Comment on Anon owns a gym
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Usable muscles are more important than visible muscles and cardio is more important than usable muscles so…
I never understood why people go to studios to do cardio. Just take your bike or your running shoes and go for the park. So much better for psyche and purse than paying 40€ a month to run in a stifling room looking at a gray wall.
Better to combine both things: Run to the studio, do strength training there and run back home.
Respectfully, there’s a couple things at play that maybe you’re not considering. For one, I noticed that you used a €, so I’m going to assume you’re not in the US. Here, it’s potentially many miles to the gym, just running to the gym is probably impossible for the majority of gym goers.
Additionally, assume they’re going to the gym to get fit. Running is an intense and high impact exercise to just start doing from zero. Beyond that, depending on what kind of cardio you’re trying to do such as steady state, zone 2, HIIT, etc. running may not be feasible, and running outside is even less convenient.
There’s a reason people do cardio at the gym, and it’s not just stupidity.
Sure, there are valid reasons to go running in the gym. TubularTittyFrog also mentioned daylight and weather. But I see too many people running in my gym during sunny days and the gym is 100m away from a forrest on one side and 300m from a park on the other side. So why not go for a run outside and return to the studio for the next round of weight training.
There are also cardio options in the studio I do understand: Cross trainer and rowing machine for example. Not everyone has their own rowing boat. But running indoors right next to a perfectly fine outdoor opportunity I won’t understand. I don’t say it’s stupid, I just don’t get it.
because weather and daylight
Is a great explanation except for those people I see there durung the day in perfectly fine weather.
some people hate being outside.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That really is dependent on how old you are. As you age, you want to build and maintain enough strength to keep yourself mobile even as your body ages and degrades. Strength training, particularly full-body barbell workouts, can’t really be beaten in that regard.
Sure cardio is still important. But it doesn’t do the same job. You need both cardio and strength training. And cardio can be really cheap - buy some shoes and run outside or on a treadmill at home.
There’s no point to gyms with 100 treadmills and almost strength equipment. The priorities are way too distorted