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    amgarreHamilton Nolan
    4/24/15 5:17pm

    Some years you’re just not feeling it, ya know.

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      Cam/ronamgarre
      4/24/15 5:27pm

      Besides, why go outside and expose yourself to sunburn, smog, and scary teenagers when you have the Internet?

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      Forsythe P. JonesCam/ron
      4/24/15 6:03pm

      2 ounce curls? Does that count as exercise?

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    G3istbotHamilton Nolan
    4/24/15 5:20pm

    Does walking to my local 7-11 for a Big Gulp™ and Taquito™ count as exercise?

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      DeepBlueSouthG3istbot
      4/24/15 5:37pm

      They are obviously a bunch of overachievers, G3. They left out 12 oz. curls as well.

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      2DollarzG3istbot
      4/24/15 5:55pm

      eating anything that 7-11 “cooks” is by definition questionable

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    toothpetardHamilton Nolan
    4/24/15 5:17pm

    I keep up with ellipticals lest I’m confronted by them in the wild.

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      Kenny and the Llamastoothpetard
      4/24/15 5:23pm

      Watch out for pickleballs, man. Ambush predators. Hunt in packs. Will fuck your shit up without hesitation.

      The more you know.

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      flamingolingotoothpetard
      4/24/15 6:38pm

      It’s always best to circle around ellipticals. They hate being confronted directly.

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    anotheranotherburnerHamilton Nolan
    4/24/15 5:15pm

    This is why I put weights on my bong.

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      La.M.anotheranotherburner
      4/24/15 5:49pm

      I like this idea. Working on the patent now.

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    Armageddon T. ThunderbirdHamilton Nolan
    4/24/15 5:25pm

    Excuse me! I pickleball at lest three time a week.

    ETA: I looked it up and pickleballing isn’t what I thought it was. Nevermind.

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      2DollarzArmageddon T. Thunderbird
      4/24/15 5:56pm

      Salty!

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    FobhopperHamilton Nolan
    4/24/15 5:26pm

    “Roughly 83 million Americans age 6 and over, or about 28% of the population...”

    Seriously? You want to take a population pool of people age 6 to 100+ and call them lazy? About how many millions of americans have asthma, arthritis or other physical impairments (like old age) that prevent them from exercising. You are aware that the other 72% of the population IS doing at least 1 of the 104 specific exercises a year. This is a pretty fucking stupid article even by gawker standards.

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      Carrie MathisonFobhopper
      4/24/15 5:38pm

      No. Not fucking even. That is a ridiculously diverse list. Lifting a couple of free weights is on it. Doing a few stretches is on it. Water exercise—even assisted—is on it, and that’s one that’s actually used commonly for elderly people/disabled people who need rehabilitation.

      Unless you literally have full body paralysis, you should be able to do one of the 104 things on that list once in the entire fucking year.

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      FobhopperCarrie Mathison
      4/24/15 5:51pm

      Tes, yes fucking even.

      Well I would like to pull figures from the website, but considering the paywall, I am going to assume that the numbers are estimates at best. Because there is no way in hell they polled every single american and asked them what their fitness level is? I know I wasn’t asked and neither was my wife about our exercise levels. The ‘study’ is a massive shitshow because it includes people who are disabled/bed ridden. Hell I would probably venture a guess that they probably used coma patients in their estimates as well. Taking the entire age group of 6-100+ is a pretty fucking broad survey size.

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    raincoasterHamilton Nolan
    4/25/15 2:44am

    What IS pickleball?

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      RealFlamingjuneraincoaster
      4/25/15 3:21am

      Pickleball is awesome! You use ping pong paddles with a badminton birdie on a court with a volleyball net. Super fun.

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      neverJamTodayraincoaster
      4/25/15 11:36am

      We always just called it pickle. It’s actually a playground game based on one aspect of baseball. Essentially, there’s two bases (we always used trees) and you can either play with a baseball and gloves and use a tag-out rule, or more humorously, a tennis ball and a bean-out rule. Basically, a there’s two throwers in the middle, playing game of catch. There’s a group of people at one base (or both) whose job it is to run from one base to the other. The thrower who currently possesses the ball can tag you out. When it starts, it’s easy because there’s so many people. When the group thins out, you’ve got to be more strategic and run a lot faster.

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    Cam/ronHamilton Nolan
    4/24/15 5:35pm

    Bowling? Listening to bowling games is enough.

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      RealAmurricanHamilton Nolan
      4/25/15 10:01am

      But my Fit Bit just blinked for 10,000 steps!

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        neverJamTodayRealAmurrican
        4/25/15 11:31am

        My friend proudly posted his annual fitbit report on facebook and it took everything in me to encourage him and not say, “but the number of steps you took is literally the average amount Americans walk in a year...”

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        RealAmurricanneverJamToday
        4/25/15 12:49pm

        And who are you to tell him whether he was just walking the average amount of a normal biped human being, or if he was walking for exercise? Personally, I’m very efficient in planning my exercise walking, focusing on several sets of low-reps between my couch and refrigerator. I stay active, doughy but not dangerously-overweight, and I’ve learned that if I keep walking over to get sandwiches long enough, Subway will make me crazy famous.

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      AliceInWunderlandHamilton Nolan
      4/24/15 6:09pm

      I am honestly not surprised. I work with some lazy mofos. They take the elevator one floor in the parking deck and they always drive around to find a really close spot. I’m like “Whatevs. Enjoy your old age!”

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        UrbanGardenerAliceInWunderland
        4/24/15 7:59pm

        They must all live in my building. I’m on the 4th floor, and I am literally the only one who uses the stairs instead of the elevator. They don’t even take the stairs down!

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        Words2BurnAliceInWunderland
        4/25/15 5:11pm

        I really, really give stink eye to people who take an elevator for less than four floors. Unless you’re on crutches or carrying 6 cups of coffee to a meeting, you are just lazy and turning the elevator into a local train. I hate working on a high floor.

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