it’s worrying that I have experienced on numerous occasions teenagers who have a lazy attitude to exercise, they lack the motivation to exercise while making excuses to avoid any physical body movements. While staying in a hotel on the 3rd floor, I was walking past the lift when I overhead two teenagers commenting that they don’t wish to take the stairs, they would rather take the lifts up the three levels. One girl was overweight. When they commented about waiting for the lifts as it was taking so long and this is a heritage building with an older style lift, I said it would be quicker to walk up 3 flights of stairs…..her response was ‘I’m too lazy’.

This experience was repeated on numerous occasions when visiting major tourist destinations where teenagers where unwilling to climb stairs.
For example on the Arc de Triomphe its 266 stairs to the top and there were some back packers who refused to go up the top based on having to go up the stairs.

Similarly in numerous situations such as the Eiffel Tower where there is about 480 odd stairs to the first level platform, numerous teenagers or young backpackers would rather queue for 1-2 hours to get the lift to get the lift to the first level rather than take the stairs.

This is quiet disturbing as we are only talking 10-15min walk up a flight of stairs which is not an excruciating hard or difficult task.

So with childhood obesity increasing, there are numerous factors that may be contributing to this growing epidemic so teenagers having with a lazy attitude to exercise is concerning.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm by Andrew Talati and is filed under Health in general.

Tags: Exercise

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