Comments on: About That Moment of Silence…

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:41:25 +0000

@Glenn. That is sad, when people actually have safe places to walk and they don’t use them.

I was thinking today of all the “labor-creating” devices in my life. I take my recycling to the recycler with my ‘garbage cart’ instead of with a car. I use a handsaw for trees that would get chopped up much more quickly with a chainsaw. Even my stick-shift cuts down on the number of shoulder exercises I have to do for physical therapy.

The bicycle you use instead of driving to the gym is the labor-creating device. The one that saves you time and money and keeps you alive.

By: RichUncle EL

RichUncle EL — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:53:21 +0000

I literally busted out laughing after reading this article. Wow I cant believe it but many people out there can not see the big picture. I left the gym about 5 years ago and if I had to be stuck in traffic to get there I would not go, point blank. Save us the smog and work out at home idiots.

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:08:03 +0000

Sad story but true: My dad drove literally across the street to get subway, drove back across the street to the house, ate, got dressed and drove to the gym about a 1.24 miles away. When I asked him about it all at the end of the day he said driving to subways (across the street) was safer then walking across the street… which by the way is dangerous no matter how you choose to cross it. And driving to the gym meant he would be able to stay on the tread mill a little bit longer for his cool down after he did his “big” stationary bike miles.

yeah… its all true :/ We even have a multiple use trail going from our house to over by the gym…

By: Scott Cohen

Scott Cohen — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:23:46 +0000

Actually search this – http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/spin%20class%20traffic.

The poster, sadly, is pretty accurate. Imagine all the people who don’t tweet about their traffic-impaired spin class attendance.

By: becky

becky — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:59:06 +0000

Not everyone is driving to the gym to work on a treadmill. I hate to defend people who drive to the gym, but riding a bike is not the same as lifting weights!

I did ride my bike to the gym this morning and thus only did 5 minutes on the treadmill to warm up before lifting! If I’d driven, I’d have jogged for 10 minutes.

By: Bob Davis

Bob Davis — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:05:14 +0000

This cliche’ has been around for years–long before the Internet became part of everyday life, stand up comics were making jokes about Southern Californians as “The people who will drive ten blocks to the gym for some exercise.”

By: John Murphy

John Murphy — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:29:26 +0000

A. Smith – or apparently in the tiny minority of US residents who live somewhere they fix the potholes.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:43:19 +0000

@ A. Smith

You could move, that’s what I did.

By: A. Smith

A. Smith — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:11:24 +0000

With your considerable knowledge of the blindness of drivers towards bicyclists and pedestrians, I’m surprised you think driving to the gym is a chuckle-worthy oddity. My neighborhood has terrible potholes and tons of stop signs, making it a poor choice for a fast-paced bike ride, and as a woman there’s no way I’m going running alone, at night, on deserted streets. If you want to concentrate on exercising rather than personal safety, of course you’ll go to the gym. And if you’re on the way home from work, you’ll stop there in your car — unless you are in the tiny minority of US residents who have access to convenient public transit, I suppose.

People don’t need any more excuses to be insufferably smug and disingenuous, please don’t provide them with another one.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:57:17 +0000

Or how about driving to the park to walk your dog?