How to make exercising less boring

I am a non-sports kind of girl. It’s not that I hate exercise, although it’s coming close to that, but it’s is sooo boring. For me it doesn’t matter whether the workout is on a treadmill, a bicycle or on a Cross Trainer. It’s not fun. At all. The problem is that my brain has nothing to do during the workout. That’s why they have television screens in the gym. Because you really do need something to look at, to keep your mind busy. Otherwise you can’t complete your 30 (or 45) minutes.

And I really need to work out, because I’m 30-something and when you reach that age, calories tend to stick to you most passionately. But, a couple of months ago I’ve given up my membership at the gym, because I don’t like the looks and smells of the people there and that’s why I have my own Cross Trainer now.My Cross Trainer is happily situated in my sousterrain (I have quite a lot of space there), so it’s there for me 24 hours a day. No more excuses (like “it’s raining”, “I hate it there”, etc.), there’s no chance of escaping the exercise now. But I don’t have a television in my sousterrain.

So what to do about the boredom? I know you can listen to music but my heart-rate needs to stay low (for fat-burning) so no answers there. Podcasts? Close, but I only have 2 subscriptions and they’re podcasting once a week. Not enough!

My solution to exercise boredom is: use audiobooks! Copy them onto your pc or mac and put them on your MP3-player. Done! You can listen to gripping stories while sweating away at the Cross Trainer. Where to get audiobooks? At your library is the best and cheapest… The available titles are growing rapidly because today audiobooks are not for the visually impaired only, a growing group of people likes them for various reasons. For example while traveling: when flying at night, the light in the plane is not too good, or because you’re eyes are tired, or maybe because reading in a car makes you nauseous, or maybe to drown the noise of other people while lying at the swimmingpool.

Or maybe because you really hate the mindnumbing business of working out and need the diversion.