NY Times: Want to keep exercising? Don't get married, don't have kids, and get divorced if you are married

That's fine, if you wish to spend your life as the average statistic. Perhaps the better strategy is to not pigeon hole yourself

Get a jogging stroller and a bike trailer. Use them to cart the kids around and exercise at the same time. Problem solved.

I see attractive unmarried/divorced women all the time who love to exercise/run. It is sad that they just get older and will have nothing to show for it. In speaking with them about it, they act is they are totally OK with not having kids or a legacy. When I bring up nieces and nephews, their eye light up and tell the me greatest stories of those kids they suddenly shy away as if they are sad.

I don't buy it. There is something wrong when you use exercise as your religion.

Urine idiot wrote:

I see attractive unmarried/divorced women all the time who love to exercise/run. It is sad that they just get older and will have nothing to show for it. In speaking with them about it, they act is they are totally OK with not having kids or a legacy. When I bring up nieces and nephews, their eye light up and tell the me greatest stories of those kids they suddenly shy away as if they are sad.

I don't buy it. There is something wrong when you use exercise as your religion.

It is sad that people like your let their worth or fulfillment be defined by the offspring they produce.

not that complicated wrote:

Get a jogging stroller and a bike trailer. Use them to cart the kids around and exercise at the same time. Problem solved.

Posted the person who doesn't have kids.

Either that or you have to tell me what you are giving the kid to get them to sit still long enough to blow off some steam on a long-enough run.

Dont' worry new parents, the first 10 years fly by.

not that complicated wrote:

Get a jogging stroller and a bike trailer. Use them to cart the kids around and exercise at the same time. Problem solved.

But being fit is only a problem for single people. Once you're married you don't have to impress anyone.

Topic = most unsurprising facts I've heard in a while.

Jeez raising children sounds terrible

It's a horrible burden.

How about some breast milk, a fruit squeezer thing, and a few toys. I used to regularly take mine on long runs of up t 32 km.

Nothing like passing the p $#=y kids in a race and them saying oh =÷_% he is pushing a stroller.

Urine idiot wrote:

I see attractive unmarried/divorced women all the time who love to exercise/run. It is sad that they just get older and will have nothing to show for it. In speaking with them about it, they act is they are totally OK with not having kids or a legacy. When I bring up nieces and nephews, their eye light up and tell the me greatest stories of those kids they suddenly shy away as if they are sad.

I don't buy it. There is something wrong when you use exercise as your religion.

I think what's even sadder are the men and women who insist on producing "legacies" they can't or won't care for--"legacies" who do nothing but drain the rest of society. But hey, as you point out, at least they have "something to show for it"!!

"Men typically exercise more after a marriage ends; women in that situation frequently exercise less."

This corresponds well to lrc's findings that males run more/best when they're single while females run most/best when they're in a relationship.

crappy cappy wrote:

That's fine, if you wish to spend your life as the average statistic. Perhaps the better strategy is to not pigeon hole yourself

Try 'pigeonhole' next time.

3 kids all under age 5, my wife and I both work. I run 6-7 days/week. Very early AMs and a very very cool wife (who also is fit and exercises as much as she would like to). It's easy if you just do it and don't whine about how hard it is.

For many, it is just an issue of priorities. I know dedicated runner families who hire a baby sitter for races and long runs on the weekend and skip out on date nights, etc. But it is hard to keep a regular exercise schedule when at least one spouse has to watch kids in the morning.

Pigeon Hole wrote:

crappy cappy wrote:

That's fine, if you wish to spend your life as the average statistic. Perhaps the better strategy is to not pigeon hole yourself

Try 'pigeonhole' next time.

How about shutting your 'piehole' next time.

Water is wet, sun rises in east, etc. etc,

This should be common sense. Exercising takes time, especially if you're trying to get a PR at the next local 5k, or whatever, and that's time that your significant other would rather you spend with the family, unselfishly.

Some people just dive straight into marriage without thinking about what it entails. They need to understand that your "me" time is essentially cut by 90% or more when you get married/have kids. There is no more "you." There is just "we," all the time, for the rest of your life. That is not a decision that should be made quickly.

Don't rush into marriage.

What are you talking about? Why wouldn't I take care and provide for my kids? (see the LRC real man thread). I'm no ghetto trash or baby daddy wannabe. Someday I hope to find Miss Right and have kids (not right mind you) but I think people who stay in the perpetual Peter Pan mode and live for the next half marathon are sad people.

U sure are wrote:

I think what's even sadder are the men and women who insist on producing "legacies" they can't or won't care for--"legacies" who do nothing but drain the rest of society. But hey, as you point out, at least they have "something to show for it"!!

Would it not have been truer of the researchers to admit the truth? That a lot of men can't get that hot, fit, athletic woman and settle for the overweight, lower achieving type, in their fear not to be single and getting laughed at by their friends?The couple that both do sport, reasonably well, are more likely to continue being active and trying to stay attractive.

NY liberal wrote:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/how-to-get-your-spouse-to-exercise/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Phys%20Ed&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body

A pretty interesting article with facts showing married people exercise way less than unmarried.

Also people with kids way less than those without.

The good news is if you are man and are married it's not too late. If you get divorced, you'll start excercising more. Sorry ladies, a divorce will cause to excercise even less.