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Re:How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do by zanellato19 on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:43PM (#45278976)
_Athletes_ are completely different from the normal people looking to exercise. Can you spend 4 hours of your day exercising?
Re:How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do by nradov on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:50PM (#45280598)
Even most professional endurance athletes rarely hit 28 hours per week of actual training time. That would be like a peak week in a training plan before tapering leading up to a race.
Re:How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do by reducesuffering on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:36AM (#45290972)
Even more contrary to GP's claim, the top American marathoners are only doing ~13 hour weeks of running before their races. It's public data on Strava.
Re:How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do by Melatonic on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:24PM (#45279505)
If most people really wanted to I think they could. Split it into multiple blocks
Re:How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do by paulpauper on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:47PM (#45279030)
If you are single and short commute, it is doable. People spend hours watching TV, looking at phone.
Re:How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do by zanellato19 on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:48PM (#45279039)
I don't think it's reasonable. That becomes basically the only thing to do outside of work. Highly unlikely at the very least.
Re:How to Motivate Yourself to Do a Thing You Don't Want to Do by reducesuffering on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:35AM (#45290950)
Try only 4 hours a week of exercise. Most lean runners are only getting that amount of time running in and still eating high calories, because 4 hours of running is ~2,500 extra calories burned every single week.