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[–] [email protected] 98 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If people had wings and could fly it would be considered exercise and nobody would do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this is literally how it works for birds, that's why you see especially pidgeons and corvids walking so often, they just don't need to fly a lot so they simply walk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That can be dangerous in the long term.

Mitchell and Webb - Flightless birds

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Americans wouldn't do it, the rest of the world would

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was about to be offended and then I remembered how I got out of breath walking up the stairs this morning. (To be fair, I'm anemic af and almost certainly have a touch of long covid, but still.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There's just something about stairs that gets me. I can run a sub hour 10k, hike 15+ miles a day, and my resting heart rate is in the 50s, but stairs always get me winded.

[–] Klaymore 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My french teacher in high school said that everyone gets winded going up stairs, cause people who are fitter walk up the steps faster

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

This just solved it for me. That is exactly it. I've been angry at stairs my whole life and now I realize it's because I go up them as fast as I walk- which is considerably faster than most people I know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Stairs are different muscles. I used to work at a dam where I would have to climb 20 flights of stairs/ladders multiple times a day with 80 pounds worth of tools on me. Before then stairs were difficult for me, now I can run up that with that much weight no problem. I haven’t worked there for a year but I also can do sub hour 10k (barely) but those muscles stay with you as long as you stay on your feet regularly during the day.

If it’s an issue for you I suggest weight training up and down the stairs you have available to you (in your house maybe?) 5 minutes a day with a couple 20 pound weights up and down those bitches and you’ll make walking stairs your bitch for the rest of your life. If you can do a sub 10k you have the willpower to do it if you want to.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Why would I fly for twenty minutes when I can drive for an hour 🙄

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Burgerlanders are very averse to any level of self improvement that might be difficult. I blame the car culture propaganda more than I blame the people though.

[–] anomnom 6 points 6 days ago

I’m tall and fairly light. Skipping steps helps a lot with efficiency.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Please stop bad-mouthing Americans, it's just self loathing at this point. It cannot be that black and white.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

How can it be self loathing if I’m not American?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

dont mention black and white around americans... one of those might shoot the other.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

As an American, it's that black and white

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

In America it's a lot of white, black typically winds up on skid row or at the morgue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

If you look at birds like the kakapo, they would've had flight in the evolutionary past, but evolved out of it due to lack of predatory threat.

This can be part of Island syndrome, where the dodo also suffered from, till sailors came around and found out they were tasty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

We'd end up making flying cars so we wouldn't have to fly ourselves...