What will it take to get people to look at exercise as fun, not work?
How do we get people to look at exercise as fun, instead of work?
One of the things that we need to figure out not so much for those of us here on Bodybuilding.com but basically for the 66% of North Americans who are overweight and who are not doing anything about it is how to go about making exercise fun, not work. We all know how important it is to exercise but sadly this is not enough to get most people to do it. Everyone from Oprah to the Surgeon General has long lauded the need for us to exercise or else we are subject to a myriad of ailments that will conspire to either shorten our lifespan or take the joy out of it and yet like the proverbial mule we dig our feet in and will not for love nor money make the effort to save our own lives.
Some people say that maybe if your spouse was nagging you about it you would go but today more than likely your spouse is in as bad or maybe even worse physical condition than you are so that ain’t going to work.
All of us as children ran, jumped, played and invented all sorts of a game where we had to use physically energy and we did it willingly and with joy but today that’s a different story. I for one would love to be able to figure out a way to get people to enjoy exercising as we all did as children and the way I do especially now. I look forward with anticipation to my workouts and feel bad and even deprived when I have to miss one or even when I am having a scheduled day off from the gym I would rather be no place else than in there pumping iron. I refer to it as having an iron deficiency.
I put the question out to all of you who may read this blog; what do you feel that it would take to get the general public to accept exercise as a way of enjoying life more and longer and what will it take to make it fun instead of work?
