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How much time did you spend exercising last week?
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(Score: 2) by richtopia on Tuesday August 02 2016, @03:29PM
Does that count? Because I promptly ate a whole pizza after I was finished.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @03:34PM
As long as your heart rate was consistently elevated above normal levels.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @05:53PM
Wait, during the digging of the ditch or the eating of pizza?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 02 2016, @07:42PM
That's his heart rate when he's asleep. Dude must be a super soldier!
(Score: 5, Funny) by jelizondo on Tuesday August 02 2016, @07:37PM
You forgot to mention carrying the corpse for 100 yards...
(Score: 2) by e_armadillo on Monday August 15 2016, @09:39PM
Able to eat a whole pizza after disposing of *that* . . . .
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(Score: 2) by lhsi on Friday August 05 2016, @07:47PM
I just went for a run and ate ice cream when I got home
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @12:23AM
My weight loss group just ran 4 miles and ate dinner at a Chinese buffet.
Am I doing this right?
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday August 02 2016, @03:57PM
My job is sat in front of a computer, coding all day. I got very little exercise. However, since getting a Fitbit and seeing my targets being met, I am a lot better at getting out at lunchtime for a fast walk to get my heat rate up.
It has been good for me and well worth the money I spent. However, you mileage (pun intended) may vary.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @01:32AM
Starjumps [wikipedia.org] (British) or jumping jacks (American) are incredibly good at spiking metabolism.
Don't do more than 5 in a row since that's plenty enough for a boost: you're using your entire body as a circulatory pump. It takes between 30 seconds and a minute for 5. Try it at home first and in front of a mirror before you decide if you want to do it in public (might be too embarrassing). I do mine sideways in an empty short narrow hallway. With some care you can use normal clothes and any flat shoes (beware of slippery socks, shoes, and surfaces!). No need to clap your hands or make any noise. Take care you don't knock anything over with your arms and you can do it just about anywhere where the ceiling is high enough.
If star jumps are too wild then half-jacks or any kind of explosive jumps done between one and ten times should still help a lot and should be easy to fit in anywhere. If you have something low (a few inches) & easy but really solid (like the first step of a flight of stairs) that you can jump onto and back off then that might be worth a try too (also try jumping up backwards).
Don't make it into an exercise workout thing, keep it short with low repetitions, no need to get sweaty since it's only meant to be an incredibly small break that takes a few seconds.
To me a starjump (and I love that name) is like a friendly physical joke or an expression of happiness that cheers me up. We don't have tails and can't wag but we can starjump :D
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday September 01 2016, @01:19AM
Careful with the FitBit. I've heard reports that the heart rate monitors are inaccurate, so you may be too high or too low. Neither of those are good for optimal cardio.
Although to be fair, I'm not sure how optimal cardio can be maintained running from Zombies. That's a bit stressful.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @05:44PM
I never did any "exercise" in my 20s and 30s, only since 40s I started running and I'll be 50 soon. It's just as, no, more for mental health than physical health - shits that might have been interesting/fun back when I was younger is now sheer hassle/stress - run for an hour seems to clear out the mental clutter/angst, at least for a day.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday August 03 2016, @03:53PM
I'm sorry to hear that your shits are no longer interesting and fun. I know a lot of older people that use Metamucil to help shit. Have you tried that? It might help make them less stressful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2016, @06:49PM
Funny enough, good dump is one of the benefits of running.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @09:23AM
As long as it does not happen *while* you are running...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @11:53AM
You know what they say, shit is what happens while you are doing something or other.
(Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Wednesday August 17 2016, @07:23PM
I now appreciate that SN isn't an image board.
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(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Thursday August 04 2016, @10:58PM
Same story here - until about 35 I ignored anything like exercise, ate anything, and stayed lean and mean.
Mid-30s - bang! Started getting a serious Molson Muscle, [urbandictionary.com] and found that climbing three flights of stairs was leaving me out of breath.
Started biking, then running, now hike the mountains daily and do some gym time. I'm still amazed that I actually wound up really enjoying running.
Just because you've managed to get through two or more decades without exercise doesn't mean it'll last forever - I know couple of of mid-thirties guys who are starting to blob out right now.
