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
Sounds like extra work your body will be doing for free. More efficient exercising. Stay hydrated. 👌
And I rode 15 miles round trip to work. Excuses are like assholes.
Good for you.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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 (tm) 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
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.
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.
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?
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.
So we're just going to pretend that the other 90% of the gym doesn't exist?
Right? It would take me most of an hour to walk to my gym, which is really close (I do sometimes jog to the gym and walk home, when I have time).
An hour walk is prob a 20 min bike ride
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.
My car needs cardio too
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.
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.
That's because it's not walkable between home and the gym
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.
i could see people doing that to avoid meeting non-gym people. like when you get your ass complimented every 5 meters outside of the gym.
also, if there barely are any sidewalks near your home or it's generally unsafe in some way.
How to get a 100% discount? Just ride your bike to the gym and then back home. There is no need for a subscription.
Just walk halfway to the gym and then give up and walk home.
if it's 0° outside (or 90°+), then yea, i'll drive to the treadmill. otherwise there's no benefit a treadmill offers over walking/hiking/running outside. plus there's no downhill option on the treadmill, which exercises a different combination of muscles
I can run a nice, wooded trail, or I can suck on exhaust fumes on an ugly road next to dangerous drivers.
It's 114 degrees today. I'm not walking anywhere
Its prolly murica where you try to walk, you die because a car hit you.
Canada is like this too
I could run to the gym but after my workout I would be to tired to run back.
Walk in a climate controlled environment or out in the heat/cold? Hmm...
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
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.
Isn't it? Compared to sports, running or interval running it's very little effort.
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.
