Friday Fitness Funnies - These Excuses Don't Fly

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

08 Dec 2006 02:39 PM

Fridays are a great part of the week - they are the day we kick back and relax and try to wind up our week on a positive note. When we've skipped our workouts at some point during the week, we'll start to feel a bit of nagging guilt because whether we had good excuses for missing the workout or not - we feel guilt for having missed a day.

For example, I've missed every one of my workouts this week and I know that my excuses were valid - my husband is recovering from major surgery and sleeping a lot. Our workout equipment is mostly in the bedroom - so perhaps you can see the dilemma. Still - the guilt is there and so I thought about some of the goofiest excuses I've ever heard or seen for why someone missed their workout and the laughter made me feel a bit better.

Some of the best excuses I've heard for missing a workout:

• My dog needed to go out
• My dog wanted to play
• I forgot to record my television program
• The phone rang and the dog went outside and wouldn't come back in
• I couldn't find my running shoes
• It was cold
• It was hot
• I didn't have good music to listen to

These are just a few of the excuses that I've heard and one that I could add to this list and that actually did happen was that my dog chewed up one of my weights. It was one of my five-pound hand weights and he chewed all the rubber off of it - I could still use the weight, it was just ugly. At one point, he also chewed through one of the resistance bands on the Bowflex - talk about the dog eating your homework?

What is one of your favorite excuses for missing a workout?

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Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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