{"id":3698,"date":"2024-04-08T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:23:59","slug":"how-i-tricked-my-brain-into-liking-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=3698","title":{"rendered":"How I Tricked My Brain Into Liking Running"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When your mind hates running even more than your body does, you have to strategize.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s common knowledge in my household that Monday at 5:55 a.m. is the worst time of the week. That\u2019s because Monday is a running day, and I hate running.<\/p>\n

I have always hated running. In elementary school, I dreaded the mile run test<\/a> and was always in the back with my fellow gym class rejects. In college, I was the only baseball player who could stretch a double into a single.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m 6 feet 7 inches tall and overly leggy, with knees that wobble in six different directions when I run. And yet, it\u2019s crucial \u2014 especially in middle age \u2014 to challenge one\u2019s body with a little intense exercise<\/a> every week.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have access to a pool or lake, my ceilings are too low for trampolines<\/a> and doing more than one HIIT workout<\/a> per week quickly gets boring. Running offers intensity while distracting me with pretty scenery. Besides, 20 minutes later, I feel amazing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After years of tinkering with ways to start running, I have finally come up with a three-part recipe for learning to tolerate this horrible form of exercise.<\/p>\n

But before you start, make sure you are doing fun movements on other days. If your only exercise is running and, like me, you hate it, you won\u2019t stick with it. Walk if you like that, swim if it\u2019s your jam. I have a kickboxing dummy, a pull-up bar and some battle ropes<\/a> that I genuinely look forward to using. Don\u2019t make every workout a slog.<\/p>\n

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When your mind hates running even more than your body does, you have to strategize.It\u2019s common knowledge in my household that Monday at 5:55 a.m. is the worst time of the week. That\u2019s because Monday is a running day, and I hate running.I have always hated running. In elementary school, I dreaded the mile run test and was always in the back with my fellow gym class rejects. In college, I was the only baseball player who could stretch a double into a single.I\u2019m 6 feet 7 inches tall and overly leggy, with knees that wobble in six different directions when I run. And yet, it\u2019s crucial \u2014 especially in middle age \u2014 to challenge one\u2019s body with a little intense exercise every week.I don\u2019t have access to a pool or lake, my ceilings are too low for trampolines and doing more than one HIIT workout per week quickly gets boring. Running offers intensity while distracting me with pretty scenery. Besides, 20 minutes later, I feel amazing.After years of tinkering with ways to start running, I have finally come up with a three-part recipe for learning to tolerate this horrible form of exercise.But before you start, make sure you are doing fun movements on other days. If your only exercise is running and, like me, you hate it, you won\u2019t stick with it. Walk if you like that, swim if it\u2019s your jam. I have a kickboxing dummy, a pull-up bar and some battle ropes that I genuinely look forward to using. Don\u2019t make every workout a slog.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}