To remind people of the exercise rules

[Orangeblossom78]

Keep seeing all this stuff where people are making up their own rules and telling people off! we were even glared at while having a family picnic on a long walk yesterday! Please stop with telling people off when they are within the guidelines.

Here is the current situation, as updated about a week ago.

What are the current rules when it comes to exercise in the UK?

Daily exercise, including walking, running, cycling, tending to an allotment or doing yoga is allowed.

You are allowed to drive somewhere to take your exercise. The guidance says, ‘it is lawful to drive for exercise.’ However, ‘Driving for a prolonged period with only brief exercise’ is also deemed ‘not likely to be reasonable’. The rule of thumb? You’re allowed to drive somewhere to go for a walk or run as long as you spend much more time walking than you do driving.

Exercising more than once per day is likely to be allowed if you have a ‘reasonable excuse’ for needing to leave your home.

You are allowed to sit and take a break from exercise, say, on a bench or sitting down in a park. However, this must be for a short time only and, as before, you must spend markedly more time exercising than resting.

Yes - YABU to remind people of the exercise rules and your interpretation of then

I feel so sorry for the children of these posters who are keeping their children in, not even for walks and do do things are allowed. Must be so miserable for them.

So do I and I feel sorry for them and their children? This, however does not make your behaviour any more reasonable!

I have no issues with people exercising mire than once a day. I do it myself.

But a picnic?

I'm sure no ones mentioned keeping their children in?

Not here, but in general there have been quite a few saying things like they haven't been out for weeks. Even with children in the house. Just to clarify. I think that's a shame. Especially for people like us who live in a flat, no way we could have a camp out or picnic in the garden.

I'm delighted we can now drive to exercise, have picnics and get out and about!

We are taking a picnic in our bike ride today. Looking forward to it.

Where I am neighbours are all outside chatting, less than 2m within each other. People are playing games in the local park. Going to b&q for gardening supplies as it’s now reopened by me. Having their family round. I sat in traffic on the motorway yesterday on the way to work. No one really seems to be playing by any of the rules!

Ha ha - a picnic - lucky OP & family didn’t get caught in DM’s ‘Covidiot’ wall of shame pictures

Ironic though that height of naughtiness and criminality these days is picnicking and sunbathing

You do realise that not everyone on here is English don't you? YABU and preachy.

A picnic? A picnic?

(she says in Lady Bracknell tones)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52416541

Rules in Wales as of today

You arent supposed to go out for a bloody picnic. The rules are that you can stop for a SHORT break then continue your exercise..

I'm just following the rules Daisypond,

you’re really not, OP!

It worries me that people need to stop for food and drink if only out for a couple of hours. What does it say about your body if you can't walk for a couple of hours and not need more than a sip of water?

I would interpret short break as rest get your breath back if needed and a drink. Certainly not a snack or picnic. Quite amazing that some can’t go without food during a workout or walk.

Re golf courses, there’s one very close to us, which is obviously closed for golf, but which people are walking around. There are notices at entrances asking people who are using it for exercise to please avoid greens and bunkers.

As for driving to exercise, if it’s a short distance and it means avoiding much busier pavements*, I can’t see any sensible objection. My dd and SiL are regularly taking little Gdcs a drive of just a few minutes to areas of e.g. woodland where there’s hardly anybody else to avoid.

*especially around here, where a minority of joggers are a bloody menace, not giving a toss about distancing, panting and puffing right past you when moving yourself out of the way isn’t possible - and exhaling far more potentially infected breath than anyone walking. 🤬

It's you who needs reminded of the rules OP, not everyone else. It's hard to know if you are being purposely stupid or if you really are that stupid.

You keep saying "a long walk". An hour is NOT a long walk.

Your op states However, this must be for a short time only and, as before, you must spend markedly more time exercising than resting.

Do you think an hour is markedly more time than 20 minutes?

This is what the law says:
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Restrictions on movement*
6.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.

The list of examples in reg 6 (2) is only a list of what is specifically a reasonable excuse. It isn't exhaustive.

Therefore you can exercise 4 times a day as long as you have a reasonable excuse

The guidance has been appallingly in accurate as an interpretation of the actual legislation. The Police chiefs council have tried to improve it but this is in reality very difficult to enforce at court

It's ironic for you to come on here preaching the rules (which have already been parroted 1000 times) when you think picnics are acceptable.

I do wish people would stop using 'rules' and 'allowed'
We are citizens not slaves
So - there is no point debating whether sitting in a family group is 'allowed'
What you should be thinking is that this takes up space - taking it away from other people who are trying to get out for a walk.
You are selfishly occupying a lot of space for a significant amount of time making it difficult for people to avoid you.
This means that you are taking up an unfair amount of the precious outdoor time and space.
Same goes for anyone doing anything that is staking a claim to space (large family groups on bikes - football games with lots of players) rather than understanding that social distancing means that we must allow more space to others - not take up more space ourselves.
Makes no difference at all what is 'allowed' - if you are being at twat.

I think that those new rules you are alluding to are not so much a change in guidance for the public, but as to guidance to police on what they should or shouldn't be pulling people up on.

Whilst I don't think that a long walk and including a picnic is strictly speaking following the rules of lockdown , it's one of those common sense things which adds very little risk but makes people's time in lock down that much easier to cope with.

I wouldn't do it myself as I'm terrified of doing anything which may result in government deciding that lockdown needs to be made stricter and losing my daily walk. I wouldn't glare at another person doing it though as long as people are outside and keeping distances , what's the harm?

Keep seeing all this stuff where people are making up their own rules

You ARE on a wind-up, surely 🤦

Why can't you walk for an hour or even two without eating something? Go for your walk before or after lunch, it's like the perpetual snacking, unnecessary.