People who are too busy to do exercise

I started a thread on here a while back about finding time to exercise and one mnetter said something along the lines of "it's not time or motivation you lack, it's DISCIPLINE "

Absolutely nailed it. I have time, and I know that I need to exercise but I lack the self discipline

DS is there in the evenings and DH is working. I finish work, have a cup of tea and chat with DS about school and how he's doing/let him vent any issues, make dinner, tidy round then it's the start of the bedtime routine, getting DS to take his melatonin, setting up his blankets and lights then encouraging him to go up then I have to stay with him until he's asleep. I'm rarely downstairs before 11, and often it's after 11 - which is an improvement as before the melatonin it would be 1am.

My AIBU is finding it annoying when people like the OP don’t have time to do come back to a post they started. It’s like they’re so busy and important and other people have got all the time in the world to reply to them. I honestly don’t believe that the OP can’t squeeze in half a minute a day as a matter of politeness to respond to posts.

Hope you don’t intend on being a drain on the NHS if you end up with weight related issues then!

They do … you just have to be inventive. Look online for ideas if you can’t think of anything.

I know . FFS.

None of your business.

You do you and let everyone else do them. It's none of your business. I am 65, work full time, out the house at the crack of dawn and back late. Stop judging. It's none of your business.

I actually live in a tiny home, so “exercise” at home has different challenges. You make a lot of assumptions. Sure, people are lazy- but not everyone is lazy. Some people don’t have suitable time- by which I mean non-allocated time at a moment when it’s practical to exercise. It’s disingenuous to say that everyone has the capacity to exercise.

Ladies chill, why are you arguing when the person who started the argument has either ran off🏃‍♂️ or is sitting back laughing with the 🍿

No I don't have time. For many reasons work, 4dcs , 7 after school clubs they go to between them. 3 different educational settings between them. So playing mums taxi until 6/7pm most nights.
Then there's 1 dc who has a lot of appointments. Housework, cooking and all that jazz.
Dh generally gets home 6-8pm.
But time we've sorted kids I'm absolutely knackered.
Weekends we have dsc. We enjoy that time as a family when we're not at various kids parties or sorting their social lives

Doesn’t always have to be high energy cardio. Lots of ideas online for all situations.

It’s not always though. If you’re in a flat with downstairs neighbours you have to be considerate of them so starting a workout at 9 or 10pm isn’t really possible. Same goes for early mornings. Even between terraced houses the sound proofing can be non existent. It’s less of a problem if yoga is your thing as you can do that fairly quietly but if someone is trying to fit in a cardio workout and they only have time at 5am or 9pm and they live in a flat it’s not “easy”.

Thank you lovely ❤️

To be fair I was using it ironically 🤣

Unfortunately I bet they don’t cover anything near it.

Not sure your way will help either tbh … but you keep trying!

that's the joy of our health system.

Now that's a term we don't see often these days!

I love exercise, but I will absolutely NOT do any sort of home workout.
Exercise for me involves getting out of the house for air and a change of scenery and seeing people ie way more than the physical side.

It has been challenging over the years and it's been very up and down but now my youngest is nearly 16 (lone parent) my time is coming again (which is bittersweet actually).

Their taxes pay for exercise related injuries, that's the joy of our health system.

I go to the gym at 10pm as it's the only time I can go there. I also walk when I can (I'm limited by when I have someone to look after my youngest) I'm lucky I can do that. My house is tiny and doing home workouts is almost impossible (flashbacks to COVID lockdown). When my kids were younger it was a lot more difficult.

Agree you must do some exercise even if it's walking and gardening. How else do you keep fit.
Your body needs exercise.

I guess I tend towards thinking that if I want to get other people to change their behaviour around exercise that I’d get further by pointing out positives about how it can make you feel & helping with some suggestions about lots of different options you can fit into short windows, do with kids etc, encourage them that they can do it. If you are concerned about the NHS and funding treatment for people who are unfit trying to engage with and encourage people who are struggling to fit everything in vs berating and belittling them will likely help more.

I actually used to think the same, I have 4 kids and am a single parent and up until recently worked full time in a 12hr shift pattern; I thought if I can do it why can’t everyone?

Then I changed jobs to a Monday- Friday role. I get up at 6.30, drag the kids to breakfast club and crawl through London rush hour to get to work by 8.30 getting more and more stressed; do a full day demanding job, run out the door by 4.30, sit in same traffic wondering if I’ll get to after school club before it shuts. Collect my kids, deal with their exhausted tantrums, get home, cook dinner, try and force them to do their homework, sort out stuff for tomorrow, iron uniforms. By 8.30 I’m fucked. Every evening I promise myself I’ll do a workout and every evening I crawl into bed totally shattered.

lol, why are you sticking up for a bunch of strangers? Sick of reading the poor me excuses 🤦🏻‍♀️ No wonder the country is in the state it’s in and the NHS is on its knees!

I simply don’t understand. Why does anyone want to be so critical and unpleasant to a bunch of strangers? What do you hope to get out of it?

I'm sorry life is so hectic @Starblind19
Do you have a partner, because it sounds like your life hasn't turned out as you thought it might.