If it moves do you stop?

w00tfit
w00tfit Posts: 5 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I guess this is part rant part question about everyday moving around.

I'm mainly talking about escalators and moving walkways here. I see soooo many people who seem to race to get on to them in front of me then just stop stock still and bang in the middle. No 'stand on the right please' so anyone else can get past either.

So if the surface moves in the direction you are going do you move or stop? Why (either way)?

And if you do stop PLEASE if you don't do so already - Stand on the Right (or the left I don't care just leave room for me to get past!)

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  • kingpt11
    kingpt11 Posts: 27
    lol i know what you mean.
    i always move. And people always look at me like im the weirdo!

    and when i dont move (maybe im holding something heavy, or im just chillin'.. i always stand aside to the right. :)

    And dont you just hate those maybe-im-lost-maybe-not people, that just walk like snails, and suddenly stop in front of you?
  • RealWomenLovePitbulls
    RealWomenLovePitbulls Posts: 729 Member
    move with it, it gets you there faster
  • BadgerSensei
    BadgerSensei Posts: 45 Member
    I do, but only because the only time I ride one is at 5 AM on my way to work. I want a minimum of existence, let alone walking, at 5 AM.
  • emsicle_o
    emsicle_o Posts: 162 Member
    know the feeling. I used to commute to London everyday and the people that just stood in the way or race to get in front of you then dawdle up the escalators when I was in a rush to get to work was a nightmare! Commuting was horrible! Glad I don't have to do it anymore :happy:
  • frando
    frando Posts: 583 Member
    At work I'm stationed close to an escalator and it always make me laugh the stupid things people do around them xD
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    I stop man! I can barely walk on stationary surfaces without falling! If I tried to move in an elevator or in an escalator I would die. A horrible, horrible death that would included tripping down all of those moving stairs and probably getting my hair tangled in the moving belt... it would be bad.
  • EpicRosie
    EpicRosie Posts: 30 Member
    I always walk on the moving walkways because if i'm not in a rush I just walk along side them to burn more calories but I only ever climb the escalators when whoever i'm with does it.
  • Tree72
    Tree72 Posts: 942 Member
    Those things terrify me. So I always stop. I'm desperately clinging to one handrail though, so plenty of room to get by on the other side.
  • simplydelish2
    simplydelish2 Posts: 726 Member
    Moving sidewalks...always walk...escalators...it depends what I'm carrying and how much energy I have!
  • BlisterLamb
    BlisterLamb Posts: 396 Member
    I rarely use an escalator. There is usually a staircase nearby as well and I will use that instead. Same with elevators. I take the stairs. We stayed on the the 10th floor of a hotel last summer and we only used the elevator when we took our suitcases up to the room on the first day and back down to the car on the last day. If I have to use an escalator, I walk up it as its going. I always tell my grandkids that escalators and elevators are for the elderly and people who aren't able to do stairs and we are neither.
  • lmarshel
    lmarshel Posts: 674 Member
    I work inside one of the resort in Las Vegas, and it is like running a gauntlet to get in and out of here every day. Mornings are not so bad, because most of the tourists are in their rooms sleeping it off. But in the afternoons, I have to dodge in and out of the people who walk around like turkeys in the rain. They don't have any idea of where they are going and no notion that they are walking right in front of you...or maybe right into you! LOL It's good exercise, tho. :)

    I am always in a hurry, so I walk on escalators and moving walk ways. I love those moving walk ways in the airport. You can really zoom down those things!
  • hiddensvelte
    hiddensvelte Posts: 53 Member
    I used to. Now I just bypass them, unless I'm at Atlanta int'l. During a layover in Detroit, I did a couple of laps around the inside of the airport (all concourses) and found that I was walking faster than those who stopped on the movers and ended about 15 feet (5 meters) behind someone who walked while on the movers :tongue: .

    Unless I'm beat, I don't take them (the non-powered stairs and walkways are clearer anyway) :wink: .
  • mehaffeymk
    mehaffeymk Posts: 154 Member
    i always walk on the moving walkways and sometimes not on the escalator because i'm usually on those at the malls and i've been walking and carrying things and it's a five second break. but yes i'm aware others want to walk so i stand to the right. but not walking on a moving walkway?? it's called a walkway! it goes slower than the people walking on the floor! why is that efficient?! plus walking while it's moving makes me feel super human!
  • lwagnitz
    lwagnitz Posts: 1,321 Member
    I always opt for stairs rather than escalators. Not because it's better for you, but because I am embarrassingly deathly afraid of escalators. I feel like my pants will get stuck in them or a part of me will get sucked into it at the top or on the sides or something. So, if there is no other option but to take the escalators, I stand frozen and don't even want to move a muscle. I'm that annoying person I guess. Stupid, I know, but it's my reality. :/
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    Those things terrify me. So I always stop. I'm desperately clinging to one handrail though, so plenty of room to get by on the other side.

