alt Hacker News> If you truly only have 5 minutes of free time in your entire week,
I was responding to your claim that if you can browse HN you can go to the gym, and it's obvious with any sort of thought that they are not similar activities.
> then why is it ineffective to do 5 minutes of pushups?
What is your goal? Fitness or weight loss? Either way, that won't be effective. Sure, it can be part of a larger fitness regimen, but just 5 minutes of push-ups ain't cutting it.
It won’t be very effective, I agree. But it’s also not likely that the parent comment doesn’t have time to work out at all.
My point is that with a dash of optimism we can conquer a lot of obstacles in our life.