It’s 114 degrees today. I’m not walking anywhere
It’s 30 degrees and I live in a “miserable” humidity area. If I tried to run outside, I’d end up in the hospital. I walk to the gym anyway.
Just walk halfway to the gym and then give up and walk home.
It’s really hot here, I drive a kilometer to the gym so I can run under the AC.
My area has been under a heat advisory for most of the last week. If I ran, I would do so on a treadmill.
But if you walk a mile there and a mile back that’s 2 miles. Maybe that’s too much.
Maybe it’s storming.
Maybe the sidewalks are too uneven.
Maybe manbearpig is on the loose
Then I drive another 3 miles to taco bell then I drive 20 miles to save 3 cents per gallon on $50 worth of gas, then I do workout victory burnouts in the parking lot. I DO IT BIG NINJA
OH MY GOD every time I hear some Midwestern person tell me how proud they were that they drove 20+ miles (one way) to save <$1 per gallon on gas. They’re so disconnected, gas is just a requirement of living. Distance does not compute in their calculation, it’s just “yup I saved money”.
Even if you did save money, that’s an hour of driving. Even at minimum wage was it worth your time to do that?
midwesterners will drive an hour everyday and call it an easy quick drive
hell theyd call a 3 hour drive not too bad
I mean, a 3-hour drive is not bad if you don’t do it all the time.
My car needs cardio too
I mean, if it means I don’t become a victim of vehicular manslaughter.
Or don’t twist an ankle having to trek up and down hills without sidewalks. And if you have bad knees, that goes double.
We do this because being in that specific physical space helps us do the thing.
Also it’s hot out.
I’d also add that people who don’t work out probably shouldn’t make memes about it.
Joker works out he takes on Batman in several instances just because we don’t see him at the pile or sling some iron doesn’t mean he wasn’t! Probably working on his tire flips behind the bank when we get to him in the movie.
They meant you…
Nah can’t mean me, I hit the gym.
But seriously, I know, I’m just choosing not to feed an attack over a meme with…what… proof I touch grass? Lmao none of us owe that to anyone in a shitposting sublemmy
Nice.
Outside of temperature control as others have mentioned, there’s also a greater sense of security while exercising, showers available, and seeing others train can motivate you if you’re the competitive or visual sort. Plus treadmills are less impactful to your knees compared to trail runs so they are good for recovery/casual runners.
In all honesty, gym memberships are terrible value for money by itself. Its value comes from convenience and saving time for a person who wants to train with some consistency.
I think they’re only a bad value if you only use the treadmill. If you use a wide variety of the machines and free weights, it feels pretty practical
Imagine if America had sidewalks
If only. Sadly the technology has eluded a country with almost 20,000 cities and 331 million people. We share one homogeneous existence across a land mass of 3.8 million square miles (9.8 SQ KM), completely devoid of sidewalks. Maybe one day…
Nothing grosser then staying at a hotel in Brooklyn, adjacent to a highway and on the otherside of it is a sprawling parking lot and mall. No sidewalks, no pedestrian overpass, it’s like the thought of walking was unheard of
Weird. I walked across the Brooklyn bridge last week, and although I just went from the bridge to the subway, and back to Manhattan, it seemed like a very walkable city.
I have sidewalks, Greg. Can you Europe me?
Yes
Pavement
When I lived in a small town, it was a bunch of ready crusty ass neighborhoods, some creepy meth houses, and no trees for blocks.
I’d ride my bike to the gym so I could run on the treadmill because it was gnarly outside.
There’s got to be some psychological hack to this for some people, and I envy them. Imagine getting satisfaction from having gone to the gym just to walk… Gym is already a lazy form of workout even if you exert yourself.
Then again, the only people I see walking on treadmills are fairly in-shape young women, so it’s hardly an issue
Former 5 time a week gym member here.
Treadmill at the gym has HVAC, no cars that blow red lights and almost kill you. You can have a conversation with someone while you are on treadmill or you can safely put on headphones and rock out. You can run yourself ragged, and all the water and benches you want are just a few feet away instead of being another exausting run back to your house. The gym is usually secured with a key or fob. There are other runners there who have great knowledge about shoes, technique/form, workout routines…etc etc.
Lots of reasons why you would drive to the gym and run, instead of just running to the gym.
I’m sorry but did you say the gym is a lazy form of workout? Did that make sense in your head when you wrote that out?
Probably one of those “mans job” or “lone wolf” things. Either way cro_magnon_gilf 100% has Cheeto dust fingers.
One of the many benefits of living in a walkable area. I’ll get a mile or two of walking in just going about my business. Walk to the grocery, walk to the subway, whatever.
Walk in a climate controlled environment or out in the heat/cold? Hmm…
I live in Phoenix, Arizona and this post can go fuck itself. I TRIED to go for a walk outside the other day, and it was 109F with 40% humidity. I can do that, or I can go to the air conditioned gym…
This is a big part of the reason why I don’t live in Phoenix.
That, plus the scorpions.
