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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.
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.
Imagine if America had sidewalks
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.
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.
Dawg it’s 95°F out with 97%RH cmon
Exactly. Not to mention all the exhaust I have to breathe when I bike to work.
Fuck cars
Not saying this works for everyone everywhere but I just run at like 9pm
Ah yes. 9 PM, when the heat index is still 100°F.
Here’s yesterday’s peak heat index across Oklahoma. It being 99° isn’t the problem. It feeling 10 degrees hotter is.
Just evolve some rabbit ears
I’m going to evolve into a plasma based being if this heat continues
Carry a gallon of water 💦
They have water at the gym
Good now we get to drink 2 gallons 🦍
And I rode 15 miles round trip to work. Excuses are like assholes.
Good for you.
Sounds like extra work your body will be doing for free. More efficient exercising. Stay hydrated. 👌
This is some stuck up shit right here. People are getting out and exercising and we’re judging them for not doing it how we like. Gyms are much more than treadmills, treadmills are easier and more consistent for people starting out, the summer heat is brutal and gyms are air conditioned, or maybe you just wanna watch something to take your mind off the run itself. There’s lots of great reasons to use a treadmill at the gym.
Also on a treadmill you can run all the way until you can’t anymore, if you do this outside then you wind up exhausted and stranded.
By stranded do you mean, you have to walk home?
Completely untrue. You can also take the bus.
Yes, which is why I added “exhausted” to highlight why that is undesirable.
Yes that means you can’t run anymore. But you can still walk home.
Yeah and you can keep a consistent pace. Love/hate stair master or going on a large incline walk before or after lifting weights
It’s the AC for me, especially. When it’s 35-40 degrees and swampy outside, the weather is downright dangerous, especially for physical activity.
Also, when they ran to the gym they had twice the way. May be more than they’re capable of.
An additional point to treadmills is that it’s easier on my knees and ankles. Also, I know we’re not supposed to talk to people at the gym but I chat --ever so briefly-- with the regulars that go at my times. It’s nice to say hi to a familiar face every now and again. As I’m getting older and do remote work, it’s useful for me.
Take memes seriously and fight with people on the internet.
It’s almost like Joker is a villain and makes bad points to screw with Batman
Nah, this is just OP thinking they’re cool and edgy aligning their personality with the Joker
Just walk halfway to the gym and then give up and walk home.
It’s 114 degrees today. I’m not walking anywhere
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.
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.
Best one I’ve seen is a gym class that has people jogging outside the gym. You’re actually paying to run on the street.
The cost is to experience belonging in a group/ social thing with the goal of being healthy. the “crowd-sourcing” fee.
also there’s now a cost to running outside, gotta run for reals now.
There’s an “I think you should leave sketch” in here.
YOU DONT OWN THE STREETS!
NOBODY TALK TO HIM.
You’re paying to be motivated by a teenager with an ego trip. Sorry, I mean a “trainer”.
Hey, some of us need that…
My local bike club charges $5 if you want to ride with them to the local brewery on Saturday.
The crossfit down my local stroad* does that. On the one hand, I find it kind of funny that they’re paying a gym membership to run up and down the sidewalk next to a five lane highway, on the other I think it’s an advertisement tactic; used to be you’d see the whole “congregation” but now it seems they only make the women who forgot to wear sports bras to class go run on the sidewalk.
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.
They might live in a city that’s built for cars only and is hostile to walkers and bikers.
So fix that instead of normalizing inefficient nonsense!
Oh yeah let me just fix that real quick before I go to the gym
They make it sound so easy, can’t you just fix it on your way to the gym, please? Kthanksbye.
You’re getting downvoted by people I suspect never vote in their municiple elections
one of the best working situations I had was being 3 miles from work. Walking was a nice workout and faster than most folks commutes. Would pass 3 parks btw during the stroll that had water fountains in the summer. If I was running late could bike it which was so quick it felt I was getting off my bike just after I got on. If the weather was bad or I just felt inclined to the bus was a straight shot.
Only dumb thing is if you are prone to sweating. I wouldn’t be able to do your routine not out of fitness issues, but because my body just flips on the sweat switch ™ when I do anything above 20 °C. Then you need changing rooms with a shower at your workplace.
Yep, I sweat like a horse, doing anything. I’m not a fat bastard, I’ve been like this since I was a kid.
I know people that workout during lunch. I ain’t got time to eat, workout, and shower - not just “rinse off”, my ass needs a shower.
I’ve done walk to work occasionally with on-site visits where the hotel was close to the client… In the winter. Summer? No fucking way.
ah. forgot to mention my work gave me access to showers, but most of the time I was fine and I did have the bus option which (usually) had ac.
Then you need changing rooms with a shower at your workplace.
That really ought to be mandated by the building code. BRB, calling my city councilperson.
Edit: nvm, it’s lunchtime. I’ve got to wait an hour.Edit 2: done.
Wow, sounds like you’ve given up a lot of freedoms. Damn 15min cities!
/s
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
Yeah it’s a practical option for people who want to exercise on the regular, I call it ‘terrible value’ because you can exercise for free without machines/access to weights if you really want to save some money - body weight exercises, public parks etc.
I enjoy a paid gym membership myself, it saves me a ton of time. I just wouldn’t recommend the same to one strapped for cash, ‘good’ gym memberships aren’t cheap where I am (I pay a hundred SGD a month). I should have been more specific.
