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[quote=Anonymous]One of my kids has always hated sports and is not coordinated. He’s always loved to walk, so it wasn’t like he never got any physical activity, and he does theater, as well. But he was never interested in—in fact, he was actively resistant to—any sort of organized physical activity or exercise. I stopped making suggestions a few years ago.

Then at 16 he decided on his own that he wanted to start doing regular exercise. We have a Peloton subscription, so he’s been taking strength and stretching classes 3-4 days/week. In talking with him about it, he expressed how much he hates other people seeing him exercise, which helped me understand why he was always so resistant to classes or group activities. But he really, really likes the exercise and talks about how great he feels after doing it. Now he’s talking about starting to run in the spring. We’ll see!

I guess I’m suggesting two things, OP: First, if your son’s really resistant to a group class, consider that he might, like my son, be self-conscious and find group exercise unpleasant. Second, he might come to this on his own; peer pressure can be magical. My son said that his friends (also non-athletic) were talking about the different ways they exercised, and I think it was the first time he really understood that non-sporty people exercised, too.[/quote]

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