I take the batteries out of the fridge, I put the batteries into the fridge. I take the batteries out of the fridge, I put the batteries into the fridge. I take the batteries out of the fridge, I put the batteries into the fridge…
I generally bike or walk, sometimes to/from work (~6.5 miles round trip) but more usually in the evenings when it is a bit cooler (there are several nice loops from my home of 7.5, 10, 14 and 16 miles that are fairly safe to ride at night).
My goal is 30+ miles each week of biking and walking (not counting walking to/from the car each day, which is close to a mile in a week). Some weeks I make the goal (this week is two days old and I’m at 22.7 miles) and some weeks I do not (last week I only got in 7.5 miles total). Week before that, I got in 48 miles, so the 30 is really my minimum goal.
I have a stationary bike that I try to use when the weather is crappy but it mostly gets used when the crappiness is due to winter rather than extreme heat.
Actually I don’t do workouts but people think I do… That’s because I named my bathroom ‘Jim’ (instead of john)… That way when asked, I tell them I go to the Jim every morning.
This summer, my cousin has moved in with here four kids, 3 thru 11 yo, so I am getting plenty of exercise. Also, I have learned I do not want kids. I had no idea before.
@simplersimon Although you may change your mind later. I, initially, did not want kids either. Ever. Held on to that opinion for a long time. I was very happy to give back any kids of relatives or friends I was keeping an eye on. Lived to eventually eat my words, although at the time I swore I never would.
They can be, on occasion, a real pain and there are times where you wonder what on earth you possibly could have been thinking; any jury of your peers (eg parents of, especially teens and tweens, or anything else that is behaving in ways that you’d like walk out the door and never come back) would have called it justifiable homicide. My sister said, when she found out she was pregnant for the first time, “I changed my mind can I give it back?”. Of course there are also times you like being a parent and appreciate being a parent.
When I adopted a 10 year old, I think it took me about a year to actually adjust to being a parent and stop regretting, on many occasions, that I had adopted. If they haven’t been in your household all that long, realize that your opinion may change some months down the line. Gone from none to 4 is a huge lifestyle change. Heck going from none to one is too.
I answered this hypothetically. If I WERE to work out, it would be with a video in the a/c. I take it in spurts where I will do really well and work out every day for 2 weeks and then I take a day off and it all goes to crap. I need to do another 2 week spurt…
I plan the shortest path through the oven out to my car and then back again. That’s when it’s not raining. Then I plan the shortest path through the dish washer out to my car and back again.
I do all activities, yard, garden, and workout in the heat of the day. In the South it does not matter. In the Summer, it is always hot and humid. I do take it easy on the dogs and only walk them at 6 AM.
Don’t actually ‘work out’ per se but between upkeep on an acre of yard and a pool, tending a garden, working on the Pool house, making pepper jelly, fig preserves, peach liqueur, smoking stuff (various meats, olive oil, cream cheese, jalepenos for chipotles etc) entertaining grandkids for a week, keeping up with my elderly mom and her dr appointments, shopping etc, and working full time in an ER, I don’t lack for things to keep me busy. One of the best benefits of the pool is it is great for cooling down when working outside on the yard/garden. You can just rinse off and jump in to get your core temp back into some sort of normal range. Living in the South you can count on sweating just to get from the house to the car and once in the car it takes a couple of miles to cool it down during the daytime… of course, by then, you are at your destination in a small town…
When it’s 95º and 90% humidity, it’s miserable outside. Mowing becomes the kind of thing you’d rather avoid and going to the mailbox is tedious.
I also live in a small town and my drive normally takes 5-10 minutes to most places. I don’t even bother turning on the AC. I just roll the windows down and try to keep moving
I go to the bouldering gym because it’s the only workout that I don’t hate doing. It’s more fun than sitting in a contraption doing repetitive motions.
@LordSalem Yes. I took people camping for a living doing a variety of adventure activities. When I stopped doing that it too ages for me to adjust to the fact that I wasn’t automatically going to stay in shape due to my job. The thought of mindlessly walking in circles around the neighborhood or a track, using machines repetitively was something I had trouble wrapping my mind around. I wish there was a bouldering gym around here. I used to be able to climb 5.10 and lead 5.8 (too chicken to even try to lead harder than that especially if an overhang was involved). Much more fun doing that (and all the other outdoor adventure activities) to keep in shape.
