How much exercise do you do?

[Dave2002]

Just back from a very long cycle ride. Victoria Park/Broxbourne return, along the River Lea. I didn't time it, but I must've been out for nearly 4 hours. I think I overdid it.

I walked a few hundred yards - maybe more - two way trip - in order to watch/photograph the cyclists coming back from Box Hill and several circuits around Ranmore.

I think they did more exercise than I did!

[umslopogaas]

fhg, you've got the wrong girl, she doesnt work for the CoOp ... as far as I know, but then what do I know, she may be stacking shelves over there when she isnt elevating my goods ...

[Dave2002]

They have a more liberal attitude in your branch of the Co-Op than does mine.

There's an Australian joke reminiscent of that about Bunnings. I have also seen it translated to B&Q (IIRC) in a very strange TV programme of jokes told (wait for it) by vicars!

[EdgeleyRob]

Exercise is great as long as you are healthy enough to do it. I enjoy swimming, running and hill walking in the Lakes and Scotland.
What I find difficult to understand is why people prefer indoor exercise in a so-called gym, with music you can't get away from, stale air and no scenery. Why run on a treadmill (which you have to pay to use) when you can do the same outdoors for nothing?

I will never understand this.

[Serial_Apologist]

fhg, you've got the wrong girl, she doesnt work for the CoOp ... as far as I know, but then what do I know, she may be stacking shelves over there when she isnt elevating my goods ...

Ah - a fork lift driver, then...

[EdgeleyRob]

I have high blood pressure and my doctor advised that I do 3 hours walking per week. As I don't drive this isn't much of a problem. The walk from home to railway station to the office and back again means that I do twice that every week, the return journey being mostly uphill.

Those people who climb into their cars and head for an office desk from which they barely move are stoking up big problems for the future.

That's me Pet,and the days I work from home I don't even get to walk to the car.
That's why I walk for at least an hour every evening with my dogs,even more at weekends.

[P. G. Tipps]

It wouldn't be a fair study, however, as my wife would kill me before we had a chance to reach any meaningful conclusion.

Ah-hah ... just as I've long thought ... by far the most important health benefit for a man is to make sure he avoids a wife in the first place ...

Some medical scientists have recently and excitedly discovered that gentle, moderate walking (not that poseur 'brisk' stuff) is also a great health benefit. Many less clever folk have instinctively known that all their ignorant little lives.

In the end, though, if that other troublesome female, Mistress Fate, decides its high time your life be made more miserable or, indeed, your time has come altogether, I'm of the very humble and admittedly scientifically-unproven opinion that there's not a great deal medical scientists or less clever folk can do to cunningly and successfully avoid either?

[Dave2002]

Ah-hah ... just as I've long thought ... by far the most important health benefit for a man is to make sure he avoids a wife in the first place ...

False generalisation!

[teamsaint]

If you live in a rural area, with no street lighting, and have to work during the day, indoor exercise may be the only sensible and safe option.

No sniggering in the cheap seats please.

[Dave2002]

If you live in a rural area, with no street lighting, and have to work during the day, indoor exercise may be the only sensible and safe option.

No sniggering in the cheap seats please.

Use a torch! Assuming you remember, of course.

Rain is more likely to present an obstacle I find - particularly at the times of the year when it would be dark in the evening or early morning, but it can also be a disincentive in the "summer".

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Rain is more likely to present an obstacle I find - particularly at the times of the year when it would be dark in the evening or early morning, but it can also be a disincentive in the "summer".

And icy roads in Winter - I so wish to avoid the irony of "healthy" exercise leading to a broken leg!

[teamsaint]

Use a torch! Assuming you remember, of course.

Rain is more likely to present an obstacle I find - particularly at the times of the year when it would be dark in the evening or early morning, but it can also be a disincentive in the "summer".

yes, well I knew a rather good triathlete who used a torch and in a well lit town, and he crashed into a roadworks sign and chopped the end of his finger off in the folding mechanism.

makes a cross trainer or something look like a good investment !!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

yes, well I knew a rather good triathlete who used a torch and in a well lit town, and he crashed into a roadworks sign and chopped the end of his finger off in the folding mechanism.

That's dreadful.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

"in a well-lit town" and "with a torch"???!!!!

I mean - roadworks signs aren't exactly small!

[teamsaint]

"in a well-lit town" and "with a torch"???!!!!

I mean - roadworks signs aren't exactly small!

since he was a customer, when he told me about the accident I felt it wise not to push that point !!