Anyhow, the secret to all of this is to find a girlfriend or boyfriend who's athletic, and who can cajole you into getting fit while the relationship is still in that "I'll do anything to please" phase.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @02:14AM
Strange how different we all can be, I would strongly advise not to use a spouse or anyone you're in a romantic relationship with as a training partner because it can easily be or become a no-win situation unless you're both aiming for a laid back level of activity (no puns intended!). I want there to be a lot of exceptions to this but sadly my experiences are that there are plenty of people out there who can't handle anyone being worse or better than themselves or both (at different things) and then in addition hate it if you pace yourself to them and hate it if they need to pace themselves to you (if they even bother). Yeah I guess the women I've ended up falling in love with were all total shits to begin with despite their differences but even so those are the only anecdotes I've got XD
[Hah now you've got me smiling ear to ear about being single, it's so wonderful compared to being weighted down by those assholes! :) ]
Much better to make use of old or make new friends when it comes to training if there's something you can't do on your own (like many sports). Join or make a social team!
I'm even weirder than that: not only do I train alone I also prefer not to make much of it (except fun! It should be fun and rewarding at some level or something is off and you haven't found your thing or the right circumstance or level or exercises etc.).
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(Score: 2) by number6x on Friday August 05 2016, @05:50PM
I ran through my teens, twenties, thirties and forties, often competitively. Before turning fifty my knees and ankles were so injured I had to give up running. I think your waiting my have saved you a great deal of wear and tear on some body parts, and may be a better overall strategy!
I commute to work by bike as often as possible (seven miles each way). Or walk some days. Yes, walk to work.
I get the exercise, but I do miss running.
I'm waiting for a good blizzard so I can cross country ski to work. :)
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 02 2016, @07:44PM
NCommander is my personal trainer
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Well, now we know why he has the time to run this place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 10 2016, @11:16PM
I didn't know using NortonCommander was classified as exercising?
(what is your favorite version?)
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 13 2016, @10:50AM
Norton Utilities is probably better suited for dealing with FAT. ;-)
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @02:29AM
*groan* :D
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by ese002 on Tuesday August 02 2016, @11:41PM
I selected ">120 minutes" but that really understates the situation. I often do more than that in a *day*. As an endurance athlete, I realise I am an outlier, but these categories are crazy low. You'd get more than 10 minutes per week just walking to your car.
(Score: 2) by stormwyrm on Wednesday August 03 2016, @06:00AM
I started becoming seriously fitness and health conscious around late last year, but even before then I would on an average day walk for at least an hour in total, by necessity, thus having roughly six hours of exercise per week, nearly triple the highest option. I think it would be very difficult to actually get exercise in the lower brackets unless you were a true hikikomori who never left their room! I imagine even here there aren't a lot of such people.
Now, I typically go to the gym three times a week and spend two hours on the treadmill, and roughly an hour or so doing weight training and other miscellaneous exercises, and have gone down from close to 90 kg to just a little above 80, which isn't too shabby I should think.
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(Score: 2) by Kell on Thursday August 04 2016, @03:01AM
Yeah - it's a sad commentary on our "expected" levels of activity that even 30 minutes of physical exercise a day (often quoted as a minimum recommended amount), almost doubles the saturation point of the poll.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @03:15AM
I completely agree that it's not much, however...
You really weren't asked about activity or any physical movement, I mean did you count wanking too? :3 (meant to be funny, the numbers would explaode if we all did that right?)
And those recommendations are full of shit. Imagine 30 minutes on a treadmill at the lowest setting; it makes no sense as a general advice just like nearly all general advice (and a hell of a lot of "expert" advice) makes no sense to begin with and only demotivates people who get sick of hearing all the nonsense people spout.
I'm pretty sedate (I'm your average slug and got nothing bad to say about hikkimori) but I only counted actual exercise for my answer, walking to the the car (hah I've got none) or the shop or work or vacuuming or cleaning or tidying up or god damned breathing or anything like that (or biking or skiing or whatever you do to get from place A to place B) does not count as exercise in my book because guess what it actually isn't.
I only counted time set aside specifically for (additional if you insist) dedicated exercise and opted for a conservative estimate since I don't time myself and only care about completing the exercises as best I can while enjoying it (form, control, speed and/or pace while listening to the signals the body is sending back and making corrections to exercises and/or form). I ended up choosing 60-120 minutes but I think I'm a lot closer to 60 than 120. I train each day and keep an exercise diary which would shock you one way or the other, I'm not sharing it :P
So yeah I completely agree that it's not much at all but I bet something close to 70% of all people do less exercise than I do no matter what they claim. Those who are seriously unfit and need it the most should start by doing much less than I do, not more, but it has to be actual exercise and not creative accounting. Again the general recommendation is laughable and counterproductive and slams the people who need actual advice straight into the wall if they follow it.
