Would cycling have the same effects?
Building a walking routine
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Re: Building a walking routine
#12Of course, what this usually ignores is "...and live somewhere where you can actually safely walk for an hour".
Where do people live where going outside for a walk for an hour is that dangerous? I'm pretty sure even if you lived in a super high crime rate area you could still find times to go outside for a walk during the day. Unless we're talking about extreme scenarios like living in an active war-zone.
Air pollution or lack of sidewalks come to mind.
Re: Building a walking routine
#13From a similar view, the book, "Spark: How Exercise will improve your performance by Dr. John Ratey" has other benefits of exercising:
1. Exercise is better than Zoloft in treating depression
2. Students with higher fitness scores also have higher test scores
3. People learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise
4. A massive Dutch study of 19,288 twins and their families published in 2006 showed that exercisers are less anxious, less depressed, less neurotic, and also more socially outgoing.
5. A study in London in 2004 showed that even ten minutes of exercise could blunt an alcoholic’s craving.
I wrote a summary/highlight of the key ideas in the book here : https://www.chestergrant.com/highlights-from-spark-how-exerc...
Re: Building a walking routine
#14Of course, what this usually ignores is "...and live somewhere where you can actually safely walk for an hour".
Where do people live where going outside for a walk for an hour is that dangerous? I'm pretty sure even if you lived in a super high crime rate area you could still find times to go outside for a walk during the day. Unless we're talking about extreme scenarios like living in an active war-zone.
I'm pretty sure the comment is about cities not built for pedestrians, commonly found in the US.
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#15Of course, what this usually ignores is "...and live somewhere where you can actually safely walk for an hour".
Where do people live where going outside for a walk for an hour is that dangerous? I'm pretty sure even if you lived in a super high crime rate area you could still find times to go outside for a walk during the day. Unless we're talking about extreme scenarios like living in an active war-zone.
I was going to go out for a walk today, but turned around 5 minutes in because the air was brown. Phoenix AZ. PM2.5 AQI is 128 as I type this.
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#16Of course, what this usually ignores is "...and live somewhere where you can actually safely walk for an hour".
This guy is walking for three hours a day. Sort of a big commitment.
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#17The circular design of Apple HQ seems to misunderstand the mental benefits of walking. Walking in a giant circular building your view never changes even slightly. I bet people doing that walk show fewer benefits of walking.
Re: Building a walking routine
#18Of course, what this usually ignores is "...and live somewhere where you can actually safely walk for an hour".
I am living in Canada. It's winter and it is wet. Going outside means a 5 min ritual of changing into outside clothes (because it is wet) and wearing boots, walking and doing the reverse 5 min ritual.
I love walking but very annoying these days.
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#19Of course, what this usually ignores is "...and live somewhere where you can actually safely walk for an hour".
Where do people live where going outside for a walk for an hour is that dangerous? I'm pretty sure even if you lived in a super high crime rate area you could still find times to go outside for a walk during the day. Unless we're talking about extreme scenarios like living in an active war-zone.
It’s not just about being attacked. It’s just there’s no pedestrian infrastructure. Or it’s all in shambles. Or you constantly have to leave the broken or slippery sidewalk and walk through cars.
Manila is such a place. I love walking every day. I really tried to walk there and it’s… hard.
Re: Building a walking routine
#20The circular design of Apple HQ seems to misunderstand the mental benefits of walking. Walking in a giant circular building your view never changes even slightly. I bet people doing that walk show fewer benefits of walking.
FWIW I used to work there and you might be right that just walking around the circle is boring, but the majority of the square footage of Apple Park is beautiful green spaces that aren't right at the circle or even necessarily within view of it.
You could probably spend at least a few hours walking along every distinct path and have very few repeated views.