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Nearly everyone always says to also combine a diet with exercise, but there's been a shift recently toward noticing that exercise energy budgets largely come ou
by randallsquared 5y ago
Nearly everyone always says to also combine a diet with exercise, but there's been a shift recently toward noticing that exercise energy budgets largely come out of the rest of your day for people who aren't primarily athletes[0]. Additionally, for many people, doing a little exercise on top of the normal day makes one ravenous, although I get that some people report a decrease in appetite as you did.
Google[1] finds a link that says that it takes 80 minutes to walk 8K steps at an average pace. Overweight people probably walk slower as a rule, but let's assume it takes an hour of just walking a day, if we take away whatever walking people are doing from the bedroom to the office to the kitchen to the couch. Even leaving aside the gym trip (and who among us doesn't have multiple uncancellable gym memberships? Oh, just me? :/ ), that's quite a time investment.
[0] https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myths-about-how-humans-burn-calories-and-why https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myth...
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+does+it+take+to+walk+8000+steps https://www.google.com/search?q=how+long+does+it+take+to+wal...
- code_runner 5y agoInvesting time your health is a very worthwhile investment.
- StevePerkins 5y agoI typically need 40 minutes of "intentional" walking per day (i.e. two laps around my subdivision) to supplement my "incidental" walking (i.e. going from the bedroom to kitchen to bathroom). I'm highly skeptical that anyone needs a trip to the gym to walk. It's walking!
- randallsquared 5y agoI was leaving aside the gym trip: > A 30 minute workout, two or three times a week is sufficient (i.e. hit 6 or 7 machines, for 3 sets each) ...which was separate from the hour+ walk every day.
- Flozzin 5y agoSpoken like a person whose never experienced -20f weather. I’m teasing not looking for a “weather off”.
- fiftyfifty 5y agoDepending on how much space you have a you can find treadmills cheap on Craigslist. People practically have to give them away just to get rid of them. I use a treadmill in the winter and go outside during the summer. There are also walking only treadmills that are pretty affordable ($300) that fit under a desk and you can walk during meetings etc. I generally agree going to a gym just to walk seems like a waste.
- Pasorrijer 5y agoThis is a super important point, but someone touched on it above. A major part of fitness is the lifestyle aspect, whether it's finding activities that combine social activity and fitness (sports!) or taking things you do already (like commuting) and making those physical (living where you can walk to commute instead of driving). None of this is easy, and yes, this lifestyle means you have to want to make the change. But for me I'm not trying to stay fit to look fancy or buy new clothes. I'm trying to stay fit and build patterns at 30 so that I'm still able to learn new tech and play with my great grand kids at 90. I look at this as investing in my future and my investment in fitness now is going to pay more mental health dividends than any amount of money. Speaking of course from a position where I have the privilege to make these choices.