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    The purpose of exercise is...

    Posts: 2,019 Member
    edited September 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    ...[fill in the blank folks].

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    • Posts: 267 Member
      to enable occasional cupcake consumption.

      (hey, i'm no role model!)
    • Posts: 98 Member
      consume more calories and have a break from the kids (if the gym has childcare!).
    • Posts: 14,517 Member
      To keep me from turning to flab (We older folks have to really watch this!)
    • Posts: 49,206 Member
      to confuse people..............................so instead they hire me as their trainer and I pave the road to success for them!!!
    • Posts: 3,094 Member
      So that I can sweat and occassionaly flip off and cuss out Tony Horton :drinker:
    • Posts: 218 Member
      to enable occasional cupcake consumption.
      this works for me :love:
    • Posts: 275
      To earn the treats I like. If I don't earn them I don't have them. (anymore). Before MFP I would just have them and that is why I was 28lb heavier than i am now.
    • Posts: 73
      To sweat it out! I'm not gonna lie actually making myself do it isn't the fun part, but when it's over you feel good about yourself!
    • Posts: 365
      To get outside, to have fun, to get strong and fast and energetic.
    • Posts: 201
      ...to transform my body from the one I have now into the one I want.
    • Posts: 599 Member
      to be fit! Who wants to be skinny but can't run or do a push-up? I lift heavy and I train hard in cardio. I WANT RESULTS!
    • Posts: 21
      ....two fold. 1) Do a sport/activity YOU ENJOY and 2) keep trim. For me... Swimming and walking the canine.
    • Posts: 549 Member
      To be able to say this and actually mean it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5HRzaOFhec
      and maybe do the dance too.
    • Posts: 571 Member
      ...to feel better!
    • Posts: 317
      weight loss!
    • Posts: 440 Member
      used to be to burn calories/lose weight, now it's because then i can EAT MORE lol
    • Posts: 54
      to maintain strength, burn calories and allow for more calories to consume!
    • Posts: 512 Member
      to improve your life in countless ways.
    • Posts: 770 Member
      feeling self confident, overcoming yourself, looking great naked, shocking old friends!
    • Posts: 2,351 Member
      ... to torturously transform this body into one I am more proud of and slow down the aging process.

      Oh, and the cupcake thing :bigsmile:
    • Posts: 377 Member
      For overall health and to feel like I'm 49 and not 72 like I used to!
    • Posts: 437 Member
      to get the body and confidence I used to have. And a few side benefits: no more back / ankle problems and eating w/o guilt.
    • Posts: 3,317 Member
      ...to look good nekkid!
    • Posts: 24,482 Member
      to keep my body feeling its best!
    • Posts: 13,247 Member
      ... to make me very happy about being 39. I'd kick my skinny younger self's *kitten*!

      1998.jpg
    • Posts: 6,294 Member
      to be healthy, fit enough to mountain bike, snow board, play rugby (fun things) without dying. To have extra energy all day. AND too look good and have better sex.
    • Posts: 128
      have a break from the kids (if the gym has childcare!).


      amen! Love my 2 hours a day at the gym!
    • Posts: 225 Member
      to punch dance out my rage in a wooden glen.
    • Posts: 5,526 Member
      Mostly to kill time until I get to eat again.

      Secondly, cuz I adore the endorphin rush so much and my wife says I get really effing crabby if I miss more than a day or two in a row.
    • Posts: 963 Member
      Because you're a girl after my own heart....to be strong enough to survive the zombie apocalypse. And to be able to shop in regular stores.
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