RANT: People who say they don't have 'time' for the gym

[Mayfriday0529]

I don't have time for the gym! (until May 19th) there i said it now make fun of me...
Full time work, Full time school and final and papers due, havent had time to go in about three weeks since I also had spring break and was away.
But can't wait to go back. Also some running at the boardwalk.. and beach volleyball.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Armitage
So what's your point Mr. Lifer?

My point is that you can work out during those periods instead. You don't need the gym luxury.

I post during the same times as you. I could work out then if I wanted to, but I have plenty of time at home to do it so I don't.

 

[Ornery]

yea, and it's just as lame to pay to eat

I can exercise for free. Drink tap water virtually for free. But even grocery store food is going to have significant cost. Paying to eat out is insanely expensive. Anybody who can afford that, has no business bitching about the cost of utilities, or even the cost of gasoline!

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Ornery
...you brought up the bottled water!

Again, I am paying for the space and equipment. Not to exercise.

Again, paying to exercise is as lame as paying for bottled water.

Um, no. It's not.

Let me see, 30 bucks a month vs 1000 square feet of my house taken up and $10,000+ worth of equipment. Gee, that's a hard decision.

And before you start saying I don't need to have all that equipment to exercise, you need to know my goals. I'm a body builder. I can't just go running in the park or walking with the old farts in the mall to meet my goals.

I will pay either way. Using a gym is cheaper for me.

 

[kmrivers]

he is cleary not saying all people who don't work out are fat pieces of crap. He is saying that if you are going to complain about being fat, or out of shape, or unhealthy do something about and don't whine about how you have no time. The time is there.

For instance, my good friend. He eats like crap, doesn't excercise, and complains about being having no time and how is always feels like crap. He is by no means fat, he is very skinny. So he seems to think he is fine as long as he is not fat. Wrong! All the crap he eats will catch to in, both in weight and in how he feels. he chooses to ignore this because of course only fat people have problems, even though he feels like crap all the time.

No he is a busy guy, school, work, you know the normal stuff. He spends 2+ hours every night playing games and watching vids on ebaums. That time could be used to prepare himself healthy meals for the next day. Instead of messing around all night, he could get to bed early and wake up early and make a healthy breakfast. Maybe even get a little jog in.

I wouldn't care if he didnt complain. However, he complains and doesnt do anything about. That is when like the OP, i get annoyed. So for those saying you shouldn't care about what others are doing, well they sure in the hell shouldn't be telling me about it and complaining, then i wouldnt have to "care".

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Ornery
yea, and it's just as lame to pay to eat

I can exercise for free. Drink tap water virtually for free. But even grocery store food is going to have significant cost. Paying to eat out is insanely expensive. Anybody who can afford that, has no business bitching about the cost of utilities, or even the cost of gasoline!

how are you going to lift weights for free? rocks? or do you consider weight training to be lame as well? also, some people like to have more control over their workout, like see how much they've run, how many calories they've burnt, change the incline at certain times, etc... i don't see how you'd be able to do that for free. or is that lame as well...

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: Ornery
...you brought up the bottled water!

Again, I am paying for the space and equipment. Not to exercise.

Again, paying to exercise is as lame as paying for bottled water.

Um, no. It's not.

Let me see, 30 bucks a month vs 1000 square feet of my house taken up and $10,000+ worth of equipment. Gee, that's a hard decision.

And before you start saying I don't need to have all that equipment to exercise, you need to know my goals. I'm a body builder. I can't just go running in the park or walking with the old farts in the mall to meet my goals.

I will pay either way. Using a gym is cheaper for me.

OK but at least be realistic. You don't honestly need 20 benches, 30 recumbents, 50 stationary bikes, 48 treadmills, and a separate weight machine for every conceivable muscle. You probably rarely even use weight machines. '

BTW, Ornery - Money is a great motivator. My wife makes it a point to go to the gym knowing that she's paying for it.

 

[Ornery]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Armitage

Yep - over 5 years. Roughly 4 a day and almost exclusively at work while waiting for builds or analysis runs to finish. Or over lunch.

So what's your point Mr. Lifer?

My point is that you can work out during those periods instead. You don't need the gym luxury.

I post during the same times as you. I could work out then if I wanted to, but I have plenty of time at home to do it so I don't.

You got owned, lugnut. Yeah, I'm sure he could get exercise done at work in his cubicle instead of typing a reply... good plan! :roll:

 

[Ornery]

...you need to know my goals. I'm a body builder.

