What’s easier than getting up at six a.m. to go running?
Uhh, not getting up at six a.m. to go running.
We get it. Sometimes it’s hard to motivate yourself to exercise. For every good reason you can think of for working out—your skin, your cardiovascular health, your ability to wear skinny jeans—there are plenty of good excuses not to.
Such as not getting your hair messy. The Surgeon General recently expressed concern that many women don’t exercise very often because they’re afraid of mussing their ’dos. That may sound crazy, but there are way worse excuses for not working up a sweat. Be honest—how many of these have you tried to get away with?
“If I go now, I’ll get there at the busiest time, which means I’ll have to take a bottom-row locker. Then I’ll have to wait for a treadmill, and when I get done there’ll be a line for the showers...”
“I’m still recovering from my sprained ankle. Yes, it was ten years ago, but it was a really bad sprain.”
“My favorite spin bike is broken, and the other ones just aren’t the same.”
“I think I’m allergic to the body wash in the locker room. Also, I hate the smell of coconut.”
“I’ll get a better seat on the bus if I go home now.”
“I can’t do unstructured workouts because they would derail my training with Jean-Claude.”
“My running shoes are so clean and pretty, it’d be a shame to scuff them up.”
“I’m having brunch in two hours!”
“I just had brunch!”
“I unloaded the groceries from the car today. That totally counts.”
“My best friend just called and invited me to happy hour. That’s the universe telling me not to go.”
“My shampoo is too expensive to use twice a day.”
“It’s so beautiful outside, I don’t want to be indoors...unless it’s indoors in my own home.”
“If I work out too much, I’ll lose weight, and then my clothes won’t fit, and then I’ll have to go shopping and buy new ones. Ugh, who wants to do that?”
