How to Stop Making Excuses to Get OUt of Exercise

Decode (and Defuse) Your Exercise Excuses

By Selene Yeager
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the April 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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If finding excuses to skip workouts made us fitter, we'd all be triathletes. Here's how to stop in order to actually go!

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