Swimming's really good for losing weight, no sweating and less knee pain involved. Wish I had a private pool too, you can definitely tell the public ones are 30% filled with piss.
My private pool would be 70% filled with piss.
I find it funny that there is an acceptable level or urea in a pool and it's like 10% lol
This is sort of how everything works, unfortunately! Guaranteeing 0% of something is really hard. Your flour probably has a small percentage of bugs in it, for instance. Urea is a relatively small molecule that I imagine you can find tiny amounts of pretty much anywhere. I would be unsurprised if there was at least one molecule of urea in literally anything you eat!
That said, dear god I hope I’ve never been in a pool that’s 10% urine :(. Those kiddie pools at the water park are probably like 90% urine, though. Sometimes I wonder if by volume adults pee in the pool more than kids, though. I have a suspicion a good chunk of adults think it’s fine or will do it secretly anyway.
You definitely sweat when you swim. People need to rehydrate while swimming, even indoors
Your metabolic rate can be several times higher in a pool or other body of water than it is on land without any exercise at all. Body heat is lost at a much higher rate when you are submerged in water and your body will burn more fuel to maintain core temperature.
So why isn’t “a long cold bath every day” the trendiest weight loss method??
This is something fighters do when they're going extreme weight loss before a weight in. I'm addition to dehydrating themselves and eating clean, they have several different cold exposure methods that causes the body to burn more calories.
several different cold exposure methods
"Cough in my face, I need to lose weight!"
Because it still isn't going to make that extra large pizza disappear.
Thanks. I've had that theory for years, but you just articulated it much better than I could.
This is why they say find an activity you enjoy.
All you need is rich parents
Or the wherewithal for and availability of a public one
Or to live near a lake or beach.
A public parent?
~~Like your mom~~
^I^ ^had^ ^to^ ^sorry^
Ehhh, rich isn't really applicable. Someone with good income and good debt management skills can have a pool. You don't have to be "rich", which is a pretty vague word that's very subjective.
I have friends that make very good money, and have the freedom to decide what their debt goes to. Nice house, nice cars, but if their income goes away, they're fucked because the debt doesn't magically disappear when the income does. To me, that's not rich. Rich is when you have enough resources that a change in income doesn't fuck you over.
Now, some people would say that the ability to choose what debt goes to is rich. I can see that usage being just as valid. I sure as hell can't decide what my debt goes to, it has to go only to survival needs. I can't take on debt for funsies like a pool, at least not in any amount that's significant (so, nothing big as a pool, but maybe enough for switching out an appliance that isn't dead, as an example).
For real, pools can be had with relatively low incomes. They cost about the same as a car for in-ground (a new car, not something lightly used lol). You don't have to be in six figure income brackets to have one. Do I think it's dumber than dammit to do so if you don't? Yes, but it's still possible as long as you want something basic
If an above ground is applicable, and it can be for light exercise, you can get by with as little as a grand. Which ain't cheap, bit it's a debt most people in the typical "middle class" income range can manage at some point, if it's a priority.
They cost about the same as a car for in-ground (a new car, not something lightly used lol). You don't have to be in six figure income brackets to have one.
People with less than 6figure income aren't spending as much as a new car on a backyard in ground pool. Where do you think they have the cash for that? What bank is going to loan them the funds? Hilarious you think it's possible in this economy.
I know people that have done it. It is completely possible. It's dumber than dammit, as I said, but I know two people that have in ground pools right now that weren't there this time last year. Neither cost more than 30k finished. One did it via an equity loan (again, dumb), the other via whatever company that did the pool (again, dumb).
The ones with the equity loan have a household income right at 80k total. The other hovers right around 60k.
Both have prefect credit though. Both waited and planned.
Is either pool fancy? No. Pretty damn basic, but that's not important. What's important is that it doesn't require parents paying for it. We're talking people that are middle aged, and their parents are too old to give a damn about a pool anyway.
And, if you're going to be a dick about it, you can suck mine.
Pool = rich, got it. By the way, they start at around 100 $.
You can also go to public places for swimming. Some of those completely for free.
Swimming is amazing for the elderly as well as the heavily obese. Buoyancy takes all the load off joints/cartilage and significantly reduces wear or arthritic pain while still providing consistent, firm resistance to movement that burns calories.
In Iceland all the public pools are full of old people. Due to geothermal energy, all outdoor pools in Iceland are heated, even in winter. I think it's a really great public health program honestly.
When did it change from .jpg to .webp?
Must be a Zoomer thing
Webp is just a more data efficient format, lots of sites are switching to it because it can greatly decrease bandwidth and storage costs.
I don't think anyone here was unfamiliar with what a .webp was besides maybe @VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world. OP was just pointing out it's weird to see a greentext using anything besides .jpg
The only problem is that basically no software supports it, so if you're saving pictures for a slideshow or something, webp is impossible to use.
I'm on the upper end of generation Z and I've never heard or seen webp at all. .jpg is the one I've seen used.
Well I would hope there aren't any 290 pound 13-year-old gen alphas out there
Where my .jxl stans at?
I was going to reply with a .jxl meme, but it turns out Lemmy doesn't support it, which is a genuinely better .jxl joke than anything I would've made.
Jokes aside now anon's gotta make sure to use sunscreen, or he's only trading in one killer for another.
I'd argue the most difficult part about losing weight is boredom.
Yeah. You can’t outrun your fork, but you can’t mindlessly snack because you’re bored on a bicycle.
You underestimate my power
30lbs in 2 weeks using this one neat trick.
Ok anon.
Well, they never mentioned they ate anything in those two weeks, just bobbed around in the pool
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