Finding time to Exercise

ForecasterJason

clicketykeys wrote: »

I'd be risking death or at least serious bodily injury if I tried to bike to work.

Same here. In addition, it would take me over 3 hours (one way) to bike to work.

canadianlbs

NorthCascades wrote: »

Saying true things to answer the question the thread is based on amounts to being smug?

i thought so, but it hardly seems worthwhile to taxonomize why if you're not bothered by the poster's approach. i thought i'd pretty much covered what i thought might have been going on already, so yeah.

Maxematics

canadianlbs wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

Saying true things to answer the question the thread is based on amounts to being smug?

i thought so, but it hardly seems worthwhile to taxonomize why if you're not bothered by the poster's approach. i thought i'd pretty much covered what i thought might have been going on already, so yeah.

Yeah and what you thought was going on is so far from reality. I can understand if someone reads my post as condescending as it's the internet so tone is heavily interpreted by how one reads the text. However, I take issue with this:

idk, maybe your real-world environment rewards you by making a poster-child or some kind out of you, so you really didn't expect to get your butt anything but kissed.

but i guess the thing to take away out of this is that not everyone in the world defines things by those kinds of black-and-white rules. i'm saying this because i can think of a couple of ways in which if i wanted to, i could probably allow my own community to award me the same kind of prize. i actually experience people occasionally trying to shape me into that kind of narrative.

so i recognise it and if you have been elected to that kind of pedestal then i kind of empathize with the shock that you feel. but at the same time i don't really empathize because at bottom you really do come across like you're hoisting yourself onto some kind of high horse at the expense of others.

You got from text that I possibly live in an environment where I'm a poster child or expect to get my butt kissed? That I'm shocked because I didn't get my butt kissed and I'm used to being on a high horse at the expense of others? Interesting. I mulled it over for a bit, especially since other posters in this thread have echoed similar statements to mine yet no issue has been taken with them. Based on that I have to wonder, are your ideas based on the content of my posts or based on my profile pictures and physical stats? I'm leaning toward the latter here and, if that truly is the case, that could not be further from the truth about my environment and my life.

If my conjecture is incorrect and all of these assumptions came from the content of my posts on this thread, then let me clarify. My comment about people having time to engage in leisure activity but not exercise was indeed based on facts and was written solely as a response to the repeat poster that kept attempting to chisel away at my choice/ability to engage in exercise and get in a certain number of steps per day. That poster seemed to be highly offended that I even did so to begin with, as if it affected the quality of their own life in some way. So yes, it became a bit annoying after a while to go back and forth with someone who was judging me based on my lifestyle and, due to that, the tone of my posts may come off in a way that was unintended. Since I'm also assuming you read the entire thread, it's evident that I do not look down on anyone who chooses not to exercise. What works in my life and what I enjoy doesn't apply to everyone. Some people really don't have time to exercise, but the amount of people who say they don't have time does not equal the amount of people who actually don't have time.

The_Enginerd

NorthCascades wrote: »

I used to commute by bike, until my company moved its office. I can't ride 18 miles and be here at 7 am.

Sadly, I drive now. Not only am I risking life and limb (I have to carry liability insurance, it's so risky) but I have a very unpleasant time being stuck in traffic. In a good day it takes 30 minutes, on a bad day it can take 90. Then I still need to exercise. Bikes commuting was a a good use of time in the "two birds one stone" sense, and bones don't get caught in traffic, so I always knew what time I'd be home, which allowed me to make plans.

Great option for people who can take advantage. I wish I was still one.

The mortality rate per mile is much, MUCH higher by bike than car. Mostly of that from getting hit by a car with basically zero protection. You needing to carry insurance as a motorist is driven by liability for property damage or injury if you hit someone while driving that isn't required as a bicyclist.

Unless you moved from a very short commute that was on protected bike paths to a long driving commute, your chance of mortality is going to lower as a motorist.

stanmann571

The_Enginerd wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

I used to commute by bike, until my company moved its office. I can't ride 18 miles and be here at 7 am.

Sadly, I drive now. Not only am I risking life and limb (I have to carry liability insurance, it's so risky) but I have a very unpleasant time being stuck in traffic. In a good day it takes 30 minutes, on a bad day it can take 90. Then I still need to exercise. Bikes commuting was a a good use of time in the "two birds one stone" sense, and bones don't get caught in traffic, so I always knew what time I'd be home, which allowed me to make plans.

Great option for people who can take advantage. I wish I was still one.

The mortality rate per mile is much, MUCH higher by bike than car. Mostly of that from getting hit by a car with basically zero protection. You needing to carry insurance as a motorist is driven by liability for property damage or injury if you hit someone while driving that isn't required as a bicyclist.

Unless you moved from a very short commute that was on protected bike paths to a long driving commute, your chance of mortality is going to lower as a motorist.

a 90 minute 20 mile commute generally is riskier than biking 3 miles.

clicketykeys

Which is exactly what @The_Enginerd said?

NorthCascades

The_Enginerd wrote: »

NorthCascades wrote: »

I used to commute by bike, until my company moved its office. I can't ride 18 miles and be here at 7 am.

Sadly, I drive now. Not only am I risking life and limb (I have to carry liability insurance, it's so risky) but I have a very unpleasant time being stuck in traffic. In a good day it takes 30 minutes, on a bad day it can take 90. Then I still need to exercise. Bikes commuting was a a good use of time in the "two birds one stone" sense, and bones don't get caught in traffic, so I always knew what time I'd be home, which allowed me to make plans.

Great option for people who can take advantage. I wish I was still one.

The mortality rate per mile is much, MUCH higher by bike than car.

You can't possibly know whether that's true or not because there is not reliable and accurate data to say how many miles people ride.

canadianlbs

Maxematics wrote: »

Yeah and what you thought was going on is so far from reality. [/quote]

sure, fair enough.

You got from text that I possibly live in an environment where I'm a poster child or expect to get my butt kissed?

i got it from your claim to be sincerely baffled at the 'hostility'. so yeah; from text. i don't have to have been right, but it did occur to me as a possible explanation for why you were apparently surprised to find people unfriendly to your presentation of things. it did seem to me like you were expecting a different kind of reception, since you pretty much said you weren't understanding the one that you got.

to be honest, i gathered this thread was a spin-off of something. but nope, i didn't realise that the something was an individual and personal thing between you and some other specific individual person(s). probably some of the other people you found hostile weren't clued up either although about that i don't know.

VeronicaA76

I am now lucky enough to have been able to leave my career and pursue my graduate degree full time, so I now have a lot of time to devote to working out. I used to work 12-16 hour shifts as an oil worker. So I had to get really creative on my workouts.

My favorite busy working mom workouts:
1. Combination body weight squat and calf raises putting away dishes
2. Weird half salsa half random wiggle dancing while cooking.
3. Picking up toys straight leg deadlifts
4. Hanging up clothes alternating deltoid raises
5. Jogging in place while helping with homework
6. Grocery curls. Yes I would walk around shopping doing milk gallon curls and alternate every 10 reps.
7. Standing in line calf raises. I'm going to be there for a while waiting on the old lady to find her coupons and checkbook.
8. Standing in line tricep extensions. Did those with canned goods.
9. Adductor and abductors while standing (either in line somewhere or while cooking dinner)

So it's not complete workouts, but when crunched for time; even a little bit extra pays off in the long run.