reecejackox
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- Apr 23, 2017
I would say like 3 hours
This. I was a 70s kid also. We spent lots of time playing games with the other kids that lived on our street. I roller skated almost every day. In the Summer I lived at the shore so we were on the beach or at the pool at the hotel where my mom and grandmother worked, swimming. I never totaled it all up, but I'd say maybe in the city a few days a week I got lots of exercise, at the shore in Summer more.No clue. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We ran around and played outside all the time and rode our bikes. Getting exercise back then wasn’t really an issue. Also didn’t grow up eating all the crap that kids eat now.
Yep. All of this and the same for the PPsNo clue. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We ran around and played outside all the time and rode our bikes. Getting exercise back then wasn’t really an issue. Also didn’t grow up eating all the crap that kids eat now.
No clue. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We ran around and played outside all the time and rode our bikes. Getting exercise back then wasn’t really an issue. Also didn’t grow up eating all the crap that kids eat now.
Ditto, to these and all others whose "exercise" was playing outside from the minute they changed out of their school clothes until the street lights came on, or my mom yelled, "Leebee, Leebee's sister, DINNER!" and we'd go running. Man, the moms in those days sure had a set of lungs on 'em- musta been from all the cigarettes they smoked!!Yup, I'm a 60's and 70's kid too, we played outside from the minute we got up till dark, it was a blast. That was our "exercise" back then, but never thought of it as exercise, it was just plain fun with the neighborhood kids. Parents didn't worry where you were back then, because everyone played with each other, it was so different from now. The word "playdate" didn't exist.
This. And I graduated right to working physical jobs (theme parks, residential mental health, construction...) It's only been the past few years that I've worked a desk job at all, and even worse it's from home. This having to figure out how to get enough exercise is so confusing to me, but I have to figure it out because I seem to be developing chronic back pain from sitting lolNo one thought about having to "get exercise". It was just life.
Same here. We had PE (or recess when we were younger) in school as well. Basically, as soon as we got home from school we were outside playing until time for supper then if it was still light out, went out after supper. A few places we lived, I also walked to school, sometimes it was close to a mile away.No clue. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We ran around and played outside all the time and rode our bikes. Getting exercise back then wasn’t really an issue. Also didn’t grow up eating all the crap that kids eat now.