Why Is It So Difficult For Us To Exercise?

Note to self - we're pretty long on posts which have a question in their header. But then again, what does it matter, noone's reading! Well, if you are - that's another minute of your life gone for ever, for no gain whatsoever! Sucka!

Anyway, back to today's rhetorical question. It takes me a huge mental run up just to do my routine circuit train, which I don't even have to go anywhere to do, so I'm sure it's the same for others. The people who run gyms have got it right - make money about people's initial enthusiasm in joining for the next decade or so, only to fade away once January turns into February.

Any excuse will do for me. It's too cold (in Tallinn that can be a legitimate alibi, though the cold period seems to linger later and later every year - we're in April now!), it's too hot, I've just eaten, I'm too hungry, etc etc. Trying to think how such lackadaisical attitudes would work in other areas of life: "sorry I didn't finish the assignment, I hadn't had any lunch" and yet the promises we make to ourselves are surely the most important ones, aren't they?

Of course, exercise is tough. Even the crapout Royal Marines-derived circuits I do, whilst hardly being an ironman triathlon, do get you up to your VO2 max if you do a tough one, and can leave one feeling somewhat light headed for some time after. But the rewards are practically infinite; exercise needn't cost much, leaves you feeling great, and if not looking great at least a little less repulsive, and everything else slots into place. Too stressed and busy to have time to exercise? (yet another question - ed) Do it anyway and the time you need for the other stuff will look after itself.

So I'm going to put into practice what I've been preaching to an empty nave and exercise every day for the rest of this week. Will report back on the outcome..