zlacker

> And note that for most people, a week to few weeks of the exercise give stronger orgasms and ability to delay the ejaculation.

I've experienced all those benefits when I started walking two times a day, 8-10 thousands of steps a day continuously for several weeks. I haven't performed any other exercises.

But it's really boring and you need to do it every day. I do it only because I need to walk a dog.

>>antico+(OP)
Walking is considered by einstein and pretty much all thinkers to be critical to deep work. It's also covered in Cal Newport's book "deep work" briefly. Which is a short audiobook worth reading.

One such prescription would be to do deep work early in the day then walk after and walk again 2 hours before bed. Another would be split the deep work with a 1 hour walk and do the 2nd walk after the 2nd block.

It may be more fulfilling with lots of interesting ideas rattling around. YMMV

>>antico+(OP)
I don't find walking to be boring at all! Especially when I'm working on something new, I will walk as many as 10 miles a day while thinking through all of the design corners.

Even when I'm not working, I like taking long walks to think about family, friends, video games, etc.

Its a great way to get into your head without the distraction of a phone or feed or forced message.

>>antico+(OP)
Two ways I’ve made walks less boring:

- I started carrying a camera

- I started using the Merlin Bird ID app

Photography has made me realize how much I was previously ignoring. There’s so much to see, and even when walking the same route over and over, there’s an astounding amount of change over time. Often little things.

The Bird ID app made me realize just how many unique birds were making up the sounds I was hearing. As I learned to distinguish between them, I found myself fascinated in a way that I’d never been before.

Walks became almost meditative over time, and the sights and sounds a kind of salve for my often tired brain.

I often feel like I can think more clearly when walking as well, and thought processes kind of just sort themselves out as I go.

I highly recommend making walks more than just a way to move your body. They can be much more, and getting the benefits of movement almost feels like a happy side effect.

>>antico+(OP)
Taking long walks daily was great but damn if it didn't increase my appetite. I gained weight over a couple years in spite of 4+ miles a day.

>>antico+(OP)
I find walking very enjoyable.

I do a lot of daydreaming when I walk, too (to my wife and daughter's impatience!).

>>gedy+56
Were you walking to the cake shop and back?

>>beacon+A
I desperately want to do this type of walking, but I live in a major city. There’s always something to distract me, which is great for boredom perhaps, but ruins any sense of zen or reflection. I would say half of every walk involves people yelling, loud vehicles, and louder music. Noise-cancelling headphones are only useful for distraction through podcasts and music, not for decompressing. I’m starting to wonder if the solution, the sad solution, is to walk on a treadmill at a gym during off-peak hours.

>>tonyed+57
Haha no unfortunately

>>antico+(OP)
Podcasts help me with the boringness.

>>antico+(OP)
>But it's really boring and you need to do it every day. I do it only because I need to walk a dog.

I'm lucky enough to have a pedestrian path to do my long walks (so no cars or even bikes to contend with, bikes have a dedicated parallel path), so I listen to a podcast while walking around 1 hour/day.

>>spooky+za
Have you considered earplugs? The firearms community have some pretty great ones which are readable and fit really well. Check out Axil x30i for example.

>>spooky+za
You could try white/pink/grey noise on the headphones, or a binaural beat generator (I use the brainwave app on iOS).

>>haswel+71
+1 Merlin. I also stop and do a few minutes with Duolingo in the park, then take a breath and just listen to the wind and birdsong.

>>haswel+71
I also recommend the Seek app by iNaturalist. Though if you’re like me and use it to identify plants and every bug you see, you may not actually get that much walking accomplished.

>>nkrisc+Aw
My wife and I have a running joke about the Seek app: "Dicots. It's always dicots."

Too often, pointing Seek at a plant results in "dicots", which is about half the flowering plants out there.

>>gedy+56
That's pretty much textbook why exercise on its own will not reduce weight. You need to control your intake as well.

>>antico+(OP)
This is anecdotal as it gets, but I've developed prostate issues almost simultaneously with quitting photography. Didn't think about it until now.

>>pegasu+Zp
I find thunderstorm noises superior to white/coloured noise - because it's a natural sound the brain filters it out, and obtrustive noises are camouflaged within it, and filtered out too. So the loudness required is less than the loudness needed for white/coloured noise to be effective.

>>mikest+hA
I feel like seek's IDs are not as good as they should be given the state of ML. Maybe a dataset problem but still.

>>ajkjk+3J
Season likely plays a factor too. There are many plants that more or less look identical (to the untrained eye) until they either bloom or grow large enough.

>>antico+(OP)
I often listen to podcasts while walking. Or I think. I also own a walking pad and walk while working (1h in the morning, 1h in the afternoon - not every day but most).

>>beacon+A
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

>>antico+(OP)
You must have been in really bad shape before if you're getting such noticeable health benefits from a rather modest exercise intervention like 8k steps.

>>antico+(OP)
My average over the last year is ~13K steps a day. But I am usually not bored when walking, I enjoy it, in fact. So it is not a burden.

>>nkrisc+bJ
true. it is also pretty bad at IDing things that are half-formed, eg a bud that hasn't bloomed yet, presumably because most photos in the dataset are of the blooming version.

>>YZF+EB
There is some evidence that we offset all that activity later in the day. I know that if I go for a long bike ride then I will inevitably veg out in front of the TV later.

Exercise is important but it's not because of the burning of calories.

>>spooky+za
I am also not too satisfied by this problem. Newport says city walking increases decision fatigue instead of decreasing it. It seems like another point against urban environments. I still walk to and through city parks and I feel it helps me, but I take the same designed route every time to reduce decision fatigue. I think it still helps.