’ve mentioned in the last two blogs that the wife and I went for some runs together in France the other week.

I’ve got to be honest, I’ve never liked running.

I was a fat kid.

101st out of 104 boys in Year 7 Cross Country.

Got fit after that and can run perfectly fine now.

But to say I enjoy it would be a lie.

I have pretty much zero enthusiasm about going for a run.

I’m ok doing the workouts I normally do, but they’re largely a means to an end for the benefits that they bring.

There’s zero chance I would do them if they had no post workout benefits and were done purely for the enjoyment gained.

Despite people telling me regularly for the last 20+ years that “You’re lucky that you love exercise”.

Listen, you don’t need to love exercise to do it.

Sure, it makes sense to find the version that you find, at the very least, most tolerable (many have told me that our Group PT Sessions are the first exercise that they’ve found somewhere between tolerable and enjoyable. Is it worth finding out, risk free, if that’s the same for you? –> www.myrise.co.uk/apply)

But thinking that we need to “love it” keeps us stuck.

Feeds into that thought process that “I’m just not that kind of person”.

Waiting until we “love” exercising and “feel like” doing it will keep us waiting.

Just choosing to go and do it will still bring the benefits, irrespective of how we felt about it………..

And probably make us ‘feel like it’ more too.

Much love,

Jon ‘just as fast as I can’ Hall

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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.