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About 10 years ago, I started taking a 1h - 2h walk almost every day, before the walk I buy a coffee to go. It's easily the best part of my day which I look for

About 10 years ago, I started taking a 1h - 2h walk almost every day, before the walk I buy a coffee to go. It's easily the best part of my day which I look forward to after waking up.

angrais 5y ago
When do you take this walk and how do you spare 1-2h a day? Do you have kids?
- brandonmenc 5y ago
  You can take your kids on the walk.
  - rco8786 5y ago
    Im guessing you don’t have kids.
    - dr_dshiv 5y ago
      It’s doable, but harder from the psychological side than physical. I have three. Strollers, balance bikes, scooters, bikes… all huge for moving w kids. BUT.. Doing anything consistent daily seems laughable. But I have to get regular exercise for my mental health and so does my wife.
      - rco8786 5y ago
        Consistent, daily, for 1-2 hours. Not happening with the kiddos.
    - brandonmenc 5y ago
      No, but when I was a kid my father was very, very busy and he managed to exercise every day and took us kids on walks and runs with him. Where there's a will, there's a way.
- hombre_fatal 5y ago
  You spare an hour per day for exercise the same way the lumberjack must make time to sharpen his axe.
- gonzo41 5y ago
  People watch a lot of tv and read places like him for hours. You can probably find the time of you do time tracking for a week.
- Too 5y ago
  Commuting. Walk or bike to the office. Too far? Take the bus half way. Sweaty and no shower at the office? Bus to work, walk home. Need to pick up kids on the way? Park your car at kindie and bike to office from there.
- RivieraKid 5y ago
  Usually an hour after lunch. I don't have kids and I work from home 2 or 3 days per week. I often take a train or another form of public transit to some place outside of the city.
stevenwoo 5y ago
So last week there was a thread about a scientist who wrote a book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30381000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30381000 and I am reading a copy of the book from my local library and it actually covers this topic. The relevant part of theory (which has been shown to be true for every species they measured with doubly labelled water/urine) is that all mammals are calorie restrained - there's a maximum amount of calories that can be eaten, and there's a maximum amount of calories that can be burned, the range for humans is not that big, humans have a much higher calorie per weight budget than our ape/monkey cousins, the extant hunter gatherer societies exhibit the same behavior, and that being inactive like many modern humans means we have excess calories to burn with our bodys involuntary system like the immune system (one of the hunter gatherer societies had high immune system activity because of endemic worm/disease infection to use up a lot of calories), so the hypothesis is being physically active (up to a point) tamps down the activity of involuntary systems that do not need to be so active.

About 10 years ago, I started taking a 1h - 2h walk almost every day, before the walk I buy a coffee to go. It's easily the best part of my day which I look forward to after waking up.

angrais 5y ago

When do you take this walk and how do you spare 1-2h a day? Do you have kids?

brandonmenc 5y ago
You can take your kids on the walk.
- rco8786 5y ago
  Im guessing you don’t have kids.
  - dr_dshiv 5y ago
    It’s doable, but harder from the psychological side than physical. I have three. Strollers, balance bikes, scooters, bikes… all huge for moving w kids. BUT.. Doing anything consistent daily seems laughable. But I have to get regular exercise for my mental health and so does my wife.
    - rco8786 5y ago
      Consistent, daily, for 1-2 hours. Not happening with the kiddos.
  - brandonmenc 5y ago
    No, but when I was a kid my father was very, very busy and he managed to exercise every day and took us kids on walks and runs with him. Where there's a will, there's a way.
hombre_fatal 5y ago
You spare an hour per day for exercise the same way the lumberjack must make time to sharpen his axe.
gonzo41 5y ago
People watch a lot of tv and read places like him for hours. You can probably find the time of you do time tracking for a week.
Too 5y ago
Commuting. Walk or bike to the office. Too far? Take the bus half way. Sweaty and no shower at the office? Bus to work, walk home. Need to pick up kids on the way? Park your car at kindie and bike to office from there.
RivieraKid 5y ago
Usually an hour after lunch. I don't have kids and I work from home 2 or 3 days per week. I often take a train or another form of public transit to some place outside of the city.

stevenwoo 5y ago

So last week there was a thread about a scientist who wrote a book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30381000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30381000 and I am reading a copy of the book from my local library and it actually covers this topic. The relevant part of theory (which has been shown to be true for every species they measured with doubly labelled water/urine) is that all mammals are calorie restrained - there's a maximum amount of calories that can be eaten, and there's a maximum amount of calories that can be burned, the range for humans is not that big, humans have a much higher calorie per weight budget than our ape/monkey cousins, the extant hunter gatherer societies exhibit the same behavior, and that being inactive like many modern humans means we have excess calories to burn with our bodys involuntary system like the immune system (one of the hunter gatherer societies had high immune system activity because of endemic worm/disease infection to use up a lot of calories), so the hypothesis is being physically active (up to a point) tamps down the activity of involuntary systems that do not need to be so active.