And even though I do daily training now I used to train differently before with two roughly one hour intense bouts of sports and weights each week and that's still (conservatively) barely within the 60-120 bracket. I repeat that most people are nowhere close to that level of exercise on a regular continual basis without all kinds of exceptions although they will gladly lie about it and believe it themselves.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @01:55AM
I am a hikikomori, you insensitive clod! Well, rather than dwell on my present problems, let me at least pretend I'm the me of 8-ish years ago. Yeah, actually it was 8 years ago almost to the month, because I remember that Obama had come out of nowhere and beat Hillary in the primary earlier that year. That me didn't follow politics as closely as the present me does. Anyway, remembering...
I'd never been an athletic person before. I wasn't overweight as a child (of course, childhood obesity just wasn't a thing back then anyway), but I'd always had a little belly fat that made me mildly self-conscious. When I got older and after I turned 21, I quickly became addicted to alcohol, which naturally caused me to go overweight.
I once had an outdoor job that slimmed me to my ideal weight but that didn't last long. I loved that job and pretty much didn't drink a drop the whole time. I screwed up big time and was fired. Back to the bottle. I ballooned up to my previous weight and overshot it once again in the space of 2 or 3 years. Went from shit job to shit job.
Then something changed for me. Maybe it was having a psychologist who clicked with me. He helped me learn to leave the bottle on the shelf. By the time September rolled around, I was regularly walking and strength training three days per week. Instead of driving to work, I'd walk to a bus stop, about 2 miles away, roughly 35 minutes twice per day. Strength training days were about another 20 minutes.
Not much seemed to change. Yet when winter came, and I remember that winter was particularly bad, I didn't give up and use the car to get to work. They didn't exactly clear the sidewalks and bike path along my route under the best conditions, and they didn't even try that winter.
I wasn't tracking my weight since I was expecting to be disappointed, and I don't remember exactly when I first noticed. Maybe it was in November after I'd gotten used to dealing with what seemed like two feet of fresh snow every day. It seems like one day I woke up and there was a somewhat thin person staring me in the mirror.
I do remember that by mid-December, I was wearing pants I'd never thought would fit me again from that first time I was thin at the job I loved but sucked at.
One day, maybe it was in January or possibly February, I don't know what got into me, maybe boredom with the 35 minute walk, I decided to see how far I could run. By March, with the snow melting, I was running a mile per day before my shower in addition to the 35 minute walk. I didn't push myself for speed, so let's say maybe a 10/12-ish minute mile. It was 15 minutes including very basic stretching before and after.
Around that time, I had a shocker of all shockers in the mirror. The person looking back at me had abs. Never before in my life or since.
That summer, for the first time in my life, I didn't feel self-conscious at the beach. I really had it all. So, let's say (15 + 35 + 35) * 5 + 20 * 3 and that gives 485 minutes per week or roughly 8 hours. Good grief, that seems like so much finally calculating it, an intimidating total. It never seemed like a big deal back then.
If only there were a one weird trick to it all I could post, but I can't. I've been over every aspect of that time over and over again and there's no one thing I can say I haven't tried in isolation that triggered everything else, including a good psychologist or avoiding alcohol. There are some things I left out but the only one I'd care to mention was that I did count calories at that time but I never found myself needing to deny myself a food I wanted to eat on a regular basis. I had my ideal body. I felt like a movie star. I wasn't ripped or anything, but I would have fit right into any TV series where everybody is an ideal weight and nobody struggles with their weight.
Anyway, sorry for the long post. (The 8s are just a coincidence.)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @09:04PM
Well, rather than dwell on my present problems
Being a hikikomori isn't a problem.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @03:31AM
One way or the other you found something you enjoyed and which worked for you. Something you could do, and then some more and different stuff later on. That's all there is to it but that "all" is plenty difficult enough and it can seem totally impossible. People are less likely to find it if they're beaten over the head with all the stuff others think they should find (not saying you're doing that because you're not and I'm also trying to not do it myself).
