45 Funny Tweets About Exercise to Read When Pretending You’re Gonna Hit in the Gym in the New Year

Despite what fitness influencers tell you, no energetic workout playlist, decked-out pair of running shoes or time spent perfecting your form will keep you from feeling like a bored pet hamster on a wheel every time you hit the treadmill. 

It’s a harsh truth only understood by the truly enlightened, like the old men who go to the gym, use the elliptical for 10 minutes and then spend three hours in the sauna. They’re the ones doing it right.

So, before you take that five-mile run that will almost certainly have you screaming at God for four-and-a-half of those miles, enjoy these hilarious tweets from people who, like you, would rather be doing anything else.