| ▲ | cyberax 16 hours ago |
| I stopped wasting tons of time by walking several kilometers a day, and instead got a car. I also started doing weight and resistance training for 2 hours a week. I'm feeling much better as a result. YMMV. |
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| ▲ | jebarker 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I’ve been both an ultra runner and a committed weight trainer at different times in my life. For me I believe the weight training is better for overall health (as long as a minimal dose of cardio is also included), but the thing it really lacks is the time outdoors. So calisthenics outdoors might be the sweet spot! |
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| ▲ | hollerith 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | But the minimal dose of cardio is something like 180 minutes a week of zone 2 exercise. | | |
| ▲ | jebarker 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | For sure, but when I was a runner that got me outside for more like 10-15 hours a week. | | |
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| ▲ | xandrius 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > I stopped wasting tons of time by walking several kilometers a day, and instead got a car. This sentence is so surreal, I feel like I'm dreaming. |
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| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | What's strange about this? Depending on the start and destination, a car can either be faster or slower than other modes of transportation. | | |
| ▲ | aSanchezStern 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sure, but when you're walking all the time, none of that time is wasted, because you're helping your body and brain function better. When you use a car, you really are wasting all your transportation time. To get the same benefits, you would have to drive places, and then go walking recreationally after, which would clearly take much more time to get the same utility. | | |
| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | Their next sentence shows they traded one form of exercise for another. That's "surreal"? There are many forms of exercise. |
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| ▲ | xandrius 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because literally every single study or individual realization is about the incredible effects of merely walking every day. And the Op stopped something which is universally deemed great both for the body and the mind and traded it for using a car and sticking themselves inside a gym instead. Surreal. | | |
| ▲ | add-sub-mul-div 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | He traded a walking commute for a planned, intentional workout. Why are we criticizing this? What's bad about other methods of exercise? |
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