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I was literally watching this from my treadmill desk, feeling slightly smug, until the last line. *sigh* I guess I’ll go outside and check the mailbox.
Walking/running is far more thrilling when the world is flying past you. Treadmills are kinda boring in my opinion. They’re good for when you’re stuck in a pandemic, but if you can go outside and walk with friends, why wouldn’t you?
@@boingyboop4960 it's not really about what's more thrilling. If you're forced to do 8 hours of desk work every day, it's healthier to get that work done while simultaneously walking as compared to sitting for all that time.
Well maybe if high school gave students more opportunities to move around outside of gym class and not have running around be seen as childish. Almost a legal adult and yet I absolutely adore simple games of tag. I would be active more often if I wasn’t expected to follow a routine or regiment
Yeah, schools are a good place to start- a lot of my own aversion to exercise comes from the fact that gym classes were often miserable army-drill nonsense. People would probably be a lot healthier if we helped them associate physical activity with Fun And Games instead of Pain And Humiliation.
> be bad at [sport] > be forced to play [sport] in gym class > get yelled at by teammates for being bad at [sport] > skip gym class > parents get call from school > get yelled at by parents for skipping gym class I mean me too, thanks!
I think my highschool wants me specifically to exercise. My planned sceduale has the maximum amount of walking possible to get to all my classes. I walk maybe 2 or 3 miles just between my classes each day. I have to fast walk to actually get to my classes on time, too.
Also formal games are intimidating... soccer and baseball require skill, you are expected to sign up and actually be good at the sport. Child games like tag don’t require good technique, you just run!
I'm one of those who thinks "human conveyor belts" are meant to be walked on anyway. Same for escalators. It's just faster, which means I get to be lazy sooner.
When I first saw one of these (they're not so common in European airports), I initially thought it's just for the bags. Like you put your luggage on it and then walk alongside. Of course, it didn't took the other passangers long to show me the right way.
I actually prefer stairs to elevators. It is a lot faster that way. Elevators are only better when I am carrying a ton of luggage. That only happens on rare occasions. Luggage is an issue during vacation trips. It is an issue when moving in or out of the college dorm. That is about it for my experience.
@@emperortgp2424 more like bluepill, it's what makes lazy people feel better and bring people with interest down, the literal meaning of "never think, Neo".
I mean, the genetics part of this video is incredibly basic and I think it's purpose is to establish to the viewer that we all indeed *do have a problem* as our drive for phisical activity isn't adapted for our current luxurious lifestyle. Some people may think that our current lifestyle is normal for humans, or that because they don't feel like exercising then they don't have to, because they body would tell them if it didn't get enough of a workout naturaly, *wouldn't it?* So I don't know that red pilly, blue pilly or rainbow pilly is about this lovely, but for the majority of time basic video, explaining the roots of our tendency to be lazy, and also offering possible solutions which would benefit your health.
Two problems with that option: 1. VR gear is still really expensive. You can buy a whole PC for what you'd spend on a headset. 2. You need a lot of space to use it. Most people don't have wide open areas in their houses. Just a metre here, a metre there. About the only kind of VR game I could play would be a VR version of Descent. Which doesn't sound like any kind of improvement over regular Descent.
@@belle-gj4sp the sun beams out about 100.000 lumens of light out on a sunny day. VR headset don't even come close to that number, probably 1000 max for now. So I'm sure your eyes would be fine when it comes to the brightness aspect. I don't think there's any other health issues concerning vr headsets...
@@keppycs The vr headset forces your eyes to look at something that's 1 centimeter away from it, so it might make you short-sighted after long hours of repeated exposure
Persian Mapper I’m not so sure having a screen 1 cm from your eyes unhealthy. because if you’ve ever used a headset before it makes your eyes act like they normally would. For instance I need to use contacts to see things clearly in VR. It got to the point to where I ordered special lenses to see things clearly at far distances in the game. Also Even if it does fuck up my eyes, it’s worth it.
@@REPTAR828 Exactly, imagine looking at something 5 kilometres away. Both your eyes would be looking straight forward. Just like your eyes do when using a VR headset.
This is an interesting suggestion, and one I always do myself. I try to avoid elevators for instance. The problem is that this runs face first into a desire to make the world more accessible for those with disabilities. If we rebuild society so that it requires people to be more active, those who are incapable of being active get shut out.
That's kind of true, but encouraging more walking opportunities for those who walk doesn't necessarily equate to making it harder to use a wheelchair out and about, which already is more intensive exercise than walking even though the elevator part is just sitting. Other types of disabilities such as accommodating blindness isn't really made harder by the different placement of an elevator. Mindful designs can be more accessible and better exercise, such as how sometimes you see ramps go back and forth to cover an area one or two steps could bridge, because of maximum slope regulations. That could be a longer distance to walk for those who can walk, while also being a gentler slope on, say, ageing arthritic ankles.