Same way I work out in any weather.
I walk from my bed to the couch.
I walk from the couch to the fridge and back to the couch.
I walk down the stairs to my basement bar, climb up into my favorite barstool, maybe curl a few ounces here and there.
I walk up the stairs and back to the couch.
I walk out to the car.
I walk from the car to the store and back.
Walk back in from the car to the couch.
Etc.
Several reps/day.
So, yeah, I walk, do stair climbs, lift things up and put them down…
Exercise - that’s the ticket.
I lift truck wheels around all day, and during the evenings and weekends I’ve been tearing down a house using a sledge hammer and chainsaw. Running on treadmills tethered to ear buds is for sissies.
I sweat.
By just doing my job/don’t workout
I don’t think this poll was written with meh users in mind.
I take the batteries out of the fridge, I put the batteries into the fridge. I take the batteries out of the fridge, I put the batteries into the fridge. I take the batteries out of the fridge, I put the batteries into the fridge…
@shahnm If you shake them in between, and do a spin afterwards, you’ll be doin’ the hokey-pokey…
I bike, even when it is very hot. I prefer 95 to 50 deg. F. Keep up with the fluids!
12 oz curls
I mow the lawn – enough of a workout.
@phendrick In your air conditioned lawn mower
@Mehrocco_Mole 25¢? Sold!
@Mehrocco_Mole @RiotDemon I’ll take 10!
@Mehrocco_Mole @phendrick Nice to see George Jetson staying active.
We own a martial arts school.
@Snshyn75
of course, in the summertime it can be 95 deg sometimes in there! Ugh!
@Snshyn75 What? Really? Oh, wait…martial arts. For a second there, I thought it said marital arts.
@parodymandotcom hahaha! Well…I guess that can be a workout too!
Indoor recumbent bike, 70 minutes/day. Pollution and 100+.
@Everbody No time for 70 minutes a day but the recumbent parked over one of the floor vents makes using it almost a pleasure.
Ultimate Frisbee, 2 or 3 days a week. Heat or no.
I generally bike or walk, sometimes to/from work (~6.5 miles round trip) but more usually in the evenings when it is a bit cooler (there are several nice loops from my home of 7.5, 10, 14 and 16 miles that are fairly safe to ride at night).
My goal is 30+ miles each week of biking and walking (not counting walking to/from the car each day, which is close to a mile in a week). Some weeks I make the goal (this week is two days old and I’m at 22.7 miles) and some weeks I do not (last week I only got in 7.5 miles total). Week before that, I got in 48 miles, so the 30 is really my minimum goal.
I have a stationary bike that I try to use when the weather is crappy but it mostly gets used when the crappiness is due to winter rather than extreme heat.
@baqui63 impressive!!
@moonhat Thanks!
Tho I have friends who consider me to be a whimp when it comes to exercise, so I’m not really sure that it is all that impressive.
I walk outside and sweat, or as Texans call it, the sauna.
i will hike in up to 106 degree heat in shaded canyons. Drink 2 liters of water easy.
Actually I don’t do workouts but people think I do… That’s because I named my bathroom ‘Jim’ (instead of john)… That way when asked, I tell them I go to the Jim every morning.
@unkabob you are my hero.
This summer, my cousin has moved in with here four kids, 3 thru 11 yo, so I am getting plenty of exercise. Also, I have learned I do not want kids. I had no idea before.
@simplersimon good call.
/giphy kids suck
@moonhat @simplersimon fly little one… you can do it… or maybe not
@simplersimon Although you may change your mind later. I, initially, did not want kids either. Ever. Held on to that opinion for a long time. I was very happy to give back any kids of relatives or friends I was keeping an eye on. Lived to eventually eat my words, although at the time I swore I never would.
They can be, on occasion, a real pain and there are times where you wonder what on earth you possibly could have been thinking; any jury of your peers (eg parents of, especially teens and tweens, or anything else that is behaving in ways that you’d like walk out the door and never come back) would have called it justifiable homicide. My sister said, when she found out she was pregnant for the first time, “I changed my mind can I give it back?”. Of course there are also times you like being a parent and appreciate being a parent.
