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> made it impossible to walk anywhere useful You can literally go anywhere if you want to, just for the sake of walking ... and without it being useful in a se

> made it impossible to walk anywhere useful You can literally go anywhere if you want to, just for the sake of walking ... and without it being useful in a sense that you go to your workplace or shopping groceries. I hear the phrase "to take a walk" used fairly often to describe this weird phenomenon.

graeme 5y ago
This is true, but you end up walking for about an hour and fifteen minutes a day to walk 7,000-10,000 steps. If you do this on top of drives to the store/work that’s a lot of your day. Whereas if your errands or commute involve walking then you only need to take a short walk to walk enough.
- numlock86 5y ago
  The premise of the original comment was that not having a useful place to walk to "just leads to a lot of sitting on the couch" which isn't really helping with getting errands done either, as you imply. Instead of sitting a lot ... just walk a lot. My comment about taking a walk being a "weird phenomenon" was intended to be some sort of joke, but I start to understand where your mindset is coming from ...
  - Jtsummers 5y ago
    Why misquote when it's easy to copy/paste what they actually wrote: > just leads to a lot of sitting either on the couch or in the car You left out "either" and "or in the car" which changes the sense quite a bit.
    - numlock86 5y ago
      I was not misquoting. I simply quoted what was relevant within context, which is common practice. But yeah, I guess your insinuation is easier to formulate than to justify how sitting on the couch gets your errands done or why exactly it would keep you from doing a walk, which was the original statement.
- maerF0x0 5y ago
  I have found 2 strategies for mixing it in 1) Park farther away or do not drive between stores if they're < 0.5 mile away 2) remember to not let the measure become the goal -- I try to look for ways to make tasks more laborious ... Clean your house by hand (instead of roomba or maid), use a hand rake instead of a leaf blower, knead dough instead of buying bread -- etc. This is the kind of physical activity that will help move the needle without necessarily registering on a pedometer

graeme 5y ago

This is true, but you end up walking for about an hour and fifteen minutes a day to walk 7,000-10,000 steps. If you do this on top of drives to the store/work that’s a lot of your day. Whereas if your errands or commute involve walking then you only need to take a short walk to walk enough.

numlock86 5y ago
The premise of the original comment was that not having a useful place to walk to "just leads to a lot of sitting on the couch" which isn't really helping with getting errands done either, as you imply. Instead of sitting a lot ... just walk a lot. My comment about taking a walk being a "weird phenomenon" was intended to be some sort of joke, but I start to understand where your mindset is coming from ...
- Jtsummers 5y ago
  Why misquote when it's easy to copy/paste what they actually wrote: > just leads to a lot of sitting either on the couch or in the car You left out "either" and "or in the car" which changes the sense quite a bit.
  - numlock86 5y ago
    I was not misquoting. I simply quoted what was relevant within context, which is common practice. But yeah, I guess your insinuation is easier to formulate than to justify how sitting on the couch gets your errands done or why exactly it would keep you from doing a walk, which was the original statement.
maerF0x0 5y ago
I have found 2 strategies for mixing it in 1) Park farther away or do not drive between stores if they're < 0.5 mile away 2) remember to not let the measure become the goal -- I try to look for ways to make tasks more laborious ... Clean your house by hand (instead of roomba or maid), use a hand rake instead of a leaf blower, knead dough instead of buying bread -- etc. This is the kind of physical activity that will help move the needle without necessarily registering on a pedometer