Exercises That Do No Good

By John Pool, M.D.

  • Climbing the walls
  • Dragging your heels
  • Grasping at straws
  • Skipping your meals
  • Tilting at windmills
  • Spinning your wheels
  • Jumping the gun
  • Passing the buck
  • Kicking yourself
  • Pushing your luck
  • Stretching the truth
  • Running amock
  • Swimming upstream
  • Flying off the handle
  • Falling out
  • Going for broke
  • Heaving a sigh
  • Throwing a fit
  • Weaving a spell