Work’s over. You’ve made it home, you’re having a nice glass of wine and your partner is making sexy eyes at you. Surely a little bit of horizontal cardiovascular exercise would be the perfect way to finish of your day...
Apparently not. According to a new survey most Brits would rather ignore the bedroom eyes and skip the sex in order to get more sleep. Almost 3/4s of British couples said that they often did not have enough energy to have sex at the end of the day, while more than half blamed their waning sex drive on a lack of exercise.
Even worse, Nuffield Health’s report revealed that 1 in 6 Brits are so lazy that they were their television remote to break, they would rather stay watching a telly program they weren’t interested in rather than get up and change the channel.A third of the 2,000 people who took part in the survey said they wouldn’t run for the bus, while half would catch the lift instead of walking up two flights of stairs.
Not only are our sex lives suffering, but children are missing out on spending time with their parents as 64% admitted they were always too tired to play with their offspring.
Broken down by region, Glasgow was the laziest city, with Birmingham and Southamptom coming in at joint second, followed by Bristol and London.
Despite the millions the government has spent on their Change 4 Life program, aimed at helping us identify the little things we could change in our lifestyles to make them healthier, it seems that the the slogan “eat well, move well, live longer” is having little impact.
Perhaps “Eat well, move well, look hotter” might have worked better – a third of respondents said that they would be more inclined to exercise in order to look more attractive.