# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 447
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8923 "2025-10-22T12:39:12Z")
As i told my physical therapist, they literally pay me to sit on my butt. I get no exercise from work. But i do get some exercise from hobbies, and i counted that, as well as the time i spend with a personal trainer. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8924 "2025-10-22T13:23:15Z")
I used to walk for an hour everyday for many years until my arthritis/back issues intervened to prevent me from doing so comfortably. These days a trip to the store for groceries is my exercise and that’s becoming a little bit difficult. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8925 "2025-10-22T13:52:45Z")
3 to 4.5 hours of boxing a week, plus two 1/2-hour sessions of cycling classes, and 1-2 trips for free weights & cardio (not much there, I just walk @ 4mph for an hour at a 9-12% incline). ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8926 "2025-10-22T14:09:56Z")
3 days on, 1 day off of 50-ish minutes of walking/jogging gets me to a little over 4 hours a week. I keep meaning to start up resistance exercises, but… ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8927 "2025-10-22T14:12:59Z")
I consider my walking routine to be my exercise routine. I walk each of my 3 dogs separately every morning, 1 mile each. It takes me a little over an hour to do that, depending on how many pee stops we have to make. Then in the afternoon, I take them on the trail in our woods, off leash, for about 1/2 hour every day. The only days I don’t walk are really bad weather days. Thunderstorm, downpour, blizzard/snow storm, way below 0 temps. I have been known to do the woods walk during a snow storm and below 0 days. The dogs seem to be able to handle it better when they’re running around. Of course I keep those walks short. So I rack up around 10.5 hours/week. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8928 "2025-10-22T15:04:04Z")
Yoga six days a week - seven classes, but two of them are Yin, so I don’t really count them as exercise. I also walk the dog in the morning. I voted 5-7, but maybe I should put more. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8929 "2025-10-22T15:12:13Z")
I also walk the dog, cut the grass, etc, but did not count those in my above calculations. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8930 "2025-10-22T15:15:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I just walk @ 4mph for an hour at a 9-12% incline 15 min miles at a 10% grade is impressive! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8931 "2025-10-22T15:22:49Z")
5 to 6 days per week I do weights or row for 10-15 minutes, then ride Peloton bike for another 35-45. I’ve been at it for 18 months, starting when my doctor says I had diabetes. It’s actually become addictive and I miss it if for some reason I can’t do it for a couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8932 "2025-10-22T15:43:38Z")
The pup and I usually go three to four miles each morning, which takes an hour. When you take into account potty and sniff breaks, I think that’s a pretty good pace. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8933 "2025-10-22T16:23:51Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > 15 min miles at a 10% grade is impressive! We were at the Grand Canyon 2 weeks ago and walked down to the 3-mile point before heading up. Doing the cardio _really_ helped on the upward trek - did it quicker than the walk down, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8934 "2025-10-22T16:32:16Z")
I started walking for exercise at the end of May this year. It was part of an 8 week program my cardiologist signed me up for. It was really good for getting me into a routine. If I start doing something on the regular, I can usually keep it up. I’m walking a smidge under 2 miles a day. Sometimes faster; sometimes slower – it depends on how I’m feeling. There are some uphills, but not too steep. Eventually, I want to go west from my house instead of east where there are some steep hills. I have better balance and more strength which are good things for aging me. Best part? Now that I no longer have a dog I get to see and give skritches to all the dogs in the neighborhood who are open to it. I thought of @wolfpup this morning because I was petting a Bernese. Who sat on my foot. It was like he was saying “you ain’t goin’ anywhere until I let you go.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8935 "2025-10-22T18:06:40Z")
The main reason I started resistance training recently is I need to heal and maintain Achilles tendonitis recovery. I did have physical therapy for it, which helped, but it’s not something that can just be neglected. So I am doing strength training and light walking. I cannot walk for long distances. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8936 "2025-10-23T01:59:18Z")
Birth order. Other answer. I’m an only child, so birth order isn’t really meaningful to my situation. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8937 "2025-10-23T02:45:15Z")
I’m a middle child. But enough about me. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8938 "2025-10-23T10:58:35Z")
Birth order: I voted No Effect. I’m the youngest of three, though I was adopted at 4 days old. My sisters are/were 11 and 13 yrs older and were out on their own by the time I was old enough to realize the world didn’t revolve around me. My eldest sister died when I was in 7th grade, and the next sister lived across the country. I was sort of the youngest, but sort of an only as well. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8939 "2025-10-23T12:26:16Z")
My sisters were nine and ten years older. I think that being so much younger probably had some effect, but that’s not just birth order — if we’d been born in the same order but much closer together the effects would have been different. Voted other. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8940 "2025-10-23T17:29:37Z")
I said little to none. I was an only child initially, always an introvert, but due to my Mom’s multiple marriages I often got shuffled in with other kids, for example between the ages of 10-16 on the weekends and during the summer I shared a small room with two other, younger girls, my stepsisters. At the same time, I was 4-5 years younger than my Uncle and Aunt, and pretty much lived at my grandmother’s house, so I was also the youngest child. So I’ve been the only, the youngest, the middle, and the oldest, though most of the time, an only. None of this made me any less of an introvert. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8941 "2025-10-23T23:10:26Z")
I just don’t have much interest in reading a Tumblr repost of a Twitter (sic) thread and answering several questions about it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/8942 "2025-10-23T23:13:02Z")
Then don’t! (Or maybe just do the last one; it’s self contained.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=446) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=448)