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If people had wings and could fly it would be considered exercise and nobody would do it.
Americans wouldn't do it, the rest of the world would
I was about to be offended and then I remembered how I got out of breath walking up the stairs this morning. (To be fair, I'm anemic af and almost certainly have a touch of long covid, but still.)
There's just something about stairs that gets me. I can run a sub hour 10k, hike 15+ miles a day, and my resting heart rate is in the 50s, but stairs always get me winded.
My french teacher in high school said that everyone gets winded going up stairs, cause people who are fitter walk up the steps faster
This just solved it for me. That is exactly it. I've been angry at stairs my whole life and now I realize it's because I go up them as fast as I walk- which is considerably faster than most people I know.
Stairs are different muscles. I used to work at a dam where I would have to climb 20 flights of stairs/ladders multiple times a day with 80 pounds worth of tools on me. Before then stairs were difficult for me, now I can run up that with that much weight no problem. I haven’t worked there for a year but I also can do sub hour 10k (barely) but those muscles stay with you as long as you stay on your feet regularly during the day.
If it’s an issue for you I suggest weight training up and down the stairs you have available to you (in your house maybe?) 5 minutes a day with a couple 20 pound weights up and down those bitches and you’ll make walking stairs your bitch for the rest of your life. If you can do a sub 10k you have the willpower to do it if you want to.
Why would I fly for twenty minutes when I can drive for an hour 🙄
Yes. Burgerlanders are very averse to any level of self improvement that might be difficult. I blame the car culture propaganda more than I blame the people though.
I’m tall and fairly light. Skipping steps helps a lot with efficiency.
Yeah one time I traveled to Europe and everyone was just running everywhere. Very efficient.
I know I'm China brained, but go to a park in China and you'll have a hard time walking the paths because of the number of people running, and the squares will be filled with people paying badminton and dancing.
It shamed me into exercising regularly.
Please stop bad-mouthing Americans, it's just self loathing at this point. It cannot be that black and white.
dont mention black and white around americans... one of those might shoot the other.
As an American, it's that black and white
In America it's a lot of white, black typically winds up on skid row or at the morgue.
I won't believe it till I see it
How can it be self loathing if I’m not American?
If you look at birds like the kakapo, they would've had flight in the evolutionary past, but evolved out of it due to lack of predatory threat.
This can be part of Island syndrome, where the dodo also suffered from, till sailors came around and found out they were tasty.
We'd end up making flying cars so we wouldn't have to fly ourselves...
this is literally how it works for birds, that's why you see especially pidgeons and corvids walking so often, they just don't need to fly a lot so they simply walk.
That can be dangerous in the long term.