You see people out running, biking, chasing their dogs, skateboarding, and you just have to wonder. Why are they doing that? Don’t they know there are five good reasons not to exercise?
The weather is … weather. It’s rainy, sunny, cloudy, dark, windy, snowy, hot, cold or just right. Exercising indoors? You have to go through weather to get to the gym (or air out the house). Easier to modify a yoga stretch in your recliner while hoisting a good e-book.
You get sweaty and tired. That means you’ll need to clean up and rest, which take time. Better to stress out while earning more money to buy toys you can play with over lattes. Or wine.
You can get hurt. People always get hurt exercising. They break wrists while biking and rollerblading, fall over curbs out walking, play sports and get hit by falling balls, go hiking and get bit by mosquitoes or chased by bears. Exercising is dangerous. Stay safe. No one’s ever been injured by a latte or recliner (unless, of course, they move).
You might miss something important that isn’t on a mobile device. What would that be, exactly? Find out: that’s why they make recliners.
There’s always chocolate. Wine and beer have cardiovascular and anti-cancer properties, coffee has antioxidants, and now we have chocolate! Yes, the new über solution for good health is dark chocolate, which reduces blood pressure and cholesterol, improves hearts and attitudes, expands waistlines and …
Wait, expands waistlines?
Is that what everybody’s doing out there, discovering that exercise is actually something we should do? Push-ups, running, biking, dancing … all create healthy, fit bodies.
That have room for chocolate.
Who wouldn’t get out of a recliner for that?
© 2014 Robyn M Fritz