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Wow, that was an very long-winded way of saying you don't think walking is legitimate exercise because it doesn't require paying for a gym membership
I already deleted it because i read it back and the way I worded it felt kind of douchey, but thats not what I meant. The problem I have is it often feels like the conversation around walking as an exercise only ever compares it to no exercise at all and neglects to mention that if you can do more strenuous exercise as well you really should. It could be swimming, running, biking, dancing, anything to elevate your heart rate. I know fairly healthy, relatively young people who think walking a couple of miles a day alone is everything you need to do for fitness when really its the bare minimum.
I thought your comment was fine, I kinda shared your opinion a bit for a while... lately walking has seemed "more useful than I thought" though. I guess you could also add cardio / strength with adding weight to carry (rucking) or going faster and up hills (military has "marches" carrying some weight over distances).
I think personally I'm sifting some extremes at the present of in the past having tried to do intense exercise and then be sedentary a lot of the day, to trying to walk more throughout the day currently but with less intense exercise (or also without being sedentary), and this will probably resolve to trying to do both the walking as a foundation as I think you correctly identified it as being, and then with some higher intensity stuff on top of it