I believe that adopting a “no excuses” lifestyle is impossible without understanding the difference between an excuse and a reason. A reason is a valid impediment to getting your workout in, though you would do it if you could because you want to do it. “I was held up late at work.” “I had a paper due the next day.” “I had a flat tire.” Work is necessary for a living. An education costing thousands of dollars is essentially a student’s job. Transportation is necessary to get to the gym (so, work out at home!). 

Too often, people try to force themselves to work out because they know it’s something they “should” be doing, and find it difficult to maintain a routine. They know they should “want” it, but they don’t because everything they associate with fitness—not looking or feeling “good enough,” intimidation in gyms, and forever giving up the foods they love, to name just a few—is negative.