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Mixing exercise into your commute is time-efficient (two birds, one bicycle). Driving to work takes 20 minutes. Biking to work takes me 35 minutes plus a showe
by sliverstorm 10y ago
Mixing exercise into your commute is time-efficient (two birds, one bicycle).
Driving to work takes 20 minutes. Biking to work takes me 35 minutes plus a shower. But I have to shower anyway, and I get 35 minutes of exercise at the price of 15 minutes.
I was going to propose that kind of logic for your parent, take public transit partway and bike partway. Unfortunately for him, somehow:
Even with a free trip to the closest station, that's only going to shave about 3/4 of a mile off of my biking trip.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoEven running can be time efficient. When I lived in almost-central London (Wandsworth), the office was 7 km in towards the center. Running took 40 min., while the tube or bus was 50 min. door-to-door. So running plus a shower was no slower than public transport, plus you save time on never having to go to the gym. And of course significant financial savings on cutting the gym membership and 80-90% of the public transport expenses. (Not a native Londoner, so I was too afraid of traffic to bike it.)
- xirdstl 10y agoWhy were you paying for a gym membership just to run?
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoBefore going on the run-to-work gig I mainly did weight training, thus gym membership.