Lamest Excuse You've Heard or Used for Not Working Out

Hubby-yesterday--too busy clipping coupons

He said he was going to start working out with me when I started on Tuesday, but there's been an excuse every day since then.  Now, I've made terrible excuses in the past, but never this bad.

Tuesday--he was too tired and needed a nap

Wednesday--he ate a bunch of chips as soon as we got home from work, so he didn't want to work out right after he ate.

I think this might be a little mean, but I'm going to keep a list of these reasons until he starts working out with me.  I hate exercising and will put it off for almost any reason, but I'm forcing myself to do this so that I can get in shape.

haha I've used the make-up one before!

Original Post by keepliftin66:

my best friend, told me:

"i'm not strong enough to workout." 

that's right up there with "i'm too out of shape to exercise."

OH I love this thread!  Could I get any lamer with my excuses??

I straightened my hair and it will curl up if I sweat (a variant of "good hair day")

I can't walk because it's raining outside (nevermind that I live 1/2 mile from an indoor mall I could walk in)

It's too dark out right now (you got it, I belong to 24 hour fitness)

It's a meat market (who am I kidding!?!?!  They ain't lookin at me!)

I don't have a dry headband (really)

I have on polyester and it will chafe me

this is fun!

"The local high school just let out and I don't want to jog my flabby butt past a bunch of high schoolers who will point and laugh."

"It's 5p and I don't want to jog down the street because all the people are getting off work and I don't want one of them to hit me with their car" (uhhhhh tons of people jog down my street every day, no casualties yet!)

"I'll go to the gym just as soon a I reply to this email..." (2 hours later...) "Oh crap it's rush hour time, I don't want to drive in traffic" (seriously. The gym is like 10min from my house. I make it sound like I have to drive 2hrs. Not to mention I can jog outside without having to drive anywhere).

"I worked out yesterday with my trainer. It was hard so it's like two workouts and I can skip today" (unfortunately I've used this one several times and it's NOT true!)

"I don't feel like changing out of my regular clothes and into my gym clothes"

"It's raining" (um it's not raining in the gym!)

These posts are too funny!

"I don't want to work out because there are spiders in the basement where the weight bench is and my weights are covered in cobwebs even though I used them just yesterday." (True. The solution was to get a boyfriend who keeps his weight bench in his bedroom. Fewer spiders! Mine remains abandoned in the basement of my apartment building, collecting spiders.)

"I don't want to go jog or walk because it's getting close to dark and people get shot and/or mugged in my neighborhood all the time. Do I want to be that defenseless out-of-breath flabby white girl at dusk?" (In my defense, I do live in a terrible neighborhood. KCMO is edging out East St. Louis for murder capital of the US. However, I think I'm really overestimating my odds of being attacked because it happened to me two years ago and being mugged at gunpoint is terrifying.)

Since starting back in October, I haven't used any excuses.  But in the past, I have used them all -- too hot, too cold, too rainy, too late, too tired, too something.  Or, I make a deal with myself that since it's soooo late and I can't exercise today, I'll do it tomorrow earlier.  Never happened.

My husband however has come up with a great one.  He is going to start working out when football season is over.  I believe they only play football on Sundays, which leaves 6 other days to work out.  (Okay, sometimes they play on Saturdays too but you get the idea.)

Scrubs is on and I don't know when this new episode will replay again.

I don't really have excuses, usually it's just "screw it I am going back to sleep." lol. Usually this happens when I over train with combination of bad weather (rain or cold).

I think an excuse is just an attempt to justify not working out -- and I can't, so no excuses....I'm lazy, that's all.

One I hear frequently:  "I'm on my period" -- Not necessarily lame (some women do have problems), but too often used by many.

"My mom's too fat, I can't work out."

"Go to hell. I'm tired, I've had a bad day, and I don't need to bust my ass on an elliptical right next to some anorexic 50 year old with washboard abs. I don't give a **** if I get fat."

The latter is my favourite. Might as well be honest.

Used as an excuse not to warm up before lifting: I'm too cold. (We lift in the basement - it IS cold!)