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[-] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 days ago

Americans wouldn't do it, the rest of the world would

[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

I was about to be offended and then I remembered how I got out of breath walking up the stairs this morning. (To be fair, I'm anemic af and almost certainly have a touch of long covid, but still.)

There's just something about stairs that gets me. I can run a sub hour 10k, hike 15+ miles a day, and my resting heart rate is in the 50s, but stairs always get me winded.

[-] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago

My french teacher in high school said that everyone gets winded going up stairs, cause people who are fitter walk up the steps faster

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago

This just solved it for me. That is exactly it. I've been angry at stairs my whole life and now I realize it's because I go up them as fast as I walk- which is considerably faster than most people I know.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Stairs are different muscles. I used to work at a dam where I would have to climb 20 flights of stairs/ladders multiple times a day with 80 pounds worth of tools on me. Before then stairs were difficult for me, now I can run up that with that much weight no problem. I haven’t worked there for a year but I also can do sub hour 10k (barely) but those muscles stay with you as long as you stay on your feet regularly during the day.

If it’s an issue for you I suggest weight training up and down the stairs you have available to you (in your house maybe?) 5 minutes a day with a couple 20 pound weights up and down those bitches and you’ll make walking stairs your bitch for the rest of your life. If you can do a sub 10k you have the willpower to do it if you want to.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

Why would I fly for twenty minutes when I can drive for an hour 🙄

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 8 points 6 days ago

Yes. Burgerlanders are very averse to any level of self improvement that might be difficult. I blame the car culture propaganda more than I blame the people though.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

I’m tall and fairly light. Skipping steps helps a lot with efficiency.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Please stop bad-mouthing Americans, it's just self loathing at this point. It cannot be that black and white.

[-] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

How can it be self loathing if I’m not American?

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 13 points 6 days ago

dont mention black and white around americans... one of those might shoot the other.

[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago

As an American, it's that black and white

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

In America it's a lot of white, black typically winds up on skid row or at the morgue.

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