It works though. I walk three times a day. I’m still not happy but I’m less not happy. 3.5m+ steps in 12 months.
Not gonna lie pal, 3.5 meters in 12 months is fuckin abysmal…
It calculates to about 1cm a day lol
good speed for a fucking amoeba
This is how I feel. Every time I see a video of somebody in a gym all I can think is that while I appreciate the need and results, holy shit I would be so bored I would die. The idea of standing in place and doing the same repetitive motion for 20 minutes sounds like a nightmare to me.
…is what I said, before podcasts existed.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I still don’t go to the gym. But if I did, I would listen to podcasts.
This is going to sound like i’m sponsored or something. But I just recently purchased a relatively cheap (200$) vr, and Beatsaber alone is making me stay active for about an hr a day at least for the past two weeks. I often get bored and lack motivation but LOVE rhythm games. Just a suggestion.
I wholeheartedly recommend Pistol Whip. I’ve never sweat more in my life
I tried using VR to exercise with that very mediocre Avengers game (bad choice on my part, I know), but really my problem there just comes down to having a small house that really doesn’t have anywhere with enough necessary place to really make that work.
Otherwise I think beatsaber is a GREAT suggestion for me, as I was formerly a massive DDR nerd
Fair enough, I have the meta quest 2 and you can set stationary boundaries so as long as you can stretch your arms out you’ll be fine. I thought the same thing about lack of space and then was able to play in my small glorified closet of a room.
Maybe I can make it work by standing sideways in my office… I might go this route.
I’ve heard you can mod in your own songs; do you have any experience with modding Beatsaber? If it’s easy to do, that might be even more compelling reason for me
I modded it the day I bought my vr, it was kind of a hassle but there’s a discord you can ask for help. It gives you access to 90k songs that you can search for and download in game.
This is why you would pick a sport with some form of game to make the exercise more fun.
Yeah I’ve considered looking at some kind of boxing or maybe some kind of fitness focused martial art instead. I think having something I can more easily either gamify or look at as a skill to progress on will make the idea easier.
I definitely recommend martial arts, I’m a long term practicionner and it only gets more interesting and motivating.
Climbing for me. I gotta get back into it (cut my thumb a few months back and got out of the habit)
You might consider climbing, karate, or boxing. More of a mental challenge, and not as repetitive.
I have all my workout equipment in my garage with a projector and a Bluetooth speaker. I watch a movie, listen to podcasts, watch a game, u name it. I just do my reps, and then back to the show or whatever for my rest time in between reps. It’s a good way to break up the monotony imo
I recently got into hiking, which provides some nice changes in scenery!
Granted, that’s hard to do as a regular thing multiple times a week. But still, a walk around your neighborhood, or especially local parks if you’ve got any sizable ones, might be fun in a way going on the treadmill isn’t.
Audio books. Or ebooks, or real books. You aren’t doing a stupid repetitive activity, you’re actively reading.
Jazzercise, believe it or not. That workout was always my favorite, just complicated enough to turn my thinking off but not so complicated I had to really think about what to do. And the music keeps up with the times, and dancing is a euphoric thing to do. Unfortunately the only place that still has it is too far, driving 20 minutes there makes no sense. Now it’s just yoga and weightlifting, my agility has suffered.
It’s like a Goldilocks thing. Running is too simple and I keep thinking, actual dance class I have to think too much. Jazzercise was perfect.
If you’re doing the same repetitive motion for 20 minutes, you’re working out wrong.
Plus, you can listen to music or audio books during to keep you distracted.
Embrace the boredom
It has done wonders for my studying.
If you can (and if you’re not afraid of dogs), get a dog. If you can’t get a dog, try to find a way to incorporate a dog in your walk. Either through an app or sometimes the dog shelter sets up a volunteer squad to walk the dogs, or some other solution I don’t know about.
Walking used to be a chore. Now it’s something to look forward to and to remember afterwards.
No offense intended here, I promise, but suggesting somebody take on the enormous responsibility and life alterations of dog ownership just for the benefit of making walks more palatable seems full-blown ludicrous to me.
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This is why I prefer cats.
hm? cats need exercise too, if anything it’s way more annoying because you have to either take them on walks where the cat spends half the time walking in a circle, and half the time wanting to sprint at full speed, or you have to get cat toys and make them run around for half an hour straight.
Just letting the cats go outdoors on their own is a bad idea for the same reason that doing so with dogs is a bad idea, they’ll kill a tons of animals in the wild and will likely get hurt or even killed.
Especially in a world where most places have vehicles zooming along without a care in the world, it’s extremely irresponsible to have outdoor cats.
Get one of those fishing pole toys with a mouse on it. Kitty runs around chasing the mouse. Good cardio for kitty, amusingly chaotic for human.
Just get a child’s fishing rod and reel and attach a toy.
Cat gets to run, and you don’t have to retrieve the toy.
One can train cats to go on walks. (Though that seems nearly impossible.)
I tried to do that, he went from “let’s go outside” to “I hate this and will lie down in protest” immediately
You gotta acclimate them to harnesses.
Literally me irl
I love my walks (2× 30 minutes a day, usually). So does my perambulated pooch.
