From the article: Walking Excuse Busters
What excuse do you use to avoid fitness walking? Tell us your most outrageous excuse or just confess to your most common walking excuse. Share Your Excuse
Procrastination
- I keep putting it off during the day and will go "soon". Then it's dark before I know it and I have to wait until the next day and swear that's the first thing I'm going to do when I wake up but something else always comes up that I can "quickly" take care of. Then another day is gone.
- —Guest Wendy
Motivation
- My motivation isn't usually great enough to overcome the pain of walking. So why don't I use my recumbant bicyle? My friend Steve has a really good reason for not walking which he would rather not have. He's paraplegic.
- —Lady_LaughALot
I feel so weak
- I am so out of shape and get so tired ; my legs feel shaky. And it is too hot or cold. Maybe i'm sick and need to rest.
- —msnormajean
Exercise with bad knees
- I will be needing knee replacement. What exercises can I do for my upper body that won't hurt my knees?
- —Guest Peggy
Too busy and too cold outside
- I have walking tapes I could use but I am too busy playing my piano and other musical instuments. And I volonteer at my church almost every day.
- —Guest Ana
no sidewalks
- My pitiful excuse for not walking is that there are no sidewalks here and I don't want to fall in a ditch
- —Guest maur
Just Plain LAZY
- I have no excuse for being so lazy. I think the most important thing to do is ignore those voices in your head saying I am too tired to go for a walk just get up and go. Mind over Matter!!!!
- —JoSmith69
EXCUSES...
- I work outside for TEN hours a day, 6 days a week. I am from Alabama, and here in North Ohio, the weather is WICKED. The temperature has been below zero, with a wind chill -29. It's TOO cold right now. I do love walking...I lost 30 pounds last year and have kept it off even in this weather. Can't wait till spring.
- —Guest Shelia
Just too tired
- Guess I'm feeling sorry for myself and unmotivated. I'm working and supporting us and feel put upon so I put the excuse on I'm too tired when I get home and can't get up early enough to get up and out. I know all too well I'm not doing myself or anyone else any good. I pray I have an attitude change. please help. del
- —Guest giggie8839@aol.com
Ooooh my aching back!
- Having dealt with overpronation and weight issues until recently it was easier to come up with the excuse not to walk - it started to become a bit of a pain in my back. I would never have thought it would be like that but I could easily have just stopped and said that was good enough for me. I now realize that this worked out for good because I am now on my way to greater health through the Weight Watchers Momentum program, which I've heard is very good. Now I don't worry as much about my back - I worry more about who I will leave behind when I enter fun walks and those who gave up on their walking programs!
- —Guest Gerry Teigrob
Embarassed
- I'm too ashamed to go out and walk in my subdivision thinking that my neighbors are probably talking about me.
- —Guest Lily
Snowy roads
- I usually walk around my neighborhood, but the roads are covered with snowy frozen icy slush. I'll slide off into the ditch and never be found. I was proactive, and ordered an elliptical machine, which then arrived broken, and now I have to wait for parts. I have a sit down job, and I am turning into a slug. I will be looking like Jabba the Hut before this snow thaws.
- —Guest Petra
It's 43 out there.
- That's Celcius or about 110 Farenheit. With warnings of heat stroke in my ears I sit in front in front of the fan in a very wet tee-shirt, drinking water, until i need to rewet the tee after about an hour. Laughing in Australia.
- —Lady_LaughALot
Not enough time in the day!
- I work and go to school full-time. I know I should be walking at least 30 min a day but I just don't have enough time!!!! HELP !
- —Guest Penny
Knee pain...walking makes it worse
- Not enough hours in the day to do everything I need to do. I'm consumed with work and I have to do it. Terrified of dogs. Terrible knee pain that gets even worse when I walk- this is the #1 problem.
- —Guest Nancy
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