fatigue

Rushing out the door in the mornings, it can be hard to find the time for a decent breakfast, let alone a cup of coffee.

A new study from the University of South Carolina that shows some interesting effects that exercise has on the brain, making it “fatigue resistant.”

Don’t beat yourself up if your first instinct after a long week of work is to stay in bed on Saturday morning rather than take that 7 a.m. spin class your friends have been nagging you to attend, or if your Friday night routinely consists mainly of you staring at the TV screen until your chin hits your chest.

When I was a kid, I was a champion television watcher. I could sit in a basement and watch sitcom after sitcom, from Growing Pains to the Hogan Family.

I’ve always been jealous of my friends who took ballet when they were younger. I still look enviously at their ballerina straight backs, perfect posture and clean, graceful lines as they move. Next to them, I look like the Hunchback of Notre-dame.