Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
by thfuran on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:21PM
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>exercise in general, is not your thing? You clearly have more pressing interests and there are other ways to maintain good health.
This is profoundly bad advice. Being completely sedentary is absolutely awful when it comes to health. A single anecdote of a person who didn’t exercise but didn’t die young is meaningless. I’m not going to recommend people take up smoking because my grandpa smoked for 60 years and is still alive at 95.
Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
by anthomtb on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @12:36PM
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Being completely sedentary was not my suggestion. My intention was to re-frame the asker's question from "how can I make this exercise tolerable" to "how can I maintain good health without engaging in this miserable activity".
I too once preached the exercise gospel to any that would listen. But I have mellowed out with age (while still riding my stationary bike).
Maybe accept that running, or perhaps exercise in general, is not your thing? You clearly have more pressing interests and there are other ways to maintain good health. My grandfather lived well into his eighties with nigh a scrap of fat on him and, near as I can tell, did no formal exercise after his army days ended. My mother is on the same track despite health issue severely limiting her mobility.
I say this as a guy who rides an indoor cycling trainer 3-4 times a week during the winter and turns in to a raging jerk if he doesn't get his workouts done. If you're not a "gym guy", "runner guy", "biking guy" or whatever, why waste your extremely limited free time trying to become one?