When I adopted a 10 year old, I think it took me about a year to actually adjust to being a parent and stop regretting, on many occasions, that I had adopted. If they haven’t been in your household all that long, realize that your opinion may change some months down the line. Gone from none to 4 is a huge lifestyle change. Heck going from none to one is too.
Today I built Zoya an outdoor garden box! (then I fainted in the yard from the heat) 3/10 wouldn’t recommend but will make tortoise happy
@Panegyric
Errr… How can you tell if a tortoise is happy?
Manual labor in a humid factory
I answered this hypothetically. If I WERE to work out, it would be with a video in the a/c. I take it in spurts where I will do really well and work out every day for 2 weeks and then I take a day off and it all goes to crap. I need to do another 2 week spurt…
I plan the shortest path through the oven out to my car and then back again. That’s when it’s not raining. Then I plan the shortest path through the dish washer out to my car and back again.
i walk my dog early in the morning and then again in the early evening, unless it is way too hot and humid.
@bayportbob - My dog takes me for a walk regardless of the heat, he likes it!
I do all activities, yard, garden, and workout in the heat of the day. In the South it does not matter. In the Summer, it is always hot and humid. I do take it easy on the dogs and only walk them at 6 AM.
Indoors
Why do they never put the obvious answers in the poll?
@aetris No tellin’. Maybe so we could do this?
Don’t actually ‘work out’ per se but between upkeep on an acre of yard and a pool, tending a garden, working on the Pool house, making pepper jelly, fig preserves, peach liqueur, smoking stuff (various meats, olive oil, cream cheese, jalepenos for chipotles etc) entertaining grandkids for a week, keeping up with my elderly mom and her dr appointments, shopping etc, and working full time in an ER, I don’t lack for things to keep me busy. One of the best benefits of the pool is it is great for cooling down when working outside on the yard/garden. You can just rinse off and jump in to get your core temp back into some sort of normal range. Living in the South you can count on sweating just to get from the house to the car and once in the car it takes a couple of miles to cool it down during the daytime… of course, by then, you are at your destination in a small town…
@chienfou I echo you 100%
When it’s 95º and 90% humidity, it’s miserable outside. Mowing becomes the kind of thing you’d rather avoid and going to the mailbox is tedious.
I also live in a small town and my drive normally takes 5-10 minutes to most places. I don’t even bother turning on the AC. I just roll the windows down and try to keep moving
I go to the bouldering gym because it’s the only workout that I don’t hate doing. It’s more fun than sitting in a contraption doing repetitive motions.
@LordSalem Yes. I took people camping for a living doing a variety of adventure activities. When I stopped doing that it too ages for me to adjust to the fact that I wasn’t automatically going to stay in shape due to my job. The thought of mindlessly walking in circles around the neighborhood or a track, using machines repetitively was something I had trouble wrapping my mind around. I wish there was a bouldering gym around here. I used to be able to climb 5.10 and lead 5.8 (too chicken to even try to lead harder than that especially if an overhang was involved). Much more fun doing that (and all the other outdoor adventure activities) to keep in shape.
I think playing Dance Dance Revolution is basically an interactive workout video.
Same way I work out in any weather.
I walk from my bed to the couch.
I walk from the couch to the fridge and back to the couch.
I walk down the stairs to my basement bar, climb up into my favorite barstool, maybe curl a few ounces here and there.
I walk up the stairs and back to the couch.
I walk out to the car.
I walk from the car to the store and back.
Walk back in from the car to the couch.
Etc.
Several reps/day.
So, yeah, I walk, do stair climbs, lift things up and put them down…
Exercise - that’s the ticket.
I bike, and I decorated my helmet last year when I got this in a fuko:
I lift truck wheels around all day, and during the evenings and weekends I’ve been tearing down a house using a sledge hammer and chainsaw. Running on treadmills tethered to ear buds is for sissies.
What is this “working out” you speak of?
I use a 2lb weight to try to tone my arms while I’m making the 3 hour daily round trip. Otherwise coffee curls. Or Mt Dew hoists.
@llangley What you don’t try to mentally levitate the couch you are potatoeing on?
@Kidsandliz Yes. And it’s MEHntally…