728
Not New, Just Fuck Cars (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
85 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I have family who live in southern Ontario who do this. They live in rural areas so they drive 1 hour to the gym, workout for half an hour and drive an hour back. I pointed out to them that in terms of cost, it would probably be cheaper to just invest in a home gym, treadmill and exercise bike and do everything at home.

Personally, my wife is sick with chronic illness so I can't go anywhere any more. So I just invested in a good treadmill, set up a TV in front of it and watch all my shows just about every day while walking. An average show is about 45 min or an hour so I take that time to do my walk at home and never go anywhere. The cost of the treadmill paid off years ago.

Also, as another tip, buy your treadmill or exercise equipment in January / February. Everyone always buys exercise stuff for Christmas or New Years resolutions in December / November ... then forget about it all after the holidays and sell stuff off or the stores put everything on sale. I bought a $1,000 treadmill like this about ten years ago for half the price and have used it since every year without problems.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Tbh, they could just get a bike, bike there for an hour, turn around bike home and have much more exercise.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Diving 80km away in a car is a lot faster than bicycling. It would take a couple hours or more on a bicycle.

    It's not the driving there ..... it's the time spent going there.

    If you just do everything at home and exercise for even an hour, you save yourself two hours on the road going anywhere.

    Once you do that for a month, the money saved in travel, wasted time, gym membership and all associated costs .... would more than pay for all the gym equipment you buy and set up at home. Plus you gain a whole bunch of hours in the day to do other things.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I could not fathom driving a hour to gym. Convenience is key, to me. I live three blocks from my gym, but I only use it when the weather precludes me from running outside of doors, which is rare. I have a small window within to exercise, and I'm looking for any excuse to not do it, and so two hours of travel is such an easy excuse.

    That being said, I live in Jersey, and to me, a drive beyond 30 minutes needs to really be a worthwhile destination, so it definitely matters where you're from. I visited some friends in Montana and the joke was that everything is two hours away. Wanna climb? Two hours. Float? Two hours. Airport? Obviously, two hours.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    lol .... this is Canada and in rural southern Ontario in farm country by default, everything is one hour away.

    I live in far northern Ontario about an hour for any major city - a convenience store and a pizza joint is five minutes away - everything else is two hours away. Away from the cities in Canada, we measure distance by time ... we don't measure in miles or kilometers, we usually measure distance by the hour.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent