Excuses - what are your excuses for not working out or doing exercise?
Excuses, excuses, excuses. I hear them all the time from people. Agreed, we do live in a fast, post-modern lifestyle where everything is immediate and we are all so, so busy, but I still think that we can manage our lives better.
This is why I have written this blog article to tackle and counteract the most common excuses I hear.
So here goes...
1) I can’t lose weight on my own.
Motivation is an important part of keeping fit. Try and make
yourself accountable to someone by getting someone – a family member or close
friend – involved with your fitness. This
way, you can report to someone, discuss difficulties and what you like, talk
over your lack of motivation, or you could start a diary or a blog and make
yourself accountable to yourself or to the internet and therefore the whole
world!
2) “I don’t like exercise”
Sometimes, as adults, we have a bad taste in our mouth
surrounding exercise because we did not enjoy school PE or sport lessons, and
we take this negative view of exercise into our adulthood. Try and lift yourself out of this negative
mindset regarding exercise, and realise that actually, it can be fun, whether
it is hiking, going on a bike ride, playing Frisbee, aqua aerobics, pliates –
there is so much variety you need to try and find something that you like. I promise you, there must be something out
there!
Also, take a look at my fitspirational quote video:
3) "I’m too tired"
This is a hard one as if you’ve been out all day or have a
full time job, tiredness can be a real demotivator. Remember that exercise can
actually invigorate you and release more energy. Exercise can also suppress the
appetite so that’s a double whammy!
4) "I do not have a gym membership/gym nearby"
People say to me, well it’s easy enough for you, you have
your own mini gym at home and it’s so easy. Yes, fair enough, but there are so
many other ways to exercise as well.
You can be inventive – if you need to post a letter, run to
the letterbox.
You have the internet – there are plenty of free exercise
videos on youtube, including a few of my own.
If you have stairs in your house, do one step exercises –
for 5 minutes with your favourite music, go up and down on the bottom stair. You
can take it slowly or do it quickly. Be inventive…the list is endless.
5) "I don’t have enough time"
You need to make time, and time manage your weekly schedule better. Give yourself a bird’s eye view of how your
weeks pan out, and make changes of where you could fit in a 10 or 20 minute
work out. Set goals and challenges for yourself.
6) “I’ve missed a session. I’ll never get back on
track”
It happens to everybody, no one sails through life without
ever missing a session. It's normal, the thing is not to let that mean a return
to a sedentary lifestyle. Just start again and bear in mind you’re not starting
back at the same place as before. You may have to redo some of what you’ve
already done, but you’ll get back to where you were, faster. The body adapts
quickly – especially if it’s doing something it's familiar with.
7) “It’s hard work”
Learn to love it. Find the sport you like, whether with
other people like friends of a family member, and start to enjoy it. Soon it’ll not feel like hard work. Saying it’s hard work is a good excuse to
give up. Visit my ‘exercise’ page on my
website and try out the different workouts.
They start slowly and build up gradually. For example, you can't
start running 5K without having to gradually build up, and that’s why there is the
progression element of my exercise page, starting at the top. You will
gradually improve your stamina.
Just remember that you can handle this and you are able to
conquer any barrier. When that little
voice in your head tells you you cannot, tell it, “I CAN do this” and re-say
this to yourself ten times; you need the mental strength to stay committed to
the new lifestyle. Where your head is
right now will determine your success rate on the way to losing weight and
having a healthy body and mind.
The key to achieving anything in life; not just weight loss;
is with your mind.
Feel free to see my vlog on this article too:
Feel free to see my vlog on this article too:
Haya ! Great article! I agree for sure about the gym-with yotube you no longer even have to buy work out equipment. However, I do pose a question for you. Up front- I have lost 65 pds. BUT I am a cashier at WAl-Mart, 30+ hours weekly, a single parent and have a two story house with the laundry in the basement. My issue is that I have degenerative arthritis..sp ??? psoriatric...like the man in the Humira commercial. Can you suggest a simple aerobic routine? I lift a lot and do a lot of stairs, so that is good for the muscles but at the end of the day I am very sore! thanks!
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