Comment by djtango
1 year ago
How much "passive activity" were we doing back in the day?
So as a teenager, I was carrying 5-10kg of books and walking back and forth between classes every 40 mins.
As an undergrad I was travelling across campus multiple times a day, spent hours on my feet in labs, did multiple heavy grocery shuttles and also spent a lot of time partying.
In my first job, I was still getting up 5-6 times a day for meetings and had a decent walk/cycle built into the commute. but in my first remote job, I could be sat in the same spot for 8-10 hours without moving. And because I wasn't drinking water I wouldn't need to go to the bathroom... /facepalm I'd also be so engrossed that sometimes I'd forget to turn on the lights...
So even though I do more than an hour of intense exercise a day, my activity outside of those exercise hours has cratered from when I was a teenager and was constantly running around.
So as a teenager, I was carrying 5-10kg of books and walking back and forth between classes every 40 mins.
As an undergrad I was travelling across campus multiple times a day, spent hours on my feet in labs, did multiple heavy grocery shuttles and also spent a lot of time partying.
In my first job, I could be sat in the same spot for 8-10 hours without moving.
A year in to my first job I had added 15kg (~30lbs ~2stone) - while consuming way less food and alcohol than my university days.
I actually lost weight upon entering college because my campus was so large that my physical activity increased from when I was in high school.