Fall and Winter are typically the season for this, but I’ve noticed more people than usual have taken up interest in what amount to gyms. These very, very expensive gyms, which market themselves as almost exceptional in how they can help you regain yourself. All the while these “miracle body regimes” are advertised everywhere. Suspicious industry much?
Some neighbors of mine were headed there. I remember this because they were about to get into their vehicle, and I asked “the location is right around the corner, you don’t want to walk and maybe save transport money” and they responded “no, we’re old, we can’t do that” before they rode there and gained entry so they can run on the machine, and returned having used their whole wallet due to the journey/destination. Though not as memorable as the fact they came back with a brand of potato chips with the same name as the place they went to. Nothing like feeding into what you’re there to fix.
How about you though?
I’m not outright trying to be contrarian, but for some older people or people with things like arthritis, foot injuries, hip injuries, etc. walking or running on a treadmill is vastly less painful than walking or running on concrete.
There is absolutely a huge commercialization problem with fitness and health in the western world (and in America in particular), but if going to a climate-controlled gym and getting your steps in on a treadmill or elliptical is what it takes to get you to exercise, I’m all for it.
For the potato chips, that’s really sleazy of the gym, but I do want people to know that even if you don’t/can’t make a bunch of changes to your diet and you don’t lose weight, getting exercise of any kind as often as you are able is still a positive thing for your heart and metabolic health. Please don’t let being fat, or out of shape, or an inability to overhaul your diet prevent you from doing something positive for your health. Losing weight and keeping it off is really only possible through major lifestyle change, and, for a lot of people, the only sustainable way to make the necessary changes is one at a time.
I agree. Potato chips and a workout is better than nothing.
Also, for old people and others with painful feet, crosswalks can really suck. One who drives to the gym and then uses a treadmill gets to control their speed during the physical activity. The car can go fast enough to keep up with traffic without stressing the person’s body.
Not so much scammy as scary, and no one else seems to have noticed.
They’re building storage units like mad around here. This suggests that thousands of people have been forced to downgrade their living arrangements/housing.
As someone who has been homeless, I hate that it is illegal to (a) sleep in one’s car and (b) sleep in one’s storage unit.
The lowest rungs of the economic ladder have been removed by government.
I mean the thing you mention has boggled my mind for years as a big walker, biker, public transit, standing desk guy. My condo has a pool and im not big on swimming but I use it a few times a week when its open. Im not big on it but hey man its available and a nice enough activity.
Any product which requires proprietary refills or filters.
Crumb free bread is the biggest scam of all.
Roller derby is a scam. I have connected the dots to the WWE. The connection is the goddamn leotards. Prove me wrong.
Why don’t you want lesbians and drag queens to have a safe space for violence?
Car Insurance is a total scam. We should be able to make every traffic trip a potential crash derby.
I love the absolute chaos you’re bringing to this comment section. You’re my kinda people.
How about you though?
For many around here the issue will seem perfectly obvious, but I’m worried when I see how often many ‘normal’ people consider this a non-issue at all, quite the contrary.
I am talking about the destruction of any notion of privacy in the name of always more ‘security’ and ‘convenience’.
edit: added a missing word.
The battle for autonomous citizenship in a democracy was lost decades ago. Its true roots are the move to venture capital to avoid the WW3 that the previous military centric system would have created by around the 1980’s. The ideals of a warmonger state lend meaning to citizenship. Venture capital is feudalism. It is a system where autonomy and citizenship are in principal opposition to the interests of capital. A military must justify its cost with action. A feudal lord needs a mechanism of servitude but the name is irrelevant. Slave, and serf have been used in the past. No one will ever try to call you one of these loaded terms. They will alter the meaning of citizen until it is functionally equivalent. The feudal serving class are not owners of their tools, land, or means of survival. They have a theoretical right to legal recourse, but mechanisms bar them from doing so in practice.
Not every gym goer is preparing for the olympics or sculpting a body for instagram.