@@kaitlyn__L > Mindful designs can be more accessible and better exercise, And if you have infrastructure for something, it is likely that technology for disabled people will try to adjust to it. For example here in the Netherlands we have a lot of bike paths, and when I worked in a supermarket there was this one lady in a wheelchair who shopped here who had a kind of scooter that her wheelchair drove into, allowing her to go places with a thing way smaller than a car (a large benefit for city planners is that bikes take less space than cars) and without needing her legs like a car would. So the move to a more exercising life was good for her too, even though in a different way.
@@mennoltvanalten7260 yes, I'm aware of those motor assist trikes, and you can also get handcycle versions. Using a manual wheelchair is a lot of exercise anyway, and you're of course right that cycle paths are also excellent to push on. Though I will say those batteries can only be so big, you usually only get an hour or two of use out of them, so they're not necessarily a car replacement. Of course if all your journeys are 15 minutes anyway it could be, but for me that's in walk or bike territory anyway. For me a car is for visiting people a few hours away who aren't near train stations, or when I need to bring a lot of stuff with me. But yes, with right care, pedestrianisation can be more wheelchair accessible too. But sometimes it makes it worse through carelessness. I've seen some people think accessibility activists are just plain against pedestrianisation schemes, but really we just want the proper care to be taken to consider all types of accessibility. Eg without proper tactile paving, sometimes ramps can pose safety issues for blind people if it's too easy to walk off it (we all know what it's like stepping up onto a nonexistent step..)
@@kaitlyn__L > For me a car is for visiting people a few hours away who aren't near train stations, or when I need to bring a lot of stuff with me. Ah yeah, that is totally normal car use case. I didn't mean to push for such a trike to replace a car but for it to replace a bike. Most bike paths are designed mostly for trips inside one city or town and barely anyone would cycle over say 20km for one trip, which I think is well within the possibility with such a trike. But that alone can already save a ton of trips for morning commute or for getting just a few groceries, especially in densely populated areas, thus reducing car congestion.
Escalators and conveyor belts are just speed boosts powerups in the "Get to the airplane in time" game. If you loose you get publicly shamed by having your name being called out for everyone to hear that you lost.
This is why I'm glad I picked up Karate. There's now a tangible purpose to being physically active, aside from just the idea of being fitter. Also, there's the desire to show my committment by consistently attending (and sometimes showing what I learned outside class), and there's the peer pressure / competitiveness that makes me want to keep up with the other students. If it wasn't for those sources of pressure and motivation, I probably would've given up within a month or so. Instead, I'm as fit as I've ever been, and I'm just days away from grading for my 2nd colour belt. 😤
This was not phrased well. A better thing to say is 'more bicycle paths'. People in cars are about the least efficient was to travel in terms of road space per person, bicycle paths and walking paths and busses and trains are all more efficient. That means that if you (or some city planner) convinces 25% of people to take a bike by adding bike paths, but only reduces car capacity by 10% to do so (alright I know that is a weird number because you don't like... take one lane out of a ten lane road. But in practice what it often means is turning one in so many roads into a one way streat with a 2 way bike lane next to it instead of a 2 lane road) That can reduce car congestion, making the life of everyone better! Similarly, by making people go right past the stairs before reaching the elevator can cause people to look at the line (or the sign saying the elevator is on floor 20 right now) and take the stairs to floor 2 or 3, reducing the amount of people taking the elevator. And these stairs were needed anyway for fire code, so you don't even have to lose any building space!
@@richardjones4259 You seem to have never eaten an Ayayay! Tacos Chihuahuas Locos Ardientes XXL Menu Deluxe in your life. Talk to me when you have and tell me that taking that out of your body isn't an Exercise, I dare you.
The thing that is missing from talks about making cities more walking friendly/less cars is accessibility. I'm not just talking about wheelchair accessible. Someone recovering from injury or surgery. Different medical conditions make it harder to get around and are progressive. A year ago, I was struggling to walk around the grocery store do to arthritic knees. Now that I've had replacement, it takes time to build back up to doing various activities. I'm now able to do things I couldn't a year ago, but I also require significant recovery time after being active. I will continue to make improvements and may be able to handle a walkable city eventually, but i couldn't do it now.
@@hellojello987 Nah, boi(Not assuming gender). I go to Tesco with my siblings sometimes, get a few bags of groceries, maybe even just a bag of Doritos then run back home. Sometimes I Naruto Run but I eventually stop.