    WAHA! This is SO ME
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    If I'm in a hurry, I'll walk on the moving sidewalks, otherwise, I stand still and to the right so the fast people can get by. I never walk up/down escalators. If I wanted that, I'd just take the stairs.
  • Jester522
    Jester522 Posts: 392
    I have a New York City mentality:

    Walk... faster! I have a train to catch.
    I'm not waiting I keep moving I don't have that kind of time.
    The escalator moves? That's cool, keeping moving so we get off faster.
    Are you stopping to take pictures of the pretty lights on building facades? F*cking tourist. lol

    OK, its not that extreme but you get my drift. It was funnier as a dramatization.
  • GadgetGuy2
    GadgetGuy2 Posts: 291 Member
    Unless I'm pressed for time, I don't even get on.

    It's amazing how walking/climbing stairs can improve your general fitness/calorie burn, if you're sedentary to begin with.

    In other words, moving walkways/escalators are the anti-thesis of being at this site (i.e. they not fit, this site fit).
  • skessa
    skessa Posts: 13
    I usually walk. Unless I'm out of breath - some escalators are really long and steep! :P
    But even if standing on the wrong side of the escalator can be annoying, it's not nearly as annoying as the people who get off the escalator, and then stop dead, blocking the whole way. What do they think where the people piling up behind them are supposed to go?? evaporate or something?
  • rhonniema
    rhonniema Posts: 522 Member
    If I'm by myself, I'll walk up the escalator.
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    I stop. Sometimes I move but don't count on it. Oh, you're behind me and you were planning to move? Too bad, so sad. I guess you should have woken up 5 mins earlier and beat me here. I'm on time so I'm chillin.
  • Jester522
    Jester522 Posts: 392
    Pre-competition... about 4 weeks out... I do everything and anything to make sure I expend no extra energy. I'm just too weak.

    As a coworker says "Burn calories, not electricity!"
  • WhoIsAmber
    WhoIsAmber Posts: 161 Member
    I don't climb the escalator, but I always walk on moving sidewalks and jump off at the end (otherwise I feel like I'm going to fall).
  • KBGirts
    KBGirts Posts: 882 Member
    If I have a bunch of bags and stuff (like at an airport) I will stop because it's difficult sometimes to lift my bags and try to walk past others. But any other time, I keep walking. But, don't worry.... even when I stop I move myself and all my junk out of the way of others.
  • Vansy
    Vansy Posts: 419 Member
    Depends. When I went to Universal last week I walked them all on the way TO the park, but after being at the park all day I was exhausted and just rode them part of the way back to rest.

    But even at that, I don't stop in-front of someone.
  • tat2dmrsgrimm
    tat2dmrsgrimm Posts: 226 Member
    I fell on a moving sidewalk thing at the airport when I was little and now even 25 years later I am terrified. I do ride them. My kids make fun of me because I stand stock still clinging to the rail all the way up. My 3 year old thinks I am hilarious. Of course the fact that I can barely walk across a flat, non-moving surface without falling on my face does not help matters. I also loathe elevators, but that is more a claustrophobia thing and again I ride in them, but only when I MUST.
  • subcult
    subcult Posts: 262 Member
    Always walk up them it makes me feel all powerfull.
  • kidcole11
    kidcole11 Posts: 98 Member
    I move with them unless I have my kids with me. It is not safe to have little ones walking up or down on an escalator.
  • Lina4Lina
    Lina4Lina Posts: 712 Member
    I get vertigo so if it is going downward, yes I stop and hold onto the rail to one side.
  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
    I'm usually too amused with the fact that the floor is moving me to walk with it. There are just so many things I can do while the floor moves like pretend to be canoeing to *actually* walk with it. :laugh:

    I also have a tendency to fall a lot on non-moving floors/stairs, so why would I subject myself to an even worse injury by trying to move on something moving?

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