Comment by raffael_de

Thank you! Didn't know I endangered people by suggesting it to them.

I usually got bored halfway and after 3-6 breaths finished peeing normally. It was also because I've noticed that the exercise made it very hard to push out the last of urine from the bladder. Now I know it's also very unhealthy not to empty all the way.

But is stopping the flow of urine an apt description of the exercise? Is it a case of “do it as if you were doing that, without actually doing it while urinating?” If so, I think I’d be hard pressed to find a simpler way to describe it to any man (no idea if it applies to women as well).

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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.

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

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.

>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.

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.

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

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).

Podcasts help me with the boringness.

I find walking very enjoyable.

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

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.

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.

If true, maybe netcraft did confirm that OpenBSD is dead after all.

Not quite. Focusing on your anus when clenching is a good way to develop hemorrhoids.

Different muscles, but you need practice to learn to control them independently.

I think people give the cue of stopping urination to help others find the muscles that you need to engage. Otherwise, yes, you absolutely can just do them any time you want. In yoga it’s called mula bandha [1]. You’re often instructed to engage it while practicing asana or pranayama. I even focus on engaging it when I’m out for a run or lifting weights.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandha_(yoga)#Mula_bandha

Kegel exercise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegel_exercise

Kegel?