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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
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, when they ran to the gym they had twice the way. May be more than they’re capable of.
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.
Yes that means you can’t run anymore. But you can still walk home.
Yeah and you can keep a consistent pace. Love/hate stair master or going on a large incline walk before or after lifting weights
Take memes seriously and fight with people on the internet.
I can run a nice, wooded trail, or I can suck on exhaust fumes on an ugly road next to dangerous drivers.
It’s 114 degrees today. I’m not walking anywhere
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.
How to get a 100% discount? Just ride your bike to the gym and then back home. There is no need for a subscription.
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
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 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…
My local bike club charges $5 if you want to ride with them to the local brewery on Saturday.
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.
Walk in a climate controlled environment or out in the heat/cold? Hmm…
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.
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.
My car needs cardio too
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.
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.
