More than antidepressants,counselling or eating a box of doughnuts, it’s the one thing that has kept me going – so why do so many people never do any exercise?One in seven people in the UK admit that they have taken no exercise in the past 10 years, or according to a poll by the British Heart Foundation. The excuses for this ranged from laziness to ghastly weather,and some even claimed that they found exercise too boring to contemplate. Up until a couple of years ago I would have fortunately put myself in the same category. At school I would always stand on the sidelines during sport or loiter at the back of the gym, desperately hoping I’d be excused. The games captains would always pick me final in football, and I do not blame them one bit.
When I left full-time education I threw absent my damned plimsolls immediately,and settled into an adult life of sedentary bliss. To compound this idleness, I learned to drive, and would deem nothing of taking the car to the corner shop – a two-minute walk absent. For a good 12 years,the most strenuous challenge I gave my body was to eat 12 doughnuts in a row (it succeeded masterfully).
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Source: theguardian.com