I don’t like sport but do like physical exercise and dance.

Motivation is fleeting, willpower is weak. Habit is what you need. Make yourself exercise for 6 weeks. Just commit to 6 weeks and make it happen. Something every day, whatever deal you make with yourself, keep it.

After 6 weeks, two things happen. One, you have built a habit. Two, you will now feel so much better on days you work out & that provides some built in motivation.

6 weeks to build a habit, you can do it!

My local community center has a child watch room where you can pay $6/child for an up to 2 hour block. You must stay in the building. So on Saturday mornings, my wife and I drop the kids off at the child watch room and hit up the gym for a workout. We help keep each other motivated, and we get 2 hours where our kids are stream of consciousness word vomiting at us. Wins all around.

I run three times a week. I have done this so long that it has basically become a routine. If I do not run, it feels… weird.

TL:DR - move with friends

When I started college is when I really started getting in shape and getting my life on order. It’s no coincidence that that’s when I started making solid friends. Everything’s more fun when there’s people to do it with. We joined our university’s Table Tennis club and went religiously. Still play years later here and there because of it. It also made going to the gym and just yeeting weights easier. Everything is easier with friends.

I am terrible at finding the motivation for many things, including staying active. The only thing that marginally helps is doing an activity that is fun for me in some other way, like kayaking or indoor bouldering.

Desire for my body not to atrophy and wither away earlier than necessary. My hobbies and work are generally very sedentary, so I need to go out of the way to be active.

There are fun aspects - with weight training or running, you can track the numbers and watch them improve over time; it’s RPG-like improvement fantasy. Sports let you focus on the game aspect and not notice the physical part as much. Walking lets you explore your environment.

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For me it was the feeling of feeling better. I’ve always been overweight but it’s a downward spiral. The heavier I got the worse I felt and the worse I felt the less I felt like doing and the more weight I gained. You never want to get to that point and it happens faster than you think. Once I started losing weight I generally felt better and until I blew out my knee I was going to the gym regularly.

The gym can definitely help you lose weight but it’s not how you lose weight. Your diet is how you lose weight, don’t go on a diet, change your diet. Going to the gym will help you become healthier by building muscle, getting cardio, and staying active. Going to the gym will help you improve your health faster, your diet will make you fat or skinny but it will never make you healthy. Just be active and eat what your body needs, not delicious junk food.

Just start moving more in general. Once you feel you have plateaued then see if the gym works for you or not. Just move your body, as I’m typing this I’m reminded that I really need to move more often.

The only time in my life I managed to in public was because I had fit it into my work schedule. The routine + the body high were the only reasons I went for as long as I did. It also helped to be planning by meals according to my exercise so I had the pressure to never waste any of that extra work I was doing. But that was before people constantly recording on their phones became a thing.

Now I just do whatever bare minimum I can at home

I try to do things that are fun for me, but underlying it all is that I treat my exercise regimen as a job. It’s just something I do and can’t miss. It’s a habit. Whether or not I feel like working out is irrelevant, in the same way whether I feel like going to work is irrelevant, I know it is something that I need to do so I just do it.

In my experience if I keep on doing some activity eventually my body will crave it. Tried cycling a month ago sticking to a schedule of once per day and yesterday I couldn’t do because it was raining very heavy. My body absolutely wanted me to cycle that day.

Fun/gratification. For me personally, it’s mostly just riding bikes and some body weight exercises here and there. Once you acclimate to it, it becomes less of a chore and more something that you look forward to. If I go too long without some kind of physical activity, I actually start to feel shittier.

Ex-swimmer here. I miss parts of swimming, just not the toll it takes on skin and hair. And access to pools at workable hours isn’t always easy.

So I got a rowing machine that I have to trip over every day. It’s a lot easier to build up a 30 minute habit a day than it is carving out the time to go to the pool or gym regularly. Doesn’t have to be a rowing machine. Kettlebells work great and you can be very creative with them. Don’t chase motivation, be disciplined.

You don’t even need do a full workout every day. Five minutes of one exercise before you shower is better than nothing. And once you start clocking the clarity of mind and ease of movement it brings you it’s hard to go back to doing nothing.

You’re young, so the effects of not working out are harder to notice right now. But as age creeps in the inertia of weight and lethargy really do take their toll on your body. Get ahead of the curve before you’re climbing a mountain.

Haven’t found anything so far …

Nothing. I hate physical activity.