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(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday August 03 2016, @04:17PM
I'm interpreting this as unadulterated physical activity. Walking to your car from the office doesn't count. Walking down and up the stairs from the computer room to refill the soda doesn't count.
Going to the gym. Taking a walk. Yogaing... etc.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Thursday August 04 2016, @06:45AM
We've really fallen for this one. Exercise? I get my exercise in the course of doing useful things like cleaning and maintaining a house and yard. I never do physical activity for only the exercise. Used to be, no one did. If you went for a jog, people would wonder what the F you were doing. Didn't you have enough chores?
It seems especially boneheaded to pay for a membership at one of those nutty private gyms, then pay more to have someone mow the yard and clean house for you. The gyms are staffed by arrogant presumptuous pricks who think they have the authority to pass judgment on customers, denying entry to the ones they don't like by throwing roadblocks at them. But people put up with a lot to get into a place where there could be dating opportunities.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Monday August 08 2016, @01:25AM
Does 20 minutes on a bicycle every weekday (10 to work, 10 back) count?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday August 18 2016, @04:53PM
I say "yes", but the supposed experts will tell you "no". The almighty "consensus" is that you have to keep the heart pumping hard continuously for twenty minutes at a time. There is something magical about that 20 minute mark, if you listen to the experts.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @03:45AM
I think Runaway1956 nailed the "experts" but even so I say it counts as travel because you had to travel anyway right? So I don't think its exercise. That doesn't mean it's bad at all just that it isn't exercise.
Or were you working out aiming to improve your physical characteristics to a higher level while traveling? That would be exercise. To me exercise is about intent and action, not only action, and the action does not have to be particularly impressive or anything but it has to be intentional or any activity at all becomes "exercise".
Sorry if I'm being a boneheaded moron :3
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(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday August 03 2016, @11:48PM
I easily get 180 minutes biking to/from work at least 3 days/week.
..I really need to find a day-job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @10:50PM
Categories under 120 minutes have more votes than over 120 minutes so it isn't that crazy.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Wednesday August 03 2016, @12:26AM
I am not sure about what my heartrate is, I don't wear any of that fancy shmancy fit bit crap. I do walk the dogs for at least an hour a day usually more in the Arizona heat. I also know I weigh almost the same as when I graduated high school, and at 6' under 185 lbs I am considered in decent shape.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by toygeek on Wednesday August 03 2016, @07:20PM
Less THAN 10 minutes, you insensitive clod!
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(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday August 06 2016, @11:05AM
Yep, just noticed the poll and the typo. Fixed!
Also, in before the pedants, I updated the choices to avoid ambiguity as to what the endpoints were. So, "[10-30) minutes" uses mathematical notation to denote that it could be exactly 10 minutes and up to, but NOT including, 30 minutes -- cf: open/closed intervals [mathsisfun.com].
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(Score: 3, Touché) by toygeek on Sunday August 07 2016, @05:07AM
For me, pointing out the grammatical error was my way of avoiding the question so that I didn't have to actually admit how much exercise I didn't do last week :P
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday August 04 2016, @03:54AM
Got to say that NCommander has been training me well for being a much less flabby individual. I highly recommend his personal trainer services if you can afford them.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday August 17 2016, @07:31PM
It looked to me like his training classes were free? I mean, there was this subscription thing you could fill out to pay him but not many people seemed to be doing it. I was suckered into it because the flyer said you get a gold star and hugs. Only came with the star! Total ripoff.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @03:49AM
*hug*
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:58PM
>120 minutes. About 40 minutes a day. Run a mile (I live at 15,000 feet), lift heavy, rest 2-3 minutes between sets.
Then I eat healthy, which is more important than all of the exercise. No sugars, no carbohydrates outside of digestive fiber. Lots of protein.
The way we are taught to eat eat--it's legacy--from a time when people didn't have scientific knowledge, were more active, and only had very limited (geographically and seasonally) selection of food. We still eat this way, just more of it, with more sugar. And less physical activity. There's no reason to do that.
As a result, I have a very low resting heart rate and low blood pressure. My HDL:LDL ratio is off the charts. The only downside is very high creatinine levels, which requires constantly drinking water.
I'm surrounded by people who are addicted to their legacy foods ans beers, who have poor health conditions as a result, and receive medication to treat their problems. That's no way to live.
