On Healthy Living

According to a Blue Cross and Blue Shield study released this week (in conjunction with National Employee Health and Fitness Week) 70 percent of Americans think they don’t have time to exercise as much as they should.

Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said they wold like to get more exercise than they currently do, and only 39 percent of people said they were meeting the government guideline of working out two and a half hours a week.

I just love the idea that people don’t have time to exercise. I’ll fully admit that I don’t exercise as much as I should, but I don’t blame time. There are a hundred ways to make time for exercise, including:

• Getting up early
• Staying up late
• Cutting out a half hour (or more!) of television every day
• Taking a walk on your lunch break
• Planning a physical family outing every week, whether it’s playing in the park or going for a bike ride

and many more. And of course you can sneak exercise into your day by picking a far-away parking spot (or working somewhere, like I do, where they make you pay $300 to park near your building), taking the stairs, scrubbing your floors, taking up gardening, chasing a two-year-old around the house, etc.

Not feeling like exercising is an excuse (not a good one, mind you). Being lazy in an excuse. But not having time is not an excuse. If you want to find time, it’s almost always there. So get out there and use it!

Sarah White wrote this on May 19th, 2005 and filed it under Healthy Living, Diet & Exercise, Women's Health, Men's Health |