For some people, depending on their circumstances, it's possible to design incidental exercise into their lives now. The requirements is to build up enough strength to be capable of doing that incidental exercise everyday. What has worked for me is placing intentional exercise at the point in my day where I could replace some activity with incidental exercise. Example: I was within biking distance to work (5 miles). There were also safe bike routes to my job. I first just tried biking to work and it was painful in both expected and unexpected ways. The habit didn't stick. Then, I started doing short bike rides before driving to work. I worked up to 3-mile rides before recommencing the bike-ride to work strategy. Eventually, I got rid of my car and regularly did 12-mile commutes based on where I wanted to go. For really long trips, I switched to bus, but that's a different conversation. I have found I have slowly increased my daily exercise by a significant amount in the years since. Just tiny things at a time. Now living within 1.5 miles of work, I walk everywhere instead of biking (busing for anything farther than 5 miles or so). At work, I have a standing desk. According to my recent fitbit, I average some 10 miles of walking per day. I have also recently added some gym time in. But on days where I don't have the motivation to do intentional exercise, the incidental exercise designed into my life has kept my weight from exploding like it used to in the past (got as high as 280 pounds in the past and now at worst it stabilizes around 220, which is still bad but much more manageable). There's also a nice scaling function in that I do more exercise as I gain weight because the same amount of walking is now more work. For people who find themselves unable to insert incidental exercise due to the resulting design of their current life, I implore you to find some creative way to add it in. Connect it in some way to things you already do daily. Research how habit formation and replacement works (I recommend reading "The Power of Habit", it's helped me a fair amount). Good luck.
2:17 Pay attention to the fact that he say "fewer" no "ban all together" (and showing an old person using one) to emphasis that we do need means to make transportation easier for those who need it.
Laziness is one of humanity's greatest virtues. If it wasn't our innate desire to do less work we'd still be stuck with basic hunting and gathering instead of being surrounded by technology.
2:17 Okay no screw you on the airport thing. I'm tired, pissed, and uncomfortable when running through airport security, to connected flights, and w/e.
@jcmyint If you traveled enough you would be too. Having to walk almost 1 km inside an airport after 12 hours of bad food, bad sleep, and uncomfortable seating, while carrying my cabin luggage should not be made any harder than it already is.
2:24 It's not even necessary to design new video games to benefit from exercise. I'm a huge gamer. Since over 6 months, i've incorporated exercises in my gaming routine. Depending on the game, i'm using any time in the game where i have to wait to do a couple exercises. For example, i'm currently playing World of Warcraft Classic, a MMO in which there is a lot of waiting around, so I'm using these moments to do 30 push-ups, sit-ups or squats, for example. Do it 2-3 times per hour and a 5 hour gaming session becomes a pretty good exercise opportunity!
Honestly, the best way i see to solve this problem is to make people more motivated to take care of themself at all. Personally i like moving but i've lost a lot of motivation to improve on things that are less urgent due to so many things being urgen in combination with very low every levels.
1. Invalid correlation, not well supported. Correlation does not imply causation. 2. Making activity options available does not encourage, or motivate, use of those options. There are stairwells everywhere there are elevators, yet the stairwells are nearly never used. There are hallways adjacent to all airport slidwalks, yet the slidewalks are overwhelmingly used. Same is true of escalators and even sidewalks with roadways (where partking is plentiful). We can also easily observe large parking lots. Where are the parking spaces dominantly filled? Near the building entrance, despite a far greater selection of parking places at the outside permiter of the parking lot. Humans are just too lazy to make use of any available activity options. We, as a rule, will do nothing that we aren't required to do.
"It's unlikely you're watching this video while exercising" I'm cycling, and no it's not hard at all, it's what makes me feel alive and not like a living corpse.
I'm very happy to see this message getting boosted. I take it as a personal challenge to work on the problem of sedentary society due to its effect on our mental health, but nobody wants to talk about it. So thank you for doing your part. :)
Just came back from walking to the store and carried home a couple of bags of groceries. I can do that where I live. Some places, mostly North America, that can be done but only treacherously by walking large parking lots, crossing highways, walking on mainly for car designed pathways or token pedestrian paths that are actually dangerous.
Shout out to folks like me with adhd. (i don't at all struggle to exercise enough.) I'm happy to agree with all of these proposed changes *except* for removing human conveyor belts or elevators, since doing so would actively harm the disabled and elderly.
The pivot-point of the argument here is that 01:22 "it’s likely that our ancestors [...] had genes that promoted taking it easy that got passed along" and that is supposed to cause present people to be more likely of "taking it easy" too. But the ancestors couldn't and didn't take it easy to begin with, as the video itself points out: 00:57 . They had to be and were physically more active in order to survive. This isn't a necessity today and therefore not as present anymore with for example office jobs! Therefore a lack of physical activity and better health associated with it today seems to have less to do with a lack of hypothetical 01:06 "pointless physical activity" of the ancestors AFTER they have already been physically active for survival. They needed to be physically active to survive in the first place. That is no longer our mode of survival. Conclusion: We likely didn't inherit genes of "taking it easy", because there is probably no way that they would have been incentivized in the first place, we take it easy because our circumstances today allow for it!
