To me this does not make sense; how can nearly 2/3 of Americans be overweight or obese and yet 2/3 of Americans meet the exercise guidelines? This conflicting source of information might possibly be explained by saying that either the respondant to the surveys were not forthright in their answers or the guidelines for exercising is not sufficient to effect weight loss.
Yesterday I also read an article entitled “Top 10 Reasons You Don’t Work Out”. Click this link to access the article http://exercise.about.com/cs/fittingitin/a/exerciseobstacl.htm . Here I will list the reasons beginning with the top reason:
- You don’t have time
- You can’t make the commitment to stick to an exercise routine
- Exercise Hurts.
- You can’t seem to stay motivated to continue working out
- You want to exercise but you have to take care of your family
- You don’t know how to exercise
- You are not seeing any changes in your body
- You can’t afford a gym membership
- You have tried to exercise but you keep quitting
- You really hate to exercise
We took a poll from our readers from July 2009 to September 2009 to gauge the frequently of exercising, what we found was that roughly 63% of respondants either did not exercise or exercised only 1 time weekly. We decide to further gauge our readers to see if their reasons for not exercising matched up with the claims of the author of the above mentioned article “Top 10 Reasons You Don’t Work Out”. We will run this poll for 2 months. Afterwards we will write posts and articles on our findings that will hopefully serve as a source of inspiration and motivation to those traveling the weightloss and/or fitness journey.
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