Women Get Less Exercise Than Men. It’s a Problem.
Originally published by Danielle Friedman for the New York Times
After a full Saturday shuttling her two kids to soccer and play-dates across Manhattan, Neha Ruch, 39, finally carved out a few precious minutes to exercise at 6:15 p.m. She didn’t even bother to change clothes before hopping onto her elliptical machine in a closet-turned-home-gym.
After 15 minutes, the interruptions started. First, her husband poked his head in — their daughter was pleading for her to say good night. No problem, Ms. Ruch thought. She sat with her daughter for a while and then came back to the machine.
But just as she was breaking a sweat, her son wandered over, asking for help finding something to do. She sighed and turned off the machine.
“I had left the door wide open,” she said. After helping him, she surrendered to the couch.