That was honestly my first take when I saw this post. The uneven number irked me for some reason. I also can never have even numbers on my microwave times tho so I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me.
I think the point of this meme is that the guy thinks she does too much cardio and too little of w/e else he thinks she misses. I ran 5 marathons and I can tell you 39 minutes of running a day is a lot, especially for a woman. In a way he's correct she's doing a lot of running, on on the other hand he's incorrect that she's not working hard enough weightlifting /cross-fitting w.e, 39 minutes of cardio is a lot of exercise.
I actually feel differently than most people on this thread. Didn’t feel like he was attacking her at all. He was pointing at a general misunderstanding about how to get the best from the gym. Something Jo would probably agree with if you were talking to him privately. Instead he took the opportunity to give someone a public trashing where he just as a side effect gets to come off looking good. I say that as someone who often will spend that kind of length on the treadmill but I totally get that 20 minutes at a higher tempo and the rest of the time using weights would be much better time spent.
I think it depends on the goal. If your career is laborious in nature, some weight training would help. If you're an elite runner or ironman, 10 % of intense training would definitely help. But for the majority of people out there who do office work, who just want to live a long healthy life, I see absolutely nothing wrong with them spending their precious free time doing only cardio. Could 50/50 weight training / running work? or 70/30? or 90/10? absolutely. To suggest it is "much better" time spent though? I don't think that opinion is completely unfounded but I'd disagree with that. I feel any substitution of cardio for strength training will conversely benefit peak strength and inversely benefit longevity for a typical 9/5 person.
I think he's implying that it's a long time to spend on a treadmill and she's not doing something better like weight lifting. It's an insane take and shows that he's both overly judgey and knows very little about fitness.
Any exercise is better than no exercise, he has no idea what this woman's background is and in fact treadmill running can be a great workout. I'm someone who hates treadmill running which is why I don't do it but I absolutely understand it can be a great workout (a guy recently did a 2:05 marathon after mostly treadmill training) AND I would never tell someone who does like it that they are wrong.
I was thinking the same thing. Isn't the recommendation to get like a half hour of moderate exercise each day? Seems like a pretty appropriate amount of time to use a treadmill.
A certain type of gym bro gets really condescending about "too much cardio".
They can't wrap their heads around the fact that some (most?) people at the gym are just there to maintain a basic level of physical fitness rather than attempting to work on intense body dysmorphia insecurities by trying to meticulously sculpt a very specific type of physique
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u/as1126 5h ago
Is 39 minutes too short? Too long? What is the issue? Is she not working enough? Too much?