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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the defensiveness is more about hiring people to clean their homes and tend their gardens.

The point is not that you can achieve peak fitness by cleaning/gardening, but that you would derive SOME fitness from it, while at the same time saving money twice -- the money you pay the housekeeper/gardener, as well as the money you pay your gym or exercise class. The point is that there are fundamental efficiencies to to doing your own chores.

Also, the person you said that people who spend lots of money on gyms and workout classes are not likely to be sitting around all day: Yes, yes they are! In order to make enough money to to pay for a gym or drop $30-50 a class on boutique classes multiple times a week, you need the kind of job where you sit in a chair and look at a computer screen at least 40 hours a week. Some of those people have standing desks, which is smart, but only a tiny fraction.

[b]The people who can afford both cleaners/gardeners and gym memberships are exactly the people who need more functional movement in their lives because so much of their time is spent hunched over a computer or phone. [b]Add in time spent sitting in a car, and it's an enormous amount of sitting.

This is actually a major reason I prefer work from home -- I clean throughout the day, go for walks at lunch, will take a meeting standing at the counter, will fold laundry while listening to a webinar, etc. During Covid, I dropped my expensive workout class and signed up for a much less expensive online version ($200/yr versus $120/mo, it's a steal) and mix that in with cleaning, walking, gardening. I had to invest in some weights for the house, but that's it. It's cheaper and more efficient and I feel stronger and healthier.[/quote]

There are lots of us who can afford both who don’t work an office job.  I’m a SAHM who pays for both. I’m on my feet most of the day. And my mobility is fine. [/quote]

Oh but if you're a SAHM, you don't really pay for either, do you?

How much time does your DH spend sitting? How does he workout?[/quote]

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