Why you don't Excercise

Edited: Don't want to get into this discussion... some people really don't have time, some do. Let's not make assumptions about individuals.

Just because someone is overweight doesn't mean they don't exercise. People can appear "all out of shape" because they're overweight and still exercise - even a lot!

mccindy72 wrote: »

Exercise has very little to do with losing weight. Exercise is for fitness. losing weight is mostly done through eating correctly, at a deficit. No one said you had to exercise to lose weight. OP said people are "out of shape", not overweight.

OP has no idea if someone is "out of shape" unless they're basing it on weight. I don't think they're out giving fitness tests to "all" the people around them.

omma_to_3 wrote: »

mccindy72 wrote: »

Exercise has very little to do with losing weight. Exercise is for fitness. losing weight is mostly done through eating correctly, at a deficit. No one said you had to exercise to lose weight. OP said people are "out of shape", not overweight.

OP has no idea if someone is "out of shape" unless they're basing it on weight. I don't think they're out giving fitness tests to "all" the people around them.

Very true.

I think it's generally a cop-out that people don't have time, at least it is if they watch TV.

But I also think it's perfectly acceptable to choose not to exercise because you have other priorities.

Zara11 wrote: »

omma_to_3 wrote: »

mccindy72 wrote: »

Exercise has very little to do with losing weight. Exercise is for fitness. losing weight is mostly done through eating correctly, at a deficit. No one said you had to exercise to lose weight. OP said people are "out of shape", not overweight.

OP has no idea if someone is "out of shape" unless they're basing it on weight. I don't think they're out giving fitness tests to "all" the people around them.

OP's post is all about people claiming they don't have enough time to exercise, so yes, his post is also about exercise.

Err no it's not.

He looks at people believes they are all out of shape by how they look and assumes they are claiming they don't have time.

I doubt he did a poll of all these people to decide
A) if they're out if shape
b) why they don't exercise.

Op judged people by appearance and jumped to a bunch of conclusions.

rand486 wrote: »

MarziPanda95 wrote: »

I'm losing weight fine without exercise. I hate exercise and I'm lazy, so I'm not going to do it. I walk to uni (30 minute walk there, 30 minutes back) three times a week and swim once or twice a week because these are the only forms of exercise that I enjoy. At the weekends I don't even get out of bed

Whatever your goals are. Just be aware, being skinny is an aesthetic goal that can be done with just restriction of calories. "Health" comes from good nutrition & exercise.

There's a big difference between getting skinny via the Twinkie Diet, vs proper diet & exercise

I am very much aware of this. But as my health is bad anyway... (I have a bleeding disorder that, no, is not going to be helped by any amount of vegetables or exercise). I always make sure to hit my protein goals so that I can try to retain muscle. I FEEL fine though. And isn't that what the 'health' goal is about? Feeling healthy? But I already feel healthy, so there's no need for me to exercise to do so. I also never said what my diet was like. We have never had twinkies in the UK

I struggle to work out and have a ton of excuses I know I need to get over. I work full time (60+ hours a week), have kids, live in a tiny town that has one crappy gym that is never open and even if it was open more I'd have no one to watch my kids, I dislocated my shoulder a few years ago and it still hurts like crazy when I lift weights or do too many reps of anything that uses that arm...my house is tiny so finding space to workout in it is hard ( I kicked my three year old in the head last time I tried.) If I worked out in the morning I'd end up waking the kids up. And I just plain get bored really easy with it. Oh and I also have really big tatas and I've yet found a sports bra supportive enough for any type of running or jumping...I usually wear a regular bra with two sports bras on top and it's still not enough to prevent getting a black eye.

MarziPanda95 wrote: »

rand486 wrote: »

MarziPanda95 wrote: »

I'm losing weight fine without exercise. I hate exercise and I'm lazy, so I'm not going to do it. I walk to uni (30 minute walk there, 30 minutes back) three times a week and swim once or twice a week because these are the only forms of exercise that I enjoy. At the weekends I don't even get out of bed

Whatever your goals are. Just be aware, being skinny is an aesthetic goal that can be done with just restriction of calories. "Health" comes from good nutrition & exercise.

There's a big difference between getting skinny via the Twinkie Diet, vs proper diet & exercise

I am very much aware of this. But as my health is bad anyway... (I have a bleeding disorder that, no, is not going to be helped by any amount of vegetables or exercise). I always make sure to hit my protein goals so that I can try to retain muscle. I FEEL fine though. And isn't that what the 'health' goal is about? Feeling healthy? But I already feel healthy, so there's no need for me to exercise to do so. I also never said what my diet was like. We have never had twinkies in the UK

Some tesco's have them in the world food aisle :bigsmile:

That's just the number 1 excuse that people give. The real reason people don't exercise is because they do not WANT to exercise. They are lazy and would rather do something else, period.