43 Perfectly Valid Excuses for Not Going to the Gym Today
- You just went yesterday
- You have a bad back injury from lifting
- You’re recovering from a mysterious stomach-attacking flu-like illness
- You’re stuck at work writing the draft of an important email
- Your good friend who you rarely see anymore invited you out for dinner and drinks
- You’re riding a wave of inspiration and working on a new side project
- Your family needs your help preparing dinner
- There’s a really good show on TV
- You’re tired from sitting all day at work and have a long commute anyway
- You just don’t feel like dealing with the gym today
- You’re more interested in fixing your nutrition than in exercising
- You don’t really give a shit about your health because you’re a pop nihilist and everything is meaningless
- You don’t want to drain your life’s finite store of energy
- You were abducted by a gang of protesters and they’re currently using you as part of their latest demonstration
- You ran into Guy Fieri leaving work and he invited you for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Flavortown
- Your gym’s water main brake and the whole place smells like moldy towels
- You’ve replaced going to the gym with lifting logs in the woods
- You’re outrageously scared of being around people sweating
- You’re going to a therapy session to work on your prosoperspiriphobia
- You witnessed an off duty clown mugging an off duty mime and you have to help the mime describe what happened to them to the police
- You forgot your gym pass
- It’s Tuesday
- It’s a holiday
- It was recently a holiday and you ate too much
- It’s a holiday coming up and you still need to prepare for it
- It’s too cold and crummy outside
- It’s too warm and nice outside
- You fell in love with a stock photo model and you’re searching for their contact info to ask them on a date
- Your phone’s battery is too low
- It’s National Don’t Go to the Gym Day
- You got cast as an extra in a movie on the way there
- You have deep political differences with the treadmill at your gym
- You’re privy to a disturbing conspiracy the gym owners are running and you’re working on the case
- You’re not entirely sure the gym actually exists
- The person you want to run into at the gym no longer goes there
- You’re too lazy and you’re trying to embrace being yourself
- You plan to go the following day
- You’re already in perfect shape and you don’t want to get too fit
- You’re bored of everything you can do at the gym
- The gym is probably too crowded
- You forgot your gym clothes
- You have a gland defect that makes your skin play “I Want it That Way” by the Backstreet Boys every time you sweat
- You’re already at the gym
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