To not understand the need for "walks"

[walkingDisaster22]

Anyone else similar to me and not understand the need for walks or enjoyment in walking.
My in laws are obsessed with walking and think i'm odd (or maybe a sloth!) for not wanting to go out daily walking.
Where is the enjoyment in mud and rain? I would rather chill with a good book. Please tell me I'm not on my own?

I have a treadmill for exercise. It's so much nicer than walking in the cold or the heat, rain, snow, ice, etc. and easier to stick with the exercise goals I have.

My husband used to agree with you but after doing daily walks during lockdown he now feels cooped up if he doesn't get out of the house. I love walking so I'm happy about this!

@MurmuratingStarling
@FrownedUpon

FrownedUpon
Exercise. Nature. Sunshine. Lots of great things about walking. I don’t understand people who just sit about the house all day 🤷‍♀️
This. ^ YABVU @walkingDisaster22 Walking is good for the heart, good for the mind, good for the health, and I can't imagine why ANYone would dislike it. Just slobbing around the house all day is so dismal and depressing. I couldn't be in a relationship with someone slovenly who just sat on the couch all day.

I think you are conflating two things. People who dislike walking for whatever reason don't necessarily "sit around the house all day" and nothing that you dislike is "good for the mind"

Even worse when I hear people say 'a family walk' I always notice it at Christmas as well on threads on here, when people ask how others spend their Christmas Day there's lots of 'we have smoked salmon for breakfast then go on a family walk before opening presents'

It makes me want to vomit

"Going for a walk" is where I run up against a problem.

I find I really don't want to do it for the sake of it, but I need to do it as I wfh at a desk.

I'm ok if I have to combine it with an errand or going to the shops, but just walking around aimlessly gets on my nerves hugely.

If I set off from my doorstep and walk half an hour in any direction and return in the next half hour (so an hour, reasonable walk) I'm not going anywhere interesting. I've live here since 2004.

DD ( 24 ) came to stay this weekend
She works in London , we live in Wales
She wanted to go on a coastal walk ( and have a home cooked roast dinner )
So it’s not just the oldies

@Mooshering

I only like walks when it's dry, sunny, not windy, and at least 16 degrees.

Yes. I had a lovely walk this evening because it was light and warm. It's a bit miserable in the winter. I also don't like lockdown daily walks that you do just to get out of the house, but a walk in a beautiful area in the summer is totally different. I prefer to walk TO somewhere, so I'll make an excuse to go and buy a diet coke or something and then I get my walk without finding it pointless.

"If I set off from my doorstep and walk half an hour in any direction and return in the next half hour (so an hour, reasonable walk) I'm not going anywhere interesting. I've live here since 2004."

Yes, I'm losing interest in jogging for the same reason. I don't do it often enough to be able to go far and I've done all the local routes. I'm going to have to take the bus to somewhere else and jog from there.

Time spent walking outdoors (especially in the morning ) is very good for mood, digestion, mental well-being , heart , limbs, bones, circadian rhythm, eyesight, blood pressure , and probably much more .
It’s cheap and easy too!

@mathanxiety

I have a treadmill for exercise. It's so much nicer than walking in the cold or the heat, rain, snow, ice, etc. and easier to stick with the exercise goals I have.

The fresh air can do you good though and you need a change of scenery (even if it's just your local streets).

@Dickopf

I love walking. Fast walking and reading are my hobbies.

I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would ever darken the doors of a gym, though. One man's meat, and all that.

Yup, everything here.

I live in a city and don’t drive - I would walk every day if I lived in the country but sadly the city that I in is too depressing and horrible to walk around !

So how many of the moaning I hate walking camp are fat - above bmi 24 ?!

I personally love a good walk in the fields but I’m bmi 21.

Apparently according to this research
www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-many-steps-day-should-you-take-study-finds-7-n1278853

Middle-age people who walked at least 7,000 steps a day on average were 50 percent to 70 percent less likely to die of any cause over the next decade, compared with those who took fewer steps

Sounds a good reason for daily walking to me

Better than sex, at least I get to do lots of walking, i love it, despite being somewhat crippled and having to use a stick.

