What is worse????

In general, I like to keep things positive, but just for fun, here are four terrible reasons to exercise:

 

1.     As punishment.  No one should be sentenced to exercise.  Not for eating cake, not for bad behavior, not for nonconformity to the current fashionable body type.

2.     To satisfy someone else.  We do not exist to please other people.  If our partner or parent or other significant person in our life demands that we exercise as a condition for their love and acceptance, we have a big problem, and it isn’t that we need to hit the gym.  (Please note:  I’m not saying that our loved ones can’t suggest in a loving, kind way that they enjoy having us around and they want us to build healthy habits.  It’s the part where love is withheld because we don’t measure up or obey that is the problem.)

3.     To try to achieve the impossible.  Not all of us can be (or should be) supermodels.  Some of us can be sprinters.  Some of us can lift really heavy objects.  Some of us can lift people’s hearts with their dancing.  We can certainly improve at whatever we practice, but we need to recognize that some goals are going to remain unattained.

4.     To be virtuous.  Exercise is good for us, but it does not make us good humans all by itself.  There is nothing inherently more saintly about exercising than about lying on the couch.   Exercising for a positive mark in the great gradebook in the sky is silly.

 

Anybody got any worse ones????