In this day in age of "working out" why do we bypass the easy stuff?

Question

Why do we take the elevator versus the stairs but still go to the gym sometime during the day?

Answer 1

Marilyn Vos Savant wrote a funny answer along these lines when someone asked her the question, "Do really smart people do dumb things?"

Humbly, she answered that she was guilty. She went on to explain that she lives on 50th floor (in NYC). She would take the elevator down, pay 25 dollars for taxi to her excercise club, 25 dollars for taxi home and elevator up fifty floors to her apartment.

What did she do at the excercise club?, 50 floors on the stair stepper.....pretty funny eh.

You are right, though, every one tries to see how close to the store they can park rather than walkin a few hundred feet.