Fitness News #62 - Exercise excuses

As ridiculous as this picture may look, it does depict one person using the situation as an opportunity to exercise while the other person does nothing.

How many times have we heard excuses from those who don't exercise 

Insufficient time to exercise

"I haven't got time to exercise"
This is got to be the most common one used.  In reality busy people seem to be able to find the time.  According to Think TV the average Aussie spends 3hours 10minutes watching TV.  Now if someone said that they exercised for 3hours 10mintues a day, you would think wow, that's a hell of a lot of exercise, but yet that time is available, all they need to do is exercise while watching TV.

Sore Finger 

OK, I'll be serious, if you have an injury, then you should seek expert advice.  I've had my share of injury's and speaking to the experts I've come upon how many don't even do the exercises they are allocated to do, to help them recover from the injury.  So why would they even be looking for an alternative

Can't afford gym membership

There are plenty of exercise options that cost hardly anything and some even save you money, such as walking to the shops, instead of driving.  Odd's on the person with this excuse is bleeding money somewhere.  For example the average aussie spends $1612 a year on booze, so there's your gym membership and some change.

What you should do

1. Continue to do whatever you think is best for you, just because they want to be stupid or use excuses to justify their own inaction, doesn't mean that you have to be stupid, just carry on doing the exercise you love doing, the reward is yours.
2.  If they seek your advice then provide it, but let them own their own initiative
3. When you are injured, do the right thing to assist the recovery and ask the expert what alternate things you can do, during the recover period

What if you did nothing

Ultimately we are all responsible for our own health, its up to them to find their own destiny.  If they haven't invited your advice, then don't bother.

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