• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    10 hours ago

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

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        9 hours ago

        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.)

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          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.

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

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              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.

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        10 hours ago

        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.

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        6 hours ago

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