People who are too busy to do exercise

I get what you're saying @Hollyandivygoout . Its not that you're annoyed people don't make time to exercise, its that those people make it sound like 'You've got soo much time on your hands & we are the busy ones', rather than just be honest and say, 'i'd find that difficult' or 'id love to but just too tired'. Everybody IS busy, we just prioritise things differently.
Personal example, DH runs 2 businesses quite fullon and travels a lot, he works very long hrs BUT his guilty please is Eastenders'. He will always squeeze it in for a wind down or record it and watch it on a Sunday. Quite often when having mundane conversation with friends, DH will make reference to something funny in Estenders and they've said things like, 'You must have time on your hands', ;I'm much too busy'. These people have 9-5 jobs, kids all grown up/left home. Socialise every week and spend hrs on the phone. A simple 'We don't find it interesting' will suffice. Its a poor attempt to sound superior rather than show any perceived weakness.

4 miles really isn't that far and the recommendation for physical activity is 150 minutes per week. Are you sure you can't find the time for another run or go a little further on the couple you do manage?

Perhaps they don't need to 'exercise'. My father has never exercised, never been overweight and is a fit and mobile 88 year old. He's always been busy in his garden, walks to collect his paper every day and did a manual job. Not everyone feels the need to exercise.

I get what you mean (I find it weird when people say the same thing about housework, like basic cleanliness is some kind of OCD)

but…. The reality is some people are busier than you, and many people aren’t prioritising it.
We all remember what it was like with little kids. It’s not always about whether you can technically fit it in, but about maybe wanting to prioritise spare time with them.

i can give you an example as I don’t think I have time to exercise right now.

3 days a week I am up at 6, leave the house at 7am for work and return at 7pm. I am too tired to exercise after this.

2 days a week I work from home. In the mornings I like to use the time to help my primary aged children get ready for school and drop them off, then in the evening I am able to take them to their clubs, make them dinner and help with homework which I like. I put them to bed and go to bed myself between 8-9pm

weekends we often have days out, but without them they do 2 activities each anyway that i like to watch. I often do an exercise class one or both days on the weekends, but also often can’t be bothered

now the obvious answer people give when faced with someone like me saying they don’t have time is to find time around what I’ve described. Why don’t you get up an hour earlier? Why don’t you exercise at 9pm?

but that’s a simplistic answer because the issue isn’t people being unable to schedule - it’s that they have limited free time and aren’t currently prioritising exercise into it.

the little snatches of time you think you can find in their schedule doesn’t work for them for various reasons.

i had December off work and lived the life of a sahp- I went to a exercise class everyday- it was super easy as I was refreshed energetic and had nothing else to do.

in fact, It’s super annoying when people challenge those who say they don’t have time by demanding their schedules and finding solutions 😂

If anyone’s child can run fast enough to burn as many calories as a sustained 30 min run, cycle or exercise class, I’m impressed.

I’m a single mum to two young dc so exercising is out of the picture. Having said that, I watch what I eat so pregnancy weight fell off both times and I’ve remained slim.
You’re BU to even care if people exercise or not. I couldn’t care less.

Well done i guess?

Technically I have the time, but by the time my baby has gone to bed I'm too shattered to do anything other than veg out on the sofa and watch emmerdale. Maybe that will change once the weather is nicer and it's less dark.

I imagine many parents are in the same boat. Free time is precious and we want to use it in a way we will enjoy.

She doesnt have TIME!!!!!!!!!!!! Shes WAY too busy.

I run 4 or 5 times a week and work ft, it became infinitely easier when my DC were secondary age and could be left on their own.

Some people might be making excuses, some might prioritise other stuff and some might not have time/energy. I have a friend who has 4 very young children and she runs at 10pm, but that wouldn't work for everyone.

OP why do people start threads and not prioritise responding to people??? I can't understand it

You do you, OP. Stop being so judgmental about the rest of us.

For the record I am disabled and running would actually be risky for me, but I try to walk four miles a day. This takes me 90 minutes.

Unfair response.
Alot of people do exercise in a different format, running after children,brisk walking as some examples.
I'm glad OPs schedule works well for her

When I was a single mum working full time with children who still woke in the night and one who regularly woke for the day at 4.30am and didn’t sleep until 10pm (adhd) I would have said I didn’t have time. I mean I guess I did have time, but it would have been hard to use that time when I had young children who couldn’t be left alone and neighbours who complained enough about us just walking around the house normally let alone trying to do exercise at either 5am or 10pm at night. Plus I was exhausted.

My AIBU is finding it annoying when people tell me they don’t have time to do any exercise.

Who cares? They can't fit it in because of other things they do which they don't want to stop. You may think that those other things should be stopped in order to make time for exercise, they clearly don't.

Well bully for you. You can do it because you have children old enough to be left alone. Think about a single parent with two children under 5, like I was. How would they manage it on top of working?

I don't really love exercise, so I don't prioritise it.

However, I do have a spotless house, fully planned cooked from scratch healthy nutritious meals, all home maintenance jobs completed straight away etc - which many people don't. I prioritise what's important to me.

I don't go to the dirty/untidy/poorly maintained houses of people who prioritise exercise and say they don't have time to clean or to meal plan and judge them because they waste time running rather than keeping on top of household chores or meal planning or doing the other things that are important to me. Because I understand we're all different and have different priorities.

Horses for courses. You feel good if you prioritise running/exercise. Other people don't and have other things that are more important to them.

This was me too and I worked part time but everything was a rush. The OP is prob a teacher, also works part time or has a very supportive DH who either works from home and or has parents or IL’s at her beck and call. Well lucky OP.

Keeping fit and well can be painful, there's no denying, but if you want it that bad then you'll find a way.

The majority who claim not to have time don’t because it is not on their list of priorities not because they actually can’t find the time. And there can be any number of reasons for that - it is not our place to judge someone who finally wants downtime sitting down after working all day and then battling with housework/cooking/young children in the evening.

Those who love exercise will find the time in the day but we have to see that everyone does not love it the same way

It would be far more beneficial to look at society as a whole and see how we are set up for failure with our current lifestyles and economic environment where exercise is concerned. But no government is truly invested in prevention rather than cure….

To be fair Slow Horses is great 😄

Why is this a topic that comes up so much? Why do you care what exercise other people do?

I suspected you are a sanctimonious exercise-bore and these people are either defensive or trying to get you to shut up.

And I’m not being defensive myself - I don’t run because I don’t think it’s a brilliant form or exercise but I work out several times a week and play sport. I am wholly uninterested in what exercise other people do, I doubt they would bother to tell me anyway.

I want to exercise more. Literally can’t find any time in my schedule. May be, if I gave you my daily routine you can let me know if when I can do it?

Personally I can’t understand why more people don’t slob on the sofa, binge watching Slow Horses while stuffing a box of Maltesers in their mouth. Far more character building.

I was very active and loved to exercise before I had kids. But with two under 3, I’m sometimes too exhausted to take a shower by the time they’re both in bed. People’s lives are different and they have different priorities. I hope that when the kids are older I’ll start to exercise again, but atm I’m one of the those ‘too busy to exercise’.