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i'm going to eat dinner at breakfast (quokk.au)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okay I call BS, exercise before shower is a no brainer, now which type of exercise or whether to even go, that’s the challenge.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago

    I’m hot and stinky and sticky and I hate living. I need to take a shower!

    I’m planning on exercising today, I can’t take a shower until I do that

    When should I exercise? I have things to do for work. After I do those things, then!

    oh it’s close to lunch time. I’m going to eat.

    the dishwasher isn’t unloaded. I’ll do that.

    the kitchen rag needs to go to the laundry

    oh I should get my clothes into the washing machine

    And that’s how I’m cleaning the toilets instead of taking a shower and it’s 6pm and I haven’t worked or worked out or showered and fuuuuuuu

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    No.
    That's not how it works for some.

    It's/it might not the 'no brainer', it's the endless theoretical ifs.
    Eg what if the freshness or coolness makes for a better exercise? What if I wanna smell nice in the next minute? What if I need a quick shower meditation season to calm my nerves to exercise easier/unencumbered?
    All those are useless, but it takes work to go through it.

    Showering after an exercise might be a more or a no-brainer bcs of various direct physical stimuli.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Or maybe you're depressed and your brain says a shower is a Reward for going on a walk, but you're not motivated to go on a walk, so you don't deserve to waste water on yourself by taking a shower when you're just going to get dirty again, and now it's been three weeks and you feel like you need to punish yourself harder for being such a failure and not just going for the goddamn walk.

    Then you finally get off the couch and go for the walk, but it's not Good Enough for your brain, and now I'm all sweaty and slimy and I still feel like I need to be punished for not just going for a walk earlier, so I absolutely don't deserve anything nice like a shower.

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