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LorenPechtellast Friday at 8:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Getting moving *is* exercise.

No way could I do a gym and these days most things in a gym would be just begging for joint pain. But the wilderness is a great gym (assuming you know what you're doing safety-wise, I see too many idiots out there.)


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Jtsummerslast Friday at 9:27 PM

> Getting moving *is* exercise.

There's a difference between what something is and what something is perceived as. For whatever reasons they may have, many people have a strong negative emotional reaction to the idea of exercising, ask them to go for a two mile walk around the neighborhood with you and they'll balk. But then you take them to a city like Rome and they'll walk 20 miles in a day without even realizing it.

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