Do you think that being married and have a family and with all the responsabilities it comes, is an excuse not to exercise?

[Anonymous]

I mean the most popular answer is: "I dont have time", "I dont have the discipline", "I have work to do and spend time with my family". Are these valid excuses so you won't even have time to walk as an exercise? Can a person make the time and make it part of their lifestyle even if they are married, they work, they have a husband, house and kids to attend? I even had heard answers to single people like "you are single you have no family or married, so you can make the time to work out"

My question is based on several former clasmates from high school that I had seen on Facebook, especially women but men as well. Some of them really had gain a lot of weight and they seem not to care about it. Of course as you age your metabolism becomes slower and it is more difficult to work out, loose weight and see results and you dont have energy as if you were much younger. Is this another excuse not to work out? Anotehr excuse is "I dont like anything in order to start working out"

Im not say running a marathon or do some "Tour de France" rides of course not but keep yourself active in some way.

Any thoughts on those people?

[iseekpinetrees]

Yea id say it definitely an excuse. I have a one yr old and I don't work out. I spend my days trying to get as much sleep as possible. Keeping him happy. Keeping him fed. Keeping a sleep schedule any schedule then his dad comes home n takes over for 2 hrs or so and during that time I either spend time with him so I get time together or I'm sleeping so yea I say it's an easy excuse but single people with no kids no real excuse. I used to make lots of time to go workout was nice lol. Now I can't even go swimming and get exercise because I can only be out for 15 to 30 min and have to hold him n watch him can't go swimming on my own n get a work out.

[Asker]

Read the below comment from another person who gave his opinion. No excuse whatsoever

[iseekpinetrees]

Lol I may not work out but I shower

[TurboKid]

I think it's about as valid as not taking a shower for entire weeks given the same excuse.

[Asker]

So do u think tehre i sno excuse?

[TurboKid]

None in my opinion if they care about their health. Just 15 mins every other day is infinitely better than nothing. They can also probably multitask some physical activity while doing things like running errands or doing chores around the house. Just have to find a path of more resistance.

[TurboKid]

I do think it's definitely harder when we're married and even more so with kids. So I can sympathize. Yet few would give or accept such excuses for other things we consider very important and essential, like maintaining dental hygiene, or showering regularly, or keeping our houses reasonably clean. So I think the ultimate reason people don't exercise is that they haven't built the habit and discipline yet.