To get so annoyed with people stating the one hour exercise rule as though it’s law

[Dishwashersaurous]

There is no law, guidance or instruction that says the daily exercise should only be an hour. All that it says it is that it is permissible to leave home for reasonable daily exercise.

So aibu to want people to stop people saying it as though it is law

In Scotland it’s been given as a guideline and we cannot drive to go walking and also cannot go outside more than once for exercise (although who’s gonna stop folk).

YANBU

The self-appointed "Stasi" that seem to exist up and down the country often have their understanding of the "rules" wrong.

Where in the Scottish guidance is the one hour written?

The other two are also in England- but no where is one hour written down

I had no idea only an hour was permitted, I thought the ‘rule’ was once a day.

we cannot drive to go walking

In England now we can drive to exercise, did you miss that dishwash?

You're right though there's never been a one hour limit

@Likethebattle do you have a link for the scottish guidelines? I've been looking for one.

2nd paragraph ‘up to an hour’so that’s where it came from in Scotlandz

It's once a day in Wales

The "hour" idea came from Michael Gove saying he thought up to an hour would be about right, depending on fitness.

Seems fair to me, even though it's not cool to agree with Mr Gove!

But it's not law.

It is just guidelines but people are saying it as if it’s law 🙄

It's the smug fb we've been for a walk, yes within our one hours permitted exercise... Blah blah, gets on my nerves too op.

Like the battle- that’s an interview- not official guidance or law. I can’t find anything on the Scottish government website under the official guidance which says an hour.

I know it’s slightly pedantic but the point is that legally nothing anywhere about an hour.

I'd just love to know how many people are now adamant they must have their allocated one hour exercise a day who would never normally get up.

Maybe this is just the government's plan to get us exercising more? Shouldn't spread conspiracy theories, someone will believe them.

It's bugging me too. As does "leave home for essential reasons". There's actually no firm list, I have confirmation from the police that as long as my travel is essential then they cannot fine me (cast iron reason here). We all have different circumstances so I wish people would mind their own business!

Well my ex seems to think it's compulsory for my children to go for an hour long walk every day, as in. To spend a day in the garden, but to go out for a walk. And yet he thinks it's acceptable to take them to visit his brother for dinner. Stupid people are showing themselves right now

Police guidelines

www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

Police guidelines don’t mention time at all

YANBU. One hour is not long at all.

I can head off to quieter, hillier areas from home, but that is slower work than flat, smooth, unobstructed paths. An arbitary one hour cap would limit me to one 4 mile loop, and spending far more time pounding the very local pavements and weaving around other people which is counter-intutitive.

Fortunately my house is only directly overlooked by one other, so I'm not at too much risk from overzealous curtain twitchers with too much time and too few hobbies.

Police guidelines don’t mention time at all

Correct - and neither as has been pointed out does the leglisation.

Michael Gove just made something up because he had to say something so he said something that was incorrect

@Dishwashersaurous exactly what I’ve said. It’s guidance only not law. People are reading this kind of thing though and taking the guidelines too far.