Whenever I say to people how boring exercise is I’m always told that it’s because I’m not “mixing it up” enough or I haven’t found something “I really enjoy”. In general, I don’t like anything that is repetitive and boring and that rules out most forms of exercise apart from real sport. One that I haven’t tried though is swimming – until earlier today – but even that was disappointing.
People have always told me that swimming can be a lot of fun. It gets you out of the house rather than exercising at home, works all the muscles in one go and is very good for you joints because it’s not high impact. The problem is that it’s so boring. Running is quite monotonous but swimming is even more so.
It probably isn’t helped by the fact that I’m not very good at it! I’m a terrible swimmer so I end up in the slow lane and it takes me ages to do a length (or that’s what it seems). I can’t deny that it’s a good workout though – you really feel that the muscles all over the body have been worked when you go for a swim. I’ll probably keep it up for this reason but I can’t see myself enjoying it like a lot of people seem to. Maybe I’ll get into it more as time goes on though – it would be a bonus if I did as it would make exercise a lot easier.