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.
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.
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
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.
By stranded do you mean, you have to walk home?
Yes, which is why I added “exhausted” to highlight why that is undesirable.
Yes that means you can’t run anymore. But you can still walk home.
Completely untrue. You can also take the bus.
Yeah and you can keep a consistent pace. Love/hate stair master or going on a large incline walk before or after lifting weights
Also, when they ran to the gym they had twice the way. May be more than they’re capable of.
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.
Take memes seriously and fight with people on the internet.
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
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.
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?
Isn’t it? Compared to sports, running or interval running it’s very little effort.
Probably one of those “mans job” or “lone wolf” things. Either way cro_magnon_gilf 100% has Cheeto dust fingers.
My car needs cardio too
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?
midwesterners will drive an hour everyday and call it an easy quick drive
hell theyd call a 3 hour drive not too bad
I mean, a 3-hour drive is not bad if you don’t do it all the time.
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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.
You’re paying to be motivated by a teenager with an ego trip. Sorry, I mean a “trainer”.
Hey, some of us need that…
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.
I could run to the gym but after my workout I would be to tired to run back.
But if you walk a mile there and a mile back that’s 2 miles. Maybe that’s too much.
Maybe it’s storming.
Maybe the sidewalks are too uneven.
Maybe manbearpig is on the loose
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.
It’s 114 degrees today. I’m not walking anywhere
Walk in a climate controlled environment or out in the heat/cold? Hmm…
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.
Just walk halfway to the gym and then give up and walk home.
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.
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.
Dawg it’s 95°F out with 97%RH cmon
Carry a gallon of water 💦
They have water at the gym
Good now we get to drink 2 gallons 🦍
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. 👌
Not saying this works for everyone everywhere but I just run at like 9pm
Ah yes. 9 PM, when the heat index is still 100°F.
Here’s yesterday’s peak heat index across Oklahoma. It being 99° isn’t the problem. It feeling 10 degrees hotter is.
Just evolve some rabbit ears
I’m going to evolve into a plasma based being if this heat continues
And I rode 15 miles round trip to work. Excuses are like assholes.
Good for you.
