Considering my fitness tracker shows I took 121k steps in January, and the average breaths of 12 per minute, I’d have made 30k in January. 5k more than just breathing. Assuming a resting heart rate, breathing faster because of exercise is not a factor I can quantify
Yeah make sure you consider more intensive breathing during the walk/run.
Then the picture will be different.
🙌 If you’re not hyperventilating during your run, you’re not doing it right 🙌
so it’s about 20% more for walking based on those numbers.
i would definitely take the breathing! there’s been too many times i couldn’t walk, that’s only going to increase as i age.
imagine getting in a bad car crash the day after starting the walking deal, both legs are broken. now, you are broke two ways! it’s like adding insult to injury. that would be the worst feeling in the world.
when it comes down to “enough money to never need to work” vs “enough money to never need to work +20%, with extra risk if you get injured” i’ll take the safe bet every time
That’s true it’ll pay you till the day you die. And any kind of excessive will increase your breath rate
Breathing so I can make money while I sleep.
You can do that with steps, just invest the massive difference in money you can make with steps.
This is the absolute easiest question. If you ever get this, the answer is steps. Get your 10k steps a day, or even 20k if you’re feeling frisky. Get in shape, buy some nice walking or running shoes, and invest the massive difference between walking and what breathing would get you.
Once you reach a good level invested, you’re functionally able to retire and never even take another step. Your investments will cover everything.
Anyone who says breath doesn’t realize the sheer difference steps can make.
But what if I choose breath n do cardio everyday? Wouldn’t my number of breaths increase a lot during that time while also keeping me healthy?
Yes, but you wouldn’t make nearly as much money. You have to breathe 5 times per step to break even.
*hyperventilates*
As your cardiovascular system improves, you typically take fewer, larger breaths at rest, so improving your ability to breath reduces the number of steps you’ll typically take. On the other hand, most people become able to walk more steps after walking consistently.
Unless you’re handicapped, bedridden, very old, or otherwise prevented by health related circumstances from doing so, you can make more with steps.
But if you get an unlucky leg injury, you are out of income at least temporarily. So breathing for mea, even if it’s less money
breath! I breathe while I am asleep, case closed.
Average 18 breaths a minute 60 minutes an hour 24 hours in a day
$1296
You make more if you walk more than 5184 steps a day. Which you probably do
Bold of you to assume I walk that much
Nope but you can’t do wheelies so I’ll call it even.
The left is already 600 Bucks a day. This is sufficient money. Hence the right should never be chosen. Greed is not always good. If you can have enough forever vs. More + downside/condition you should always choose the easy out.
I am torn by this comment. The Internet says we take something like 20,000 breaths a day which is $1000 a day. Like you said that is plenty of money and you will collect it until the day you die.
On the other hand walking 10k steps a day is 1.5x that, and I get on average more than 10k steps a day, but I don’t make money while I am asleep or if I am on a cruise or a plane, or if I hurt myself and can no longer walk.
Maybe what id do is take the steps, run enough in a couple months to have a sizeable seed investment and then put it in the market and then just live. Never look at or care about additional my walking money and just live my life like I want.
That’s the correct answer. Get in shape, invest that money, then live as you want. Breathing forces a passive income that you can’t take as much advantage of.
What will you do when you get old?
Live off investments, the same exact thing I’d do within a year or two of getting the step superpower. You can become a multimillionaire easily with steps within a year, save up enough and you can live extremely comfortably forever, with far more money than just breathing can get you mathematically.
It really is simple. You can get far more money far faster with steps, so do that, build up the nest egg, then you’ve won the game of life. If you do breathing, you can’t get nearly as much money.
You can then run purely to raise money for charity, strike funds, whatever you want. You stop running to earn more for yourself and it becomes volunteer work. It keeps you in shape and healthy for longer.
Haha what a deep thought experiment from a shitpost
Its really just the same financial strategy everyone is already trying to reach, just far easier, haha.
It forces you to get in shape and you can start running to raise money for charity.
The recommendations for health is 5,000 to 10,000 steps per day, which is $1,250 to $2,500 per day.
While the first is better on the case of unexpected disability, the second is probably going to lead to a better life overall.
According to my watch I average 14,000 steps a day. I pace nonstop though. I can’t stand to stop moving.
I work out, and my job is fairly physical.
