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> And note that for most people, a week to few weeks of the exercise give stronger orgasms and ability to delay the ejaculation. I've experienced all those ben
by anticodon 1y ago
> And note that for most people, a week to few weeks of the exercise give stronger orgasms and ability to delay the ejaculation.
I've experienced all those benefits when I started walking two times a day, 8-10 thousands of steps a day continuously for several weeks. I haven't performed any other exercises.
But it's really boring and you need to do it every day. I do it only because I need to walk a dog.
- beacon294 1y agoWalking is considered by einstein and pretty much all thinkers to be critical to deep work. It's also covered in Cal Newport's book "deep work" briefly. Which is a short audiobook worth reading. One such prescription would be to do deep work early in the day then walk after and walk again 2 hours before bed. Another would be split the deep work with a 1 hour walk and do the 2nd walk after the 2nd block. It may be more fulfilling with lots of interesting ideas rattling around. YMMV
- spookybones 1y agoI desperately want to do this type of walking, but I live in a major city. There’s always something to distract me, which is great for boredom perhaps, but ruins any sense of zen or reflection. I would say half of every walk involves people yelling, loud vehicles, and louder music. Noise-cancelling headphones are only useful for distraction through podcasts and music, not for decompressing. I’m starting to wonder if the solution, the sad solution, is to walk on a treadmill at a gym during off-peak hours.
- dayjah 1y agoHave you considered earplugs? The firearms community have some pretty great ones which are readable and fit really well. Check out Axil x30i for example.
- pegasus 1y agoYou could try white/pink/grey noise on the headphones, or a binaural beat generator (I use the brainwave app on iOS).
- ajb 1y agoI find thunderstorm noises superior to white/coloured noise - because it's a natural sound the brain filters it out, and obtrustive noises are camouflaged within it, and filtered out too. So the loudness required is less than the loudness needed for white/coloured noise to be effective.
- beacon294 1y agoI am also not too satisfied by this problem. Newport says city walking increases decision fatigue instead of decreasing it. It seems like another point against urban environments. I still walk to and through city parks and I feel it helps me, but I take the same designed route every time to reduce decision fatigue. I think it still helps.
- PKop 1y agoAll truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. -Friedrich Nietzsche
- Taek 1y agoI don't find walking to be boring at all! Especially when I'm working on something new, I will walk as many as 10 miles a day while thinking through all of the design corners. Even when I'm not working, I like taking long walks to think about family, friends, video games, etc. Its a great way to get into your head without the distraction of a phone or feed or forced message.
- haswell 1y agoTwo ways I’ve made walks less boring: - I started carrying a camera - I started using the Merlin Bird ID app Photography has made me realize how much I was previously ignoring. There’s so much to see, and even when walking the same route over and over, there’s an astounding amount of change over time. Often little things. The Bird ID app made me realize just how many unique birds were making up the sounds I was hearing. As I learned to distinguish between them, I found myself fascinated in a way that I’d never been before. Walks became almost meditative over time, and the sights and sounds a kind of salve for my often tired brain. I often feel like I can think more clearly when walking as well, and thought processes kind of just sort themselves out as I go. I highly recommend making walks more than just a way to move your body. They can be much more, and getting the benefits of movement almost feels like a happy side effect.
- IanOzsvald 1y ago+1 Merlin. I also stop and do a few minutes with Duolingo in the park, then take a breath and just listen to the wind and birdsong.
- nkrisc 1y agoI also recommend the Seek app by iNaturalist. Though if you’re like me and use it to identify plants and every bug you see, you may not actually get that much walking accomplished.
- mikestew 1y agoMy wife and I have a running joke about the Seek app: "Dicots. It's always dicots." Too often, pointing Seek at a plant results in "dicots", which is about half the flowering plants out there.
- ajkjk 1y agoI feel like seek's IDs are not as good as they should be given the state of ML. Maybe a dataset problem but still.
- gedy 1y agoTaking long walks daily was great but damn if it didn't increase my appetite. I gained weight over a couple years in spite of 4+ miles a day.
- tonyedgecombe 1y agoWere you walking to the cake shop and back?
- gedy 1y agoHaha no unfortunately
- YZF 1y agoThat's pretty much textbook why exercise on its own will not reduce weight. You need to control your intake as well.
- tonyedgecombe 1y agoThere is some evidence that we offset all that activity later in the day. I know that if I go for a long bike ride then I will inevitably veg out in front of the TV later. Exercise is important but it's not because of the burning of calories.
- the_af 1y agoI find walking very enjoyable. I do a lot of daydreaming when I walk, too (to my wife and daughter's impatience!).
- astura 1y agoPodcasts help me with the boringness.
- Johnny555 1y ago>But it's really boring and you need to do it every day. I do it only because I need to walk a dog. I'm lucky enough to have a pedestrian path to do my long walks (so no cars or even bikes to contend with, bikes have a dedicated parallel path), so I listen to a podcast while walking around 1 hour/day.
- barrenko 1y agoThis is anecdotal as it gets, but I've developed prostate issues almost simultaneously with quitting photography. Didn't think about it until now.
- mgfist 1y agoI often listen to podcasts while walking. Or I think. I also own a walking pad and walk while working (1h in the morning, 1h in the afternoon - not every day but most).
- hombre_fatal 1y agoYou must have been in really bad shape before if you're getting such noticeable health benefits from a rather modest exercise intervention like 8k steps.
- inglor_cz 1y agoMy average over the last year is ~13K steps a day. But I am usually not bored when walking, I enjoy it, in fact. So it is not a burden.