Sometimes I get bored if the workout is too light. I am most "entertained" if I am drenched in sweat and putting out so much energy that I don't have room to be bored. I can also better put up with bad television that way.
I definitely agree about varying work-outs, like everyone has said, especially getting outside. It's like meals. You can find the same one interesting for a long time and then get bored and switch things up. Go with what you are really in the mood to do or give yourself something that seems especially challenging or out of the ordinary.
I also sometimes like to embrace the "bored." There's a zen quality to being bored. It makes you aware of small things around you, and the mundane becomes a bit interesting to one's self even though it's still essentially boring. I like that about the gym. The same is never really the same.
If you let yourself be bored for a while, then sometimes you enter a dreamlike zone where you are not thinking at all or unaware of what you are doing in a nice way. I felt this way swimming laps. Once I pass 45 minutes of laps I just go into that meditative state where the outer world disappears.
One way the gym becomes less boring is when you start to see results
And, finally, I'll end with one of my favorite Andy Warhol quotes: ""I like boring things. I like things to be exactly the same over and over again." I admit that's actually something I like about the gym
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Originally Posted by ahk
Any suggestions to help the bored feeling to go away?
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