Don't give a fvck about your goals. Topic is about EXERCISE!

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Armitage
So what's your point Mr. Lifer?

My point is that you can work out during those periods instead. You don't need the gym luxury.

I post during the same times as you. I could work out then if I wanted to, but I have plenty of time at home to do it so I don't.

Eh?
I could work out in my office in the 5-20 minutes that a build or analysis takes? I guess I could drop down and do a few pushups or such, but frankly that would be frowned on in most work environments and you certainly can't approach anything like a cardio workout in those kid of conditions.

 

[erikistired]

Originally posted by: Ornery
...you need to know my goals. I'm a body builder.

Don't give a fvck about your goals. Topic is about EXERCISE!

rage against the quote button. it's working good for you.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Armitage
I could work out in my office in the 5-20 minutes that a build or analysis takes? I guess I could drop down and do a few pushups or such, but frankly that would be frowned on in most work environments and you certainly can't approach anything like a cardio workout in those kid of conditions.

There are tons of websites like this one. However, I personally wouldn't attempt a cardio workout at work due to sweat reasons. But you could if you wanted to. Run some stairs, jog during lunch hour, etc. Instead I was thinking of a few isometric exercises.

 

[nageov3t]

I have a tredmill setup in front of my tv in my living room... once my roommate moves out and takes the couch, the exercise bike will be the only thing to sit on in there.

I'm not sure what that says about me. 😉

 

[oboeguy]

This thread amazes me. So little love for exercise outside of a gym... My perpsective on it is that I dislike the idea of a smelly gym, really. Plus, I love bike riding, and like running, so I ride, ride ride, and run some. I make time for it, but I can understand how some folks have trouble doing so. It's getting started that's the hardest. If you find me in a gym, it's probably to play basketball. I have no beef with weight lifters (haha there must be a pun in there somewhere), but I'm not overly fond of doing it myself. I'd rather be *doing* something (bball, riding, running, tennis, whatever).

IMO, bike commuting is worth the "trouble". It's easier for some than others, but a lot folks who think they can't, can. It's free (time-wise) exercise! As for "paying to exercise", I find "driving to exercise" to be a far more ridiculous idea.

 

[djheater]

Pretty weak rant, and narrow minded.

I don't watch commercial television at thome... I do download shows, but only watch them when I get a chance and only after the kids are asleep.
I have three young children, and my gym is at work because it's free. I do take an hour or so three times a week, which is added to my hour commute, and ten hour work day. So while I get to see them early in the morning I rarely will get to eat dinner with my family or put my children to bed if I workout. It's unfortunate but because my job is so sedentary, it's the best option.
When my father was dying and I was his primary caretaker, I sure as ****** didn't have time for the gym.

There are DEFINATELY some people who don't have time for the gym, that's how certain professions are setup, productivity is more important than workers health. Very few companies cultivate the latter, perhaps when the health care industry collapses, this will change 😛

 

[Vic]

Exercise is a funny thing. People who don't exercise complain they don't have the time to exercise, but once they start exercising, they find out that the increased energy and improved health that exercise gives them also gives them more time to do what they need to do. They can get by with less sleep, and they spend less time during the day resting or being non-productive.

Which brings up another odd thing I've learned about life. No one has the motivation to act prior to acting. It is only after one has begun to act that one becomes motivated. Thus, the first step is always the hardest, while all the rest are easy.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Vic
No one has the motivation to act prior to acting. It is only after one has begun to act that one becomes motivated. Thus, the first step is always the hardest, while all the rest are easy.

I agree for the most part, but may I modify that a bit? All the rest of the steps are easy, except right around the 3 month mark. Then you have to make the additional difficult decision to make this a lifelong habit and not to let it drop like a short-lived fad. The 3 month point seems quite difficult for dieting, exercise, quitting smoking, etc. After that, it is easy again.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Ornery

1. <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/chap1.asp">No one should assume that just because water comes from a bottle
   that it is necessarily any purer or safer than most tap water.</a>
   
   <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=13&articleID=000007F0-6DBD-1ED9-8E1C809EC588EF21">Americans today spend more than $7 billion a year on it, paying 120 to
   7,500 times as much per gallon for bottled water as for tap.</a>

heh when i lived in town the crap bottled water was safer. DeKalb IL has been sued a few times over how bad the water is and have not done anything about it. So we were buying bottled water.