(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday August 12 2016, @03:43AM
Except the majority will probably live longer than you :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @03:52PM
Only because he's a runner and exercise shuts down your immune system while you do it. Other than that the better eating habits would have meant a longer life.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:27PM
A 1 hour aerobics class 3 days a week, plus 2-3 days a week I'll get off my still-fat ass and take a 30 minute walk.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:14AM
(3/7*60) + max(2,3)/7 * 30 120.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 10 2016, @08:15AM
Err … that should have been:
(3/7*60) + max(2,3)/7 * 30 < 120.
New poll suggestion: How often do you forget to preview? ;-)
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday August 10 2016, @01:57PM
Yeah, I knew I was gonna get nailed for that typo as soon as I hit enter. What I did not know was it would take someone a week to do so.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday August 10 2016, @06:58PM
Well, it was the first time I saw that post.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @10:40AM
I deliberately keep no food in the house just so I have to walk at least 30 minutes every single day if I want to eat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @02:14PM
I've tried this before, but I end up skipping meals if I do so. It's rather pathetic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @12:42AM
Depends on what you mean by skipping. I eat one solid meal per day and drink water during the rest of the day.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday August 05 2016, @01:14PM
I have a body by Little Debbie.....
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(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @03:55PM
I skipped eating a few candy bars that I normally eat. So I saved time, money, and 'exercised' all at the same time. If you're exercising for health rather than endurance, it's far easier to simply not eat the energy you were going to burn while working out.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday August 17 2016, @07:36PM
You're right if you are talking just about body weight. But wrong if you were talking about body shape and "health". A 190 lb (86kg) guy can come in a variety of shapes. Some more pleasing and "healthy" than others : P
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday August 26 2016, @04:54AM
Sorry to be pedantic but 86 kilos only really comes in sizes depending on height, there's not enough to play with and shift around otherwise so unless you're really short you'll be thin pretty much no matter how fat you are if all you weigh is 86 kilos :)
I was about 86 or 90 or so kilos and not short when I was 16 and wore size 30 (that's slim in my opinion!) black jeans (and had long blond hair and scared people without meaning to lol). If I had exercised seriously back then rather than just being very active I would be a lot heavier and easily above 100 kilos and there's no way the jeans would fit either if I did that (they're about 42 or so now, the jeans I wear use some weird scale, not that the usual jeans sizes aren't weird too).
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(Score: 1) by driven on Thursday August 18 2016, @12:10AM
You do need to move your body for its health. Read up on Synovial fluid [wikipedia.org] (aka. "lubricate your joints")
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Friday August 05 2016, @09:57PM
I have no car, so in my case, I could stand with much less exercise. This is Arizona. It's hot as fuck.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 07 2016, @08:00AM
'Bout an hour of 'bating.
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Sunday August 07 2016, @02:59PM
I usually get in about 1-2 miles a day of running around the factory fixing stuff (according to my iPhone Health app).
Keeps me skinny in spite of my horrible diet.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by riT-k0MA on Thursday August 11 2016, @02:47PM
I play Ingress.
It gets me outside and it gets me walking around.
Ingress tracks the number of kilometers walked while playing the game. A few months ago I went out for a morning and accidentally walked 13km (without noticing).
If you want to accidentally exercise, Ingress is for you.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 14 2016, @03:59PM
I eat a ton of candy and junk food and never work out. I'm constantly putting on weight and plan to stop around 500 lbs. Then I'll never need to spend extra time exercising. Carrying around all that weight means I'd be constantly working out. I'll be stronger than all those people wasting 2 hours of their life each day just picking up and putting down heavy circles. We're supposed to be getting smarter. Becoming super fat means you get to eat all the great tasting food and you get to get in shape withing having to do anything. It's a win-win!
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday August 17 2016, @08:54PM
That is not a great strategy.
If anything ever happens to make you bed-ridden for a few months, you may loose too much muscle mass to easily walk again.
I have seen it happen (more than once).
(Score: 3, Funny) by fustakrakich on Monday August 22 2016, @03:58AM
You won't even see me running to the bus
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(Score: 1) by Moof123 on Wednesday August 31 2016, @02:55AM
Rode my bike 2 times to/from work (30 miles total), ran 6 times (31 miles total), a couple hours at the rock climbing gym, and 10 miles of brisk walking at lunchtime. Much of the running was being in the Hood to Coast 199 mile relay race. It was an awesome week, a true high point of my year. Total time was about 10-11 hours of excercise on top of incidental walking.