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
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.
Carry a gallon of water 💦
They have water at the gym
Good now we get to drink 2 gallons 🦍
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 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?
Completely untrue. You can also take the bus.
Yes, which is why I added “exhausted” to highlight why that is undesirable.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
My local bike club charges $5 if you want to ride with them to the local brewery on Saturday.
They might live in a city that’s built for cars only and is hostile to walkers and bikers.
So fix that instead of normalizing inefficient nonsense!
Oh yeah let me just fix that real quick before I go to the gym
They make it sound so easy, can’t you just fix it on your way to the gym, please? Kthanksbye.
You’re getting downvoted by people I suspect never vote in their municiple elections
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.
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
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
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.
There are no sidewalks near any of my nearest gyms ironically, and I live in a fairly large city. Just busy stroads as far as the eye can see.
So fix that instead of normalizing inefficient nonsense!
Bruh, you aint helping.
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.
How to get a 100% discount? Just ride your bike to the gym and then back home. There is no need for a subscription.