Now thati have well i drink tap water but we do also have a reverse osmosis system. we go through a lot of water a day.

as for the excercise i agree. you do not need a gym membership (though i do have one to the YMCA) to get a good workout. maybe for someone like amused who is into powerlifting and body building yeah but for the majority they really do not need it.

if more people would get out and particpate with there kids etc and find hobbies besides TV and watch what they eat they would be fine.

as for the TV mine is on almost all the time im inside. Granted i only watch maybe 3-6 hours a week the news is always on or music channels. only shows i really watch are 24, wrestling and any sports that look good.

 

[Ornery]

My aunt lives in DeKalb. Didn't notice the water being too bad, but I mostly drink soft drinks I guess.

My dad's water is horrible. Too much sulfur. I feel dirtier after washing in it! I give him gallons of city water from our tap in our used up milk jugs. He also buys water for 25 cents per gallon at a local dispenser. A far cry from the dollar or more per 20oz. bottle! He refuses to get a filtration system, but I can't understand why not. Something about screwing with the salt, or chemicals or something like that. 😕

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: Ornery
...you brought up the bottled water!

Again, I am paying for the space and equipment. Not to exercise.

Again, paying to exercise is as lame as paying for bottled water.

Um, no. It's not.

Let me see, 30 bucks a month vs 1000 square feet of my house taken up and $10,000+ worth of equipment. Gee, that's a hard decision.

And before you start saying I don't need to have all that equipment to exercise, you need to know my goals. I'm a body builder. I can't just go running in the park or walking with the old farts in the mall to meet my goals.

I will pay either way. Using a gym is cheaper for me.

OK but at least be realistic. You don't honestly need 20 benches, 30 recumbents, 50 stationary bikes, 48 treadmills, and a separate weight machine for every conceivable muscle. You probably rarely even use weight machines. '

BTW, Ornery - Money is a great motivator. My wife makes it a point to go to the gym knowing that she's paying for it.

But you do need a good cage to squat safely, hack squat machine, cable pulls, good preacher curl chair, pull up/dip station, smith station. Those machines seperately can be pretty expensive and take up a lot of space. If you really into lifting, those machines are necessary. Gym is cheaper no doubt.

 

[SampSon]

How does it feel to be an elitest?

 

[suse920]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Well the truth is...some people just DON'T have time to go to the gym. That's why I get up in the morning and do some DDR and then power walk 8-10 times around my office's 1/8-mile perimeter in the evening.

Not having time to go to a gym doesn't have to mean not having time to exercise.

that workout seems fine...









for a 7 year old girl

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: suse920

Originally posted by: Jzero
Well the truth is...some people just DON'T have time to go to the gym. That's why I get up in the morning and do some DDR and then power walk 8-10 times around my office's 1/8-mile perimeter in the evening.

Not having time to go to a gym doesn't have to mean not having time to exercise.

that workout seems fine...









for a 7 year old girl

LMAO


Seriously though, and as ridiculous as it sounds, this thread inspired me to go to the gym today. I am going to try and keep it up because, really, all I need to do is cut some of the other crap I do a small percentage and I will have more than enough time.

Thanks OP for inspiring me to get my out of shape ass to the gym :thumbsup:

 

[kmrivers]

Originally posted by: Ornery
My aunt lives in DeKalb. Didn't notice the water being too bad, but I mostly drink soft drinks I guess.

My dad's water is horrible. Too much sulfur. I feel dirtier after washing in it! I give him gallons of city water from our tap in our used up milk jugs. He also buys water for 25 cents per gallon at a local dispenser. A far cry from the dollar or more per 20oz. bottle! He refuses to get a filtration system, but I can't understand why not. Something about screwing with the salt, or chemicals or something like that. 😕

So you drink soft drinks... yet you are going to bash people buying water? I guarantee any water, even contaminated, is better than those soft drinks you drink.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: kmrivers

Originally posted by: Ornery
My aunt lives in DeKalb. Didn't notice the water being too bad, but I mostly drink soft drinks I guess.

My dad's water is horrible. Too much sulfur. I feel dirtier after washing in it! I give him gallons of city water from our tap in our used up milk jugs. He also buys water for 25 cents per gallon at a local dispenser. A far cry from the dollar or more per 20oz. bottle! He refuses to get a filtration system, but I can't understand why not. Something about screwing with the salt, or chemicals or something like that. 😕

So you drink soft drinks... yet you are going to bash people buying water? I guarantee any water, even contaminated, is better than those soft drinks you drink.

I don't know about you but i drink water for "health" reasons and pop for taste.