I have to walk. Feel awful if I don't walk. Love being outdoors and on the move.

I kind of enjoy walking but I do make myself more often than I want to go!
Ds is 10 and hates being taken on walks so it spoils any enjoyment on my part. He’s more happy when there’s company in the form of his cousins where they can run and climb trees or find hidden rope swings along the way.
Walking helps keep my bad back in relatively good working order, I find that a few days of not enough walking really flares up any niggles so it’s quite important to me to stay active.
I run a bit too, indoors and out.
I often arrange to meet a friend for an evening walk without the dc and can walk for miles just chatting shit without even noticing that it’s really exercise.
On the whole, for me I’d say they were necessary but not always my favourite despite going regularly.

They became a "thing" in lockdown and never left.
We now have the family walk every time we meet up. I don't mind as I'm a lard arse and don't often go on my own but it's a pain when it rains or is freezing cold and we still all dutifully troop round our local reservoir.

I walk for exercise, and I enjoy the fresh air rather than going on a treadmill in the gym. Even on crappy weather days I get cabin fever if I don't get outdoors for half an hour.

i love it but i have a dog

@bumblingbovine49

Apparently according to this research www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-many-steps-day-should-you-take-study-finds-7-n1278853

Middle-age people who walked at least 7,000 steps a day on average were 50 percent to 70 percent less likely to die of any cause over the next decade, compared with those who took fewer steps

Sounds a good reason for daily walking to me

This is why I walk.

I have lupus and chronic autoimmune diseases and to be honest I’d much rather just lounge on the sofa all day eating milkybar and watching Euphoria or whatever shite I’m into at the time but I really don’t want to die earlier than I have to so I literally make myself go out for a walk. Obviously some people with my conditions physically can’t do that and that’s understandable but I do think if you “can” walk or do some sort of exercise then you should. It’s good for you and it’s good for the nhs - relieves the burden of issues caused by being inactive.

I love fresh air - I have a deck to sit out on and I make good use of it for about five months of the year. The rest of the time it is often really frigid, pouring rain or snowing, sleeting, etc. windy, or otherwise unpleasant where I live, or there's snow and ice on the pavement. Also, I only have early mornings or evenings free for walking, and that's also the time when legions of dog owners are out with their dogs, or people are out running, and I spend a lot of time weaving around trying to avoid them all.

One of the DDs loves an evening walk and I occasionally join her but I walk faster on the treadmill

@MrsPear

So how many of the moaning I hate walking camp are fat - above bmi 24 ?!

I personally love a good walk in the fields but I’m bmi 21.

I am one of the daily walkers. I usually cover between 7-10 km per day, alongside other exercise.

I am also fat.

Correlation is between fat and food. Even though I really enjoy walking, I wouldn’t say it keeps the BMI down.

I hated it.

Child of walkers, dragged up hill down dale, tops of moutains and bottoms of gorges... (on the weekends we weren't being dropped off cliffs or chucked down caves)...

I like the views. I liked the 'innit nice up here with no one else around' I guess.

I hated every other aspect of it, though at the time I didn't actually know that it wasn't normal to find walking horribly painful and extremely hard work, I assumed I was just.. idle and a whinger * (spoiler alert. I had undiagnosed heart issues and Ehlers Danlos, but it was the 1980's so i was just a whingey clumsy lazy child).

I can get the views by going up there in a car and stopping at a view point.

I can also stay home, stay warm, not struggle to breath in a gale that threatens to take me off my feet, with icy rain lashing the skin off my face. And look at nice photos of pretty views.

Walking simply to walk and not see nice views... never understood that. I walk the dog (From my wheelchair), but without a dog no, I wouldn't bother!

It just isn't for everyone!

I love walking. Haven't been able to go for a walk in months, really missing it.