2:20 would never turn the lawn infront of the house into a garden. Maybe a backyard. But if my garden is next to a walkway I sure as hell know what disgusting smelly people can do to it and that the food could not be eaten
You park your car out front (probably) and you don't come out to a smashed window every day. The video points out what if we all transformed our lawns; if they are all transformed, the chances that a tramp is going to pee on your potatoes is pretty low.
@@jackbizzell5966 You can't compare a fucking car and food? Breaking a car window will be very loud besides the alarm. The owner is definitely going to report it to the police. Spitting and pissing on some tomatoes that are next to the sidewalk is extremely easy in comparison.
@@BlackChad792 pissing on tomato plants isn't going to get into the fruit, the only worry for that is root vegetables like carrots. for a fruiting plant it would just provide water and some phosphorus to the body of the plant. don't you wash your veg before use as a matter of course? who knows what animals have pissed on your groceries out in a farmer's field! probably many more than random humans who'd choose to piss on your allotment randomly when there's many other convenient options like hedge rows or brick wall corners, if they're that dedicated to pissing outside. you should always assume the skin of your fruit and veg is dirty on the outside, simply due to the high number of stages and environments they go to from field to home. that's honestly one reason i always have preferred things like bananas and oranges raw, the outside does not get eaten. (i will usually give things a mild scrub if they look a little discoloured, but otherwise don't bother if they're going to be cooked anyway - heat would likely kill stuff. but that's a choice made in the full knowledge that this stuff has all sorts on it from the outside world no matter where it comes from.)
I watched about 10 RU-vid videos in pajamas with my 8 yr old son and the last one was this. We got dressed up and went for a 1 hour walk. Thank you MinuteEarth!
I love moving and exercising but it's just that my time doesn't allow it. My job is a desk job. The traffic is horrible. It's just plainly impossible because of circumstances 😭
@@clarkevander If the goal is health over preference, then enjoyment doesn't (or rather, shouldn't) be a factor. The benefits are essentially equivalent.
Art was probably the first hobby: on good days when food was hunted/foraged early in the day, there would have been more time to indulge in other things, and if cave paintings are anything to go by, our early ancestors apparently amused themselves by drawing on the walls.
I used to take the bus to work and walk home... to keep from getting sweaty on the way, but then just shower when I got home. This was in the Middle East and it was tremendously hot and humid.
If you blame your genes. Are you blaming yourself because of your health? This is why parents and adults needs to be open for the causes of why people have hard time exercising, or taking care of their health. There’s many causes for example diabetes, depression, toxic relationship with family, friends, or partner, and so forth.
This was a very nice video to watch, thank you for putting it together! It's always great to see some simply explained connections being made between huge and very different topics, and this video does, again, a great job doing so :) I feel a little more motivated now, so thank you!
to save 50 billions would be very important, specially from public money (stolen money)! But less 5 million people worth the cost! Less humans is the only way for a sustainable planet!
Change all the floors in grocery store junk food isles to treadmills or some other exercise based flooring. That way, if you want your snacks you still have to work for them.
I'm usually frequently active at work, but not in hobby. And most times, I'm lazy because I'm bored. But I've picked up the pase, and started to train again, at home. And I want to keep it that way.
Our society values us, based on our performance in school or universety. Being healthy, is seen as a private thing. So most people have to spend there energy on sitting down and doing something and not running around.
2:30 VR wants to know your location! I have a VR at home and sometimes i use it and sometimes i don't. The main factor i don't sometimes is simple. It is exhausting to always disconnect/connect cables to avoid damaging the device itself by making it be used without using it.
The reasons why I have difficulty exercising.. • Relationships with family, friends, or partner. • Mental health • I prefer doing myself than being told to do something. • I am an emotional person on the inside. If I’m not in the mood to exercise I don’t exercise.
everyone, the solution is gaming while on a treadmill, typically if you sit down to play videogames its for at least an hr, that hr could then be spent walking which tires the body while you play games which tire the mind, your getting 2 things done with 1 activity. nah yeah that last parts about right, passive exercise can't compare with active exercise, going for a run for 30 minutes is better then going for a 1 hr walk.
I know you can't cover everything in one video, but there's a conversation about disability and accommodations that this fights against without thinking.
Some of this stuff needs to be taught starting at elementary school so it becomes part of the next generation's life which will lead to a permanent change in culture
