Good article. Though to Jim be fair did find having a kid to be a barrier to working out... the way you work out. Gyms don't often have child care so if you don't have that, gyms are hard. Or impossible. Equipment may not be financially feasible for some.

Thing about legit barriers, especially in regards to children, is that they're not permanent. They're a season. And just because you can't bodybuild or buy equipment doesn't mean you can't exercise to stay or move toward health. As you said. For me, all I could afford during that time was a baby back pack. $20. Every day I'd stuff my infant in and go for a nice long walk. I wasn't running, or speed walking, or even moving with a purpose. It was a leisurely pace appropriate for a newborn and my post birthing body.

The trick is to do what you can with the resources you have and build from there. And do something you can stick with.

It's also easy to get bent out of shape with all the "Just Do It, no excuses" articles. A lot of them really do come off like you're a lazy slug if you're struggling or if you don't belong to a gym or do HIIT or whatever. Yours generally aren't that bad, but you know what I'm talking about. Guilt and shame aren't good ways to encourage life changes. Neither is "barriers are all in your head".

There's got to be a happy medium here. We could use more articles like that; helping people start where they're at and getting them to think about how to get around barriers.