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Well I know the author of this certainly has more free time than me. 7 hours a week at the gym? What and incredibly laid back lifestyle.

noobly 7y ago
>7 hours a week at the gym? What and incredibly laid back lifestyle. What a strange thing to pick at - is there a joke I'm missing? And it's not strictly the gym, it's 'gym/fitness'.
- KirinDave 7y ago
  Oh well that certainly makes a difference!
trosi 7y ago
I'd say an average of 30 minutes/day of gym/fitness is the bare minimum, but even double that can be very beneficial in many respects. You should find the time
- KirinDave 7y ago
  Thanks for the advice, trosi. What was actually stopping me from putting in more time in the gym like I did when I was young was a limp attaboy from a stranger. I'm absolutely thrilled if I can find the time coinciding with the energy to do 30m a day at the gym. But as any parent who is not offloading all the work onto a beleaguered spouse can tell you: it's pretty rare when you have toddlers.
friedman23 7y ago
If walking quickly every day for an hour increases my life expectancy by 6 or so years it would have been worth it.
- KirinDave 7y ago
  That's only exercise if your lifestyle is extremely sedentary. So yeah, you should do it. But it's a very generous definition of "gym/fitness."
qwerty2020 7y ago
Author here - I would consider my lifestyle intentionally laid back, yes (to the capacity I'm able to at least) :) However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1 hr/day) but includes total time door to door (changing, commuting, lifting, commuting back). I enjoy this though, so aside from the mood/longevity benefits would do it anyways.
- KirinDave 7y ago
  I have a 4 year old and I foster rescue dogs. I dimly remember a time in my life where what you're describing was possible, but these days I'm just happy if I can do an okay job at work and still find time to hit the machines in my house. It is definitely a difference in our attitudes towards this activity that you don't call that "free" time.
  - em-bee 7y ago
    fostering rescue dogs is where you invest your free time in. it's a worthwhile use of your time, and you probably wouldn't do it if you didn't get something out of it.
    - KirinDave 7y ago
      It costs lots of money and the people who adopt them never know me. I don't get anything out of it at all.
      - em-bee 7y ago
        then why do you do it? (i don't mean to criticize your choice, but i am curious, and i wonder if we can discover a motivation or reward that you haven't considered. i certainly believe that you are doing something good, so i wonder why you feel you get nothing out of it) edit: i just thought about this some more and i realized that there are plenty of situations that could have brought you to where you are. i don't want to speculate what though.
  - kungtotte 7y ago

noobly 7y ago

>7 hours a week at the gym? What and incredibly laid back lifestyle. What a strange thing to pick at - is there a joke I'm missing? And it's not strictly the gym, it's 'gym/fitness'.

KirinDave 7y ago
Oh well that certainly makes a difference!

trosi 7y ago

I'd say an average of 30 minutes/day of gym/fitness is the bare minimum, but even double that can be very beneficial in many respects. You should find the time

KirinDave 7y ago
Thanks for the advice, trosi. What was actually stopping me from putting in more time in the gym like I did when I was young was a limp attaboy from a stranger. I'm absolutely thrilled if I can find the time coinciding with the energy to do 30m a day at the gym. But as any parent who is not offloading all the work onto a beleaguered spouse can tell you: it's pretty rare when you have toddlers.

friedman23 7y ago

If walking quickly every day for an hour increases my life expectancy by 6 or so years it would have been worth it.

KirinDave 7y ago
That's only exercise if your lifestyle is extremely sedentary. So yeah, you should do it. But it's a very generous definition of "gym/fitness."

qwerty2020 7y ago

Author here - I would consider my lifestyle intentionally laid back, yes (to the capacity I'm able to at least) :) However, it's just a 4 day standard weight lifting routine (1 hr/day) but includes total time door to door (changing, commuting, lifting, commuting back). I enjoy this though, so aside from the mood/longevity benefits would do it anyways.

KirinDave 7y ago
I have a 4 year old and I foster rescue dogs. I dimly remember a time in my life where what you're describing was possible, but these days I'm just happy if I can do an okay job at work and still find time to hit the machines in my house. It is definitely a difference in our attitudes towards this activity that you don't call that "free" time.
- em-bee 7y ago
  fostering rescue dogs is where you invest your free time in. it's a worthwhile use of your time, and you probably wouldn't do it if you didn't get something out of it.
  - KirinDave 7y ago
    It costs lots of money and the people who adopt them never know me. I don't get anything out of it at all.
    - em-bee 7y ago
      then why do you do it? (i don't mean to criticize your choice, but i am curious, and i wonder if we can discover a motivation or reward that you haven't considered. i certainly believe that you are doing something good, so i wonder why you feel you get nothing out of it) edit: i just thought about this some more and i realized that there are plenty of situations that could have brought you to where you are. i don't want to speculate what though.
- kungtotte 7y ago