It’s on with the T-shirt and homely trainers every other day for Eva Wiseman
‘I downloaded the little app, where Jo Whiley would cheer me on across the weeks’: the joys of jogging.‘I downloaded the little app, where Jo Whiley would cheer me on across the weeks’: the joys of jogging.started running to impress my neurologist. I downloaded the little app, where Jo Whiley would cheer me on across the weeks, and I put on a T-shirt and some homely trainers, and chucked myself out of the door.
But – it wasn’t as simple as that. Last week it was reported that almost half of British women have donein the past year. The headline bothered me. I kept reaching for it again, like a sock that would not stay up. It was the same feeling of discomfort I remembered when, in those twilight months of early parenthood, I read in the papers about a study on breastfeeding that had suggested the longer a baby is breastfed, the more successful and intelligent they become.
This exercise study landed in a similar way, inspiring a familiar guilt. Everyone knows the reasons why women exercise – health, fitness, lose a stone before Alison’s wedding. But the reasons why womenexercise are rarely discussed. To do so requires a sullen breaking down of factors, the telling of which becomes quieter and sadder as the list goes on. Why do half of women do no exercise? Because it takes time, time alone, time which, if they have children, many must pay for.
And of those who are able to carve out the NHS’s recommended 150 minutes a week from their schedules, some continue to battle with poor body image , which means they feel anxious and vulnerable about presenting their Lycra-ed body to the world. A recent survey by Women in Sport found a significant number of girls disengage from sport in their late teens due to “self-belief, capability and body-image concerns”.
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