To wonder how unfit dog owners manage?

[Bamboozleme]

I love walking and run 4x a week. Children sport-mad.
we have a lab
2 long (and fast!) walks a day plus and 20 min evening stroll

scrolling through my steps history and realised… on the days I run and do all the dog walks (I mainly do all the dog walks despite promises otherwise!) my step count is never below 25k. On days I won’t run, never below 18k.

Some days - substantially more!

how do you fare if you don’t enjoy walking and / or unfit and have a dog that needs and enjoys max walks?!

Adult dogs don't need loads of opportunities to go to the toilet - two walks plus another two toilet breaks a day is plenty.

And as to what they do - the same as dogs in a house, presumably? Look out of the window, sleep, eat, play with toys/eachother/their owners.

We have a garden but my dog doesn't really spend much time out there unless he's sunbathing, which he could easily do inside if we had a flat.

If an adult dog constantly needs the toilet they probably need to see a vet. When we lived in a flat our dog got 2 long walks a day and we took him out to wee maybe 3 times on top of that.
As I said, we lived in a European city centre where the vast majority of people live in flats and many have dogs (and children) in those flats. Our dog was extremely well cared for.

Oh and we’ve had a garden since we moved back from abroad when he was 4, but he only really uses it to wee and sunbathe.

2 good walks a day, with around 3 toilet breaks.

They have bladder control, like humans do.

When they're not on walks, they sleep mostly, like any dog.

Or we'll be playing and bonding.

I'm pretty unfit. Dog walking is my only real exercise, not the gym type!

My dog is 5kg so small but very fit and very fast.
I take him to the beach every morning for an hour which is steady walking and lobbing his ball for him so he spends the time running and by the end of the walk is knackered, as am I, but he has covered the distance ive walked many times over.

I've always adapted to the dogs rather than the other way around.
I have two labradors. We used to do two walks a day, very early morning for 1.5 hrs or so, off lead and running around like loons, and a teatime walk on lead for an hour or two.
They are now 13 and 12 years old, have arthritis, so we have three walks a day, early morning of an hour, but the charging around is more a sniff and tell, a lunchtime on lead sniff time in the woods of 30 mins or so and a teatime off lead mooch around a field.
I have learned to be dog led, boring though it is for me, and I let them sniff to their hearts content.

Lots of children are in childcare/holiday clubs over the summer holiday as their parents are at work.
In many countries/cities flat living is the norm, and they seem to manage to raise children.

You spend hours in your garden while your dog just roams round? Doesn’t sound like much fun for either of you tbh.

I’ve lived in a flat with a dog and had a dog that wouldn’t toilet in the garden, you just do extra short toilet walks, no big deal.

The time not walking is spent doing the same stuff I do now I do have a garden, training, playing, hanging out and sleeping.

I'm approaching retirement and with my RA, I won't be running anywhere, Thank you very much!
Come back and tell us how you're getting on with your 12 mile runs when you're 60 dear.

Since I became disabled 6 years ago, my lovely neighbors walk mine for an hour each evening and my husband does the morning walk.
They like to do it and they offered. They would love to have their own dog but they are out of the house for long periods of time so it isn't practical