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Can you expand on what you mean by fitness here?

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• pizza234 6y ago
  Yes. Not many people enjoy physical activity; this is totally fine - everyone has their own taste. However, a certain amount of activity is required to maintain a minimal amount of fitness. Smart training can even take, in worst case, one hour a week. What I typically observe in people who refuse to do even the bare minimum of activity, is that they find a "non-activity", and pretend it works. What they're actually doing is instead to find something that takes virtually no effort while giving the illusion that they've absolved the duty. Very typical non-activities: walking and climbing stairs. (This is a bit complex suject of course, because if we take somebody who sits 24/7 on a chair/couch, of course walking is better than nothing - but I'm referring to the principle)
  • nojvek 6y ago
    Walking an hour would require a decent amount of fitness. Not sure why you’re saying it’s a non-activity
    • pizza234 6y ago
      Well, unless one is severely overweight, walking is a very light activity - it actively employs very few muscles and has a very minimal cardiovascular impact. However, this is a bit odd in context. If one considers a population where 60%+ of the population has 30%+ of bodyfat percentage, then it's impossible to define what constitutes fitness - even one flight of stairs, in a sense, requires a decent amount of training. In at least northern Europe, hiking is relatively common for elderlies (people in their 60s) - and this amounts to hours of walking in rough terrains, so definitely, for a person who's not (considerably) overweight, and hour of walks in the city is... a walk in the park.