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[apiphile]

1. Post joy! amy_wolf sent me a trilogy of fiction books about epidemics/infections so I can see how other people approach this, and the first of the Church Mice books that I loved as a child (I read it delightedly while Jess blinked and went about Facebooking next to me, TOTALLY UNMOVED BY THE STORY OF A HORDE OF MICE SAVING THE EXPENSIVE CANDLESTICKS IN

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[coniferous_you]

walked five miles

My issue with the distance method of measuring exercise is that it's horribly unreliable and rigid. Time spent at target heart rate, I think, is a much more sane, stable method to measure exercise.

Distance doesn't take into account the person's overall health profile. Like, it might take you no time to get into your heart rate training (or aerobic training, whichever you actually want) zone, but your walking buddy might need an hour just to warm up to that target. So that means you're training for two hours while someone else might be training for less, all in pursuit of that five miles. It's just weird because it ends up with some people doing too much and other people not doing enough.

Basically I just feel like it doesn't matter what the chart says; if your heart says it's hard, then you are training.

Moderately disillusioned with the ongoing attempt to not be actual human garbage, which various propagandists assure me will transform me into a being made of radiant energy, clear skin, and intellectual focus

You might feel moderately better on a personal level because everyone sucks, but ultimately it isn't going to change your life that much. And actually if you find yourself enjoying exercise like many people who get into routines, you're going to feel exactly the same because you're going to stop doing it for fitness and start doing it for fun and then it's kind of like drugs where you need to escalate the dosage for the same high.

[apiphile]

At the moment there is dramatically little chance of me viewing it as anything other than an irritating distraction from things I actually want/need to do. If only there were some way to combine exercise and reading!

[coniferous_you]

But if you worked with time spent at your target heart rate (and there are recommended times for this out there), that's more time for reading! (I don't know about you, but it would take me a long time to walk five miles).

[apiphile]

That five miles was entirely during the course of doing other things, though, not a set "I walked five miles for no fucking reason".

[coniferous_you]

Oh! WELL THEN

Workouts that integrate real life are the BEST workouts

(Workouts that include Real Life the band are also the best workouts, just sayin').