Averaging 15,000 steps on work days and 10,000 on off days.
So 95,000x0.25= $23,750 a week. $1.2M a year.
I’m taking the steps.
I have tthe benefit of a smart watch, so I know my stats quite well. Over the long term, I average 13 breaths per minute, or 18,720 breaths per day. That translates into $936 per day. When not injured, I average 22,000 steps per day, which would get me $5500 per day (currently injured, so no running, so I’m down to 12,000 steps or $3000 per day). Breathing would win only if I averaged fewer than 3744 steps per day. I think I get more just walking to my corner newsagent and back.
Averaging 22k? Damn. I consider 15k a busy day at work, 25k was a full day of work plus an hour and a half walk. I respect it.
Walking the kids to school, walking to the shop, and an average of 70-80 km of running per week. Life is good when you permanently work from home.
I agree with the permanent work from home, all thst commute time you save and all the dead times you can use for something else useful. On the other hand my lazy ass only averages 3.5k steps daily… I also walk everywhere, stuff I need is just too close… I also do some mtb once or twice a week tho
13k steps.
If im getting 2500 a day, 1800 after tax im good.
More time to walk to get junk food too.
You would also have an incentive to walk more so even if you’re normally very sedentary, you wouldn’t be after taking the deal.
It’s unfortunate that it’s steps and not based on calories or something, I do cardio but mostly resistance training. Can’t afford to lose gains or have to increase my food intake.
bruh, you don’t lose gains by walking, Dr.Mike form Rennessaince Periodization literally recommends walking as one of the best forms of increasing your calories burned without excess hunger or fatigue
increasing your calories burned without excess hunger or fatigue
That’s my point, your goals for exercise are to burn more calories, calories that my body needs to rebuild muscle. If I do more cardio I have to eat more food to maintain my muscle mass. I’m not worried about too many I’m worried about having too few.
but walking doesn’t make you lose muscle mass, nor is it cardio.
If the calories burned are greater than those I can consume to maintain my body weight (currently about 3000kcal/day) then yes it will make me lose weight.
Also yes it is cardio, or it wouldn’t be good exercise. It’s not HIIT or running, but it consumes energy and calories.
Do you fundamentally misunderstand the concept of calories in versus calories out? If my body needs more calories than I’m eating it will harvest muscle to do so. I’ve been lifting weights for over a decade and diet is just as big of a factor in gaining muscle versus lifting itself, this isn’t something new to me.
Steps. It’s less money, but will probably lead to a better quality of life overall.
It’s actually several times more money, especially if you actively pursue it.
Oh really? I guess I hadn’t thought it through. I really like jogging, so figured it would be a nice motivation. Hell maybe make working out my job
Unless you make millions a year, jogging should absolutely be your job. You can make over 5k a day like this and retire in a couple years, forever.
Alright you’ve talked me into it. Where do I sign?
Let me know when you find out!
How is this so relatable
- Choose steps
- Don’t pay taxes on them
- Taxman wants money
- I run away
- Taxman chases me
- Each step I run, I owe more money
I can do anything when I’m breathing. Walking kind of puts everything else on hold.
Breathing would give me enough money. I’d choose it to be able to be free from any obligations.
Become a millionaire with 1 year of getting in shape, then you can be free of obligations and stay in shape. Steps wins.
Standing desk + treadmill. It’s easy to go for an hour or two
My breaths per minute is like 13 or less. But I get like 12000+ steps in a day. For a really long run I can get in like 50000 steps.
So I know which way the math swings for me
Dude, based on an average stride length of 5ft, 50000 steps works out to over 47 miles.
That’s some long ass running.
This was 19 miles up an down a mountain, so much much shorter stride lengths
The breathing one allows you to make money while you sleep
Yes, far less than steps would ever make you. Then you can invest the difference and make money while you sleep either way.
walking one allows you to make much more money even at 10K steps and also makes you healthier in the process.
Something something passive income.
I just want enough money to be comfortable. I’ll take the breaths option for the free low effort money.
I am not even sure what the irs thing is about.
If i had this much passive income of course id want to pay taxes. What else am i going to with the money? Move to a different shitty country where everyone is unhappy?
It’s a reference to the Police song: Every Breath You Take
Now the melody from The Police is haunting me again.
Steps then hike the Appalachian Trail
