garbage junk food is cheaper than healthy food
let food manufacturers load up their products with so much salt and sugar that it's literally addictive
have fast food stores on every street corner so you can never escape the cheap high of eating junk food
Gym memberships are too expensive for lots of the population
no cheap public options for poor people work out
Cities are designed for cars, not for walking
claim "personal responsibility" when millions suffer physical and mental health problems as a result
I've struggled with binge eating for most of my adult life, and I'm not going to let the capitalists beat me
GET SWOLE AS AN ACT OF REBELLION, DONT LET THE BASTARDS WIN
not to undercut your general point (the additional psychic costs incurred under a regime of capital create the need and difficulty to find hours to exercise) but! i think this is a bit overstated: my old gym (a national chain, in an otherwise very expensive city) had fees less than 40$/month, and even then, bodyweight or similar exercises are free, or nearly free after initial costs.
i don't say this to be shitty, but only to say, that, these monetary costs can be much less than one might think. with a little ingenuity and good-faith effort, it can be done (again, not to ignore peoples felt difficulties and stresses WRT limited time and worn-down self-esteem; but only to encourage and assure).
(american infrastructure and car requirements and lack of subsidized housing in urban areas is awful though, no disagreements there)
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Running with cheap or old sneakers will do that. Even running is more expensive than it should be.
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as nagarjuna mentioned, worn-out shoes can really contribute to shin splints
one of the other things is that concrete is absolutely brutal for your legs when running, the impact forces are so much higher than other surfaces because it has absolutely no give. if you have the possibility to run on other surfaces (even asphalt is much better, but dirt or grass are ideal) for part or all of your run, your legs will thank you for it
and increasing mileage or intensity too quickly (and especially both) will really do it too, the general rule of thumb most people go by is to only increase one at a time and no more than 10% a week
ive heard overstriding can also be a cause (and its bad for a tonne of other reasons too) so trying to go for shorter quicker strides may help too
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yeah with running you need to take everything you read with a massive grain of salt cos so much stuff is anecdotal and the actual running "science" is absolute garbage science with garbage methodologies and garbage statistics (they invented a new statistical methodology because p values were too rigorous lol). but there was a study that looked at the peak impact force and total area-under-the-curve impact for a person landing on concrete vs asphalt, and the impact was something like ten times higher for the concrete. of course it doesnt necessarily follow that it does 10x as much damage to your legs or anything, but i think its reasonable to think that the difference has some effect, and it seemed like one of the less garbage running science studies to me fwiw
and just anecdotally, if youve ever been running on concrete sidewalks and then cross the road (especially a freshly resurfaced one) it feels like youre running on pillows
but yeah sucks if youve only got concrete or dogshit nearby, i have to do a fair bit of my running on concrete too and i hate it but thats suburbia yay. id definitely suggest trying new running shoes if thats feasible (theyre really fucking expensive and about the least ethical thing you can buy under capitalism though unfortunately). and resting your legs and letting them recover, all my experience of trying to run through shin splints has been that it just makes it way worse
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that's sick. i'm just finishing up a t-nation 10000 kettle bell swing program, but will be back on my r/bodyweightfitness grind tonight.
how do you program the pushups (is that a sensible question? or: how do you do your pushups? ?)
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sounds sensible. pushups seem ideal for sequencing every hour, esp if working from home.
not quite at 50 reps/set yet, but shouldn't be too far off. i'll give that a go.
yeah, I'm able to afford my gym membership, but there's still gonna be people where that's still too expensive for sadly
now imagine a world where gyms a public service and not a private one, that would be amazing
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They're a thing all over eastern Europe and West Asia. Look up street workout gym
the west sucks yet again (especially USA/Canada)