One of the many benefits of living in a walkable area. I’ll get a mile or two of walking in just going about my business. Walk to the grocery, walk to the subway, whatever.
We do this because being in that specific physical space helps us do the thing.
Also it’s hot out.
I’d also add that people who don’t work out probably shouldn’t make memes about it.
Joker works out he takes on Batman in several instances just because we don’t see him at the pile or sling some iron doesn’t mean he wasn’t! Probably working on his tire flips behind the bank when we get to him in the movie.
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Nah can’t mean me, I hit the gym.
But seriously, I know, I’m just choosing not to feed an attack over a meme with…what… proof I touch grass? Lmao none of us owe that to anyone in a shitposting sublemmy
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My car needs cardio too
Outside of temperature control as others have mentioned, there’s also a greater sense of security while exercising, showers available, and seeing others train can motivate you if you’re the competitive or visual sort. Plus treadmills are less impactful to your knees compared to trail runs so they are good for recovery/casual runners.
In all honesty, gym memberships are terrible value for money by itself. Its value comes from convenience and saving time for a person who wants to train with some consistency.
I think they’re only a bad value if you only use the treadmill. If you use a wide variety of the machines and free weights, it feels pretty practical
Yeah it’s a practical option for people who want to exercise on the regular, I call it ‘terrible value’ because you can exercise for free without machines/access to weights if you really want to save some money - body weight exercises, public parks etc.
I enjoy a paid gym membership myself, it saves me a ton of time. I just wouldn’t recommend the same to one strapped for cash, ‘good’ gym memberships aren’t cheap where I am (I pay a hundred SGD a month). I should have been more specific.
I mean, if it means I don’t become a victim of vehicular manslaughter.
Or don’t twist an ankle having to trek up and down hills without sidewalks. And if you have bad knees, that goes double.
There are no sidewalks near any of my nearest gyms ironically, and I live in a fairly large city. Just busy stroads as far as the eye can see.
So fix that instead of normalizing inefficient nonsense!
Bruh, you aint helping.
„What is the USA?“
Then I drive another 3 miles to taco bell then I drive 20 miles to save 3 cents per gallon on $50 worth of gas, then I do workout victory burnouts in the parking lot. I DO IT BIG NINJA
OH MY GOD every time I hear some Midwestern person tell me how proud they were that they drove 20+ miles (one way) to save <$1 per gallon on gas. They’re so disconnected, gas is just a requirement of living. Distance does not compute in their calculation, it’s just “yup I saved money”.
Even if you did save money, that’s an hour of driving. Even at minimum wage was it worth your time to do that?
midwesterners will drive an hour everyday and call it an easy quick drive
hell theyd call a 3 hour drive not too bad
I mean, a 3-hour drive is not bad if you don’t do it all the time.
That’s because it’s not walkable between home and the gym
Dawg it’s 95°F out with 97%RH cmon
Not saying this works for everyone everywhere but I just run at like 9pm
Ah yes. 9 PM, when the heat index is still 100°F.
Here’s yesterday’s peak heat index across Oklahoma. It being 99° isn’t the problem. It feeling 10 degrees hotter is.
Just evolve some rabbit ears
I’m going to evolve into a plasma based being if this heat continues
Exactly. Not to mention all the exhaust I have to breathe when I bike to work.
Fuck cars
And I rode 15 miles round trip to work. Excuses are like assholes.
Good for you.
Carry a gallon of water 💦
They have water at the gym
Good now we get to drink 2 gallons 🦍
Sounds like extra work your body will be doing for free. More efficient exercising. Stay hydrated. 👌
I live in Phoenix, Arizona and this post can go fuck itself. I TRIED to go for a walk outside the other day, and it was 109F with 40% humidity. I can do that, or I can go to the air conditioned gym…
This is a big part of the reason why I don’t live in Phoenix.
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The cost is to experience belonging in a group/ social thing with the goal of being healthy. the “crowd-sourcing” fee.
also there’s now a cost to running outside, gotta run for reals now.
There’s an “I think you should leave sketch” in here.
YOU DONT OWN THE STREETS!
NOBODY TALK TO HIM.
You’re paying to be motivated by a teenager with an ego trip. Sorry, I mean a “trainer”.
Hey, some of us need that…
The crossfit down my local stroad* does that. On the one hand, I find it kind of funny that they’re paying a gym membership to run up and down the sidewalk next to a five lane highway, on the other I think it’s an advertisement tactic; used to be you’d see the whole “congregation” but now it seems they only make the women who forgot to wear sports bras to class go run on the sidewalk.
My local bike club charges $5 if you want to ride with them to the local brewery on Saturday.
So we’re just going to pretend that the other 90% of the gym doesn’t exist?
Right? It would take me most of an hour to walk to my gym, which is really close (I do sometimes jog to the gym and walk home, when I have time).
An hour walk is prob a 20 min bike ride
But if you walk a mile there and a mile back that’s 2 miles. Maybe that’s too much.
Maybe it’s storming.
Maybe the sidewalks are too uneven.
Maybe manbearpig is on the loose
It’s 30 degrees and I live in a “miserable” humidity area. If I tried to run outside, I’d end up in the hospital. I walk to the gym anyway.
one of the best working situations I had was being 3 miles from work. Walking was a nice workout and faster than most folks commutes. Would pass 3 parks btw during the stroll that had water fountains in the summer. If I was running late could bike it which was so quick it felt I was getting off my bike just after I got on. If the weather was bad or I just felt inclined to the bus was a straight shot.
Only dumb thing is if you are prone to sweating. I wouldn’t be able to do your routine not out of fitness issues, but because my body just flips on the sweat switch ™ when I do anything above 20 °C. Then you need changing rooms with a shower at your workplace.
ah. forgot to mention my work gave me access to showers, but most of the time I was fine and I did have the bus option which (usually) had ac.
Yep, I sweat like a horse, doing anything. I’m not a fat bastard, I’ve been like this since I was a kid.
I know people that workout during lunch. I ain’t got time to eat, workout, and shower - not just “rinse off”, my ass needs a shower.
I’ve done walk to work occasionally with on-site visits where the hotel was close to the client… In the winter. Summer? No fucking way.
Then you need changing rooms with a shower at your workplace.
That really ought to be mandated by the building code. BRB, calling my city councilperson.
Edit: nvm, it’s lunchtime. I’ve got to wait an hour.Edit 2: done.
Wow, sounds like you’ve given up a lot of freedoms. Damn 15min cities!
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