Cycle for One Hour and You’ll Live an Hour Longer
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#3I grew up hearing the old "smoke a cigarette, take 6 minutes off your life" yarn, which makes me wonder; if you smoke 10 cigarettes while riding a bike over the course of an hour, would you be more likely to crash your bike or have a heart attack?
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#4Yeah, but that hour longer will still be an hour spent on the exercise bike.
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#5Yeah, but that hour longer will still be an hour spent on the exercise bike.
They're not talking about using an exercise bike! It's an hour spent on your commute/errands/etc. :)
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#6So stop cycling? :(
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#8Can I get a 2 for 1?
It seems like no net benefit as a 1 to 1.
What does 1 hour of walking give for ROI?
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#9I grew up hearing the old "smoke a cigarette, take 6 minutes off your life" yarn, which makes me wonder; if you smoke 10 cigarettes while riding a bike over the course of an hour, would you be more likely to crash your bike or have a heart attack?
Life is not a matter of chances in my opinion and observarion. You will die when you will die. You have as much control over your death date as you did over your birth date. Even a suicide attempt can fail and people that take care of themselves the most still die early from some random cancer.
Not to say your destined cause of death won't be lung cancer from smoking or a freak bike accident but that good choices prepare you for good outcomes, they don't guarantee them.
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#10Can I get a 2 for 1? It seems like no net benefit as a 1 to 1. What does 1 hour of walking give for ROI?
We don’t value all of our time equally.
Here’s an extreme example: we sleep a bit under 1/3 of the time. Let’s say you were given the option to forgo sleeping; you would have all that extra time, you wouldn’t feel the need or the desire for sleep at all. The catch is all that time gets lopped off the end of your life.
Would you take that offer? I sure wouldn’t! I’d miss out on a lot; there’s a good chance I’d never meet my grandkids, for example.