• RuBisCO@slrpnk.net
    13·
    4 days ago

    Ahh, but what are the odds of being run over by a car while on the treadmill in the gym?

  • Dagamant@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 days ago

    Yeah, I live in the southeast US, outside is not exactly comfortable for walking and there are not many good options closer than the gym. I go to the gym where I can spend more time on the treadmill than I would be willing to spend outside.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, it’s currently 101° outside, with zero cloud cover and 50% humidity. Walking a mile to the gym would require approximately six gallons of Gatorade, just to replace the water and electrolytes I’d lose along the way.

      • Dagamant@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        Not too many, I’m pretty rural so there is no sidewalk, high speed limits, and assholes. The times I have walked on the road people have nearly hit me, thrown things, and just made it not safe.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    7·
    4 days ago

    A co-worker was like this a few years ago. He was arguing that the gym had AC and was always at the same temperature; that outside was too hot/cold/rainy/snowy, never perfect.

    He is also the type of person that wants to look and act like Rambo and couldn’t see the irony in wanting a perfect pampered environment.

    But the pandemic came and the gyms closed for months so he started running outside, and never went back to running in a gym.

    It’s just that sadly people are used to drive everywhere for everything. And this is unfortunately more political than one might think.

    • hydration9806@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      And this is unfortunately more political than one might think.

      Yeah, I’m seeing that now. I posted it from the perspective of an apparent ironic laziness, but it can easily be expanded to a systemic issue. My b! Down vote the post so it goes away!!

      • pedz@lemmy.ca
        1·
        3 days ago

        Bah, no worries. I was doom scrolling and didn’t know this community existed before I replied. Pretty much anything can be political if we dig deep enough. I also didn’t need to point it out.

    • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      A few years ago I started purposely parking as far away as possible at work, partly because I was tired of the whole dumb process of circling around looking for a good parking space and partly I was wanting to walk more. It’s been kind of liberating. Instead of trying to sift through a sea of cars to find that empty diamond space in the rough, I’m awash in empty spaces as far as the eye can see everywhere I go. At some places, it’s almost like I’ve gotten my own dedicated parking space.