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Swimming is amazing for the elderly as well as the heavily obese. Buoyancy takes all the load off joints/cartilage and significantly reduces wear or arthritic pain while still providing consistent, firm resistance to movement that burns calories.
All you need is rich parents
Or the wherewithal for and availability of a public one
A public parent?
That immediately increases the time investment required for use. The whole point of the post is that it’s easy because it’s in their back yard. Public pools aren’t relevant here.
Depends on your situation (the availability). I have one in my neighborhood, so it’s literally 8 minutes from my house to being showered off and in the pool. I’ve been to some people’s houses where it takes almost that long to navigate the backyard.
I don’t think my situation is just some happenstance, either. I think it’s not a huge investment for an incredible health and social return anywhere (desert climates possibly excepted? I’m not sure what the environmental impact is, especially compared with a potential reduction in personal pools built/maintained). Every neighborhood should have a pool reachable within 15 minutes and residents should petition for it if there isn’t one, imo. Petitioning obviously isn’t easy, but it’s easier than you’d think
Or you know, a body of water close to you.
A non polluted, publicly available body of water.
Also a body
Ehhh, rich isn’t really applicable. Someone with good income and good debt management skills can have a pool. You don’t have to be “rich”, which is a pretty vague word that’s very subjective.
I have friends that make very good money, and have the freedom to decide what their debt goes to. Nice house, nice cars, but if their income goes away, they’re fucked because the debt doesn’t magically disappear when the income does. To me, that’s not rich. Rich is when you have enough resources that a change in income doesn’t fuck you over.
Now, some people would say that the ability to choose what debt goes to is rich. I can see that usage being just as valid. I sure as hell can’t decide what my debt goes to, it has to go only to survival needs. I can’t take on debt for funsies like a pool, at least not in any amount that’s significant (so, nothing big as a pool, but maybe enough for switching out an appliance that isn’t dead, as an example).
For real, pools can be had with relatively low incomes. They cost about the same as a car for in-ground (a new car, not something lightly used lol). You don’t have to be in six figure income brackets to have one. Do I think it’s dumber than dammit to do so if you don’t? Yes, but it’s still possible as long as you want something basic
If an above ground is applicable, and it can be for light exercise, you can get by with as little as a grand. Which ain’t cheap, bit it’s a debt most people in the typical “middle class” income range can manage at some point, if it’s a priority.
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Good luck avoiding it. Need transportation? You’re going to end up in debt. Want to own a home? Debt.
It sucks, but if you want anything resembling a functional life, it’s damn near impossible to avoid all debt. And, the less income you have, the harder it is. Try getting through life debt free on disability income. You can’t.
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What? I was responding to what you said. I didn’t move shit, you were talking about it being some kind of weird shit to know that debt is a forgone conclusion. You’re the one that shifted the focus of the discussion
Swimming’s really good for losing weight, no sweating and less knee pain involved. Wish I had a private pool too, you can definitely tell the public ones are 30% filled with piss.
My private pool would be 70% filled with piss.
20% cum, 10% shit and 100% drinking from it
I don’t blame you
Yammy
And a 100% reason to remember my name
I find it funny that there is an acceptable level or urea in a pool and it’s like 10% lol
This is sort of how everything works, unfortunately! Guaranteeing 0% of something is really hard. Your flour probably has a small percentage of bugs in it, for instance. Urea is a relatively small molecule that I imagine you can find tiny amounts of pretty much anywhere. I would be unsurprised if there was at least one molecule of urea in literally anything you eat!
That said, dear god I hope I’ve never been in a pool that’s 10% urine :(. Those kiddie pools at the water park are probably like 90% urine, though. Sometimes I wonder if by volume adults pee in the pool more than kids, though. I have a suspicion a good chunk of adults think it’s fine or will do it secretly anyway.
It’s not even unfortunate. We’re a lot more robust than we think we are. We have two sets of organs designed to filter shit we consume out of us, and in quantities less than a certain amount, whatever it is isn’t noticeable. Also, chemicals used in public pools are designed to neutralize things like that. If the water isn’t noticeably tinged, you won’t even know the difference.
I would imagine a private pool would be annoyingly small to exercise in, only ever seen one that seemed big enough and that one was way too expensive for any normal person to ever afford. Every other one has been more like for chilling in.
consistency son
Swimming is the best exercise for loosing weight.
Ok, but how much is this in regular units? 100kg?
Assuming that’s metric pounds it’s exactly 15kg.
So he lost 15kg out of of his ~140?
Yep. Assuming 180cm that’s at least 60kg too much, assuming 170cm 70kg.
But that’s all rather iffy health-wise underbelly fat is the worst thing for men and as people have different patterns of fat distributions weight is not a particularly accurate individual proxy for health impact. Rule of thumb is that if your waist circumference is over a meter you should worry. Body fat percentage is even more accurate but who can measure that at home.
Your metabolic rate can be several times higher in a pool or other body of water than it is on land without any exercise at all. Body heat is lost at a much higher rate when you are submerged in water and your body will burn more fuel to maintain core temperature.
So why isn’t “a long cold bath every day” the trendiest weight loss method??
This is something fighters do when they’re going extreme weight loss before a weight in. I’m addition to dehydrating themselves and eating clean, they have several different cold exposure methods that causes the body to burn more calories.
several different cold exposure methods
“Cough in my face, I need to lose weight!”
Yes, get sick, increase that body temp, increase that thermogenesis , burn those calories. Don’t be weak.
well, it cures ALS at least…
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was wildly successful, raising over $200m and leading to identifying 12 genes that play a critical role in ALS
yes, that is indeed what i was referring to
I’d argue the most difficult part about losing weight is boredom.
30lbs in 2 weeks using this one neat trick.
Ok anon.
Well, they never mentioned they ate anything in those two weeks, just bobbed around in the pool
Anons mom refuse to bring Cheetos to the pool.
