Exercise is hitting. My brain gives up way before my body does. Even when I try and listen to music or watch shows while exercising, I just can’t keep at it.

Has anyone found an ADHD friendly way to exercise?

  • @weariedfaeEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    For me I can’t really exercise for exercise sake. I have to do an activity that happens to involve exercise, like a sport, swimming, or hiking.

    Things I have tried and enjoyed:

    • net sports like badminton and volleyball
    • trampoline park
    • a martial art
    • roller skating/blading at a rink, similarly ice skating
    • a hobby that involves having to hike, brain want hobby reward so will put up with endless trudging…barely
    • swimming / surfing / snorkeling / diving
    • VR games (fr, quite the workout)
    • having a dog and using dog as motivation to walk more
    • amusement park or fair (because I will get my damn money’s worth and walk for like 10 hours straight)

    Extreme social anxiety, covid, money, and no longer being in college with “free” or cheap access to things have ruined most of these for me but my point was to do a THING that happens to need you to move your body. Not just exercise (bleh). This is how you trick your traitorous brain.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      This is totally it.

      I don’t exercise I put the three kids in a truck tyre and drag them to school. (MUSH Daddy!)

      I don’t exercise I walk to shop for milk, get home, realise I forgot the damn bread, think I can make bread, look up how, get distracted, make healthly wraps for lunch.

      I don’t exercise, I just lose the thing I just put down, queue marathon of reorganization (it’s not cleaning) until I get the point of lifting heavy machinery to look under and give up, hammer on a worn 3/8 socket. Bonus cardio if the 10mm was in your other pocket all along.